Ontario’s Family Coalition Party (FCP) was founded in 1986 by pro-lifers. Provincial approval followed in 1987 on the presentation of 11,000 signatures fulfilling the requirements. It was just in time – Premier David Peterson had called an election. The party ran candidates in 36 ridings, receiving a total of 48,000 votes on election day. In 1987, candidates for the FCP won [...]
Anglicans Detroit and homosexuals The Bishop of the diocese of Michigan in the Episcopal Church of the U.S. made an emotional plea at an annual convention, asking his clergy to stop blessing “same-sex” relationships. For this he was attacked from the floor. Prior to the convention, eleven clergymen has asked the Bishop to uphold the 1979 national ruling that it is inappropriate [...]
Abortion and birth control are popularly believed to have no material consequences outside of the body of the woman. Whatever moral, physical, or psychological ramifications there may be as a result of an abortion or of taking a hormone pill for twenty years are thought to be locked in and confined to the mother, and there is nothing more to be said. [...]
In an effort to end alleged wage discrimination, the Ontario government will compensate more than 30,000 of its female employees to the tune of nearly $97 million over the next three years. This amounts to 2.5 per cent of the province’s payroll, said Nancy Robinson of the Human Resources Secretariat. Female clerks, cleaners and health care workers, to name just some job [...]
All 94 pro-life prisoners in Vermont were released May 9 after Judge Matthew Katz convicted them of trespass and sentenced them to time served on February 19 and 20. Most of them had been held for over 75 days, after their arrest for rescue efforts at an abortion site in Burlington, Vermont. They stayed in jail, nameless, until probation penalties on two [...]
Toronto Councillor Jack Layton and his companion spouse Councillor Olivia Chow are living in low-cost housing. Together the two earn $120,000 in municipal salaries alone. This was the story the Toronto Star broke on June 15. The next day the Toronto Sun found three other well-paid New Democrats living off taxpayers’ money: Dan Heap, MP; Roger Hollander, Metro Councillor and Marilyn Churley, [...]
The following list of names appeared as an advertisement under the title “Pride Day Greetings” in Toronto’s homosexual newspaper X-rated (June 1990). It includes the names of “your New Democratic Party representatives and the NDP Lesbian/Gay Caucus”, - “working,” it says, “at all levels of government for social justice and human rights.” The New Democrats and our community: Sharing the struggle, sharing [...]
Judy Anderson, 41, of Etobicoke, Ontario, was elected national President of REAL Women, in Vancouver, this April. She and her husband, Colin, are pro-life Anglicans. Married for 15 years they have two daughters, Julia (aged nine) and Clare (aged five). Mrs. Anderson is a teacher with the Etobicoke Board of Education. She teaches a clinical language program to children with learning disabilities. [...]
At the end of June, Mr. Justice James Southey of the Ontario Supreme Court ruled that Ontario’s Retail Business Holidays Act was unconstitutional. AN amendment to an otherwise “Charter proof” Act had given the right to determine whether or not stores could open on Sunday to municipalities. This, Judge Southey declared, is unacceptable; local councils have no right to decide such matters. [...]
The Liberal Government of Ontario has an overwhelming majority in the legislature (95 out of 130 seats). Fearing that adverse economic and constitutional problems on the Canadian horizon may damage its future “credibility,” it has decided to go to the polls without delay. That’s it good right. But it’s our right to reiterate again the folly of being naïve about this government [...]
On June 24, Lesbian and Gay Pride Day was celebrated with a parade down Yonge Street in Toronto. Toronto writer David Pederson was given space in the Globe to do a promotional piece on the event. According to him, 30,000 people marched, danced, rolled or whistled their way down the street, behind a man on roller skates and wearing a dress. Other [...]
Ontario PC leader mike Harris told people in Guelph that abortions should be equally available in hospitals across Ontario. “The government of Ontario, which is responsible for health-care services as mandated by law, should make them available across the province,” he stated on August 18. Harris thought even Guelph’s Catholic hospitals should provide them. (Toronto Star, August 19, 1990)
In May 1985, the Ontario Liberals formed a minority government with the NDP. In September 1987, they won a landslide majority, getting 95 out of 130 seats. In July 1990, they called another election to confirm their grip on power. What is the party’s record on the all-important family life issues? Item 1 In April 1985, before the election, new Liberal leader [...]