On Tuesday, April 23, Bill 53, The Freedom of Informed Choice Concerning Abortions in Saskatchewan, was introduced as a private member’s bill by MLA Gay Caswell (PC Saskatoon Westmount). The abortion law itself is a federal matter, and it is beyond the powers of provinces to alter it. However, health care and family relationships are provincial concerns, and Mrs. Caswell’s Bill [...]
Former Manitoba cabinet minister, Joseph Borowski is slated to appear before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal on December 16, 1985. Mr. Borowski filed appeal papers in the fall of 1983, after Justice William Matheson of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Regina had rejected his bid to strike down the 1969 amendment to the Criminal Code. In 1969 the Canadian [...]
Saskatchewan Weyburn Pro-Life President, Thomas Schuck, continues to demand clarification on the 1984 CRTC ruling that TV stations showing pro-life programs must give “equal time” to pro-abortion programming. Recently the group received a letter from Mr. Marcel Masse, the Minister of Communications, in which the following paragraph occurs: However, the CRTC did not rule that any [...]
The link between the YWCA and CARAL, the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League, was re-affirmed on May 8, 1985, at the YWCA’s annual “Women of Distinction” dinner in Toronto with the presentation of an “Aggie” trophy to Norma Scarborough, president of CARAL. Scarborough, one of six women to receive the 1985 award follows six other presidents and honorary directors of CARAL [...]
The fact remains that the judge’s decision cannot be taken to mean that the jury was properly composed. Moreover, although we did not succeed in getting our complaints raised in the appeal, we did succeed in putting them to the press and the public. In order to ask permission to intervene we had to show why intervention might be [...]
We said in our brief that it was unfair to exclude from jury duty in criminal proceedings, citizens having religious or moral beliefs relating to the crime. We argued that the courts might just as well reject from murder or rape trials anyone who believes such crimes are morally wrong. There was no one in that courtroom last October [...]
Was the Morgentaler jury fairly chosen? The pro-life observers who were in the courtroom when the jury was being selected last October were convinced that the process was irregular, and that the defence and the Crown co-operated to exclude prospective jurors who admitted having religious or moral beliefs. In April, Hamilton Right to Life, in co-operation with the [...]
“A young couple came toward us. She was wrapped in a scarf and had a toque on and sunglasses and I really felt sorry for both of them because they seemed really nervous.” So begins Carmen Smith’s story of “sidewalk” counseling with a couple heading for an abortion down the back alley of the Morgentaler abortuary in Toronto. [...]
It becomes clearer by the month that “pro-life” Canadians, i.e, all those who reject abortion as an abomination, are in process of being disenfranchised. That is to say, they no longer can find a political party which even promises – let alone is actually prepared – to act in defense of the unborn. Canada has had legal abortions for sixteen [...]
The Fraser Report on pornography, with its assumption that pornography is a matter of inequality, rather than sexual immorality, is of great concern to those already alarmed at the erosion of traditional family values. We can endorse fully the committee’s recommendation that child pornography is completely unacceptable. With the exception of homosexual activists, even those advocating the most [...]
Canada Newsweek Gallup American Poll National Results Jan. 14 1983 1978 1975 1985 Legal under any circumstances 23% 16% 23% 21% Legal only under certain Circumstances 59% 69% 60% 58% Illegal in all circumstances 17% 14% 16% 21% (76%) (83%) (76%) (79%) No opinion 1% 1% [...]
Total number of PC and Liberal candidates ………………… 250 No response due to lack of Campaign Life Canvassers in rural and outlying areas……………………… 33 Total ……………………………………………………. 217 100% Total number of candidates for office who Answered “YES” to both questions…………………………… 154 71% Candidates who answered “YES” to Question 1 Bu did not answer Question 2 (or who [...]
The Campaign Life strategy for the recent May 2 election in Ontario centered first and foremost on strengthening efforts to close down the Morgentaler abortuary. Thus the strategy differed from previous elections by not searching directly for “pro-life” candidates, but for those who, “pro-life” or not, were opposed to Morgentaler-style abortuaries. Campaign Life asked all candidates the following two [...]
The attempt by Winnipeg pro-abortionists to have two Manitoba judges disqualified from abortion trials because they do not approve of abortion, has been denied by the Canadian Judicial Council. The so-called “charges” were brought against Manitoba Court of Appeal Justices Joseph O’Sullivan and Alfred Monnin by Ellen Kruger, Morgentaler’s spokesman in Winnipeg. Mr. Justice Joseph O’Sullivan is chairman [...]
Tier 1 : Pornography using children or causing physical bodily harm The most serious criminal sanctions would apply to material in the first tier, including a visual representation of a person under 18 years of age, participating in explicit sexual conduct, which is defined as any conduct in which vaginal, oral or anal intercourse, masturbation, sexually violent behaviour, bestiality, incest, [...]