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 [...]
Following the 140-131 approval of Bill C-43 by the Commons on May 29, Bill C-43 has gone to the Senate for final approval. Senator Stanley Haidasz promised to do all he could to defeat or delay the legislation which he considers “a threat to the survival of Canada.” “We’re permitting a national genocide,” he said of Bill C-43 (Times Transcript, May 29, [...]
Bill C-43 has met with various responses from provincial ministers of health and attorney general. In New Brunswick, Health Minister Ray Frenette stated that the province would continue to insist on a second medical opinion. “We have a legal right to do that.” The province does not pay for abortions done in “clinics” whether inside or outside the province. (Times Transcript, May [...]
Aren’t Operation Rescue people breaking the law? M.W., Ottawa, Ontario. To the extend that they trespass by sitting or standing on private property in order to save pre-born children from being killed the answer is, “yes.” On the other hand, the people who hid the Jews during World War II also broke the law, and in doing so risked torture and death. [...]
May 29 For the pro-life movement, May 29 will be – or at least should be in years to come – a day of sadness and prayer for forgiveness of our sinfulness. May 29 is the day the Commons passed Bill C-43. Spiritual disaster The Bill is a spiritual disaster because Canada has rejected God and His commandments on matters of life [...]
Public interest in the Ontario Ministry of Health individual I.D. card is building. Both the televised “hot-line” and the main Queen’s Park office, are receiving calls – mainly from worried parents – spokesmen say. Despite the Ministry’s TV ad campaign, picturing loving families in cozy, at home settings, many parents are not buying the Ministry’s propaganda. They are not convinced their children [...]
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 [...]
On June 14, the archdiocesan weekly Catholic New York, published a 12-page statement by Cardinal John O’Connor stating that Catholic politicians risk excommunication if they insist on supporting abortion rights. Excommunication, states the Cardinal, may be the only option for Catholics who persist in advocating legislation that supports abortion on its public funding. The Cardinal’s comments drew immediate criticism from Catholic Mario [...]
Anglican Church Women ministers Although Canada was among the first of 28 autonomous churches belonging to the worldwide Anglican communion to call women to the clerical ministry, some dioceses have held out against the novelty started in 1976. On June 11, New Brunswick, one of the last of these dioceses, called its first woman, Pat Brittain, to the ministry after first getting [...]