Straight Thoughts

The most important cause

2011-12-30T08:25:00.000-08:00

The media often publishes theories based on ideology or “scientific consensus” instead of truth and science. Once this information is published, it is very difficult to convince people that these theories had no basis. While the mass media is quick to alarm people about dangers to the environment, very little is printed about “non politically correct”

Straight Thoughts 166 - condom probabilities

2008-04-02T11:17:00.000-07:00

Do you remember the saying: “Lotteries are a tax on people who failed math?” This reflects the fact that people who are not informed about probabilities are the ones who (in average) donate money to the government by gambling. The same can be said for people who gamble with SDTs and HIV by having promiscuous sex and using condoms as “protection”.

An Email worth writing

2008-02-27T08:51:00.000-08:00

Why is our “conservative” Canadian government taking $18 Million from our taxes and giving it to International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF - a private, for money corporation) to export a culture of death to 180 other countries? Or even within Canada? The government should not use our money to procure or promote abortion (at best a controversial procedure). If anything, they should help

Straight Thoughts 164

2008-02-06T10:24:00.000-08:00

Human Rights Commissions (HRC’s) should be closed down because of their failure to fulfill their mandate. Most agree that it is preposterous that Ezra Levant and others were interrogated about their views, articles and intentions. However, we need to examine the various HRC’s deranged actions even further. It is outrageous that Ezra Levant and

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2008-01-26T04:55:00.000-08:00

Active homosexuals are banned from donating blood after innocent people started dying of AIDS as a result of blood transfusions and a consequent tainted-blood scandal in the 1980’s.Now Health Canada, for the same reasons, started banning active homosexuals from donating organs.However, our Ontario health minister, Mr. Smitherman, said: "I think it was a bit silly, really, and very insensitive,

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2008-01-22T23:19:00.000-08:00

January 22nd, 2008 Yesterday it was Martin Luther King day. His dream of equal dignity with respect to the colour of one’s skin was realized within a generation. Today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and I have a dream of my own. I have a dream that within my life time truth shall prevail, and abortion shall cease to be called a “

Straight thoughts 161

2007-12-21T06:54:00.000-08:00

December 21st, 2007 Defending the family, marriage, morality, Christianity, freedom of speech and the fundamental principles of western civilization has become a "dangerous" job. In the last few months a barrage of attacks against Canadian individuals and institutions has emerged as the new 'conversational' tactic of anti-civilization activists.

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2007-11-30T06:52:00.000-08:00

November 30th, 2007 At a time when in the US the number of abortions is at an all-time low since 1974 and most Republican candidates are eager to appear as much pro-life as they possibly can, the Ontario Premier is still beholden to the policies of false feminism. The Ontario Premier is increasing the funding for abortion with the

Straight thoughts 159

2007-10-09T06:50:00.000-07:00

October 9th, 2007 Many Canadians seem to have been inoculated with low doses of autocracy, until they have become tolerant to mild dictatorships, from Trudeau to Mulroney, Chretien and Martin federally, to Peterson, Rae, Harris and McGuinty provincially. Federally the Prime Minister appoints over 5,000 people, including the Governor General,

Straight thoughts 158

2007-09-20T06:48:00.000-07:00

September 20th, 2007 October 10 Election: More candidates than ever before! On nomination closing day (September 18) the Family Coalition Party had 83 candidates across Ontario, out of 107 ridings, including some of the Northern ridings. The number of candidates and the percentage of ridings covered is a new record for the FCP.

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2007-08-31T06:47:00.000-07:00

August 31st, 2007 Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) attempts suicide! After thirty years of unsuccessful lobbying of the main political parties, both provincially and federally, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), the lobbying arm of the pro-life movement, now attempts suicide. They are opposing the best chance in Ontario’s history to have a political

Straight thoughts 156

2007-08-13T23:46:00.000-07:00

It has come to my attention that some lobbying organizations are still undecided about supporting the new electoral system in the October 10 Referendum, as they fear losing some of their influence and power to lobby candidates and governments under the new system. For an answer to those fears, I include here the answer as it appears at:

I wish... I did the wishing, for once

2007-07-01T10:25:00.000-07:00

Suzanne Fortin, the Family Coalition Party Regional Director in Ottawa, must be congratulated for achieving the objective of creating support for “Abolish Abortion in Canada”, that won the CBC’s Great Canadian Wish list. Over 9500 people signed their name in. Just going by population, more than three thousand of those people may live in Ontario. At the same time she had also scheduled a

Straight thoughts 155

2007-06-27T09:37:00.000-07:00

No matter who wins the CBC poll “The Great Canadian Wish List”, it is now clear that the top two wishes will be about the abortion issue. It is a shame that during five consecutive governments (since the Mulroney government) the issue has remained in “legal limbo” and has not been addressed by our elected federal politicians. In all other countries,

Small party + PR = Change

2007-06-27T08:04:00.000-07:00

An example, in addition to Norway, of the influence a small party can have, with a PR system: The Netherlands, after sinking to the bottom, seems to have a beacon of light: A new Christian Union small party that is now part of a government coalition. Excerpts from the WASHINGTON POST article (reprinted by The Toronto Star, now also linked form the FamilyCoalitionParty.com web page): "Dutch

Straight thoughts 154

2007-06-12T13:35:00.000-07:00

I am tired (to use a mild term) of double standards in the media and in government. The recent case involving Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker, traveling back from Europe with a potentially fatal TB virus strain, had ample publicity. He was quarantined. The world immediately reacted to the potential danger. US Health authorities had to respond to

Straight thoughts 153

2007-05-16T10:53:00.000-07:00

A positive development for pro-lifers in Ontario The probability of pro-family, pro-life views to be heard in Ontario has become much higher yesterday, as a report from the Citizens Assembly, an independent group of citizens, has recommended a new electoral system for Ontario. Although the new system will have to acquire a 60% majority in a Referendum this Fall, I am confident that the

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2007-03-19T02:26:00.000-07:00

Is profit scary? Speaking about the long queues of people waiting for orthopedic surgery, Mr. Smitherman said recently: "I will never support the outsourcing of those knee surgeries to any private, for-profit-motivated organization." Profit is obviously a bad word in the mind of the Ontario Minister of Health. We disagree. Are physicians, health care workers and

Set Our Judges Free

2007-02-22T12:59:00.000-08:00

National Post Published: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Re: Encoding Trudeau's Statist Spirit, George Jonas, Feb. 10. Commenting on property rights, Mr. Jonas correctly points out, "In absolute monarchies or dictatorships, the individual is unlikely to get protection from a constitution, for the simple reason that there won't be any. It will be either non-existent, or suspended -- or, as in

AIDS stats

2007-01-09T23:57:00.001-08:00

The charts below from the United States Statistics Summary on AIDS (see: http://www.avert.org/statsum.htm) show how people living with AIDS most likely became infected. About 77% of the people living with AIDS are men.Even the above stats, although clearly incriminating homosexual sex as the number one cause of AIDS, can be deceptive! They seem to show that normal vaginal sex between men and

Homosexuals used as political pawns

2007-01-09T23:48:00.001-08:00

The homosexual “marriage” issue has fortunately awakened many sleeping Christians.Many however do not realize that homosexuals are pawns used for political purposes in a culture war.The international socialist movement is using homosexuals as an excuse to further the socialist, anti-religious agenda. What better way to muzzle Christians than to pass “hate” legislation limiting the Churches’

May, Rebick and potential life

2006-12-23T07:53:00.000-08:00

Canadian environmentalist Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, attracted rebuke from left wing activist Judy Rebick when she said: “[I]f one group of people say, "A woman has a right to choose", I get queasy, because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.”Unfortunately the

MPPs voting their own salary increase

2006-12-14T09:26:00.000-08:00

Here we go again! The Ontario MPPs (currently earning a base salary of $88,771 a year, more than twice the average salary of employed Ontarians), voted themselves another increase of 25% bringing their base salary to $110,775 per year!. Cabinet ministers will be paid $157,633 per year.By voting themselves this 25% increase in salary, they displayed inconsistency and arrogance. Ontarians are

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2006-11-29T11:10:00.000-08:00

Excluding Christians-According to Canadian court rulings, if you are a Christian you cannot work in one of the following professions without compromising your beliefs.You cannot be:-A Policeman: David Packer was fired from the Toronto police force because he respectfully asked another assignment, in place of guarding an abortion clinic.-A Teacher: British Columbia Chris Kempling lost his job for

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2006-11-27T01:48:00.000-08:00

The politics of exclusion-If I told you that a party in Canada, say the Liberal party, wanted to exclude access to taxpayers money and public resources to another party, say the Communist party of Canada, because it deemed communist policies “contrary to the Canadian Charter”, would you believe it?What if the same party wanted to exclude from government ANY other party that does not hold liberal

Straight Thoughts 146

2006-11-03T00:19:00.000-08:00

On the right side of manholesHow silly can political correctness be?The new metro Toronto works department is now changing the name of manholes.I never thought that a manhole cover could be thrown at me, personally. However, if someone should be offended, that the access to sewage pipes are called “manholes”, these might be men, not women. Did any man complain? Indeed, did any woman ever feel

Straight Thoughts 145

2006-06-04T18:27:00.000-07:00

AIDS causes death. What are we doing as a society? What can be done to prevent AIDS? We developed a vaccine against polio, small pox and other viral diseases. What about a vaccine against HIV? These are fair questions, but the answers have been few, because of the difficulty of AIDS research and because of the unpopularity of the truth.While many viruses are highly transmittable, the HIV virus

Judicial Independence

2006-05-17T07:23:00.000-07:00

MP Maurice Vellacott's recent comments about the Supreme Court have caused the president of the Canadian Bar Association to react by writing a letter to the Prime Minister on May 9, saying that: "behaviour such as this seriously threatens judicial independence." Any lawyer in the CBA must know that the most fundamental threat to Canadian democracy is exactly the current lack of independence

Straight thoughts 144

2006-05-13T10:53:00.000-07:00

Chief Justice supports criminalizing abortionSince the speech delivered on December 1st, 2005 by Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in Wellington, New Zealand, several pro-life leaders have zeroed in on her remarks about judicial activism, and how, in her opinion, judges should identify unwritten constitutional principles for a “new natural law.”When I read the speech however, I

Straight thoughts 143

2006-02-13T10:57:00.000-08:00

The reaction to the cartoons that offended Muslims all over the world, was mostly violent and thus wrong.However, what was the purpose of publishing those cartoons? Certainly not to prove that they had the "right" to publish them. This right is amply demonstrated by many magazines that thrive on publishing dirt.Apparently three years earlier the same newspaper refused to publish some other

Straight thoughts 142

2006-01-14T11:13:00.000-08:00

At the last English Leaders' debate, the scary candidate was revealed to be Mr. Martin, as he proposed to get rid of the notwithstanding clause of the Charter, so that "Parliament could never impose their view on the Supreme Court".After past Liberal governments appointed most of the Supreme Court judges, and after Mr. Martin himself appointed justices Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella,

Straight thoughts 141

2005-12-23T11:15:00.000-08:00

After coming back from the US recently, I was surprised to hear that the Liberal party of Canada still existed and still had the same leader! This, after Liberal party officers violated the Election Act many times, on matters of contributions, expenses and money transfers. If the Family Coalition Party had violated a law or stole money, it would be very difficult to avoid de-registration. But the

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2005-12-21T11:16:00.000-08:00

We cannot be surprised any more about what the Supreme Court comes up with. As the leader of a provincial party, I cannot dismiss it either, as their decisions affect all of us.Whether they are reading in the Charter a "right" that is not there, or whether they tell us that some kind of perversion, such as poedophilia, can be classified as "art", or whenever, as in today's decision, the judges of

Straight thoughts 139

2005-11-11T11:18:00.000-08:00

Ontario's health Minister George Smitherman, who openly declared his own "different" sexual tendencies, in a recent public address said that alcohol and drug abuse, depression and HIV/AIDS are more common among people with different sexual orientations.As a result, he promised to introduce discrimination in favour of these people in Ontario's health care system.As reported by the Canadian Press,

Straight thoughts 138

2005-09-17T11:21:00.000-07:00

According to our government, treating people equally (man and women alike) cannot ensure equality. Now they have redefined the word equality to fit their "affirmative action" agenda.If you had any doubt that "affirmative action" meant discrimination, you can go to the government web site "Status of Women Canada" [1] and read: "The concept of gender equality recognizes that treating women and men

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2005-08-02T11:22:00.000-07:00

When I was still living in Italy in the early seventies, the crime level was above normal. The country was beleaguered by political turmoil, strikes, red brigades, kidnappings, mafia, camorra, P2 and common criminals.Some organizations were financing their activities through bank robberies at gun point. The situation was particularly bad in the south, where economic stagnation contributed to the

Straight thoughts 136

2005-06-29T11:23:00.000-07:00

We lost another battle. O.k., let's regroup, prepare for the next battle and continue to fight each of the battles we lost, in the hope of reversing their outcome. Right?WRONG!If a minority government can ram through an illegal, destructive, morally degrading and unpopular legislation, can you imagine what a majority government can do to us?Canada is in crisis as an institution. The attack on

Straight thoughts 135

2005-06-09T19:55:00.000-07:00

We are for traditional marriage and against same sex marriage, but what about "civil unions"?Moral decline is assisted by flawed laws. Civil unions were introduced to normalize the conjugal relationships of unmarried couples, more than to help them assume the responsibilities and the benefits of marriage. While few of us thought the concept of civil unions would change our concept of marriage,

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2005-05-21T19:59:00.000-07:00

Any one of the many illegal deeds uncovered by the Gomery enquiry would have caused the government of any democratic country to fall.If a cabinet minister is tainted with even an allegation of impropriety, he/she is normally asked to resign.If a candidate admits to accepting a cash donation during an election or admits to infringing the election rules, his election is null and void.The Gomery

Federal Election Cost

2005-05-16T08:40:00.000-07:00

Dear Editor,Canadians seem reluctant to spend money now for another federal election.A federal election may cost us about $100 Million. That is about $5 per Canadian Family.Unacceptable?According to the SUN, Liberal promises will cost us $23 Billion, or over $1000 per Canadian family.That’s going to be the cost of a Liberal re-election.I’d rather spend the $5 now.

Ontario Provincial Budget

2005-05-11T08:39:00.000-07:00

Dear Editor,Do you remember when Ontario was a "rich" Province? We had no debt, we could balance our budgets, maintain a first-rate health care system and give more than our share to the rest of Canada. Then came a series of "progressive governments". Do you remember the outrage when Bob Rae planned to overspend his way through his mandate by ten Billion dollars each year? He followed up on

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2005-05-06T00:01:00.000-07:00

May 5, 2005My message last month was in favour of continuing government support for families with autistic children.Fortunately more and more media are exposing the inconsistency of Premier Dalton McGuinty on this subject.The Premier said that even if the Ontario Court of appeal would rule in favour of continuing support for autistic children, the government, according to him, is not required to

Straight thoughts 132

2005-04-05T11:06:00.000-07:00

April 5, 2005Premier Dalton McGuinty is grappling with another broken promise. Before the elections he personally wrote to some of the families with autistic children saying that in his opinion it was unfair for the government to stop paying for their treatment at age six. He promised to end that practice.Ontario Superior Court justice Frances Kiteley recently agreed with pre-election McGuinty.

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2005-03-27T10:10:00.000-08:00

March 27, 2005Inconsistency is the name of the game, when you have no principles.When you have to take each decision on the basis of expediency, immediate gratification, political correctness or end results, each decision by a person, each policy by a party, each law by government and each judgment from the Courts may hold water for a short time, then start to leek. In some case, the leakage is

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2005-03-21T10:10:00.000-08:00

March 21, 2005 After many ups and downs, the Terri Schiavo case, ignored in the past by the politically-correct, culture-of-death media, has become so important that it could not be ignored by the Us Congress, by the US Senate, by the US President and by the media.The US Congress has taken the unprecedented action to reconvene on a Sunday night and have a vote after midnight. More importantly,

Straight thoughts 129

2005-02-25T10:10:00.000-08:00

February 25, 2005 Sadly, there will be consequences.By Giuseppe Gori.Status: Married to a woman.Ontario same-sex marriage bill (Bill 171) passed yesterday. The Ontario Liberal Government dropped the "same-sex partner" definition introduced by the Progressive Conservatives in 1999, and re-defined "spouse" as any two persons living together in a conjugal relationship, whether married or not.In

Straight thoughts 128

2005-01-19T10:10:00.000-08:00

January 19, 2005"Of all the phony arguments for gay marriage, the phoniest is the argument that it is a matter of equal rights." In Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms enumerates individual 'rights'. these are: "race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability" (Section 15), plus democratic rights, such as the right to vote (Sections 3-5),

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2005-01-14T10:10:00.000-08:00

January 14, 2005 Ten times more women are dying today, as a result of abortion, than in 1972How is that possible, if legal abortion has reduced the fatality rate by ten times as a result of the procedure being performed under a controlled medical environment? The answer is that the availability of free, un-prosecuted abortion has boosted the number of women seeking to abort their offspring by a

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2004-12-01T10:10:00.000-08:00

December 1, 2004 Today the Globe and Mail (G&M) posted the following poll online: “In your opinion, is the Netherlands on the right track in allowing medical teams and parents to jointly decide to end the lives of terminally ill newborns?”The significance of this poll is very serious.It is not because of what is happening in Holland: Holland “slippery slope” of moral judgment is already on a “

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2004-11-25T10:10:00.000-08:00

November 25, 2004 There are “defining” moments when a decision or an event will transform someone’s life.At this time, we have come to an event that will transform the political landscape in Ontario.Finally, the electoral reform we have been advocating for years is under way in Ontario, as well as at the federal level.Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty announced in mid November that the Ontario

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2004-10-23T10:10:00.000-07:00

October 23, 2004When charitable and religious organizations are held ransom by the federal government, and told that they could lose their charitable status if they criticize politicians, then private citizens must take over.That is what Mr. Mark Balestrieri, a Canon lawyer in Santa Monica, California, did. He filed a heresy complaint under Canon (Catholic) law against John Kerry, who defines

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2004-10-21T10:10:00.000-07:00

October 21, 2004The McGuinty government has managed to avoid the limelight in the past weeks.With the November election in the US approaching, only a few issues can compete for media attention.Homosexual "marriage" is one of these. Innumerable articles have been written, in Canada and in the United States, and many television and cable shows have been produced on the issue.Rather than repeating

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2004-08-28T10:20:00.000-07:00

August 28, 2004I seldom comment on federal issues, but the following is going to affect you in a big way.Either you have chosen to live in Canada, coming from a country where your freedoms were probably restricted, or you were born here and you have chosen to stay.Unfortunately, your choice is based on a lie.You may have known that this country was more “socialized” than the average country.You

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2004-07-27T10:10:00.000-07:00

July 27, 2004On Monday, Ontario's health minister George Smitherman announced $470 million in extra funding to hospitals to "shorten waiting times and increase prevention programs. The new money will help people get cardiac care, cancer care, joint replacements and cataract surgery".FIRST POINT:Am I getting this right?This government recently has first de-listed physiotherapy, chiropractic and

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2004-07-14T10:10:00.000-07:00

July 14, 2004Now that we have criminal legislation (Bill C250) specifically protecting people engaging in homosexual behaviour from everyone else, we need legislation protecting everyone else from them. See below: "I'm...interested in going after, politically, local legislators and leaders that have launched...anti-gay initiatives. ...[S]o that they understand not only that they're not going to

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2004-06-14T10:10:00.000-07:00

June 14, 2004A new Ipsos-Reid poll shows that support for Ontario Liberals has plummeted by 13 points after their recent budget.Today just 32 per cent of Ontario voters would cast a ballot for the McGuinty government.Such a steep dive in support for a government following a budget had never before been recorded. Will they be able to recover?Accellerating the time schedule for Electoral Reform may

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2004-04-25T10:10:00.000-07:00

April 25th, 2004The Liberal premiers of the two biggest provinces (Hon. Jean Charest and Hon. Dalton McGuinty) met at the Ontario legislature last Thursday to talk about co-operating on a range of issues, including health care. As reported by the CBC, "Both premiers are calling for a substantial increase in the federal government's share of health-care spending, up to 25 per cent, as recommended

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2004-04-15T10:10:00.000-07:00

April 15th, 2004We expected the new Liberal Government of Ontario to help the poor by reducing taxes for low-income people. For example, the $4 limit below which a meal is PST-exempt could be raised to $6, to reflect some of the increased costs in the last 20 years. Considering that a healthy meal at a fast food restaurant is a little more expensive than hamburger and fries, that change would

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2004-03-23T10:10:00.000-08:00

March 23rd, 2004The news agency Reuters published yesterday that in a New York trial challenging the US government's ban against partial birth abortions, a pediatrician will be allowed to testify that a fetus may experience pain during the late-term procedure.Apart from the obvious question: why should she not? Would you question whether the same infant, five minutes later, once completely born,

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2004-03-04T10:10:00.000-08:00

March 4th, 2004A couple of weeks ago I wrote in our Spring newsletter The IMPACT, how the Governor General, under recommendation from our Supreme Court Chief Justice Ms. Beverly McLachlin, awarded the order of Canada to the 'minister' who performed the first illegal same-sex 'marriage' in New Brunswick.So much for our representatives of justice and government! How could you top that?The dust is

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2004-02-26T10:10:00.000-08:00

February 26th, 2004As more and more Ministers, federally and provincially, have abused their position of trust, what is more important than morality and trust in politics? If we cannot trust our representatives, then what democracy do we have?Separation between Church and state might mean separation between established religion and elected government, but certainly cannot mean separation

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2003-12-22T10:10:00.000-08:00

December 22nd, 20032003 has been a year filled with world events and political changes, such as the war in Iraq, SARS, the biggest blackout in history, the capture of Saddam Hussein, a new mayor in Toronto, a new NDP leader, a new united Conservative party of Canada, a new government in Ontario and a new Canadian Prime Minister, to mention just a few.However, just in time to spoil our Christmas

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2003-12-12T10:10:00.000-08:00

December 12th, 2003There seems to be a gap in our laws between the time when children are free to make choices and the time they become responsible for their choices.The responsibility for minors' choices seem to lie with the parents, but without the parents having the means to exercise their authority on their children.Many Ontario and Federal laws have been passed, giving children more and more

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2003-12-01T10:00:00.000-08:00

December 1st, 2003The credibility of politicians is at an all time low. The attendance at the polls was the lowest ever (just over half bothered to vote). Voters' expectations were not high and the Liberals have already fulfilled the low expectations by breaking several promises.Breaking a promise is bad, but making a promise when you know you cannot keep it, is a lie.Many people question whether