George Parkin Grant, probably Canada’s best known philosopher, and the country’s most articulate pro-life voice, died at Halifax on September 27, a month and a half prior to his seventieth birthday. He had been suffering from cancer for some time. Mr. Grant was born in Toronto in 1918, into a distinguished family, and was educated at Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and [...]
George Grant Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood [Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Brentwood, TN: 1988] Planned Parenthood is an international network of affiliated organizations whose chief aim is the slaughter of the unborn in the name of sexual liberation, population control, and eugenic manipulation. In this book, George Grant, an American pro-life activist, has given us almost 300 pages of compelling and [...]
The iniquity of the inequity consists of allowing tax-exemptions for contributions offered to groups advocating abortion, while withholding those exemptions from groups opposed to abortion, but supporting life. Those in favour of Morgentaler’s abortion clinics, for example, and his legal battles, are able to extend him financial assistance with tax-exempt dollars, whereas those of us who wish to help Joe Borowski with [...]
Toronto – Picketers at Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary will be commemorating the fourth anniversary of their 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., five day a week, witness on December 10, 1988. No picketing takes place at the Scott abortuary on Gerrard Street for lack of volunteers. On September 27, a third abortuary opened in Toronto at Parliament and Wellesley Street (Donvale Medical Centre). It [...]
On January 27, 1988, Helen Walsh’s dream of the day when all pre-born Canadians would have the right to live was known only to her family and her friends and neighbours in the town of Bedford, Nova Scotia. The slim, blonde mother of five – four her own and the youngest adopted – took an ordinary part in her local pro-life group, [...]
In September 1984, we wrote that abortion is the election issue. Nothing has happened in the past four years to make us withdraw that statement. In fact, November 1988, the situation is even more critical. The political report card for the last four years shows that grassroots pro-life work has begun to pay off. In June 1987, the pro-life Mitges’ motion was [...]
Joe Borowski’s anti-abortion crusade is in dire financial straits. These were the opening words of a front-page story of the Winnipeg Free Press, August 24, 1988. Mr. Borowski believes that if one is to be successful in seeking financial help, one had better be honest with the public. He had just received three legal bills totaling $79,000, he told the WFP. In [...]
After 10 years in Canada’s courts the landmark Borowski case may never receive a ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada. Joe Borowski’s odyssey to claim the constitutional right to life of the pre-born child under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has ended in a quagmire of legal uncertainty and political hypocrisy. Borowski’s final appeal to the Supreme Court began October [...]
Brian Mulroney did not attend debate or vote on July 28, 1988. On August 2, 1988, reading from a prepared statement on an open line radio show in Vernon, B.C., Prime Minister Brian Mulroney declared: “I do not favour abortion on demand. I have recognized that, as the former statute specifies, abortions could be obtained in certain circumstances.” Mr. Mulroney did not [...]
Do good things happen to pro-lifers? Yes, they do, all the time, quietly, behind the scenes – like rays of sunshine breaking through the clouds. The harshest blows strike pro-lifers publicly – and yet blessings abound privately. For instance, the disastrous Supreme Court of Canada decision last January was probably the worst blow ever. To understand what happened to pro-lifers – on [...]
The flood of abortion related news that followed the Supreme Court decision of January 28, 1988, left little space for in-depth reporting on other news items. In the spring of this year the Nova Scotia legislature passed in third reading The Medical Consent Act. The following analysis is by Mr. Del Atwood, a Halifax lawyer and member of Nova Scotians United of [...]
Quebec Evangelist claims innocence Popular lay preacher Pierre Lacroix, married and the father of four children, was charged on Wednesday, September 23, with six counts of gross indecency and one count of attempted sodomy involving teen-age boys. Mr. Lacroix’s daily, six afternoons a week, 15 minute TV show was cancelled immediately. Only on the Saturday before, September 17, the 40-year-old Mr. Lacroix [...]
Murphy’s Law is this, “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.” I sometimes think I must be related to Murphy – but not always! On the weekend of September 17-18, things went right. I was already committed to preaching on the Missions at Canadian Martyr’s Church in Ottawa and had booked my passage on the train. Then a few day [...]
Frank Mountain never even expected to meet Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and being the subject of her special attention was the furthest thing form his mind when the tiny nun entered his Ottawa hospital room on September 16. Although she makes a point of not visiting hospitals or nursing homes, Mother Teresa made an exception for Frank when she heard of his [...]
Members of Parliament struggle daily to untangle the problems and catastrophes that various bureaucracies have inflicted upon their constituents. In between times they try to ensure that legislation in Canada is unfolding as it should. Only rarely do they have the chance to make life’s dreams come true. But, less than 24 hours before Mother Teresa’s visit to Parliament Hill as a [...]