“I’m tired of voting for Catholics who aren’t” quipped one middle-aged gentleman, a recent convert to the Christian Heritage Party, who attended their special news conference in February, in Hamilton, Ontario. “We’re all from somewhere else,” laughed a Christian Heritage Party aide. “We’re all ex-NDP, ex-Liberals, ex-Tories. We’re all fed up with that’s going on in Ottawa. You’re going to see a [...]
Pro-life feminism is a growing movement in the United States, although such feminists are routinely barred from active participation in official feminist organizations. Feminists for Life of Colorado published the following position statement in the Rocky Mountain News last June, while the pro-abortion National Organization for Women (NOW) was holding its annual convention in Denver. Feminists for Life are interested in hearing [...]
Secretary of State David Crombie recently stopped payment on an $8,000 cheque to an Alberta pro-family group, following allegations that the funds would be used to promote pro-life activities. “We fund neither pro-life nor pro-choice,” Crombie’s press aide told the Ottawa Citizen. “We have nothing to do with abortion,” she said, noting that activities promoting either side of the abortion issue are [...]
Part I of this series, “Condom crusade under way,” by Father Alphonse de Valk (February Interim), set the current propaganda against aids in a historical context, noting that it has its roots in a continuing campaign OF advocacy of both contraception and abortion. Though that campaign has escalated in the last 20 years, it has failed in its primary objective of curtailing [...]
AIDS – it has created widespread panic and hysteria – the public is alarmed – schools are scrambling for materials to teach children about the disease. Right? Wrong. If a recent showing of videos by the Toronto Board of Education is any indication, neither parents nor teachers are very interested in the subject at all. In a meeting billed as a preview [...]
One pro-family group REAL Women of Canada has had its requests for funding consistently denied by the federal government. Another, the Alberta Federation of Women United for Families, actually got so far as to have a cheque for $8,000 in the mail, only to have Secretary of State David Crombie stop payment. Why? These groups are contaminated in bureaucratic eyes by standing [...]
On March 10, 1987, the Vatican reaffirmed the special character of marriage and the dignity of human life before birth in a new document on genetic engineering. The document, Instruction on Respect of Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation, was published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith after wide consultation with many experts around [...]
Feminists across Canada gathered for workshops, film presentations and dances during the first week of March to celebrate what has become known as International Women’s Week. Since the UN proclaimed March 8 as International Women’s Day in 1975, feminist organizations have gradually expanded the event, and many cities in Canada are now treated to a full week of feminist-related activities surrounding that [...]
Observers said that Ontario Health Minister Murray Elston deliberately buried the Liberal government’s announcement to implement the Powell report on abortion. The reason? An election is looming and the Liberals don’t want to be picketed by pro-lifers everywhere they go. Proposals to act on the Powell report were announced at a news conference on “Women’s health programs” on March 13. Initiatives included [...]
Helen Burnie, a retired nurse, was at daily Mass on the morning of Friday, March 6, when three Toronto police officers arrived at her home to place her under arrest. A 14-year-old student at a Christian high school was in one of his grade nine classes when members of the same police force arrived to remove him to 14 Division police station. [...]
Saturday, February 14 was a day of celebration for REAL Women of Canada, who were thrilled at the attendance of close to 300 supporters, at their Annual Convention. This was an all-day event held at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel. REAL women sprang up from a small group of women who were very concerned about the breakdown of the family. It is a [...]
In December 1986, the Provincial Parliament of Ontario approved the controversial Bill 7 that amended seventy Ontario laws to conform with the Federal Charter of Rights and Freedoms. One particular amendment to the Ontario Human Rights Code made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of “sexual orientation,” providing homosexuals with full protection for employment, housing and access to services. The Province [...]
The major opponent to government funding for REAL Women is the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, which claims to represent three million women in various organizations ranging from the Communist Women of Canada to the PC Women’s Caucus. (This news comes as a shock to most PC women). The NAC magazine, Feminist Action, reported that at their last Annual [...]
“I thought I had the flu last week, but I was pregnant so I had an abortion,” said a very beautiful Playboy Bunny in an off-hand way. “Oh,” said an equally ravishingly-looking Bunny, “did it bother you to have an abortion?” “Well,” sighed the first Bunny, “the fist time it did, but this is my third or fourth abortion and there is [...]
The Standing Committee on National Health and Welfare will study the feasibility of a federal-provincial communications programme that will affirm the importance of marriage and family life. The idea was introduced as a Private Members’ Motion by Reg Stackhouse (Scarborough West) and passed on December 2, 1986. MPs voted to send Mr. Stackhouse’s motion to the Standing Committee on National Health and [...]