It is the stuff of horror movies and science-fiction novels: human body parts harvested, bought and sold on an open market. In recent years, this scenario has emerged from the depths of our nightmares to find its way into reality. Although many stories of organ thefts and "body stealing" have been debunked as urban legend, it is a problem that not only [...]
New calls to change law concerning 'compassionate homicide' rejected On July 31, police in London, Ont. responded to a 911 call from a sixth-floor room at the Holiday Inn on Exeter Road. Shortly thereafter, David Carmichael was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 11-year-old son, Ian. Ian was believed to have regular seizures and was diagnosed with an aneurysm [...]
Robin Sharpe to get two years minus a day for sexual assault "I am the nation's most notorious child pornographer," Robin Sharpe states in the short bio posted to his website. "As a young boy, I was a nerd, a loner and religiously Anglican. I had no friends until my early teens and didn't start to overcome my hypermoralism until I was [...]
Iain Benson's proposal to recognize gay unions is seductive, but wrong Should Parliament refuse to recognize marriage entirely? Would such a change bring social peace in the debate over the homosexual agenda? Many observers of the Centre for Cultural Renewal were left scratching their heads in July after an opinion piece written by the centre's senior fellow, Iain Benson, was published in [...]
Women unwittingly have abortions, babies sold by doctors Interim Staff In a Special Report issued by Human Life International, Ewa Kowalewska, executive director of the organization's Central and Eastern Europe regional office, illustrates just how ingrained the abortion culture is Russia. Officially, there are 1.7 million surgical abortions in Russia each year, although some estimates say it is three times that number. [...]
Tom Kent, a former federal Liberal party social policy adviser, urged Ottawa to increase youth immigration to counter Canada's decline in fertility and the economic consequences for the country. Writing in Policy Options, Kent suggested immigration policy be changed to attract teens and university-aged individuals from foreign countries to create a sufficient base of workers and taxpayers so that Canada's social programs [...]
LifeSite Daily News The legal counsel for both the Catholic church in Canada and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada were asked to be present at a meeting with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency in early March. Janet Buckingham, legal counsel for the EFC, and Jennifer Leddy, legal counsel for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, were warned by revenue officials that [...]
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is selling T-shirts on its website that proclaim the message, "I Had An Abortion." The shirts are advertised as "a powerful message in support of women's rights" and can be purchased for $15 (US). Although they are not currently being sold in Canada, there was swift reaction to the publicity stunt on both sides of the [...]
Prime Minister Paul Martin insists that Parliament should never use the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution to prevent the Supreme Court of Canada from striking down a law that allegedly violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. During last spring's federal election, he argued: "We have got to ensure that minority rights are protected when challenged by the majority. The only [...]
Section 241 of the Canadian Criminal Code is being challenged by Evelyn Martens, a founding member and former membership director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. Martens has been charged with aiding and counselling in the suicide deaths of Monique Charest, who died Jan. 7, 2002 in Duncan B.C., and Leyanne Burchell, who died June 26, 2002 in Vancouver. The [...]
Media turning a blind eye to alleged misdeed In a story you would be hard-pressed to find in the mainstream media, abortionist Henry Morgentaler is being sued for at least $185,000 for an alleged botched abortion last year on an Ottawa woman, which she claims caused damage to her reproductive organs and harm to her marriage. A Canadian Press wire story reported [...]
When I think of Gilles Grondin, it's the word "faith" that most readily comes to mind - his strong faith in God, in Jesus and in Christian principles of morality. What concerned Gilles above all was the salvation of his soul and the souls of his family members. To this end, he prayed every day. His dedication to the pro-life cause was [...]
Mother Teresa famously said that the greatest threat to peace was abortion. In Asia, high rates of abortion, fuelled by China's one-child policy and India's depopulation schemes, are leading to sex ratios so skewed that China and India may become imperialist nations just to quell the domestic problems that such ratios engender. That is the theory postulated by Valerie M. Hudson and [...]
On the day that Paul Martin announced former NDP British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh would be the new federal Health Minister, Dosanjh announced he would not tolerate private healthcare in Canada as he examines ways to improve the health system. "What we need to do is stem the tide of privatization in Canada and expand public delivery of healthcare, so that we [...]
UNITED STATES Outspokenly pro-life Alan Keyes, a former U.S. ambassador to UNESCO and two-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, was picked to face rising Democrat star Barack Obama in the open Senate race in Illinois. Keyes is making abortion a priority issue and comparing Obama's pro-abortion position - he supports even partial-birth abortion - to a "slave-holder" mentality. Both Keyes and [...]