How good is a politician's word? Not very, if the results of promises made by outgoing Ontario Premier Mike Harris are any indication. Although he certainly did not characterize himself as pro-life, Harris did toss a small crumb to appease Ontario's pro-life movement during his 1995 campaign to become premier. He pledged "no new abortion clinics," according to a front-page headline in [...]
Three of five candidates pro-abortion, while Clement and Flaherty send mixed signals It did not take long for abortion to become an issue in the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign - just long enough, in fact, for the media to ask the first announced candidate about his views on the issue during his kick-off press conference. Unfortunately, it was became an [...]
With two official leadership races in this country underway in this country right now - the Canadian Alliance federally, the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario - our minds are focussed on the role of pro-life Canadians in politics. Many of us (too many of us) limit our involvement in politics to the voting booth, if that much. On one hand, it is understandable [...]
While the Quebec courts consider the recognition of same-sex marriage, the provincial government has tabled legislation which would allow homosexual civil unions. On Nov. 8., Michael Hendricks and Rene Le Boeuf, supported by intervenors including Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere, challenged in Quebec Superior Court, the definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and woman as a violation of Section [...]
There is a very important aspect of the just-completed federal election campaign which I haven't seen addressed honestly anywhere in the mainstream media: that is, the concerns raised about the "personal" nature of much of the election rhetoric - this despite the volume of commentary provided by pundits on the priority given to personal attacks over the discussion of issues during the [...]
I had this nightmare recently - only I was wide awake while I was having it. I was shocked by what I saw on the Internet: WANTED: STOCKWELL DAY, AN ESCAPED AND DANGEROUS CHRISTIAN - FIVE MILLION DOLLAR REWARD! What?! I knew the media had described Stockwell Day as "scary" because he believes in creationism and when Stockwell ran for prime minister [...]
Being pro-life is, as I assume we all know, about much more than standing up for the unborn. It is about community, about family, about love. I know love. I know it very well indeed. Mum telephoned from England last week. I knew, I just knew. "I've got some bad news", she said, crying. "Dad has had a stroke." I was at [...]
Act of Contrition People tell me that I lost my vote in the last election by voting for the Canadian Alliance. I don't think so. I voted for the party that would guarantee me the right to private property. People who voted for the Liberal Party do not have that right. As a matter of fact, Canadians had the right to private [...]
Talk radio listener attacks pro-lifer, decries 'millions wasted on unfit and unworthy lives' "Dr. Johnston … you has [sic] a hidden agenda." Delivered via fax machine, the letter responded to a recent morning radio interview given by Physicians for Life representative Dr. Will Johnston in Vancouver. The writer's agenda was not hidden. "I am strongly in favor of euthanasia. Millions of tax [...]
Pro-life speaker shares how family life and activism really make a difference "We are called to be light and salt in our society. As the courts chip away our rights, it is clearly time for us to get real bright, and real salty!" Kathie McGann told listeners in Moncton recently, during a talk called "Changing the world from your kitchen sink." The [...]
First Things, a "Survey of Religion and Public Life" edited by Father Richard John Neuhaus, caused a stir in the academic and journalistic communities when it posed the question, "The End of Democracy?" in its November 1996 issue. Going beyond the debate over judicial activism in the United States, the symposium questioned whether or not "conscientious citizens can [any] longer give moral [...]
Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher (Doubleday, $37.95, 260 pages). While Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher's The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially may seem a tad shallow in pointing to why marriage is a good thing, it is a wonderful tonic to the cultural [...]
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study by Judith Wallerstein Julia M. Lewis and Sandra Blakeslee (Hyperion, $35.95, 347 pages). The conventional wisdom about divorce and children - that family breakups are, at worst, a temporary difficulty for kids - is so wrong that new research about the long-term negative effects on children of divorce must force a re-thinking [...]
Trend toward normalization of pedophilia mirrors psychiatry's capitulation to the gay agenda The November 20, 2000 Globe and Mail contained a compassionate editorial arguing that convicted pedophiles should not be imprisoned. The essay was written by Dr. John Bradford, who holds two high-sounding psychiatric appointments (Clinical Director of the Forensic Programme and the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, and Head [...]
As the worldwide push for the "morning-after pill" and RU-486 increases, pro-lifers wonder about its effect on the abortion debate and on the pharmacy profession In the past few years chemical abortion has become more prevalent as country after country approved the morning-after pill (MAP) and the abortion pill RU-486. The most infamous of these was the September 28, 2000 United States [...]