Articles Tagged ‘Family’
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Written on 26 Jan, 2012 at 11:45 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis Just as the sordid but ongoing saga of filmmaker and convicted pedophile Roman Polanski fades once again from the headlines, stories of child abuse in Hollywood have erupted again, with an unprecedented frequency. Of course, if you don’t know where to look for this sort of news, you might never have heard a thing.
In late November, a composer who had won awards for his work on Sesame Street was charged with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Dec, 2011 at 12:14 in
Pro-Life | Author:
Peter Baklinski and Paul Tuns Parents concerned over the radical direction the Burnaby School District has been taking were encouraged by the Nov. 19 school board election results, even though none of their five nominees made the final cut for the position of school board trustee.
“Burnaby voters have stated loud and clear that they need Burnaby Parents’ Voice on the scene to bring forward policy and proposals that will ensure parental authority over our own children and promote respect for all,” said Homara Ahmad, one ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 7:16 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Paulina Kosalka There have been several inspirational cases of women who have chosen to put their children’s lives ahead of their own by continuing with their pregnancy.
The Toronto Star recently reported Thunder Bay, Ont., resident Sadie Stout, who had a rare tumour in her heart from a condition known as cardiac myxoma. The risk was that the tumour could break off at any moment, travel through her bloodstream, and get stuck in her brain, causing a stroke. Stout was given three choices ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Dec, 2011 at 12:17 in
Columnist, Donald DeMarco, Marriage and Family | Author:
Commentary Donald DeMarco “All who would win joy, must share it;
happiness was born a twin.”
-- George Gordon Lord Byron
Birth, as it is often said, is a miracle. A baby is born, a living, breathing, honest-to-goodness baby that you can hold in your arms. Just prior to delivery, it was something parents were expecting, but whose reality was still concealed. It was something that was swelling under its mother’s heart. But it was not ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Nov, 2011 at 10:48 in
Announcements, Features, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Several doctors speaking at the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society conference in Toronto Sept. 21-24 expressed their concerns about health risks associated with in vitro fertilization. The National Post was the only major Canadian newspaper to report these remarks.
Dr. John Barrett, a multiple births expert at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, told attendees on Sept. 21 about the need to restrict IVF to decrease the rate of multiple pregnancies, which often result ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Sep, 2011 at 10:03 in
Announcements, Book Review, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Columnist Rick McGinnis Television is the most modern, the most omnipresent, and the most pervasive of all the media arts, which is the reason I devote so much time in this column to analyzing its effect on our culture. It’s not hard to understand why; unless parents have made the conscious decision to take TV out of their home, it’s likely that the average child will have seen many hours of television programming before ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Aug, 2011 at 11:08 in
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Plan Canada’s recent mass media initiative is well known across the country. From television commercials to sidewalk solicitors, the global children’s charity’s new campaign, “Because I Am a Girl,” proudly announces that its purpose is “to unleash the power of girls and women,” thereby ameliorating the condition of the fairer sex in the third world. According to their promotional material: “When a girl is educated, nourished and protected, she shares her ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 8:27 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy | Author:
Frank Kennedy Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is adopting storm trooper tactics right out of the Nazi’s playbook in forcing the Toronto Catholic School Board to allow Gay Discussion Clubs in Catholic Schools even though the Church feels they will promote homosexuality. Based on Sacred Scriptures, the Catholic Faith, and Biblical injunctions, “homosexual acts” are depraved and “intrinsically evil.” The Catholic Church by its mandate cannot promote this way of life.
McGuinty bought the Goebbels ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 7:59 in
Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
Our schools are being drowned in gratuitous and agenda-driven social programs. As I write this column, the Roman Catholic schools in particular are facing a concerted attempt to promote the homosexual lifestyle, all in the guise of anti-bullying. But this is nothing new. More than 10 years ago I faced on my television show an example of political nastiness that I have not seen in more than two decades of journalism. The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jun, 2011 at 17:15 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Large-scale daycare centres and programs do not appear to be improving the educational outcomes of children. Economics professor Pierre Lefebvre of the Université du Québec à Montréal conducted research between 1994 and 2006 on children under five from Quebec and the rest of Canada that showed Quebec’s heavily-subsidized provincial daycare system, which costs parents just $7 per day, is not advancing children’s development as the government claims it does.
In fact, there is a “serious quality problem” asserts Lefebvre. “I would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:22 in
Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Recent attacks on the family often become attacks on fatherhood. For instance, figures from Hollywood have embraced alternative family structures, questioning or mocking the importance of a father figure. Actress Jennifer Aniston in August 2010 said that fathers are unnecessary, especially since now there is no need “to fiddle with a man to have that child.” Another example is the positive portrayal of a lesbian couple raising a family in the movie “The Kids are Alright.” There are too many ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2011 at 7:10 in
Human rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns
Bill C-389, the so-called bathroom bill that would add “gender identity” and gender expression” to Canada’s human rights and hate crimes laws, looks to be stalled in the Senate. As of press time, there was no sponsor to permit the process to consider the bill to move forward.
The homosexualist newspaper Xtra! Reports that the bill’s House sponsor, Bill Siskay (NDP, Burnaby-Douglas) has been privately criticized for not finding a Senate sponsor. When ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2011 at 6:58 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Pauline Kosalka For over two months, the British Columbia Supreme Court has heard testimony in its case examining whether Canada’s ban on polygamy is constitutional. The issue was referred to the court after a judge in 2009 stayed charges against two Bountiful religious leaders from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) – James Oler and Winston Blackmore - accused of polygamy. The trial began with an opening statement by Craig Jones, a lawyer for the Ministry of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Feb, 2011 at 7:44 in
Editorials, Religion | Author:
As we report on page three, the Halton Catholic District School Board caved to gay activists and their allies in the media, by rescinding their admirable and principled equity and inclusion policy that respected and upheld Catholic moral teaching on the issue of homosexuality, while respecting the dignity inherent in all human beings. But for gay activists, who are no friends of Catholic education nor the life and family movement, nothing less than full affirmation of the homosexual lifestyle would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Feb, 2011 at 10:47 in
Announcements, Features, Religion | Author:
Paul Tuns On Jan. 18, the Halton Catholic District School Board caved to pressure from gay activists and rescinded its Equity and Inclusive Education Policy II-45, following a media storm over the board’s policy banning gay-straight alliances.
Over the past year, public and separate school boards in Ontario have been required to implement policies in line with the province’s Ministry of Education equity and inclusive education (EIE) initiative that includes strategies to make all ... (Continue reading)
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