Marriage and Family
Written on 28 May, 2008 at 10:36 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Pete Vere Senior Writer
Texas law enforcement authorities removed 416 children from a fundamentalist Mormon compound after a 16-year-old girl complained of sexual and physical abuse. The girl claimed she was forced against her will to marry a 49-year-old man and engage in sexual relations. The man, the teenage girl and the children are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2008 at 10:08 in
Health Risks, Marriage and Family | Author:
Interim Staff The Women’s Health Matters Forum & Expo 2008 was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre Jan. 18-19. Hosted by the New Women’s College Hospital and sponsored by GM Canada, the Toronto Star and others, the event offered 40 seminars and was attended by 150 exhibitors with the theme of, “Linking Environmental Impacts and Women’s Health Issues.”
A number of the presentations were of legitimate health value ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Aug, 2007 at 9:13 in
Marriage and Family, Religion | Author:
Sue Careless Special to The Interim
While fierce tornadoes wreaked havoc on homes and farms across Manitoba, a spiritual tornado of sorts swept through the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada as it debated same-sex blessings ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jul, 2007 at 11:09 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
Elizabeth O’Brien Special to The Interim
In response to a debate on spanking that took place June 18 before the Senate committee of human rights, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada presented a research report indicating its disapproval with the proposed legislation.
The debated bill, S-207, would take out Section 43 of the Criminal Code (allowing spanking), thereby forbidding parents from spanking their children and effectively making it criminal behaviour.... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jul, 2007 at 10:50 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Samantha Singson Special to The Interim
The Madrid-based Institute for Family Policies has issued a report to the European Parliament warning about “the deterioration of the family panorama.” Citing demographic, sociological and economic evidence from a team of experts, the IFP is calling on E.U. delegations to make the family a policy priority and promote the traditional family as an ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Apr, 2007 at 9:12 in
Equal Rights, Human rights, Marriage and Family | Author:
Meg Jalsevac The Interim
France’s highest court upheld the decision of a lower court and rejected the 2004 “marriage” of two homosexual men. The court declared the marriage annulled, finding that “under French law, marriage is a union between a man and a woman.”
In 2004, Noel Mamére, mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Begles, illegally “married” the two men, despite a prior warning ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Apr, 2007 at 12:24 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
Doreen Beagan Atlantic Canada Correspondent
On March 2, the opposition Tories in New Brunswick’s legislature introduced Bill 37, An Act to Amend the Marriage Act. MLA David Alward, who authored the bill, said it was an affirmation of the rights of those clergy and clerks of the court (marriage commissioners) who have conscientious objections to performing same-sex “marriages,” and was needed to prevent them ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Apr, 2007 at 12:19 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Theresa Smyth Family and Society Reporter
Provincial Minister of Community and Social Services Madeleine Meilleur calls Ontario’s new child support enforcement website a “huge success,” but fathers’ rights advocates are questioning both its efficacy and its underlying ideology.
The website features photographs and profiles of “missing defaulting support payors,” and offers the viewers the opportunity to make anonymous tips. Such use of public ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:40 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Commentary by Mark Wegierski The Interim For far too long, the interests of the “vital centre” of Canadian society have been neglected. The term vital centre, while borrowed from American liberal thought, takes on a much different meaning in social conservative thinking. By vital centre I mean the real social mainstream – those decent, honest and hardworking people of whatever class, religion or ethnic background on whom the real perpetuation of our ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:28 in
Marriage and Family, Real Women | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor Perhaps not surprisingly, the entity that oversees the conduct of judges in Canada – which, remarkably, is itself made up exclusively of judges – has ruled that Ontario’s chief justice did not act improperly in two matters: when he legalized so-called same-sex marriage in his province in 2003, despite the fact his daughter was involved in a same-sex relationship at the time, and when he partied ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 12:57 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
By Hilary White Special to The Interim The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 7-2 that the federal government - that is, Canadian taxpayers - does not have to fund a lawsuit levelled by a homosexual bookstore against the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
Last April, the Supreme Court reserved its judgement in the case brought by Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium, a Vancouver retail shop ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 12:55 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Interim Staff
Interim readers, as well as the public at large, can now enjoy a more in-depth, broadcast examination of some of the issues raised in this publication through a bi-weekly, one-hour radio program.
Family Matters, as the program is being called for the time being, was launched in October and co-operates with The Interim, as well as the monthly magazine Catholic Insight, in providing content ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 12:31 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor He’s done it again.
Before retiring this spring at the age of 75 – despite never having even been a judge or practising lawyer before attaining the pinnacle of the judiciary in his province – Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry has taken one more kick at the traditional family structure by ruling, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 13:09 in
Bioethics, Marriage and Family | Author:
Theresa Smyth Family and Society Reporter
When Margaret Smith discerned her calling to teach the Creighton system of natural family planning, she declared, “If, by becoming a practitioner, I prevent even one abortion, then I’ve done my job.”
Adamantly pro-life, the former palliative care nurse and sometime missionary is now an integral part of the Marguerite Bourgeoys Family Centre ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 13:03 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Oswald Clark Economics Reporter
Last Fall, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said that his government intends to introduce pension splitting for seniors and that the Conservatives are open to income splitting for couples. The idea is to let couples split their income between them to pay lower taxes as a unit than the higher income earner or pensioner would individually. Presently, Canadians are taxed as individuals and the larger income ... (Continue reading)
