Two pro-life activists face charges after picketing outside Nikki Colodny’s Toronto abortion clinic. Rosemary Connell of Burnt River, Ontario, and Bill Whatcott of Toronto were arrested July 25 after police officers called to the scene determined the signs the pair was carrying were obscene. Connell was carrying a sign showing the dismembered head of an unborn child, while Whatcott’s sign displayed an [...]
Pro-life officials are critical of an Ontario Ministry of Health move to exempt abortion from a new payment system designed to control physician’s fees. Bulletin 4290 from the Ontario health ministry’s processing office excludes abortion and 14 other medical services from a 10 per cent “clawback” in the fees physicians can bill the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (OHIP). According to the ministry, [...]
Pro-life political pioneer Linda Gibbons was the subject of a play August 24 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in downtown Toronto. About 50 supporters attended “Linda” a play written by Trinity pastor Rev. Robert Munoz. The play offered a fictionalized account of the struggle of an individual in out a commitment of Gospel values. The 40-minute play was written to honour Gibbons [...]
Chastity is a tough call of Quebec’s distinct society, say organizers of a national youth advocacy group that promises chastity as an alternative to premarital sex. Rebecca Morcos, 25, founder of Chastity Challenge, says her message of chastity as al Lifestyle is harder to promote to French-speaking youth in Quebec’ “It’s harder to get into schools. They hear the word ‘chastity’ and [...]
Why is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms silent about children, except with regards to linguistic education? Why did the Supreme Court, in answering three of the four questions about marriage submitted to it by the Liberal government, not mention children at all? Is there a more natural, self-evident birthright for a child than to have a mother and a father? How [...]
By: Rebecca T. Ducusin Pilgrims from all over the world visiting the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France are welcome to visit the international Centre for Life (Centre International pour la vie) which aims “to educate, to inform, and to listen; to love truth, to protect all life.” The centre promotes respect for human life from conception to natural death. [...]
Interim Staff CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – More than 450 young people from across Ontario gathered at Monsignor Doyle Secondary School here for one of the most successful Ontario Students for Life conferences ever organized. The theme of the conference, the Culture of Life vs. the Culture of Death, was an apt reminder to student pro-lifers of the new threats to life and family [...]
Interim Staff The Ontario Press Council has upheld a complaint against journalist Michael Coren who criticized UNICEF in a November 1995 column in the Toronto Sun/Financial Post newspapers. Coren, host of a popular CFRB radio program, attacked UNICEF for its support of abortion and contraception in underdeveloped countries. The press council upheld the complaint “on issues of factual accuracy and completeness.” The [...]
By: Winifride Prestwich Is there any guide to the stands of the Christian churched in Canada on new reproductive technology? M.R Winnipeg As far as I am aware, the only country where a researcher has attempted to obtain the views of the Christian churches and the Jews is Australia. The results, admittedly, are very tentative and general, but they are of value. [...]
ROME- The UN sponsored the World Food Summit ended in November 17 with division among delegated on how best to eliminate global hunger problems. While delegates agreed to a declaration to reduce world famine by 50 per cent by the year 2015, there was little agreement on priorities for improving distribution of food resources. The U.S. delegation in particular, resisted efforts to [...]
Rethinking support of UNICEF BAY BULLS, Nfld – An outspoken Newfoundland priest urged Catholic parents to withhold support of UNICEF to protest against the United Nations organization’s alleged support of abortion and contraception in the Third World. Monsignor Dermott O’Keefe, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul parish in Bay Bulls, attacked UNICEF in a recent parish newsletter. An official with UNICEF Canada [...]
By: Mike Mastromatteo From the entrance way, the Springwater Christian Campground (SCC) in Minesing, near Barrie, Ontario, appears no different from other facilities in the Huronia area. But a closer look at the property gives an indication that this campground is unlike others dotting the central Ontario landscape. An abundance of crucifixes and religious icons on the proprietors’ home make a strong [...]
OTTAWA- REAL Women of Canada has criticized a Status of Women report calling for additional research into feminist policy issues. The report, said to reflect “different realities faced by women in Canada”, excludes mention of traditional families. According to REAL Women, the report recommends further expansion of the feminist, anti-family agenda allowing the STATUS of Women council to obtain funding from other [...]
Interim Staff The 800 students of Holy Cross School in Malton, northwest of Toronto, put their energy to good use October 31 to promote the defence of unborn children. On that day, the students mixed Halloween hijinks with a fundraising “dance-athon” in support of Campaign Life Coalition. The project, which was effectively combined with the separate school curriculum’s emphasis on social justice [...]
By: Herman Goodden In the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo, we find a deeply moving testament of the hope and courage which even one supportive relative or friend can provide to someone undergoing the agonies of depression. During one of his all too brief intervals of lucidity, Vincent was able to express his gratitude in a letter to [...]