Frank Kennedy Mike Harris has got Bob Rae’s old “Gambling Disease.” Bob has it real bad and now poor Mike’s caught it. It’s death to family values. It makes greed and luck appear to be like winning the Boston Marathon. Bob Rae’s Windsor Casino has been a rousing success—some days people line up for hours to try to beat the work ethic. [...]
Pro-life survey results in Newfoundland St. John’s --- Pro-life activity in Newfoundland centred on compiling results of a survey distributed to candidates in the February 22 provincial election won by the Liberals under Brian Tobin. The survey, seeking candidates’ views on protection of the unborn from the moment of conception, the use of the RU-486 “abortion pill” and other issues, was also [...]
I have been traveling quite a lot lately by both air and train. I usually try to catch up with my reading when I do so, particularly newsletters from various pro-life groups. A few weeks ago I took with me one of the best newsletters I know, “Population Research Institute Review.” It always carries very well informed and interesting articles on various [...]
Opinion For Canadians, the reality of living side by side with the United States, “mouse to bear” to paraphrase Pierre Trudeau, has produced feelings of impotence and inferiority. To compensate, an illusion of moral superiority has evolved in Canada. Thus many Canadians, while acknowledging overall American dominance, silently feel morally superior. In reality, the current debate over abortion policy in the United [...]
Within hours of the passage of Bill C-33—the act to include sexual orientation as prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act—gay New Democrat MP Svend Robinson was predicting big things in the homosexual community. Robinson said Reform Party members were “absolutely correct” in arguing the act will lead to legal marriages, families, and spousal benefits for homosexuals. But while [...]
The April 2 decision of a federal appeals court in New York brings a chilling new twist to the assisted suicide debate. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled doctors can legally help terminally ill patients end their lives. “What interest can the state possibly have in requiring the prolongation of a life [...]
The Interim Patricia Cashman, Erika Garcellano, Esther Cohan, Sherry Miller, Jarjorie Wantz, Margaret Garrish, Thomas Hyde, Huge Gal—the names of desperate people who chose suicide as the answer to a prospect of suffering and hopelessness. Forgotten but for their families and friends, these are just a sampling of an increasing list of people who turned to suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian to put [...]
Don’t be tempted to believe that the radical feminists who dream up the Beijing document have retired to their New Age bookstores to sip herbal teal and discuss the “goddess within.” Instead, they are active—planning workshops and lobbying politicians. Pro-family forces hope that a stalled economy drives them back to the bookstores. Seven months have passed since the Forth World Conference on [...]
An Environics Research poll prepared for Campaign Life Coalition reveals the majority of tax payers are opposed to seeing abortion covered under the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (OHIP). The poll, completed in November, asked Ontarians their opinions on the following question: “Keeping in mind that the funds must come from taxpayers, do you think the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) should pay [...]
Interim Staff Austin Bastable, 53, of Windsor, crossed the border into Detroit in May to take advantage of Kevorkian’s assisted-suicide service. Bastable, who suffers from multiple sclerosis for the last 26 years and who attempted suicide in 1994, used Kevorkian’s carbon monoxide cylinder to end his life The death occurred in the afternoon of May 6 at the Detroit home of Janet [...]
A Hamilton couple has run headlong into a bureaucratic roadblock in its attempt to adopt a two year old girl from the former Yugoslavia. Karen Ann Moore and her husband Rudy Guerra have waged an 18-month battle against Canadian immigration official to bring two-year-old Ishara Carys Jelena Guerra to Canada. Karen Ann, a medical researcher at McMaster University, and Rudy, a computer [...]
On Monday, February 5, a head-on collision south of Parry Sound, Ontario, claimed the life of Oakville psychiatrist Dr. Murray McGovern. The McGoverns were driving into town from their winterized cottage, first to see one of the doctor’s patients and then to go 10:45 Mass. On a slippery road, with blowing snow, a 1988 Toyota driven by Richard Lewis rammed right into [...]
Since securing the Republican Party nomination, Bob Dale has been thanking Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition for their support. Critics say Reed’s support of Dole shows he is more interested in the power of the White House than he is in his Christian revolution. Supporters counter that having the President’s ear is tantamount to completing the revolution. His biography may hold [...]
Bill Gates was on the phone. I knew it was Bill because he always calls me collect. (How do you think the president of Microsoft got to be worth 18 billion?) Bill sounded frantic. “Frank, is that you? What are you doing up there?” (‘Up there’ always meant Canada to Bill). “What do you mean? What am I doing?” “I just read [...]
For years, radical groups have succeeded where it counts the most—in the courts. Now, a Canadian lawyers” group is providing pro-family Canadians a voice in the legal system The Interim Canadian pro-life activists have an ally they can count on when legal problems arise. For the last three years, the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre for Law and Justice has been providing legal representation [...]