Pro-life activity in British Columbia is undergoing a renewal. Two of the country’s most successful Life Chains were held in the province in May. The Family Coalition Party has been established as a provincial party ready to fight the provincial election expected this fall. On Saturday, June 15, Campaign Life Coalition held its most successful strategy meeting when over eighty activists from [...]
In a close vote, the Yorkton-Melville NDP Riding association, at its annual general meeting, carried a resolution calling for cessation of abortion funding. What is interesting here is the fact that the local MP, Lorne Nystrom, once touted as a possible successor to Ed Broadbent, failed in his attempt to have the resolution defeated. The NDP’s pro-abortion tradition has, in the past, [...]
At its Annual General Meeting and Policy Convention, held June 14-16 in Hamilton, the Ontario wing of the Federal Liberal Party, using a two-part vote, gave high priority to two pro-life resolutions – one on abortion and one on euthanasia. Delegates from 99 Federal Ridings in Ontario were eligible to vote on the 120 policy statements submitted to the Policy Forum. The [...]
Speaking at the CLC Ontario Annual General Meeting in Niagara Falls, Campaign Life Coalition President Jim Hughes urged the ninety participants to discuss Federal Election Strategy in their local and regional areas. Reminding them that the pro-life movement is a grassroots organization, Mr. Hughes said that collective input from CLC supporters across Canada was necessary if we were to reach a consensus [...]
After reading the May issue of Vitality you probably feel that you know the Nova Scotia and British Columbia branches of the family very well. Now say Hello to the people from Saskatchewan and Quebec. Campaign Life Coalition, Saskatchewan, Box 8262, Saskatoon, Sask. S7K 6C5 Denise Hounjet-Roth, the President, in a very short time has given us one more reason to remember [...]
“I really didn’t think much about abortion before. That cassette of Carol Everett’s talk brought tears to my eyes. Until I listened to that tape I had no idea how poorly I understood the issue.” So said a sincere young evangelical lady now involved in planning a pro-life session for businessmen. A priest spontaneously approached a CLC staff member and said, “Thanks [...]
Carrying his message of the wisdom in the moral law, Charles Rice, Professor of Law at Notre Dame University, Indiana, spoke to groups of lawyers, doctors and clergymen before addressing a general audience during his recent whirl-wind visit to Toronto. Stating that every effect has a cause, professor Rice slammed secularism which figures in society’s sense of loss of God. He attacked [...]
Any time I write an article or letter about political parties or politicians I am attacked by upset pro-lifers. I sometimes feel like the guy at parties who accidently punctures the decorative balloons. When I give a speech which refers to the Liberals and their anti-life agenda, or to the Tories with their funding of the pro-abortionists and radical feminists, somebody always [...]
Nothing was spared in CLC Alberta’s campaign to keep Henry Morgentaler out of its province. CLC leaders met with Health Minister Nancy Betkowski in an attempt to secure changes To the Health Act. However, the Minister’s position that abortion is a legitimate medical procedure which must be funded remains firm. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, which was picketed and presented with [...]
Dr. Judy Kazimirski is the current Chairman of the Canadian Medical Association’s [CMA] board of directors. At the end of April she threw radical feminists into consternation by stating that fetal rights must be enshrined in law. In a speech to the women’s section of the Hamilton Academy of Medicine, she suggested that the rights and legal protection of the fetus should [...]
Charlottetown. “Incredible as it may seem to you, the people in this room have the potential to change the course of Canadian history.” This was the inspiring message PEI right to lifers took away from their annual meeting on April 27. Members noted that abortion seems increasingly likely to become responsibility of the province. “Our legislature is already [...]
Toronto Cineplex Odeon Films, the distributor of Truth or Dare, starring pop star Madonna, inserted a condom in each of the press releases promoting the video documentary. Condoms were also passed out to guests attending the Canadian premiere on May 8. Patrons at regular screenings will receive a handbill promoting their use. Howard Lichtman, executive VP of marketing for Cineplex [...]
Self-professed homosexual MP Svend Robinson (NDP, Burnaby, B.C.) is calling on lesbian and ‘gay’ men across the country to act now and pressure sexual orientation to the Canadian Human Rights Act. Justice Minister Kim Campbell is planning on introducing a package of amendments to the Act this summer. Mr. Robinson wants homosexuals to bring pressure on the justice department to include [...]
Some 110 pro-lifers received an education in the complex issues surrounding euthanasia at an April 21 conference sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC). More complicated Prof. Joseph Boyle, Ph.D, of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, and Dr. Barry De Veber, M.D., of London, Ontario, made it clear that the question of euthanasia is more complicated than that of abortion. [...]
On Thursday, May 2, two dozen people wearing black robes, plus a dozen other pro-life demonstrators, protested the Toronto visit of Dr. Etienne Baulieu, the inventor of RU-486. Dr. Baulieu claimed that the recently-reported death due to the RU0486 was an accident due to unforeseen external circumstances (see “Abortion pill kills woman,” The Interim, May 1991) His visit to Toronto [...]