Guardian Insurance Company of Canada has refused to pay a claim resulting from an illegal abortion that went wrong. The company asserts that it is not obliged to meet the claim because the insured doctor is being sued as a result of an illegal act which could result in a life sentence for the doctor. The case which will soon be heard [...]
On May 1, 25 people picketed in front of the Toronto Press Club at 5 Wellesley Street West in Toronto where Attorney General Ian Scott was speaking. He was scheduled to arrive at 7:00 p.m. but he came 45 minutes late. He brushed off questions about laying charges against the new Harbord-Street abortionist Nikki Colodny, and ignored a question from a pro-lifer [...]
The Parliamentary Task Force on child Care is presently holding hearings across Canada. It should be a forgone conclusion that it will recommend universal Day Care centers across our nation, but first the charade of public hearings must end. Of the Seven parliamentarians sitting on this special committee, only one has three children. (2.1 children per family are required to replace Canada’s [...]
Abortionist Robert Scott opened his own abortuary on Monday, May 25. Both Premier Peterson and the Attorney General promised that charges will be forthcoming. “We will prosecute under the law,” said Premier Peterson. “ We will use the power of the law not to allow free-standing abortion clinics.” (Star, May 13, 1986) Plans for the facility were discovered when ads appeared in [...]
On Saturday evening, May 10, during Respect for Life Week, 450 pro-life supporters gathered in the spacious Walkerton Community Centre arena for the Walkerton and District Right to Life Annual Dinner and Pro-Life Rally. The rally was co-sponsored by the Knights of Columbus- Cargill/ Chepstow/ Paisley Chapter. Canada’s Foremost pro-life advocate, Joe Borowski, was the quest speaker along with Fr. Ted Colleton. [...]
On May 17, 30 pro-lifers picketed Attorney General Ian Scott as he entered St. Thomas Parish Hall in Belleville for a seminar. Ironically, the seminar at which Mr. Scott spoke was entitled “ The Rights of the Victims of Crime.” Peter Wheatley, picket organizer, questioned Mr. Scott on bail conditions; closing the Toronto Morgentaler abortuary; the refusal to charge the new abortionists; [...]
At 7 a.m. on April 28, a healthy 8 lb. boy was born in one of Toronto’s hospitals. What makes this birth so remarkable is that he is one of the small number of babies snatched from death by the sidewalk counsellors at the Harbord Street abortuary. A very important aspect of saving this baby’s life ( and also the life of [...]
On the weekend of May 2, a very positive pro-life event took place—the second meeting within six months of the newly-formed Campaign Life Ontario, a provincial branch of the national political pro-life organization. Held in Niagara Falls, the meeting brought together pro-life activists from across the province to discuss such important items as election strategy; building support; the role of The Interim; [...]
At a press conference on May 6, Reverend Ken Campbell of Choose Life Canada announced his intention to lay charges against the Attorney General of Ontario, Ian Scott for obstructing justice by failing to close the Morgentaler abortuary. The move, which was made after consulting with “a top criminal lawyer,” was thwarted just 24 hours later when Justice of the Peace Gerald [...]
The nature of belief is very different from what we think it is. In fact, if we knew the limits of knowledge and the extent of human ignorance in the modern world, it would quickly shake our confidence in modernity. Just to give you an example, I have heard many people talk about an unborn baby as “just a blob,” which can [...]
If any one issue ought to defeat the Ontario Liberals at the next provincial election it should be their wimpish handling of Toronto’s freestanding abortion clinics. Abortionist Robert Scott has made it perfectly clear in public interviews that he is opening his own abortuary, confident that he will be able to continue killing while “the case is in the courts.” He can [...]
On January 23, 1986 at 10:22 a.m., 18 year-old Erin Shannon suffered a massive and fatal cardiac arrest during a D&E abortion at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. She was 18 weeks pregnant. The inquest into her death was held in Ottawa on April 14, 15, and 16. Sue Hierlihy was in attendance and the following is her account of the testimony presented [...]
The May 1986 News Release of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) by a note of its editor: Churches beware: sexual orientation threatens freedom. Ottawa-Justice Minister John Crosbie has replies to the letter written by Hudson T. Hilsden on behalf of the PAOC to the prime minister and all MP’s which was published as an open letter to the May issue of [...]
“It is a marvelous day for gay,” explained George Hislop, founder of a 100-member homosexual business-owners’ group in Toronto, in the Toronto Sun on May 6. He had just been told that the Justice Committee of The Ontario legislature (with a vote of eight to two) had recommended placing “sexual orientation” under the Ontario Human Rights Code. If the Committee’s recommendation passed [...]
Four Canadian women, three lawyers and a criminologist, published a 210-page report entitled A Feminist Review of Criminal Law. The report was commissioned and paid for by the Advisory Council on the Status of Women, an agency fully-funded by the federal government. Walter McLean, Minister for the Status of Women, said the report was written to “arouse public sensitivity.” This it certainly [...]