An Alberta pro-life supporter has come up with a new and unique way of raising the profile of the pro-life cause, impacting the arts scene and perhaps raising some funds along the way. Astride Wenigerova-Noga has composed a pro-life play entitled “Is It So?” that is suitable for staging as a dinner theatre-type event. The concept first came to her during the [...]
Peter Naglik, a long-time political party activist and devout Catholic, was killed in the early hours of Sept. 29 at the age of 39 in a single-vehicle accident en route to his home, near Ottawa. The resident of Russell, Ont. was driving his 1995 Chrysler Concorde when he lost control of the vehicle. The car flipped onto its roof and smashed into [...]
By the mainstream press, he is being remembered as a “much-admired” man noted for his “brilliance,” “intelligence,” “eloquence,” “courage,” “prodigious brain” and “encompassing empathy,” among other qualities. But although one of his legacies is the extension of full funding to Catholic high schools, former Ontario attorney-general Ian Scott is also being recalled by pro-life and pro-family advocates as the man who, as [...]
After almost two years of waiting, six distressed Anglican congregations in the Diocese of New Westminster finally have learned that the Panel of Reference has rejected their appeal for protection under a jurisdiction completely free from their liberal diocesan bishop, Michael Ingham. Instead, the panel has recommended a temporary, arms-length relationship between Ingham and the nearly 3,000 church members. Archbishop of Canterbury [...]
On Sept. 27, the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) was displayed at St. Michael’s Catholic Secondary School in Stratford, Ont. GAP originated in the United States with the Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform and there is now a Canadian version, the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. According to the website, GAP “is a visual display composed of 4-foot by 8-foot (or 6-foot by 13-foot) [...]
Over the final weekend in September, post-secondary students travelled across Canada to Toronto for a meeting that would challenge, inspire and motivate them in pro-life work on their campuses. The event was the 11th National Campus Life Network (NCLN) symposium. Sarah Buckle, the current executive director of NCLN, said, “The goal of the symposium is to educate university pro-life student leaders on [...]
“It was awesome, truly amazing and energizing,” a pilgrim enthused after a foot-blistering, 200-kilometre walk to pray for the unborn. The walk was at Martyr’s Shrine in Midland, Ont. Nearly 100 English-speaking pilgrims, support workers and family members left in five separate groups from Brampton, Guelph, Kitchener, Cambridge and Georgetown (Burlington/Milton). They all met two days later at Orangeville’s Mother of God [...]
A Manitoba marriage commissioner who lost his licence last year when he refused to perform homosexual “marriages,” has taken his fight for religious freedom to the Court of Queen’s Bench. The province ordered Kevin Kisilowsky, 36, to conduct “marriage” ceremonies for same-sex couples or hand in his licence, under a 2004 policy adopted by the province following the legalization of homosexual “marriage.” [...]
Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, $36.95, 308 pages) Review by Kathy Shaidle The Interim Those who object to U.S. conservative columnist Anne Coulter’s torture-all-prisoners punditry are like pre-teen boys griping that Gone With the Wind has “too much kissing.” That is, Coulter-haters suffer from genre dysphasia. The bestselling author is neither a journalist nor a scholar, so [...]
The Truth Is Out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction by Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth (Brazos Press, $23.99 pb, 272 pages) Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth are both well-respected American academics and committed Christians. Readers should not be put off by the 50s “flying saucer” image on the cover. This very erudite book looks at the possible [...]
Warned: Canada’s Revolution Against Faith, Family and Freedom Threatens America by Tristan Emmanuel (Freedom Press Canada Inc., $23.95, 190 pages) Tristan Emmanuel is one of Canada’s most vocal opponents of the redefinition of marriage. He heads the Equipping Christians for the Public Square Centre and is the author of Christophobia. In the interest of full disclosure, he sits on this paper’s editorial [...]
Andre Bergeron was sentenced to three years’ probation and no jail time for an attempted euthanasia on his wife, which he failed to complete. In July 2005, Bergeron attempted to asphyxiate his wife, who suffered from Friedreich’s Ataxia (a degenerative disorder), with a plastic bag. He called 911 prior to her death, but she died three days later in hospital. According to [...]
On Oct. 12, NDP MP Tony Martin held a town hall meeting for his constituents in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Although the city boasts a population of 75,000, and the meeting was advertised well in advance, only about a dozen people showed up to discuss issues with the MP. The meeting began when an individual, who appeared to be an NDP supporter [...]
The Sept. 9 editions of the Toronto Sun and the Toronto Star, two newspapers having pretensions to cosmic significance, carried the same hard-hitting storyline: “Pope slams Canada.” They were reporting on the comments Pope Benedict XVI had made on the previous day to seven Ontario bishops. Typical of secular newspapers, being more concerned with words that startle than with thoughts that nourish, [...]
There were 1200 Life Chain demonstration across North America on October 1. While numbers continue trickle in, at least 13,000 people participated in Ontario alone.