Ontario pro-lifers must look at the electoral change in the province from their own perspective; i.e., the protection of life and the family. In this light, several points are wroth mentioning. Firstly, the electoral upset was the result – so it seems agreed upon by many – of a general anti-government anger which may very well continue to grow. The NDP happened [...]
On August 30, 1986, there was a noisy party at the Winnipeg home of 22-year-old Angelique Lavallee and her common-law husband, Kevin Rust. After most of the guests had left, the two had an argument. The frightened girl hid in a bedroom closet, but Rust found her, pulled her out, slapped her on the face and hit her twice on the right [...]
Despite a reprimand form her professional association, pro-life nurse Isobel Brophy says she’ll still give women patients “who ask leading question” the truth about abortion. The Terrace B.C. nurse underwent a grueling hearing this summer to face charges by the Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia (RNABC) or unethical and unprofessional conduct, and putting a patient at risk. The charges came after [...]
Jewry The reality of anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is an ugly reality. In Canada it has expressed itself during the last year in synagogue vandalism and the desecration of graveyards in several cities – Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver and Hamilton. Most, perhaps all of this activity is carried out by members of tiny, but active white supremacist and other racist groups or by skinheads. [...]
Virginia Ku, a determined pro-life activist has sent over 2,000 letters about October’s ‘Supernatural rescue’ to pro-life organizations, ministers, priests and rabbis all across Canada. The goal is to get as many people as possible to entreat God to put an end to abortion. Offers of support have been coming in steadily from around the country. All anyone is asked to do, [...]
Paul Likoudis is an American writer and commentator on Catholic affairs. He has published many articles, principally on the Catholic view of moral and religious education. In the following article, he interviews Anne Roche-Muggeridge, a Canadian author well-known for two books analyzing the state of the Catholic Church in North America: The Gates of Hell: the Struggle for the Catholic Church, (1975), [...]
The Family Coalition Party’s second run in Ontario provincial politics was declared a success by party leader Don Pennell of Burlington, Ontario. “There as been 50-100 per cent increase in support in a number of ridings where the party had a candidate in 1987,” he stated; “and some new ridings produced over 2000 votes. “As for the future, we now have four [...]
Conservative Premier Gary Filmon won a slim majority in the Manitoba provincial election September 11, taking 30 seats. Liberal leader Sharon Carstairs saw her part fall to third place, shrinking from 21 seats to seven. The final tally 1990 1988 Tories 30 25 NDP 20 12 Liberals 7 20 Popular vote Tories 204,870 (42%) NDP 139,853 (29%) Liberals 137,248 (28%) Other [...]
After 57 years of waiting in the Ontario legislature, the NDP was elected to form the government on September 8, 1990, with Bob Rae as the new Premier. NDPers were elected in 74 of the 130 ridings. The seemingly unassailable Liberal Party under David Peterson, which had been swept into power with a 95 seat landslide a mere three years earlier, lost [...]
I can thank pro-life lawyer Angela Costigan for this quote. She used it in her talk at the July 1990 “Challenge of the 90’s International Pro0Life Conference,” in Ottawa. What follows will explain why I find this saying relevant to the present pro-life sentiment in Canada. About mid-July, I left for Ireland just after Bill C-43 had been passed by parliament. As [...]
Those who have heard the Rev. Ken Campbell speak at pro-life rallies know what to expect of him. Each chapter in this account of his recent experiences begins with an appropriate Scriptural quotation; the style is direct, vigorous, and argumentative; there are plenty of exclamation marks. Whites are white and blacks are very black; Attorney-General Ian Scott is described as “the subversive [...]
In this little book of just 120 pages, James Hanlon and David Forsyth make a powerful case for physically impeding access to abortuaries in order to save the unborn. They say, “Abortion has been legal in our country for twenty years now because we, as Christian churches, have not sacrificed to try and save our pre-born neighbors.” Given that failure, and the [...]
What good does Operation Rescue do? Does it really save babies from abortion? Does blocking the entrance to an abortuary or even walking up and down in from of it – but not outside Morgentaler’s in Toronto, now shielded by a court injunction – save babies? Don’t the mothers-to-be just come back some other day? Ask Adrian, born May 7, 1990. Ask [...]
After the revelation that a Detroit doctor, Jack Kevorkian, had invented a “suicide machine,” and that a 54-year-old Oregon woman with Alzheimer’s disease had used it to take her own life, so-called mercy killing was very much in the news again. Vancouver AIDS activist David Lewis (who has the disease himself) said that he had helped eight AIDS sufferers to kill themselves. [...]
The effects on women’s bodies of the powerful anti-life steroid RU-486, Henry Morgentaler’s false claims regarding his solidarity with poor women, abortion clinics that endanger women’s lives – all were topics addressed by speakers at the Action Life hosted “Challenge of the 90s” conference held in early July in Ottawa. C-43 backfires Over 600 delegates heard from respected doctors, educators, authors, lawyers [...]