Liberal MP Don Boudria has changed his pro-abortion views. “I’ve now decided I’m against abortion totally” he said. The member for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell announced on April 9 that he will vote against any law that does not provide full protection for the unborn child. Boudria said that he had always supported a woman’s right to abortion, but in the future he would do [...]
Statements in the House of Commons urging protection for the unborn child made by Ross Belsher (Fraser Valley East), Rob Nicholson (Niagara Falls), John Oostrom (Willowdale), Gus Mitges (Grey Simcoe), Brian White (Dauphin-Swan River), Felix Holtmann (Selkirk-Interlake), Bill Gottselig (Moose Jaw), Gordon Taylor (Bow River), Roland de Corneille (Eglinton-Lawrence) and Gerry St. Germain (Mission-Port Moody). Petitions have been presented in the House [...]
Concern is being expressed that a federal government “gag” law remains on the books, despite a declaration by an Alberta court that the law is unconstitutional. Known as Bill C-169, the law is amendment to the Canada Elections Act and makes it an offence for special-interest groups to spend money during an election campaign in an attempt to influence how people vote. [...]
Gordon Taylor is the outspoken Member of Parliament from Bow River, a large rural Alberta riding surrounding the city of Calgary. Mr. Taylor, first a schoolteacher and later owner of a real estate and insurance business, was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1940. During the Second World War, he served as a pilot officer in the Air Force and following [...]
Politics, people & the AIDS epidemic This blockbuster of a book tells how, figuratively speaking, the band played on while the AIDS crisis got worse and worse. Lengthy and detailed though it is, it sustains the reader’s interest through its narrative method. It is divided into short segments, which switch rapidly from one scene to another- San Francisco, New York, the Centre [...]
Pro-Life activist Joe Borowski’s Supreme Court challenge has been postponed until the Fall Court session. Borowski and his lawyer Morris Schumiatcher of Regina were in Ottawa on April 11 to petition the Court to hear the case in June as previously scheduled. However, Justice William McIntrye rejected the petition and instead scheduled the hearing for the first day of the Fall Session [...]
They divided evenly on whether to have breakfast or luncheon at next year’s Canadians for Decency (CFD) convention, but one thing they were not divided on was their undisguised hatred of pornography. “Bill C54, the anti-pornography bill now before the house is not dead,” insisted Willowdale MP John Oostrom, who spoke to over 250 delegates at the sixth annual Canadians for Decency [...]