The election post-mortems were far more critical of ex-prime minister Paul Martin than anything the Tories had to offer during their campaign. This may have been due to the fact that there is little point in torpedoing a ship that is already sinking on its own. After all, Judge Gomery had told Canadians that they witnessed a catastrophic failure of the very [...]
Terri Schiavo - A Life That Matters by Mary and Robert Schindler et al (Warner Books, $32.95 272 pages). She's a human being," I cried out. "Nobody seems to notice." For well over a decade, these two sentences described the plight of Mary Schindler and her family. Medical experts had declared their daughter, Terri Schindler-Schiavo, to be in a persistently vegetative state. [...]
Recent incidents of vandalism to pro-life bus advertisements in Guelph, Ont. are once again pointing out the apparent hypocrisy inherent in the use of the label "pro-choice" to describe those who favour committing abortions. A total of three Guelph Transit buses carrying what are called "supertail" pro-life advertisements - which cover virtually the entire back half of a bus - were [...]
It has long been acknowledged that the spiritual realm must play an important role in the effort to ultimately secure the right to life for all human beings, from conception to natural death. To that end, Catholics across Canada are participating in a concerted prayer effort to ensure that aspect of the pro-life struggle is not neglected. The One Million Rosaries for [...]
When Stephen Harper was elected prime minister, he promised change, he promised reform, he promised better, more accountable government. That might sound like a tall order to some, but it really isn't. Indeed, here's a quick and easy way the prime minister can get started: he can scrap a Liberal-enacted election law that makes free political expression in Canada a crime. I [...]
It's being called an issue that has few rivals in terms of controversy in Canada and around the world. It's dominated by bloody images, heated rhetoric and impassioned defences on both sides. Few facts go unchallenged. Language becomes a tool, as words become weapons of outrage or instruments of reassurance. Abortion? Nope. The annual Canadian seal hunt. The description above comes from [...]
Tissue engineering breakthrough might be a solution to the organ donation shortage Complete urinary bladders grown from patients' own cells have been transplanted and functioning for as long as four years, reports a group of researchers in The Lancet. Dubbed the "neo-bladders," the new organs have been working fine and have significantly improved the health of seven young patients aged four to [...]
Until the Jan. 23 federal election, the campaign to legalize drugs in Canada seemed unstoppable. The Chretien-Martin Liberals, whose values were formed in the free-love, pot-smoking 1960s, had already legalized "medicinal" marijuana, opened a government-contracted pot-growing facility and sanctioned a heroin shooting gallery in Vancouver. A Liberal bill to decriminalize marijuana possession was also working its way through Parliament. Yet, on April [...]
During the recent election campaign, Stephen Harper said his views on abortion were "complex. ... I don't fall into any of the neat polar extremes on this issue," he told Kevin Newman of Global news. Abortion on demand is said to be either a fundamental Charter right or a massive violation of the fundamental right to life. Those are the "neat polar [...]
Pro-life politicians and advocates for the poor are speaking out about the practice of provincial clawbacks of federal child benefits. In provinces such as Ontario, the amount of a national supplement intended for children receiving social assistance is removed from their provincial welfare cheques. Furthermore, similar action countering the coming federal childcare allowance has not been ruled out. The Canada Child Tax [...]
Four speakers delved into the issue of whether euthanasia is an individual decision or collective choice during an April 7 debate at the science faculty of the Université du Québec à Montréal, to celebrate the UN-sponsored International Day of Health. Francine Lalonde, MP for the Bloc Québécois and author of euthanasia Bill C-407 - which died on the order table last November [...]
The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic fraternal organization that calls itself the "right arm of the church." The organization boast 1.7 million members worldwide and nearly a quarter-million members in Canada. About 57,000 of these members belong to one of 500 local Ontario councils. The Knights are pro-life and pro-family. Each year, they donate thousands of volunteer hours and millions of [...]
On April 5, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the federal broadcast regulator, rendered a bizarre decision, granting a Toronto-area radio licence to a group committed to promoting homosexuality on the airwaves. Rainbow Broadcasting gained the first Toronto FM radio licence issued in more than four years at the expense of many legitimate applicants, including a group hoping for an all-Catholic station. [...]
It's hardly a stretch to say that the near-extermination of humankind isn't a popular idea among the public. If any politician ever dared to dismiss humanity as "fat, human biomass" and advocated the destruction of 90 per cent of the world's population from the dreaded Ebola virus (an 80-90 per cent lethal disease, which inflicts horrible suffering upon its victims, whose internal [...]
Organs are being taken for transplantation from the living bodies of thousands of detainees in China's labour camps - a big story out of the world's biggest country. Couple this with a current surge in transplant operations being performed in China's hospitals in advance of hastily cobbled-together restrictions on transplants that take effect July 1 and we have a breaking news story [...]