Svend Robinson, NDP MP of Burnaby, has come “out of the closet,” as homosexual parlance has it, thereby strengthening the relentless drive to make the sordid homosexual “lifestyle” acceptable. Robinson has long crusaded for so-called “sexual orientation” to be protected under the anti-discrimination clauses of the Canada Human Rights Act. In November 1986, he proposed in the House of Common Justice Committee [...]
Conservative MPs John Oostrom and Alan Redway recently agreed to present a draft “conscience clause” on behalf of Nurses for Life to the federal Justice Committee. Nurses for Life have sought legal advice on this matter and is seeking broad public endorsement of such a conscience clause. In Canada, health care workers have often been excluded from operating rooms and gynecology wards [...]
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 [...]
America has given a great gift to the world, a gift that drew upon the accumulated wisdom derived from centuries of experiments in self-government, a gift that has irrivocably changed humanity’s future. Our gift is twofold: the declaration as a cardinal principle of all just law, of the God-given, unalienable rights possessed by every human being; and the example of our determination [...]
On January 30, 1988, the Ramada Inn in Mississauga was the scene of almost 100 FCP Party and Riding Executives, bringing executives from as far away as Thunder Bay and Ottawa. In his major speech, Party Leader Don Pennell stressed the importance of educating pro-family voters as to the value of their vote. He expressed his disappointment at the great number of [...]
On February 27 at the Evangelical Temple in North York, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada held a one-day conference on human life titled, “Abortion: Canada in Crisis.” Its purpose to assist evangelicals in better understanding the implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion and to encourage positive action among its members. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada is a national association [...]
After reading the headline in the Toronto Globe and Mail “Abortion law scrapped – women get free choice” in late January at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station, I decided to end my two-year self-imposed exile in America. I took the train a few days later to Montreal. While there, I planned to be deliberately arrested at Morgentaler’s abortion bungalow in East Montreal, but [...]
Pro-lifer Tom Brown charged with trespassing in June last year while counseling a woman scheduled for an abortion, appeared in Old City Hall Court on February 17. Provincial court Judge C. Bode acquitted Mr. Brown of the charge.
On Ash Wednesday afternoon, three Catholic high school teachers knelt on the back steps at 85 Harbord Street and prayed a Rosary. The three courageous men, Jim Bissonette, Peter McCann and Tom Benton were led away by police to 14 division where they were charged with failure to obey a police order. Mr. Bissonette stated in an interview of CITY TV: “Christians [...]