Here we are in the middle of another provincial election, and while we complain about the millions of dollars this unnecessary election is costing general tax coffers over cool drinks on the summer patio, no one is likely to do anything about it. To be Canadian, it would seem, means to be impervious to political injustice. One glaring example is what the [...]
A new maternity home for Peel County, a large suburban area west of Toronto, is in the works, according to Mr. Paul Crawford, newly elected Ontario State Warden of the Knights of Columbus. It is a first-time-ever joint project of District 53, K. or C., under the direction of Len Abraham, District Deputy, and Barbara Bishop, chairperson of the 13 council Peel [...]
Antigonish, N.S. About a dozen years ago, Fr. Bernard MacDonald became convinced it was immoral to pay the portion of income tax that is used for anti-life purposes. A professor at St. Francis University here, he developed a plan to make a meaningful protest. When filing his income tax returns in 1979, he deliberately placed himself in a deficit position in order [...]
“The honeymoon is over,” said an official from Ghana in commenting on the Sixth International Conference on AIDS held in San Francisco at the end of June. Some 12,000 scientists and public officials from around the world attended it; but so did thousands of homosexual activists, and they made it clear that they no longer trusted or respected researchers in the field. [...]
The Fredericton Gleaner stirred up the anger of AIDS spokesmen at the beginning of July by declaring editorially that AIDS ought to be treated like the plague and its victims put in isolation. “A strong body of opinion,” the paper said, “believes that homosexual AIDS victims got exactly what they deserved; that if they had conducted themselves properly, according to the norms [...]
Early in July, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled that Toronto translator Brian Mossop was not entitled to bereavement leave to attend the funeral of his homosexual lover’s father. All three judges overturned an earlier decision of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) which determined that by excluding homosexual couples from the collective agreement, Mr. Mossop’s employer and his union discriminated against him [...]
Criminal Basil Hume, speaking for the bishops of England and Wales, published a statement commenting on the passage of the abortion and embryo research bills. Several excerpts are reprinted here. “This week has seen Parliament take two decisions of the gravest importance for our society. The debates on embryo experimentation and abortion have provided an opportunity unrivaled in recent years for a [...]
Europe, Strasbourg On March 12, the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for the legalization of abortion throughout Europe. It was adopted by a vote of 146 to 60. A similar resolution was passed in 1982. At the moment resolutions such as these have no binding force on the members of the European Community, but they do exert pressure on parliamentarians in [...]
One of the arguments put forward by some who voted for or advocated the passage of the recent Canadian abortion bill was that it could be amended. Recent developments in Britain show just how hard it can be to improve on abortion laws once they are in place; constant vigilance is necessary to see that they are not made worse – and [...]
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, [...]