SHOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SMOKE IN YOUR HOME?

Municipalities across Canada are now beginning to demand that new public housing tenants give up smoking at home.  Peel region  took this a step further by proposing that all multi unit dwellings in Ontario be declared smoke free whether they are privately owned or not.  ad for your health
But should not government benefits like public [...]

SHOULD EXECUTIVE SALARIES BE CONTROLLED?

The Obama government has just announced a tough new pay policy whereby companies owned by the government like AIG and GM must drastically slash the compensation for their top-earning executives.   Com pensation for the top 175 executives will be slashed by up to 90 percent and they will receive part of their pay in company [...]

SHOULD A MAN RACE A WOLF?

Today at Wembley Stadium in London there is a race pitting a man – a star rugby player – aginst Monty, a 60kg Canadian timber wolf.  They will race for 40m. to see which is faster – man or beast.
An English animal rights group is demanding the race be cancelled. They say the race will [...]

IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH POACHING ANGLICANS?

The Pope has announced a project to attract disaffected Anglican s – those who oppose female priests in their own church and also oppose openly gay bishops.
The pope has created a new structure in which Anglicans could defect en masse and retain some of their own  liturgy like the Book of Common Prayer.  Anglican married [...]

D0 GENDER RIGHTS TOP ALL OTHERS?

Should gender equality prevail over, say, freedom of speech or religion?
If some prominent commentators in Quebec, various lobby groups and the Parti Quebecois had their way charters of rights and freedoms would amended so that gender rights would trup all other rights. 
What has brought this to the fore right now is somer mermbers of Montreal’s [...]

WAS THE BALLOON CAPER A HOAX?

A Colorado family  that reported their six-year-old son was trapped inside a balloon are being questioned again today amid rumours the whole thing was a publicity stunt.
On an appearance o n CNN the boy’s father asked him why he didn\t come out of the attic when his name was called.  Falcon, the boy, replied that “you [...]

SHOULD CANADIANS GET VACCINATED?

The biggest vaccination campaign in Canadians history is on its way against the H1N1 flu.  Much media coverage makes it clear the disease is deadly and the vaccine is safe.
Yet many Canadians are not sure whether or not they want to be vaccinated.  They argue the flu is not as bad as the publicity suggests, [...]

SHOULD RUSH LIMBAUGH HAVE BEEN FROZEN OUT OF THE NFL?

Rush Limbaugh has been part of a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams.  But his reception from the National Football League has been extremely chilly.  Comm issioner Roger Goodell said he was displeased about Limbaugh’s divisive remarks about back llacks.  (The NFL is 65%  black).  Yet  Goodell had no trouble accepting back Michael [...]

SHOULD A CATHOLIC POLITICIAN RECEIVE A CATHOLIC FUNERAL?

The American archbishop who heads the Vatican’s supreme  court says Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should not receive the sacraments, including funeral rights.
Archbishop Raymond Burke, formerly of St. Louis, is the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic  Signatura.  He is  k nown as a forceful critic of  public figures who support abortion [...]

SHOULD PANIC BUTTONS BE USED?

Convenience store owner Iris He was faced with a “rough-looking” mn in his 40s or 50s, holding a large plastic bag.  Her heart jumped out of her chest.  She thought the man was armed.  So she pushed the panic button under the counter and summoned the ig chunk
police.
Turns out he wasn’t armed.  And unless a robber [...]