The Anglican Church of Canada is the third-largest denomination in Canada, with 700,000 members. Only the Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada are larger. On issues such as abortion, homosexuality and euthanasia, the ACC is more liberal than the Catholic Church but more conservative than the UCC. The United Church permits abortion on demand, the ordination of practising homosexuals, the [...]
Lifesite News The United Nations Children's Fund supports a South African organization that encourages children to engage in sexual and homosexual behavior and to have abortions, without their parents' knowledge or consent. The organization, called loveLife, says on its website that UNICEF provides "major funding" for its programs. LoveLife seems eager to shepherd children towards abortion and provides the toll-free phone number [...]
LifeSite News A presentation to the United States Congress on the complicity of the United Nations Population Fund in coercive family planning programs in China has U.S. lawmakers reconsidering funding for the organization. The controversy over UNFPA funding came to a head in November when the entire $15-plus billion foreign aid bill stalled in conference committee. The foreign operations appropriation (HR 2506) [...]
Brian Rushfeldt, the executive director of the Canada Family Action Coalition, must have a sense of how William F. Buckley Jr. felt when he launched his National Review magazine in the 1950s to "stand athwart history yelling ‘stop.'" At a time when sex is being marketed to young teenagers through television programs such as The Jerry Springer Show and Buffy the Vampire [...]
B.C. pro-life activist Ted Gerk is slamming the recently elected Liberal government for following the lead of the New Democrats in refusing to make abortion statistics publicly available. In November, when Gerk made a request for the latest numbers of abortions being done in the Okanagan-Similkameen Health Region and, specifically, Kelowna General Hospital, his request was denied. Now it is apparent, he [...]
Shortly after the turn of the century, a French country doctor married the daughter of a landowner. The day after the wedding, he discovered, to his rude surprise, that his father-in-law was penniless. Disgusted, he did not speak to his wife for the next 40 years. At meals, he communicated to her by signs. She came to refer to him as "my [...]
Ruling on second complainant favours Brockie On Dec. 5, three days of appeal began in the Ontario Divisional court. Scott Brockie's lawyers contended with those representing a homosexual man named Ray Brillinger, the Gay and Lesbian Archives and the Human Rights Commission over the right of Brockie, a practising Christian, not to print material he found objectionable. On April 3, 1996, Brillinger [...]
Campaign Life Coalition has just released a video, "It Takes a Little Spirit: A Contemporary Look at Abortion in Canada." Produced at the request of the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic school board to provide a tool to educate young people regarding abortion and prepare them to attend the annual March for Life in Ottawa each May, the video is aimed at high school students [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is selling a video that exposes the horror and illegality of a suicide device distributed by the Right to Die Society of Canada. The Exit Bag Video features EPC executive director Alex Schadenberg interviewing three guests on various aspects of this grisly product. Wesley Smith, author of Culture of Death : The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, [...]
In their relentless push to make so-called emergency contraceptives or "morning-after pills" as available as possible, some doctors – with the approval and even urging of certain leaders in the medical community – are issuing open-ended, "just in case" prescriptions for the medications. "We're going our own way," declared Ted Boadway, executive director of the Ontario Medical Association. "Lots of doctors are [...]
When Mike Harris announced that he was retiring as premier of Ontario, his possible successors began to state their positions: Red Tory, neo-conservative, centrist. Taken together, their statements provided some understanding of what conservatism means in Ontario in the 21st century In a column under the headline "Neo-con Long is key to leadership," Toronto Star columnist Ian Urquart wrote that Tom Long, [...]
‘The best pro-life news I've heard in 13 years,' says pro-life leader The province of Quebec has announced a ban on all destructive research involving human embryos. David Cliche, Quebec's minister of state for science and technology, unveiled new guidelines on ethical research Jan. 10 in which the creation and use of stem cells extracted from human embryos (resulting in the death [...]
In what pro-lifers consider one of the most flabbergasting statements by Canada at the United Nations, the Canadian representative at the world body explained the country's opposition to a document on Human Rights and Terrorism, saying the inference to the supremacy of the "right to life" was "unacceptable." At a United Nations meeting Nov. 30, the representative of Canada objected to "the [...]
With the announcement by Stephen Harper on national television that he is "moderately pro-life," it seems that each of the four contenders for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance supports a pro-life position, at least to some degree. As LifeSite has reported: "While former leader Stockwell Day and Dr. Grant Hill were clear on their pro-life stands from the beginning of the [...]
Congressional abortion advocates flex muscle WASHINGTON — Abortion advocates in Congress killed funding for community health centres that serve uninsured Americans after pro-life legislators led by retiring House Majority leader Dick Armey (R-Tex) inserted language into the bill that would allow hospitals and health plans to opt out of performing abortions. The measure, designed to help Catholic and other private hospitals and [...]