The recent decision of the B.C. Supreme Court which found that, despite a risk of harm, there was a "right" under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to possess child pornography, reveals a flawed approach to "freedom of expression" and the concept of "privacy." What is striking about the decision is that the notion of the person it shows is dangerously individualistic [...]
Seeks to 'set things right' with former pro-life adversaries This article appeared originally in the B.C. Catholic, and is reprinted here with permission. If life is a journey, Merle Terlesky has climbed a couple of mountains recently. Diagnosed last July with leukemia and given only a 10 per cent chance of surviving more than two months, he was told that only a [...]
Officer's testimony indicates political agenda to silence Ontario pro-lifers A Toronto police officer dropped a bombshell during his testimony at the start of the trial of Linda Gibbons, Ken Campbell and Anneliese Steden Feb. 2 and 3. Constable John Stevens told the court under oath that the provincial attorney-general's office instructed Toronto police not to charge the trio with disobeying a court [...]
A compendium of life- and family-related news from south of the border Abortion rate held steady in '96 The rate of abortions in the United States held steady in 1996, at its lowest level in two decades, according to the Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 1,221,585 abortions that year (or 314 per 1,000 live births), representing a rate [...]
Row grows over ‘abortion pill' BONN - The German government's plans to allow the sale of the so-called abortion pill, RU-486, have prompted attacks from the Roman Catholic Church, which is calling use of the pill an illegal act of killing that violates the constitution and the law. The new Social Democratic government licensed the drug for use beginning this month. Chancellor [...]
Over the years I've learned that one of the perils of being a national columnist is that my writings can be used against me. In a recent Freedom of Information request I came across one of my columns, kindly submitted to the British Columbia Ministry of Health courtesy of the mother of all pro-abortion "researchers," Will Offley. Mr. Offley has been a [...]
On hearing that U.S. suicide champion Jack Kevorkian is to be tried again for "helping" someone to commit suicide, we were tempted to say, "Put us out of our misery! Convict the man already!" So far, no jury has been willing to hold the de-licensed "Dr. Death" responsible for even one of the scores of deaths he has presided over in his [...]
Many Canadians still think of Canada as a "Christian country." Unfortunately, a more descriptively accurate term nowadays would be "anti-Christian country," since overt and aggressive hostility to Christianity has become a commonplace motif in popular culture, and lately in government as well. Multiculturalism, pluralism, and tolerance are buzz-words of contemporary political correctness, and applied to virtually everyone except Christians who wish to [...]
A mother recalls how the doctors didn't recognize that the child they wanted her to abort was a 'hidden miracle.' They never imagined that, even though Joshua had spina bifida, he'd eventually play baseball, pretty much like everyone else: In 1990 at the age of 19, I was told that the child whom I had been carrying for 16 weeks had a [...]
Queen's Park "Rumour has it that inside every Clinton ‘Bible' is a bound copy of Playboy." "Bill Clinton makes a pretzel look straight." Clinton jokes are as numerous as Clinton lies, but the real story about the U.S. president has yet to be told. If Democrats in Congress think the president's actions in the Lewinsky matter don't "rise to the level of [...]
Imagine the following scenario, if you will: A local hit-man operates out of a store-front made to look like a legitimate business. There's a huge demand for his services; so for the sake of efficiency, and to ensure the bodies won't start piling up on the streets, he has his clients bring their victims to him at his office. The people they [...]
Shortly after 4 a.m. on Oct. 17, 1998, James Patrick McFadden, the founder and the editor of the pro-life publication Human Life Review, fell to the floor of his New York home and died, due to an oesophageal hemorrhage. McFadden's resume is impressive. From 1971 to 1983, he was associate publisher of the prestigious conservative magazine National Review, where he began with a probationary [...]
Data indicate people who cared most about the abortion issue were more likely to vote pro-life With the generally pro-life Republican party expected to make huge gains because of the Clinton scandal, the results of the U.S. election Nov. 3 were generally seen to be disappointing. Earlier this year, out-going Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was predicting a pick-up of three [...]
Edmonton rolled out the red carpet to welcome the world to the International Human Rights Conference, Nov. 28, 1998, marking the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Seven hundred delegates and dignitaries hailed accomplishments and condemned the failures of nations which did or did not measure up to a standard arbitrarily set by the organization in 1948, [...]
World financial institutions key leverage in de-population of Third World On Oct. 15, the U.S. Congress decided to approve an $18-billion funding package for the International Monetary Fund - one that will, for the first time in three years, be accepted by President Bill Clinton. U.S. monies to the IMF had not been approved of for two years previous to this, since [...]