Twenty teachers in Terrace B.C. will be fired at the end of June if they refuse to join the local union, Terrace District Teachers Association (TDTA), and the British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF). A number of these teachers object to union membership because of the pro-abortion policies of the provincial federation, admitted TDTA president Greig Houlden. Union membership was required in a [...]
The Canadian government announced its plans to establish a Royal Commission on Reproductive Technologies in the Speech from the Throne which opened the second session of the thirty-fourth Parliament (April 3, 1989). The Commission will inquire and report on current and potential medical and scientific developments related to new reproductive technologies. It will also consider social, ethical, health, research, legal and economic [...]
The Speaker of the House of Commons has ruled out of order 13 proposed amendments, while permitting 14, of which a number cover the same ground. Ruled Out Of Order - Prohibition Of Abortion After 20 Weeks; - Insistence On Abortions Being Done In A “Medical Facility”; - Insistence on a second medical opinion; - Prohibit abortions “to prevent the birth of [...]
Third and final reading on Bill C-43 will begin on May 22. The Mulroney government hopes the Commons will pass the re-legalization of abortion before the end of the month. It will be just over 21 years that the original approval in principle of abortion in Canada took place. On May 13, 1969, the House of Commons approved an Omnibus Bill (C-150), [...]
At the Globe 90 Conference in Vancouver in March, wrote Globe and Mail columnist Terence Corcoran facetiously, the term “sustainable development” was employed 4,279 times by 500 speakers – and none of them knew what it meant. It was wrapped in conceptual fog. When Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard committed our government to “vigorous promotion of the concept of sustainable development,” did that [...]
At Home The killing fields Toronto is a dying city. According to 1988 Department of Health figures, 13,185 children died at the hands of abortionists, as opposed to 8,995 who beat the odds and were born. Gutless Department Speaking at a public forum hosted by Concerned Citizens of B.C. in January 1990, Vancouver Alderman Don Bellamy tried to justify the city’s right [...]
Ontario’s Ministry of Health, headed by Elinor Caplan, has initiated the numerical registration of every man, woman and child in the province. Preceded by a flurry of news reports describing the fraudulent use of Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) cards. Mrs. Caplan unveiled her plan to assign individual plastic health I.D. cards to replace the current “family system” now in use. Incorrectly [...]
The Companions of the Holy Family, an organization of lay Roman Catholics, mounted a successful conference April 7, on the family at Toronto’s St. Anselm’s Church. It was highlighted by the presence of Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, a Canadian stationed in the Vatican, who is President of the Pontifical Council for the family. The Cardinal was kept busy during his stay in Toronto. [...]
A decision by Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Tevie Miller upheld an injunction protecting an abortion-providing “clinic” in Edmonton. The injunction bans picketing, demonstrating and leafleting within 50 feet of all entrances to Hys Centre, which houses the Women’s Reproductive Health Care Clinic, a facility where abortions are booked for the Royal Alexandra Hospital. The injunction was granted by Justice Miller [...]
As he has done in other provinces, abortionist Henry Morgentaler has approached Alberta Health Minister Nancy Betkowski with an offer to train doctors to perform abortions and to advice on setting up a clinic in this province. Morgentaler wrote the minister stating that an abortion “clinic” could be set up for $100,000 and the need for such a clinic exists in Alberta, [...]
“Get thee to a nunnery” took on a whole new meaning May 2-5 in Edmonton when a retreat facility run by the Sisters of Providence gave space to a controversial sexuality seminar. The seminar, sponsored by the Edmonton Board of Health, has been held through out the province for some years but recently achieved notoriety when publicly criticized by several past participants. [...]
The recently released annual report of the Canadian Human Rights Commission would lead one to believe that this supposedly non-partisan government organization favors efforts by homosexual activists to redefine what the word “family” means. The report also makes it clear that the Human Rights Commission is opposed to any foreign government regulations that would require tourists to prove they are free of [...]
One of the major pro-life victories in the U.S. under Ronald Reagan was the initiative known as the Mexico City Policy. This policy, which went into effect five years ago, prevents American foreign aid agencies from funding any “family planning” organizations which promote and perform abortions overseas or support or participate in programmes which include coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. This policy [...]
If, as the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, “Music is the universal language of mankind,” then rock music is the universal language of youth. They get up to it in the morning, spend their waking hours listening to it, and then fall asleep to its beat. For about four to six hours a day the average North American teen becomes engrossed in [...]
The eighth annual conference of Canadians for Decency, held in Toronto on April 28, opened with tributes to Nancy Pollock, the organizations founder and recently deceased president. Noreen Marshall compared her to a little tugboat hooked up to a big ship and determined to pull it straight. With her in mind, the conference chose as its theme “The Power of One.” Single-handedly, [...]