![]() ![]() Failing to reach agreement with its union employees, the company opted to discontinue passenger service and hired a new workforce to replace the striking employees. This is the “news” and unfortunately, it’s not new.įrom 1963 to 1975, the Florida East Coast railway was subject to 12 years of work stoppages. Canada’s hungry children need healthy food so they can grow and learn to their best potential, and our aboriginal peoples need access to healthy food, including their traditional foods. Dietitians of Canada says it is time to dust off Canada’s Action Plan for Food Security (1998) and accomplish the priority actions. Coyne says, “a society should make its first priority improving the lot of the worst off among it, and is to be judged by how well it does in this regard.” I couldn’t agree more. Rates of food insecurity in Canada have not changed recently, especially in households dependent on income from social assistance and/or aboriginal households. ![]() Unfortunately, after paying for rent and other necessities of life, many low-income Canadians don’t have enough money to buy sufficient nutritious food for their households. Coyne also describes a “byzantine process” by which the cost of necessities is calculated as a percent of income. They should ask God if He wears clothes and refrain from asking the rest of civilization to censor porn until He has provided a clear, non-biblical reply. They and their followers are about the only people calling for censorship and they have the unmitigated gall to believe that man-made clothing enhances the beauty that God created without clothing. Our religious leaders, not porn, have turned the human body into a dirty object. Moore can be “the guy to stand up for porn.” Let others stand up for the right to express views that run counter to “established wisdom.” And what about Christie Blatchford, who was intimidated at the University of Waterloo? Mr. Remember Benjamin Netanyahu not being able to speak at Concordia University? Or Ann Coulter, who was run off the University of Ottawa campus. Censorship or the suppression of views that “militate against the established wisdom” is quite common in Canada. No, John Moore, “it doesn’t start with porn” it has started some time ago with suppressing free speech. Pretty enough in its place, but almost impossible to control - and capable of strangling the life out of everything else. Censorship is rather like one of those ornamental plants that gets out of control, like the kudzu vine or purple loosestrife. Once society has tacitly agreed to censorship in some instances, it will be almost impossible to deny it in others. It is easy to make a case for censoring porn, but that’s not where it would stop. It is more or less axiomatic that I disagree with John Moore, but this time, I am firmly on his side. It is not hyperbole to describe porn as poison. Research shows that porn is bad for the individual, for relationships and for those exposed to it. At one time, Canadian society had a strong sense of responsibility about the protection of children. Article contentįreedom doesn’t mean that we are free to do anything. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function.” We have an emergency but the John Moores of the world would have you believe otherwise. Author Robert Heinlein said: “All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. Boys, who have easy access to these grotesque sexual acts, think this is normal behavior. Enter whatever sex act you think of into a search engine and 99% of the time you’ll wind up at a site that shows the most degrading, repulsive sexual activities being done to women and barely legal teenage girls. For any parent who has never seen what passes for Internet porn, they should visit a porn site just once. John Moore uses a ridiculously extreme scenario to justify a form of media that has about as much redeeming quality as the burning of witches. Show us the evidence that the slippery slope of censorship will take away more than just the porn vices of liberals, libertarians and pedophiles. Activate your Online Access Now Article content If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is included in your subscription.
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