Over 104,000 students from the largest school board in Canada participated in a Respect for Life Week in May. Toronto’s Metro Separate School Board (MSSB) passed a resolution that the second week in May would be set aside for discussion, activities and prayer. This coincidentally tied in with a youth celebration at Skydome and the commemoration of abortion in Canada. The MSSB [...]
Ontario New Democrats will get full support from their Liberal counterparts to extend same-sex benefits in the province. Lyn McLeod, leader of the Ontario Liberals, has sent off a passionate appeal to Attorney General Marion Boyd and Premier Bob Rae to get a move on and give family status to gay couples. “If you will agree to bring legislation forward immediately, I [...]
The American State Department is aggressively working with the United Nations towards a goal of zero population growth and greater access to abortion in developing countries. The State Department, with President Clinton’s blessing, has endorsed a draft document which pushed contraception, sterilization and abortion as means of achieving their goal. The U.S. and the UN will use the September International Conference on [...]
May 13 and 14 have been set aside as days of mourning as thousands of Ontarians come together in sorrow marking 25 years of abortion in Canada. The days will concentrate on the educational as well as the spiritual, and will include prayer vigils, fasting, posters and signs in and outside of churches and the erection of crosses to mark the dead. [...]
Standing up in front of your peers and saying that sexual activity is wrong may not be the best way to win immediate popularity. But the 24 young people who comprise Challenge ’94 have decided to take this message across Canada. Building on the success of last year’s tour, the group hopes to reach 100,000 young Canadians from coast to coast. Rebecca [...]
The profile of the pro-life movement in British Columbia has just been raised a level by the ineptitude of a decidedly pro-choice provincial government. On April 18, the Provincial Legislature erupted into a series of shouts, name calling and general disarray. It ended with Liberal MLA Mike de Jong ordered out of the House for indicating those involved in the justice system [...]
Laugh, I Thought I’d Die My Life with ALS Dennis Kaye Viking, Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Toronto 264 pages, $25.99 hardcover Reviewed by Sue Careless For someone with a degenerative illness, Dennis Kaye’s got a great sense of humour. His muscles are wasting away with ALS. Yet the one muscle exertion that doesn’t sap energy but rejuvenates is laughter and Kaye employs [...]
Some fetal models show twins lying the same way in the uterus, but others show them top to tail. Which is correct? How do we know? M.S., Ottawa There are a number of ways of telling which way a preborn baby is oriented e.g., ultrasound gives a picture, and fetal electrocardiography indicates which way the child is lying. Doctors who treat the [...]
The following statement was released to the media by Sue Rodriguez’s caregivers, the Victoria Hospice. The statement’s intent was to clear up the misleading circumstances surrounding the Sue Rodriguez affair. “The purpose of this release by Victoria Hospice is to clarify and provide information regarding the circumstances and care of Sue Rodriguez and events prior to her death. Sue has authorized us [...]
The Interim A Calgary machinist is taking his fight to Canada’s top court in an effort to keep his union dies from promoting abortion in Canada. Martin Doyle, a devout Roman Catholic, argues his belief should justify with-holding the portion of money which supports the “pro-choice” position of the Canadian Labour Congress. Doyle is not a member of the International Association of [...]
It took only 10 hours for jurors to find suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian not guilty of violating Michigan’s ban on assisted suicide. Kevorkian, 65, had been charged with helping Thomas Hyde of Novi, Michigan to commit suicide last August. Kevorkian said he was “elated” by the May 2 decision. The verdict was seen as a watershed for euthanasia supporters while an anti-euthanasia [...]
Reform needed “Our system is literally crumbling around the minister’s ears and her reaction to that: plain packaging for cigarettes. She’s lost her marbles.” Reform MP Grant Hill criticizing Federal Health Minister Dianne Marleau. (Globe and Mail, April 27, 1994) In some cases “I personally am a very strong supporter of free speech.” Ontario Premier Bob Rae whose government is presently trying [...]
Rose: Nancy S. DeMoss. Head of the Arthur B. DeMoss Foundation which sponsors four splendid pro-life ads which run on American TV stations. Mrs. DeMoss believes that the theme of the ads, “Life – What a Beautiful Choice,” coupled with its positive images will improve the pro-life movement’s image. She claims that over 90% of letters received in response to the ads [...]
Lost among the problems of drug use and violence, abortion claims the lives of a thousand black children a day . Black politicians, community leaders and people from the entertainment industry met last year for an anti-violence summit meeting in Washington D.C. They were there to discuss the growing violence and despair in their community and search for ways to rediscover the [...]
It’s taken a while but the story linking abortion and breast cancer is finally starting to get out. As breast cancer rates soar – one in nine women will get it in her lifetime – study after study confirms the link. But because of the nature of the issue involved, the effect abortion has on breast cancer is very seldom discussed publicly. [...]