Hamilton pro-family group helps parents know their rights The recent lobbying by the Ontario public teachers union to introduce homosexuality-oriented books into schools has prompted heightened parent interest in a Declaration of Family Rights document that seeks to protect children from negative moral influences at school. The Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council created the document in November 1999 mainly as a response to [...]
Excerpt from a speech by Senator Anne Cools (Liberal-Ontario) to the Senate on June 13 on the second reading of her Bill S-9, An Act Respecting Marriage: Hon. Anne C. Cools: Honourable senators, I rise to speak to the second reading of my bill, Bill S-9, to remove certain doubts regarding the meaning of marriage. Bill S-9 will create a statute called [...]
While the Quebec courts consider the recognition of same-sex marriage, the provincial government has tabled legislation which would allow homosexual civil unions. On Nov. 8., Michael Hendricks and Rene Le Boeuf, supported by intervenors including Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere, challenged in Quebec Superior Court, the definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and woman as a violation of Section [...]
Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher (Doubleday, $37.95, 260 pages). While Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher's The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially may seem a tad shallow in pointing to why marriage is a good thing, it is a wonderful tonic to the cultural [...]
"The government, by dint of legislative fiat, could declare that a man and his dog were 'spouses,' but no power on earth could ever make it fact." Nova Scotia's Tory government has amended its Family Maintenance Act, which will now be called the Maintenance and Custody Act, to define a common-law partner as any person who has lived with another person, regardless [...]
You couldn't make it up. I mean, really, you couldn't make it up. The way various actors, media figures and fellow travellers have rallied around Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, often motivated by support for abortion and homosexuality. Ted Turner was there, of course. And he is typical of the breed. Remember Ted? In 1990 the founder of CNN and vice-chairman of [...]
Landmark case will decide whether homosexual 'rights' trump freedom of religion By Paul Tuns The Interim On November 9, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCOC) heard oral arguments in a case that may have a profound impact on freedom of religion in Canada. The British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) is appealing to the country's top court for the right to discriminate [...]
B.C. appeal ruling seen as crucial victory for parental authority, religious freedom By Ted Gerk The Interim School Board chair Heather Stilwell is confident that the recent battle over books is over. She's comfortable talking about the agenda she says took precedence over common sense, when pro-homosexual activists challenged the rights of parents to make decisions affecting their children's learning environment. "They [...]
Did you see that amazing story several weeks ago about how new Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day refused to join other MPs in standing to applaud as strident homosexual Member of Parliament Svend Robinson was introduced in the House of Commons? He said it had something to do with the New Democrat MP spending his entire parliamentary career advocating values inimical to [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Traditional family supporters, including thousands from Toronto's Islamic community, are not giving up in their opposition to the Toronto District School Board's equity policy, which lends legitimacy to the homosexual lifestyle. More than 300 people took part in a Sept. 27 rally and march at Queen's Park to draw attention to the policy and to voice their [...]
I host a nightly television show on Crossroads Television (CTS) entitled Michael Coren Live. My research team books up to 20 guests a week, who are then watched by hundreds of thousands of people. Indeed, we are averaging at 112,000 people a night in Greater Toronto alone! Sometimes there are cancellations, usually because of emergencies or illness. But only once has someone called [...]
By Paul Tuns The British Columbia government filed a petition in the BC Supreme Court July 20 asking the federal government to allow same-sex marriages, becoming just the latest legal challenge along with the City of Toronto, six separate Ontario same-sex couples and a Montreal couple seeking societal approval of homosexuality. Although marriage is a federal responsibility, provinces and municipalities issue marriage [...]
Most people would be a tad upset if the government took one of their children away. Try to imagine how you would feel if they took away nine of your children - the nine youngest of 13! That is what happened to friends of mine in Ottawa. The incident resulted from a report given to the Ottawa-Carleton branch of Ontario's Children's Aid [...]
By Linda Wegner The Interim Lance Campbell was forty-seven when his body began to fail. "I couldn't run," said the resident of Prince Albert, Sask., "and when I fell, I was unable to balance my fall - I just flopped." Today, Lance is confined to a wheelchair with Lou Gerhrig's disease. Three months ago that same disease claimed his wife of less [...]
We Canadians who stand in defense of the Judeo-Christian moral and social principles that have built and sustained western culture over 2000 years had better be girding up for the fight of our lives. Confronted by the prospect of a man who unapologetically affirms traditional Christian ideas becoming leader of the opposition, and perhaps even Prime Minister, the forces of secular paganism [...]