This fourth editorial on the anti-life, pro-death philosophy which dominates Canada concerns the law. At the start of the series, in July, we argued that the drive for full protection of the unborn cannot be obtained on a piecemeal basis. In September, we said that it can’t be done either by adopting the language and standards of secularists and feminists who reject [...]
Terrace, B.C. - A 19 year-old native woman, Myrna George, underwent a suction abortion at the Mills Memorial Hospital here on September 11, 1991. She was 16 weeks pregnant. She went into shock shortly after the abortion, probably as a result of a perforated uterus. She died three days later, on September 14. The incident was reported in the Vancouver Sun of [...]
The results of a study on the attitudes of Quebec women toward marriage, family, health, sex, careers and money, suggest the modern Quebecois has little in common with her sisters of past generations. * * * * Chatelaine, a Montreal-based, French-language women’s magazine published by MacLean-hunter, released the results of the poll in its June issue. The poll was conducted by Multi-Reso [...]
Toronto – Private schools in Ontario already receive public money say the leaders of a coalition formed to spearhead the drive for funding. They are now pointing to the University of Toronto Schools and Eden Christian College as precedents of government support to educational institutions other than Roman Catholic. Last spring one Ontario Alliance for Christian Schools joined forces with the Canadian [...]
Vancouver – The Family Coalition Party (FCP) of British Columbia got off to a good start with a fundraising dinner on September 4 with dinner on September 4 with the former B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm as guest speaker. Although the former Premier said he would not abandon the Social Credit Party, he nevertheless endorsed Kathleen Toth, a FCP candidate in the [...]
On August 26, the Metropolitan (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB), easily passed a motion, proposed by Trustee Harold Adams, which supported Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic’s statement banning the promotion of condoms in the Catholic school system. As a result the statement will be distributed to all the MSSB schools. Band-aid solution In his letter to the five school boards in the Archdiocese, Archbishop [...]
In an unprecedented move, Bishop Anthony Tonnos of Hamilton, Ontario, urged diocesan priests to boycott a banquet sponsored by the city’s St. Joseph Hospital Foundation. Fundraising dinner The September 20 fundraising dinner featured Governor Mario Cuomo of New York as guest speaker. In the past Cuomo had legislated state-funded abortions. In a letter to his priests, first publicly revealed in the Hamilton [...]