An Interchurch Committee on Pornography is pressuring Justice Minister John Crosbie not to accept parts of the 1985 Fraser Report on Pornography and Prostitution. The report proposes strong measures against child pornography and violence against women. But it proposes to make all other explicit hard-core pornography legal. Rev. Hudson Hilsden, who represents the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, is chairman of the Committee [...]
When my friend heard I was going to a REAL Women conference, she laughed. Such is the public image of REAL Women. I am happy to report that the women I met at the conference were not the strange creatures I had been led to expect. They were not frilly, sentimental and reactionary people afraid to enter the twentieth century. Neither did [...]
In a protest against the extra-billing ban being legislated by the Peterson government, Sarnia General Hospital doctors decided at the beginning of February 1986 that their 100 members should withdraw from all hospital committees. The abortion committee alone was to be an exception because it was “thought to be a more sensitive” area. Three weeks later five of the eight doctors on [...]
Toronto – Premier David Peterson said on Tuesday, March 4, 1986, that the Ontario government has no intention of disbanding the Ontario Film and Video Review Board or of stopping it from banning pictures. Mr. Peterson was non-committal on the reappointment of Mrs. Mary Brown for a third three-year term as chief of the censor board. The Liberal media for the most [...]
Judge Lorenzo Di Cecco, at the “show cause” hearing on the three clergymen at Old City Hall, Toronto, on February 25, 1986, proved the perfect symbol of Canadian Society. “I will not take sides,” he declared, withdrawing his earlier decision of February 10 to impose the signing of a “peace bond” upon the two Catholic priests and the Baptist Church minister. On [...]
Toronto On March 1, 1986, a mock trial of the 1969 abortion law took place at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church. It was part of a cross country consciousness-raising campaign organized by pro-abortionists in favour of abortion on demand. In Toronto it was also the first event leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8. Some 500 people were in the audience, [...]
Guy Rondeau, who plans to run from coast to coast to raise funds for the pro-life movement, and to publicize and popularize the pro-life cause, has regretfully decided to postpone his run until next year. He had originally hoped to start running this May, but it has become evident to him that it will take another year to set up a proper [...]
There was a noisy confrontation between abortionist Morgentaler and retired boxer Reggie Chartrand at the Montreal Palais de Justice on January 29, 1986. Morgentaler, who was summoned to court to answer charges being made by Mr. Chartrand, refused to admit that he performs abortions at his Montreal ‘clinic’ when questioned by Judge Breton, but later, when speaking to reporters, he said to [...]
Morgantaler’s assistant, Dr. Robert Hugh Scott, has been reprimanded by the disciplinary committee of the Quebec Corporation of Physicians as a result of charges arising from an attempted abortion on a woman who was “at least seven months pregnant.” Details of the case were included in a decision handed down by the committee in August 1984, by only recently released, reported the [...]
On Wednesday, February 18, 1986, Antigonish Right to Life held its first Banquet and Annual Meeting. Present, along with the executive and interested individuals, were members of the local clergy and politicians from the local and federal level. The President of Antigonish Right to Life, Janet Bekkers, presented the annual report. The major effort of the year was the highly successful four-day [...]
On Sunday, March 9, Campaign Life Alberta held an Open House to celebrate their move into a new, well-equipped, modern office. The office, shared with Edmonton Pro-Life, is located on 107th Avenue at 10th Street and the phone number is (403) 428-0661). Campaign Life Alberta has worked for this day for a long time and is very pleased with the new set-up. [...]
Lesbian “marriage” affirmed by B.C. court It appears that the legal concept of homosexual “marriage” has been established by the B.C. Supreme Court, at least through inference, if not in fact. The decision came when Justice Patrick Dohm awarded the plaintiff in a lesbian “marriage” a half interest in the “family” home and a 20% interest in two properties owned by the [...]
For the first time ever Campaign Life has entered a school board election. Some 20,000 leaflets were distributed by Campaign Life BC in Vancouver at the end of January 1986. The leaflets endorsed Non-Partisan Association candidate Pam Glass and independent candidate Ean Rankin and warned the public against the nine Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE) candidates. The Vancouver Sun reported Anita Parker [...]
A new song has just been released by the group Horizon called Dear Brother which seems to have significant pro-life overtones. Musically, it is a delight to listen to, with soft voice and soft keyboard overlays. The song is partly sung and partly spoken and consists of conversation in the womb and consists of conversation in the womb between twin brothers. One [...]
On Tuesday March 4, Toronto’s City TV aired a program entitled “Whatever Happened to the Women’s Movement,” part two of a four part series. The program referred to Real Women as the “anti-women’s liberation movement.” Its aim, it said, was to “slow down the march towards equality.” The TV program represented the media at its worst: it was a blatant attempt to [...]