26 suicides and no signs of letting up for Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian has attended his 26th assisted suicide. The body of Patricia Cashman, a 58-year-old woman, was found in the back seat of a car. The official cause of death is homicide by carbon monoxide poisioning. Kevorkian does not deny his part in the death of Cashman, On Larry King Life, [...]
Media coverage of the incident was prominent for several days following. Despite the lack of any evidence, the Hamilton Spectator made the story front page news for four straight days and headlined two stories. “Anti-abortion link eyed in MD” s shooting” and “Cross-Canada alert goes out in wake of doctor’s shooting.” The Canadian Abortion Rights Action League predictable concluded that the shooting [...]
You probably won’t find many physicians who, for eleven years, can picket a hospital they work in and get away with it. The 63-year-old family physician has been pounding the pavement with a “Justice for the Unborn” sign in front of Henderson Hospital in Hamilton, Ont. every Friday morning for just that long. His work is a response to the fact that [...]
African Churches Challenged In a recent parliamentary hearing on abortion, Father Hyacinth Ennis, a spokesperson for the South African Bishops, described the position of South Africa’s Anglican and Methodist Churches as “lamentable.” The Methodist Church favours permitting abortion while the Anglican Church in South Africa voted to “receive for further study” a report which recommends widening the abortion law. The Dutch Reformed [...]
Police search for anti-abortion link has turned up no evidence. Police in Hamilton are investigating an incident in which a local doctor who performs abortions was injured by a bullet from a high powered rifle as he sat watching television in his suburban home on November 10. Hugh Short, 62, was hit in the right elbow by a bullet shot from outside [...]
Former convicted of second-degree murder was awaiting Supreme Court appeal The Saskatchewan Justice Department has granted Robert Latimer the right to a new trial. Latimer has been confined to his farm near Wilkie, Saskatchewan since the upholding of his July conviction of a second degree murder in the death of his daughter, Tracy, aged 12, in October of 1993. Latimer was sentenced [...]
Local press quick to put entire movement on trial. At a recent news conference held by Choose Life Canada, Randy Dyer, a Hamilton area pro-life activist, asked members of the media, “Where was the call for the beefed-up security for my son, and the other million-and-a half of his brothers and sisters, who were killed by abortion?” Dyer, had been interviewed the [...]
Surprised kids get more than caramel corn and candy floss at ploughing match Ploughing Matches are long-running tradition in thousands of farming communities across Canada. Each year, area farmers and tradesmen combine forces and stage a week fair, giving them an opportunity to show off new techniques in plowing and a chance to sell their wares to the locals. It’s also a [...]
On October 25, a group of 40 pro-lifers demonstrated on the sidewalk in front of the Attorney General of Ontario’s office at 720 Bay Street in Toronto. The group was asking for the release of Linda Gibbons, the pro-life activist who is in jail for disobeying the injunction in effect at the abortuaries in Toronto, 60 feet from the front door. Signs [...]
It’s Thursday morning at McMaster University Medical Centre. Four men, placards in hand, are slowly walking back and forth on the sidewalk in front of the Hamilton, Ontario hospital, praying at some points and pausing to hand our pamphlets to passersby at others. The men are members of Hamilton-area Knights of Columbus councils and they are taking part in a weekly effort [...]
Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education attracts diverse speakers After her recent experiences at the UN Fourth World Conference on women in Bejing, China, Kara Johnson is looking forward to working on her next project. “The only bright spot in the two weeks came from the network of pro-life, pro-family lobbyists from around the world,” says Johnson, who lobbied on behalf [...]
It’s Thursday morning at McMaster University Medical Centre. Four men, placards in hand, are slowly walking back and forth on the sidewalk in front of the Hamilton, Ontario hospital, praying at some points and pausing to hand our pamphlets to passersby at others. The men are members of Hamilton-area Knights of Columbus councils and they are taking part in a weekly effort [...]
As Christmas approaches many people are busy with activities such as mailing out Christmas cards and attending parties. Meanwhile my won thoughts have been drawn to something central to our Christmas celebration – the shopping mall. The modern shopping mall has real significance for our efforts at getting our the pro-life message. The mall is a tightly –controlled environment. Everything there exists [...]
Joan Dower Kosmachuk Windflower Communications, Winnipeg 1995, pp 77, $6.95 Reviewed by Sue Careless Jenny’s secret isn’t one for long. Rumours fly fast and false in junior high. Fourteen-year –old Jenny isn’t pregnant, her mother is—and she doesn’t have a husband. Jenny’s mum says it’s going to be too hard raising the baby alone. Jenny is willing to help her, so why [...]
When I aw half-empty bottles of beer, half-finished bags of potato chips and spilled glasses of Coke on the coffee table recently in the Queen’s Park press lounge, I knew that someone must have yelled: “Bomb,” “Fire,” or “The boss is coming!” Something scary has happened to cause this kind of panic in the press gallery because in all the years that [...]