Yearly Archives: 2004

Poll shows Canadians becoming more pro-life

Interim Staff According to a LifeCanada-sponsored Environics poll, more than two-thirds of Canadians want abortion restricted or prohibited, informed consent and the public defunding of abortion. The poll also indicates that support for the pro-life position on several abortion-related issues, including informed consent and taxpayer-funding of abortion, is going up across the board. Joanne Byfield, president of LifeCanada, revealed to the National [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:53:56-04:00November 9, 2004|Abortion statistics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Supreme Court hearing: gay ‘marriage’ case

Justices questioning why feds put question before top court On Oct. 6, the Supreme Court of Canada began what may be the most important case before the top court since the Morgentaler and Borowski cases in the late 1980s, in terms of this country's social fabric. The court held three days of hearings on the federal government's reference question, in which the [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:53:05-04:00November 9, 2004|Marriage and Family|

Ontario taxpayers foot huge tab for late U.S. abortions

On the heels of the news that Canadian women are being shipped to the United States for pricey late-term abortions - because no Canadian doctors will commit the grisly procedures - come some hard numbers that illustrate the extent of the phenomenon. A spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Health readily admitted that, at a time when his province's health system is [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:50:08-04:00November 9, 2004|Abortion|

Proposed Philippine two-child policy creates controversy

Senator ties depopulation scheme to U.S. security memo In August, Philippine Congressman Edcel Lagman introduced the Reproductive Health Act to the House of Representatives in Manila. The bill calls for "the limitation of the number of children to an affordable two children per family" and calls upon the government to "encourage two-child family size to attain the desired population growth rate." The [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:48:27-04:00November 9, 2004|Population|

Constitutional Calvinball ensured gay ‘marriage’ win

Rule #2: Losers Pay In almost every case cited last month, the money that allowed lawyers and judges to re-write Canada's social rubric, divine the intent of the original authors and thumb their noses at social conservatives, came from, you guessed it, the Canadian taxpayer. Of course the official line is that the money came from our civil government - but everybody [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:47:27-04:00November 9, 2004|Marriage and Family|

What’s in a word?

In a Sept. 27 feature on feminism entitled "25 years of women making progress," Toronto Star "Life writer" Trish Crawford made a common, but egregious, error when she paraphrased former National Action Committee on the Status of Women president Judy Rebick as saying "the legalization of abortion may not have been the most important milestone for women, but it is the one [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:44:40-04:00November 9, 2004|Abortion Law, Editorials|

Morality and science are on the same side in stem cell debate

On Oct. 9, the embryonic stem cell research movement got its martyr with the death of actor Christopher Reeve. A decade ago, the man who played Superman in a series of movies in the 1970s and 1980s fell in a horse-riding accident and became a quadriplegic. In recent years, he became the poster-child for ESCR and one of its leading activists. Not [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:42:58-04:00November 9, 2004|Bioethics, Editorials|

World Briefs

Spain lurches to licentiousness MADRID - Spain's socialist government approved a bill to legalize same-sex "marriage," but put off liberalizing the country's abortion law until at least 2005. Parliament is expected to approve gay "marriage" in January, when Spain would become the third European country to legalize homosexual nuptials. The same bill includes a measure allowing adoption by same-sex parents. Meanwhile, a [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:41:46-04:00November 9, 2004|World Briefs|

ACROSS CANADA

Archbishop Exner worries about future of Canada OTTAWA - Speaking at the Priests for Life annual symposium, Archbishop Adam Exner, retired Catholic archbishop of Vancouver, said, "I am becoming more and more worried about the state of freedom in our country." Exner warned that growing judicial activism in Canada is changing laws and institutions beyond the restraint of democratic process. "Same-sex marriages [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:35:16-04:00November 9, 2004|Across Canada|

Bits ‘n’ Pieces

Canada Supporters of John Tory cited his moderation and electability as reasons to choose the former Rogers CEO over the more conservative former Mike Harris-era cabinet ministers Jim Flaherty and Frank Klees as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party. In the first post-leadership convention poll, Liberals regained the lead ... Former Alberta Report publisher Link Byfield, a vocal opponent of abortion, [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:30:17-04:00November 9, 2004|Bits n' Pieces|

Growing LifeChain numbers a hopeful sign

At major intersections in large cities and along main streets in small towns across the country, ordinary Canadians did the extraordinary on a Sunday afternoon in October. Concerned citizens bravely stood in public with bold signs proclaiming the truth. Once again, LifeChain spread across the streets of this continent, with thousands giving an hour of their time for this pro-life witness. As [...]

archives2010-08-09T14:28:50-04:00November 9, 2004|Activism, Events, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups|

Playing with white dice

When federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler announced recently that the pool of potential candidates for the two vacancies on the Supreme Court of Canada was "an embarrassment of riches," he got it partly right. A total embarrassment for the Canadian people that the choices that the "pool" for judges shrunk to Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella, two left-leaning radical feminists who favour [...]

archives2010-08-09T13:39:34-04:00October 9, 2004|Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Marriage and Family, Politics|

It’s obvious I’m pregnant

My Darling Baby: I can't believe it has been a month since we found out about you. Throughout the past month, we have been sharing the news with our family and friends, dreaming about you, planning for your arrival next April, considering how things will change in our house and marvelling at the changes in my body. As everyone can see, I [...]

archives2010-08-09T13:37:35-04:00October 9, 2004|Columnist, Motherhood|

The future of the PQ

The delegates at the last general council of the PQ voted Aug. 29, largely against the launching of a new leadership race in which Bernard Landry would be challenged as the PQ leader. That is not necessarily good news for the separatist party and its renewal. Bernard Landry, 67, was close to René Lévesque at the foundation of the PQ more than [...]

archives2010-08-09T13:36:18-04:00October 9, 2004|Columnist, Politics|

Judgement is coming

"But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers … shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone" (Rev. 21:8). It was an unsettling conversation, and quite unlooked for. I brightly greeted the Tim Hortons cashier with a cheery, "Good morning, how are you"? We had many times exchanged such pleasantries, so I was surprised by her response. With sad [...]

archives2010-08-09T12:38:03-04:00October 9, 2004|Columnist, Religion, Rev. Royal Hamel, Society & Culture|

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