A Delta, B.C. woman who was jailed after handing out flowers in front of an abortuary has been released after a confusing series of judicial errors. Mary Wagner, 25, was sentenced June 16, to spend the rest of the year in jail after admitting to a variety of offences under B.C.'s Access to Abortion Services Act. She was then ordered released on [...]
N.B. boy denied right to sue for in utero injury Children cannot sue their mothers for injuries sustained while in the womb, according to a recent Supreme Court ruling. The 7-2 decision on July 10, in which six-year-old Ryan Dobson sued his mother for prenatal negligence, revealed something pro-life advocates already know: the top court in Canada is not prepared to grant [...]
While the great majority of Canadians have been outraged by the declaration by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that sexual perverts have a constitutional right to possess child pornography, most judges and law professors hold that there is no principled basis for maintaining that the state should prevent people from reading or viewing pornography in the privacy of their own home. [...]
The once-noble United Nations children's agency UNICEF is no longer what it was. It has undergone a facelift. In July l998, in Geneva, the UN officially established a new alliance of three UN social agencies: UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. In a press release, the UN Children's Fund and the World Health Organization were [...]
Killings, displacements, and slave trading show history is repeating itself Ever since the 1994 Rwandan massacre of 800,000 Tutsis, critics of the United Nations have had added reasons to be skeptical about the competence and sincerity of the international body's humanitarian work in Africa. Sudan is another African nation that continues to suffer due to the irresponsibility and ignorance of UN workers [...]
Pro-family Canadians brace themselves as liberal jurist LOUISE ARBOUR ascends to the nation's highest court Louise Arbour, the prime minister's latest appointee to the Supreme Court of Canada, is a darling of Canada's liberal legal establishment, which, along with the mainstream media in this country, seems to be strongly supportive of the appointment. Others, however, see Arbour as a threat to the [...]
At the beginning of this century, Canada was mainly an agricultural society, safely cradled in the arms of the mother country, Britain. A call to arms to protect Britain's interests in the Boer War in South Africa (1899 - 1902) and the Great War (1914-1918) led to shiploads of Canadian troops gallantly crossing the ocean to her defense. (The province of Québec, [...]
Judgment on Demers reserved PP pushes ‘morning-after' pill Alberta abortions up sharply Winnipeg DNR man goes home Québec approves gay couples Regina gives in to ‘Gay Pride' Judgment on Demers reserved VANCOUVER - Judge H.J. McGivern of the B.C. provincial court has reserved judgment on the case of pro-life activist Jim Demers, who was convicted two years ago of contravening a B.C. [...]
Doctor cleared of mercy-killing UN action in Kosovo criticized Illegal abortion shuts hospital New Zealand abortions down Pakistan faces de-population Doctor cleared of mercy-killing LONDON - The family doctor who once admitted hastening the deaths of 300 people has been cleared of murdering a dying, 85-year-old cancer patient with an overdose of painkillers. David Moor had maintained that he did not believe [...]
A compendium of life- and family-related news from south of the border Republicans soften on abortion Some observers are suggesting the U.S. Republican Party is becoming increasingly divided over abortion as the process to select its candidate for the year 2000 presidential election accelerates. The Washington Post, for example, recently noted that front-runner George W. Bush - arguably a pro-life supporter - [...]
I am writing this with a very red face. That is not due to embarrassment but to the fact that I have just returned from the "March for Life" in Ottawa, and we sat in the blazing sun for some three hours outside the Parliament Buildings. As most readers know, May 14 was the thirtieth anniversary of that "Day of Infamy" when [...]
A petition gathered by the Humanist Association of Canada was presented in the House of Commons on June 8 by the NDP's Svend Robinson, calling for the removal of references to God from the constitution, as about 15 humanists demonstrated in front of the Commons carrying placards, including my personal favorite for creativity - "A Person Without God is Like a Fish [...]
I've had a difficult time of late, trying to piece together the story being presented by the Calgary Regional Health Authority, a.k.a. Calgary Foothills Hospital, regarding its genetic cleansing abortions. Difficult because of the conflicting dribs and drabs of information presented by a morally bankrupt medical profession. As you know it all started when Alberta Report found a nurse or two willing to [...]
They say that some of the best confidence men in the world are not in jail but can be found in the editorial offices of the biggest newspapers in Canada. And if they can't be found there, they can be found in the backrooms of political think-tanks when an election is brewing. These con-men are so adept at wrestling truth to the [...]
It's finally summer again, the time of the year when people try to spend a bit of time on things they like to do - like taking a vacation - and not just on those normal, everyday things that need to be done - like going to work and doing the daily chores. Well, stuck between those two alternatives are those things [...]