On Oct. 13, Reform Party leader Preston Manning delivered perhaps the most compelling and passionate speech on moral issues that the House of Commons has heard in a long time. Responding to the Throne Speech delivered by the Governor-General the previous day, the Leader of the Opposition made a commitment to both economic and moral conservatism in a 100-minute speech, which included [...]
Journalists arrested while covering Linda Gibbons' latest protest GIBBONS HANDLED ROUGHLY, GOES WITHOUT FOOD FOR 26 HOURS On October 15, police arbitrarily suspended freedom of the press when they arrested three journalists covering a peaceful pro-life demonstration in downtown Toronto. Freelance journalist and Interim editorial board member Sue Careless, CLC director Steve Jalsevac who was video-taping the event for LifeSite News, and Gord [...]
After a three-month delay, police seem to be taking seriously allegations of repeated assaults on a Toronto pro-life activist. In mid-October, pro-life activist and counsellor Robert Hinchey was told by police that they will charge an individual who is alleged to have assaulted him on numerous occasions, although the police didn't release his name or any other details at the time. Hinchey [...]
New health minister said to be pro-life On Sept. 21, nearly 12 years of Tory rule in Manitoba came to an end as the NDP won a majority government. Under leader Gary Doer, the NDP captured 32 of 57 seats (the Tories won 24 and the Liberals just one). Like the NDP across the country, is a solidly pro-abortion party. But as [...]
UBC staunchly defended APEC protest, but set up obstacles to free speech on abortion A planned visit to the University of British Columbia by the Genocide Awareness project (GAP) was canceled because UBC received reports that pro-choice groups planned to riot, overturning cars and vandalizing signs. Although it didn't appear at UBC, the GAP effect will be long lasting. For the first [...]
Over the summer we learned that by a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court of Canada denied a severely disabled child the right to sue his mother for injuries received in a car crash before he was born. I am not in a position to discuss the rights or wrongs of the court's decision but I do strongly reject the reason given for [...]
We have a problem in Canada and I may have the answer to it. We have a scarcity of medical personnel who are willing to work in Baffin Island and places further north. (Above the tree line.) I have nothing against Baffin Island. It may be a nice place to live if you've been pushed around on a subway all your life. [...]
I'm beginning to wonder if being a card-carrying lunatic facilitates getting published in journals of the American Psychological Association. A report recently published in the APA's Psychological Bulletin by Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch, and Robert Bauserman, asserted that the "negative potential" of child sexual abuse has "been overstated." The authors rationalized that while "child sexual abuse is harmful," supposedly consensual "child-adult sex" is [...]
Been there, done that! In recording and researching the history of abortion, particularly the history of abortion in Canada, one is amazed to see that nothing really changes. The arguments used in favor of abortion rights in Canada are old and tired. Used frequently and without thought, the purveyors and supporters of child killing regurgitate their doctrines and prove, once again, that [...]
Among the theories advanced for the growing problem of youth violence is that young people are becoming increasingly independent of their parents at an ever-younger age and, therefore, less respectful of parental authority. The notion of children's rights, which has become popular in Canada over the past decade, is seen by its critics as a key source of this alienation between parents [...]
Stephen Leacock, Canada's most honoured humourist, once proclaimed: "When I state that my lectures were followed almost immediately by the union of South Africa, the banana riots in Trinidad and the Turco-Italian war, I think the reader can form some opinion of their importance." Leacock, of course, was being facetious. But his audience could not have been receptive of his humour if [...]
A year ago today, on September 9, 1998 at approximately 1 p.m., I was arrested at 157 Gerrard Street in Toronto for picketing in front of the Scott abortion clinic. Since 1994 an injunction imposed by the then NDP government of Ontario, makes picketing, counselling, even praying directly at the doors of the abortion clinic unlawful. This means saving a mother and [...]
Leaders from the medical, hospice, palliative care and pro-life fields in Ontario have joined to form a coalition that will combat the potential onset and promotion of euthanasia and assisted suicide practices in the province. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario has attracted such figures as Dr. Barry DeVeber, president emeritus of the DeVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, and Jean [...]
But maybe not the kind that makes the textbooks In early August, the quiet streets of several Nova Scotian communities were stirred into activity by the presence of modern-day heroes. At least, that's how I think of them. The men, women and children who made up the Show the Truth Tour broke out of their ordinary Canadian lives to travel days by [...]
Officials accused of ignoring attacks on pro-lifers, and going easy on pro-aborts Several recent legal cases in Ontario and Alberta could leave the impression that the capricious nature of the legal system is being used against pro-lifers. This past summer the police and courts have seemingly employed a double standard in dealing with allegations against pro-life activists. The day before police arrested [...]