To Ontario pro-life voters, the main task of the June 8 provincial election was to get rid of the New Democrats. It seemed this was uppermost in the minds of all voters as Mike Harris and the Progressive Conservatives were swept into Queen’s Park with a strong mandate to clean up the five year mess left by the NDP. Harris’ tough talk [...]
Though not all completely agree with his method, Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition are making important politicians stop and listen. Congressman pondered legislation, he first had to curry favour with one of the huge Washington lobby groups: the National Rifle Association, the Manufacturers Association or the National Organization of Women. Now there’s a new player making waves in political circles. Ralph [...]
Interim readers will recall the attack on pro-lifers at a Mother’s Day shower outside Vancouver General Hospital in 1992. Some of the perpetrators in the attack were members of the BC Coalition for Abortion Clinics. Police recommended charges but Crown counsel refused. Yet the provincial government of Mike Harcourt felt that the BC Coalition should have access to a private investigative firm [...]
In what well may be summed up as a typically Canadian compromise, the Senate Committee on euthanasia has managed to issue a report which pleases neither pro-life and disability-advocate groups, nor the pro-radicals. The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide was sharply split, narrowly voting to recommend that both voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide remain illegal in Canada. It was [...]