Charlottetown. Across Canada, October 2 was Life Chain Day. It was also Walk for AIDS Day, opening AIDS Awareness week. In Charlotte, AIDS PEI had unintentionally scheduled their fundraising walk to begin at almost the same time as the Life Chain, and almost beside it. With some quick rearranging, they avoided having their walkers get caught up in the Life Chain. Organizers [...]
The pro-life movement has seldom received any corporate or media support and for this reason has always survived at a grassroots level. Events such as the September 10 Christian Family seminar are perfect examples of how the movement strengthens its grassroots and stays alive, despite the unfriendly times. Held in a small Ukrainian-rite Church basement, the lively seminar drew over 1000 people [...]
I got a call from Premier Don Pennell last week. I barely had recovered from celebrating the upset victory of the Family Coalition Party in the recent Ontario election that reduced the NDP to enough members to play a game of chess. I offered my congratulations to Don and reminded him that I supported him dutifully (and every other off-the-wall pro-life initiative [...]
Global View From 1974 to 1984, world conditions – both economic and political – were not conducive to encouraging development in the Third World. Developed countries, themselves, were struggling to cope with adverse conditions. A world recession, high interest rates, distortion in the international monetary system, failure of national and international financial institutions, and high unemployment rates, all affected the standard of [...]
In early October, Canadian pro-lifers took to the streets for their annual Life Chain demonstrations. As in past years, Canadians lined the streets with signs such as “Abortion Kills Children”; “Adoption: The Loving Option,” and “Jesus Forgives and Heals.” As in past years, Vancouver produced the biggest turnout with over 7,000 participants. Across Canada, over 35,000 people took part. Though the numbers [...]
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Almost as far back as we can trace, people have worried about increasing population. In the year 500 B.C. both Plato and Aristotle worried about over population in Greece and neighbouring countries. In the same year Confucius worried about it in China and Terullian scratched his head about it in Carthage in the second century A.D. In 1798, Robert Malthus startled England [...]
Did we win or lose in Cairo? To answer this question, one has to make a full study of the Final Draft Document, delving into the language that the Conference agreed upon, the intensive behind-the-scenes negotiations, and all the confused media coverage. At the outset, I must caution that I did not have day-to-day access to the Governments’ side of the Conference. [...]
Toronto police seemed bent on making sure that an Ontario Court injunction is not ignored by pro-lifers. Two elderly ladies who were strip-searched call it harassment. On August 31, just one day after the injunction was set down, Rosemary Connell, Bill Whatcott and Linda Gibbons resumed their usual sidewalk counseling practises outside Manole Buruianna’s and Robert Scott’s abortuaries in downtown Toronto. Police [...]
Halifax—On September 22, nine protestors accused of mischief for blocking acces to the Morgentaler clinic in October of 1992, received suspended sentences. The nine included Kenneth Biso, Paul Cheverie, Ellan Chesal, Paul Morre, Noreen Mosher, Pauline Mullen, Sharon Keddy, Anne Ashford-Hall and Anne Marie Tomlins. They were also placed on probation for a year and ordered to refrain from blocking access to [...]
Halifax – On September 22, nine protestors accused of mischief for blocking access to the Morgentaler clinic in October of 1992, received suspended sentences. The nine included Kenneth Biso, Paul Cheverie, Ellan Chesal, Paul Morre, Noreen Mosher, Pauline Mullen, Sharon Keddy, Anne Ashford-Hall and Anne Marie Tomlins. They were also placed on probation for a year and ordered to refrain from blocking [...]
Fredericton, N.B. – Henry Morgentaler won another victory when the Court of Queen’s Bench declared unconstitutional the New Brunswick’s 1985 laws prohibiting abortions outside hospitals. However, Premier Frank McKenna’s provincial Liberals have decided to appeal the Sept. 14 decision. Mr. Justice Ronald Stevenson ruled that the measures in the 1985 legislation reflect criminal laws, intended to limit abortions. Since provinces have no [...]
Before leaving for the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development I had fears of being one of only a handful of pro-lifers in attendance. However, it soon became apparent there were many pro-life people there among the Non Government Organization (NGOs) representatives, the government delegates and even the press. I met at least 100 pro-lifers, many of whom met every evening [...]
A couple of years ago, a Montreal paper broke the story that a young local doctor had stopped treating patients because he was in the last stages of AIDS. It revealed that he had worked in obstetrics at several of the city’s teaching hospitals over the previous four years. This despite the fact that his colleagues were aware that he appeared gaunt [...]
From the moment I got off the plane in Cairo it was a delight to experience the warm cordial greeting of Egyptians. Everyone was smiling, friendly, courteous and eager to be of assistance – from the shuttle bus drivers to security personnel who were everywhere. “Welcome to Cairo” was the refrain that was heard often from morning til night. Some conference attendees [...]