“History is bunk,” so said Henry Ford. A much wiser man warned that those who refuse to learn from the experience of history are doomed to repeat it, and two recent publications bear witness to the bitter truth of this warning. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton traces the steps by [...]
Campaign Life has issued a second formal complaint against the Globe and Mail. It has also complained about the conduct of Council secretary, Fraser MacDougall, whose personal intervention affected the Globe’s publication of the recent adjudication in Campaign Life’s facour. As a member of the Press Council the Globe was required to publish the Council’s adjudication of Campaign [...]
On December 2, MPPs voted to amend Ontario’s Human Rights Code to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination. The amendment, part of Bill 7, and omnibus bill bringing Ontario legislation in line with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, passed after weeks of intense lobbying from groups on both sides and after a week of intense debate [...]
The process of secularizing the nation proceeds unabatedly. The first battle to make the homosexual lifestyle equal to the normal family in law and society was won in Ontario on December 2, 1986. The assault on Sunday as a family and religious day of rest is in full swing. New proposals, by the Law Reform Commission, calling for reducing the charge [...]
It seems that the Ontario Attorney General’s commitment to enforcing the law operates on a double standard these days. Look at the continued prosecution of store owners opening illegally on Sunday and the lack of similar action against Toronto’s two illegal abortuaries. Paul Magder is a Toronto furrier who has been challenging Sunday-closing laws for many years. His [...]
Clergymen stand up for life It was the year that three clergymen stood up for life – even at the risk of going to jail. It was the year that three clergymen with padlocks were vindicated by the courts. Pastor Fred Vaughan, and Fathers Ted Colleton and Alphonse De Valk were charged with mischief for having padlocked the back [...]
Ottawa – Campaign Life and Coalition for the Protection of Human Life announce their intention to consolidate their year-old policy of close co-operation. The two national political groups will bring unification plans before their members early in 1987.
Members of the national women’s group REAL Women brought their concerns before Progressive Conservative and Liberal members of Parliament on November 18 at a national lobby held on Parliament Hill. The lobby was attended by over 250 REAL Women supporters from across the country. Members of Parliament were keenly interested in the brief presented by REAL Women, and gave the group encouragement [...]
Just two days after the Immaculate Conception of Mary, people from all over Ontario gathered for an anniversary vigil in Toronto. On December 10, they came to 85 Harbord Street, two years to the day on which the abortuary opened its door for business. On my way to the 24-hour prayer vigil. The word “morgue,” as in Morgentaler, kept cropping up in [...]