Day Care Deception
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Brian Robertson explores the dangers of institutional day care for children by examining data taken from several research studies over a prolonged period of time. He then discusses how day care advocates and interest groups are either minimizing - or ignoring altogether - these troubling findings as they advance their agenda.
Robertson is the author of Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us (Encounter Books, 2003). To download the full document click here.
Why limit government?
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 19:49
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Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The following remarks on the principle of limited government were delivered June 21, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois, at the 27th annual meeting of The Heritage Foundation's Resource Bank. Although directed toward an American audience, the issues raised are relevant to all democracies, including Canada.
Surgical Sex
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:17
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In the late 1970s Dr Paul McHugh, director of psychiatry at the prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, halted sex-change operations at the hospital, concluding that surgeons should not carve up a healthy body to satisfy a feeling about what that body should be.
In this essay, first published in First Things in 2004, Dr. McHugh explains the reasons for this decision. To download the full document click here.
Canada's Same-Sex Marriage Law - The Case for Review
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:32
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Later this fall (2006), in accordance with a promise made early in the last federal general election, the new Government of Canada under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper will introduce a Motion in the House of Commons asking Members of Parliament whether C-38 (officially the Civil Marriage Act of 2005), and the same-sex marriage policy it embodies, should be reviewed.
The purpose of this paper is to make a prima facie case only for holding such a review by identifying, and briefly discussing a number of issues in support thereof. Please Note: This document is copyrighted to the Institute for Canadian Values. Permission is granted to reproduce and/or distribute this document in whole or in part on condition that proper and full attribution is included.
Western options diminishing for dealing with Iran
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:16
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The ‘doomsday clock’ is now ‘ticking’ on Iran’s nuclear programme as viable policy options outside of diplomacy appear to be running out in favour of preemption. This Policy Briefing by Senior Fellow Joseph B. Varner examines the present situation.
To download the briefing click here.
