Hundreds of tourists stopped and stared at the 50 small white crosses with flowers and baby toys strewn among them. It was at this location 25 years ago that the Omnibus Bill was passed which legalized abortion in Canada and pro-lifers from all over the Ottawa area had come to Parliament Hill to mourn. The faces of the tourists who passed the [...]
I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about suicide. (Not for personal reasons—even though by the time you read this I will have moved house with one husband, two teenagers, two dogs, one cat, one canary and three million books.) I have been trying to understand why it is that after centuries of looking at suicide as a shocking event to [...]
Rose: To the 12 Ontario provincial NDP members who voted against Bill 167 which would have granted benefits to same-sex couples. A special rose should also go out to Toronto Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic who spearheaded a letter writing campaign in Catholic Churches urging MPPs to vote no to Bill 167. Despite heavy criticism from the press, Ambrozic and many other Ontario Catholic [...]
February 12, 1994—Sue Rodriguez, the Victoria B.C. woman who lost her Supreme court bid to have a physician legally help her commit suicide, is helped to die by an unknown doctor. This is reported by Burnaby MP Svend Robinson who claims he was present when the deed was done, but refuses to name the doctor, or say how, exactly, the death was [...]
For when One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks – not that you won or lost – But how you played the game Grantland Rice (1880-1954) As Don Cherry says, “ya gotta love it.” We’re talking, of course about the great Canadian game of Hockey. Here in Lotusland, surrounded by our pineapple and banana plantations, amidst our swaying [...]