The Interim The Court of Queen's Bench has reversed the 2002 Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission decision that found a man who placed references to Bible verses on homosexuality into a newspaper ad guilty of inciting hatred. Both Hugh Owens of Regina and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix were ordered to pay $1500 to three homosexual activists after Owens placed an ad in the Saskatoon [...]
A new web search page based in the U.S., but serving the international community, is allowing internet surfers to find the information they are looking for, avoid objectionable advertisements and pornography and contribute to pro-life-related causes without shelling money directly out of their own pockets. ProLifeSearch.com was launched on a voluntary basis during the fall of 2005 as the world's first pro-life [...]
Last month, Ri Kwang-chol, a doctor and defector from North Korea, addressed a human rights panel and stated that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born. Kwang-chol claimed that babies born with physical disabilities were killed in infancy in hospitals or at home and quickly [...]
Six years ago, Peter Ryan, his wife Suzie and their seven daughters drove across Canada in the family van from Vancouver (where he gave up an executive pro-life position) to his hometown of Fredericton. Because he had heard that a Morgentaler abortuary was opening in his traditionally pro-life province of New Brunswick, he decided with quiet reserve to do something about it. [...]
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the Father Ted Colleton Scholarship program. More than one hundred students have participated in the program, producing interesting and insightful essays on a variety of topics dealing with life issues. On these pages appear their thoughts, concerns and hopes for the pro-life movement in Canada. We were impressed by their knowledge, commitment, spirituality and activism. [...]
Jennifer is a 27-year-old woman. She has a beautiful, whimsical face, delicate but well-defined features, long chestnut hair and a slight figure. She is a mother of an eight-year-old son. She works with paramedics and crisis response teams and has the semblance of a once tough-minded individual. But since November 2005, she has become victim to panic attacks brought on by having [...]
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 [...]