Articles Tagged ‘Morality’
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Written on 31 Jul, 2011 at 18:12 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns
Three Ontario Appeal Court justices indicated they do not accept the government’s rationale for maintaining restrictions on the sex trade, and may be open to upholding a 2010 Ontario Superior Court decision that found those restrictions threaten the security of prostitutes.
Last Fall, Justice Susan Himel threw out Canada’s restrictions on the sex trade – communicating for the purpose of prostitution, living on the avails of prostitution, and keeping a common bawdy house -- saying they violated the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Apr, 2011 at 18:58 in
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In recent weeks, a number of scandals have beset Stephen Harper’s minority government. Rumors and reports of misdemeanors and misdeeds – and the election speculations which they spur – are an irresistible combination for the Canadian political press, and journalists have eagerly documented each new discovery in painstaking detail. But, as the media runs in the direction of the latest and loudest sirens, it is important not to neglect the larger ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2011 at 7:43 in
Bioethics | Author:
Interim Staff Interim Staff
On Feb. 7, doctors in France announced that the country’s first “saviour sibling” was born. Popularly termed a “bébé-médicament” (medicine baby), a saviour sibling is conceived through in-vitro fertilization and screened to ensure its cells could be used to treat a brother or sister with a genetic disorder.
Umut-Talha (“our hope” in Turkish) was born on Jan. 26 in good health at Antoine Beclere Hospital in Clamart, a Parisian suburb. His embryo was selected so that it was not a ... (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 7 Mar, 2011 at 13:33 in
Announcements, Features | Author:
Interim Staff
Fr. Raymond Gravel, a priest in the Roman Catholic diocese of Joliette, Que., has sued LifeSiteNews for $500,000, claiming that the pro-life internet news provider damaged his reputation and career as a priest by reporting on his public stances on abortion and gay rights.
Fr. Gravel represented the Repentigny riding from 2006-2008, and as an Blocc Quebecois MP he defended abortionist Henry Morgentaler receiving the Order of Canada, voted against a private member’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 2011 at 18:12 in
Religious Education | Author:
Geoff Cauchi Special to The Interim The six trustees have demonstrated that they are unfit to serve as Trustees of a Catholic School Board. They have the difficult position of having to “serve two masters” – the Ontario Ministry of Education and the Catholic Community in Halton, which includes both the Catholic people and the institutional Church. However, they do not seem to understand that even the Education Act recognizes that, in respect of purely secular issues, a Catholic Board is accountable to the Ministry of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Dec, 2010 at 13:43 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell
Take care if you aspire to be a criminal. A life of crime can be bleak and unrewarding, unless you go to jail. As long as you’re on the run, you have few options. Once you’re incarcerated, you have more than you can pursue. Like most criminals, however, you may never make it to jail.
If you do, opportunities abound. Among other pursuits, you can earn a university degree, learn a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Dec, 2010 at 12:03 in
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Analysis Paul Tuns Was it because his opponent was gay?
On Oct. 25, Toronto city councilor Rob Ford won the Toronto mayor’s race, defeating openly homosexual former Ontario cabinet minister George Smitherman, 47.1 per cent to 35.6 per cent. Smitherman, who was an early front-runner, lost decisively trailing Ford by nearly 100,000 votes.
Ford ran on a populist and fiscally conservative platform of freezing taxes and city spending, cutting the size of city ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Dec, 2010 at 14:06 in
Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns
Bill Siksay, the NDP MP for Burnaby-Douglas (the riding once held by his former boss, Svend Robinson, the (in)famous gay activist MP), has picked up where his mentor left off, introducing C-389 last May, a private member’s bill that would add protection for self-identified transgendered individuals by adding vague concepts such as “gender identity” and “gender expression” to the Canadian Human Rights Act.
The homosexualist newspaper Xtra! reported that the bill passed the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Dec, 2010 at 16:01 in
Announcements, Features, Religion | Author:
Paul Tuns
The New York Times reported that “Pope Benedict has said that condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS.” That was the gist of stories that appeared in the Toronto Star, Guardian and Associated Press after L’Osservatore Romano, a Vatican-based newspaper, printed excerpts from Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times, a forthcoming book based on German journalist ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2010 at 13:12 in
Human rights | Author:
Patrick B. Craine Special to The Interim An Oct. 13 Toronto Star report claiming the Canadian government is set to add strippers and escorts to its national job bank is “completely and utterly false,” says a spokesman for the government.
The Star cited an Oct. 1 ‘draft memo’ from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada that said occupations such as exotic dancer, nude dancer, striptease dancer, and escort, among others, would “be acceptable for posting on Job Bank,” a service of Human Resources Development Canada.
The piece, written by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2010 at 12:33 in
Bioethics | Author:
Kathleen Gilbert Special to The Interim
Some scientists still want ESCR
A faster and more efficient way of deriving stem cells from ordinary skin cells has been discovered, announced scientists in Boston on Sept. 30, who said their discovery will revolutionize an already-booming field of medical advances through adult stem cells. Meanwhile, stem cells derived from human embryos cannot claim even one success in human treatment.
A technique that develops ordinary cells into stem cells, or induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells, was created four years ago; ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Nov, 2010 at 9:45 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns On Sept. 28, the Ontario Superior Court threw out Canada’s three Criminal Code restrictions on prostitution, leading advocates of the sex trade to cheer, editorialists to call for decriminalization of prostitution, and pro-family and religious groups to decry the ruling and its faulty assumptions.
Technically, prostitution – the exchange of sex for money – has never been illegal in Canada. In her 131-page ruling, the Superior Court’s Justice Susan Himel found that Criminal Code restrictions on prostitution violated the Charter of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Nov, 2010 at 8:09 in
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Alexandra Brown I Timothy 2:9-10: “In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire, But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.”
As a young woman, dressing modestly in today’s society is tough. Women don’t even like the sound of the word ‘modesty,’ much less trying it on for size.
Due to the sexual liberation movement of the ... (Continue reading)
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