Did you know that Canada doesn’t have a law against any kind of pornography? For two dreadful weeks in April of 1985, when the Supreme Court of Canada threw out the obscenity laws, a veritable flood of pornography entered Canada. The government needed the consent of all parties to act, which it fortunately obtained. And it quickly put out an interim measure [...]
For most people information is limited to a local newspaper or what they see or hear on a brief local TV or radio news report. Often they are not aware how limited this information is or how much of the truth is omitted through the sieve of editorial bias. The pro-life movement is especially subject to the latter, including willful distortion, occasionally [...]
As school resumed this September, the Ontario Court of Appeal was being told that the Elgin County School Board is indoctrinating children in the Christian faith. Lawyer John B. Laskin, representing the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, was appealing a lower court decision that neither the curriculum nor provincial regulations authorizing religious education violates the Charter of Rights. In 1963, Laskin said, 7-year-old [...]
The group of 22 was organized, press reports stated in early August, by Toronto economist, Gordon Cleveland. “Defend women’s rights to abortion, men urge,” stated one headline. “Men are urged to get behind pro-choice movement,” read another. “Men rally for abortion – Ruling slammed,” and “Actor, ex-envoy join fight for right to choose abortion” stated a third and fourth report. It sounded [...]
Editor’s Note: This column was written before the author was jailed for refusing to acknowledge the validity of the Morgentaler injunction. Today is August 2nd, and the papers are full of front-page news about the Chantal Daigle case. So much has been written and spoken recently about the Dodd and Daigle sad cases that I decided enough is enough and I would [...]
What exactly is a fetus? What is an embryo? And what is the difference between them? C.B., Toronto I am taking it for granted that you refer to a human fetus and embryo. Both terms belong to specific early stages of development of a new human life. The embryo develops into a fetus in the same way that the infant who crawls [...]
Ontario nurses may win the right to refuse to assist with abortions in their next contract. To date, nurses who work in abortion-performing hospitals in Ontario have been left with little choice when it comes to the abortion issue. Credit Valley Hospital in Toronto was picketed by members of Nurses for Life when they moved their abortion facility to the pediatric floor. [...]
Physicians for life has indicted the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) for consistently misrepresenting the true beliefs of Canada’s doctors with respect to abortion. Dr. Ranalli On August 21, Physicians for Life mounted a press conference simultaneously in eleven cities across Canada. In Toronto, Dr. Paul Ranalli, a neurologist at York Finch General Hospital and president of that city’s chapter of Physicians for [...]
A Women’s March for the Unborn drew approximately 300 women to downtown Montreal on September 9. Many women carried signs and banners as they marched silently from Cabot Square, near the Montreal Children’s Hospital, to the Quebec Palais de Justice in Old Montreal. Although the number of participants, some 300, was perhaps less than had been hoped for, organizers were encouraged by [...]
If Ontario Premier David Peterson’s Liberal government presses ahead with its proposed Independent Health Facilities Act, also known as Bill 147, the number of abortuaries could multiply across Ontario. But abortionist Henry Morgentaler, whose 20-year total of murdered preborn human beings approches 50,000 want abortuaries exempt from the penalties of the proposed law. Under the provisions of Bill 147, the Health Minister [...]
Statement to the Government of Canada from Ontario Pro-Life Clergy Council Text is as follows: “On January 28th, 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada’s abortion law. Since then Canada has been without any restrictions on abortion – a distinction we share with only Communist China. We expect Parliament to enact abortion legislation which will protect all unborn children without [...]
Magistrates across the country are fining and jailing pro-lifers who defy court injunctions. In Vancouver, Judge John Bouck handed out sentences of six months jail on July 14. In Calgary, on September 5, Judge Ernest Hutchinson fined one pro-lifer $500 payable in 15 days, or six months in jail. In Toronto, Judge A.E. Charlton imposed a $750 fine, payable in 60 days, [...]
On August 11, following the court rulings on the Barbara Dodd and Chantal Daigle cases, the President of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops, James Hayes, Archbishop of Halifax, sent the following one-liner to Prime Minister Mulroney: “The events of the summer demonstrate clearly that the federal government must assume its responsibility and introduce legislation which will effectively protect the right to [...]
The movement is called Operation Rescue. It acts on the Biblical injunction, “Rescue those unjustly sentenced to death” (Proverbs 24:11). Rescuers prevent the killing of unborn children by sitting in large numbers in front of the doors of an abortuary, preventing the entry of employees and clients. Some of the Rescuers get arrested – those who refuse to budge if the police [...]
Calgary Three men and three women say their sentence is a clear example of the double standard now prevailing in the justice system. On Tuesday, September 5, 1989, Justice Ernest Hutchinson sentenced Michael Malley to pay a $500 fine or, in default, spend six months in jail for disobeying an injunction prohibiting pro-lifers from protesting at the Peter Lougheed Centre. The other [...]