A new day has arrived for those of us who believe in the pro-life cause in Canada. We all remember the days when Human Life International had its charity status revoked for alleged political activity, while other pro-life groups were harassed by what is now known as the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency. Well, it’s time to level the playing field. In [...]
Here’s something I never expected in the mainstream press: an article by a young woman on the experience of being a sperm donor child. In the article entitled, “Father was an anonymous sperm donor,” 18-year-old Katrina Clark wrote in the Washington Post about how she felt ripped off that her feminist mother who, when she was 32 and thought she might never get [...]
The homosexual “marriage” issue has fortunately awakened many sleeping Christians. Many, however, do not realize that homosexuals are pawns being used for political purposes in a culture war. The international socialist movement is using homosexuals as an excuse to further a socialist, anti-religious agenda. What better way to muzzle Christians than to pass “hate” legislation limiting churches’ freedom of speech? What better [...]
Student governments at three Canadian schools of higher education – Carleton University, University of British Columbia at Okanagan and Capilano College in Vancouver – have voted to deny funding and services to any campus group that opposes abortion. Pro-life students are nonetheless obliged to provide financial support for all other student activities. One wonders how many more Canadian colleges and universities will [...]
On Dec. 5, a decision at Carleton University was made that banned pro-life groups from forming on campus. A motion was accepted by 25 of 32 members of the Carleton University Student Association (CUSA). The motion read: “1) CUSA and CUSA Inc. respect and affirm a woman’s ‘right to choose.’ 2) No CUSA resources, space, recognition or funding be allocated for ‘anti-choice’ [...]
A Toronto-based group, Sex Professionals of Canada, is suing the federal government for maintaining laws criminalizing prostitution and thereby, they claim, endangering the lives of “sex trade workers.” The group’s executive director, Valerie Scott, said that communicating and bawdyhouse laws “are arbitrary,” and “do more harm than good.” The group is challenging Canada’s solicitation laws on constitutional grounds. SPOC calls itself a [...]
A year ago, Ottawa was pressuring New Brunswick to pay for abortions committed in Henry Morgentaler’s Fredericton abortuary. Today, nobody seems to be in a hurry to pursue that issue. Under former premier Bernard Lord’s Conservative government, the province paid for abortions only if they were done in hospitals after two doctors attested to “medical necessity.” The government had a strict policy [...]
Stephane Dion, a cabinet minister in the Jean Chretien and Paul Martin governments, shocked the political world when he overcame Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae, the two frontrunners for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, at the party’s convention in Montreal. With the support of former Ontario education minister Gerard Kennedy, Dion leapt ahead of Rae, the former NDP premier [...]
Did Harper really want to win it or was he playing politics? On Dec. 7, the Conservative government’s motion to re-open the debate on same-sex “marriage” was defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 175-123. If you believe the pundits and the politicians, on Dec. 7, Canadians debated the issue of same-sex “marriage” for the last time and the [...]
Frank Kennedy Queen's Park The same-sex “marriage” issue is not dead. Just because Stephen Harper says it’s dead doesn’t make it dead. In show business, they have an old expression: it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Harper will be surprised to find the fat lady hasn’t sung. It was a stupid, convoluted, contrived, contradictory, contemptuous motion that was already slated [...]
Notwithstanding the decision by most members of Parliament on Dec. 7 to refuse even to reconsider the abolition of the traditional definition of marriage in Canadian law, this issue is not closed. And it never will be closed, until the great majority of our MPs and judges recognize that they have no more power to change the fundamental nature of [...]
As Theresa Matters reports on page two, the Carleton University Students Association will not recognize pro-life student groups, placing a serious burden on such organizations attempting to reach out to students on campus and engage in debate about moral issues touching the sanctity of human life. It is deeply disturbing that a students’ union at a major Canadian university would violate the [...]
For 13 years, Canadians in general, but especially pro-life and pro-family citizens, criticized the heavy-handedness of Liberal prime ministers Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, who attempted to foist upon their party and the nation an ideologically rigid and radical approach to abortion and marriage. There was reason to believe things would be different when the Conservatives won power on Jan. 23, 2006. [...]
Woman’s death exploited by Nicaraguan pro-aborts MANAGUA – Hot on the heals of Nicaragua tightening its already strong pro-life laws, abortion advocates have claimed Jazmina Bojorge and her unborn five-month baby died in a Managua hospital after she was admitted for an unknown cause with symptoms that included abdominal pains. Juanita Jimenez of the Women’s Autonomous Movement of Nicaragua claimed that doctors [...]
Canada Ed Stemlach, a populist whom Campaign Life Coalition rated pro-life with exceptions, won the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative party and has become premier of the province. He upset the front-running former Alberta treasurer and Red Tory Jim Dinning and rookie socially conservative MLA Ted Morton ... Former interim Liberal leaderBill Graham, about whom it was once reported that he paid a [...]