The Conservative government in Ottawa has nearly impeccable credentials when it comes to its tough-on-crime agenda. From minimum sentences to lessened tolerance for drug pushers to more tools for police, this government appears serious about tackling crime in Canada. That makes it all the more disturbing that in 2006, the Prime Minister’s Office helped scuttle a private member’s bill from Conservative MP [...]
With LifeChain demonstrations at 187 locations across Canada, it is estimated that millions of Canadians saw the peaceful, pro-life witness on Sept. 30. Reports from across the country, in B.C. and Newfoundland and points in between, indicate that the number of participants – as well as the number of locations – is growing.Tens of thousands of pro-lifers held signs for one hour [...]
But UNICEF is non-inclusive in its advocacy UNICEF’s internet homepage currently displays a promotion for 18 @ 18, a celebration of the 18th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The event will be held Nov. 20. If the document was a person, it would be able to vote in Canada. What type of policies would it support? [...]
Canada Pro-life Conservative MP Art Hanger(Calgary Northeast), who was first elected as a Reform MP in 1993, has announced he will not seek re-election … The Montreal Gazettereported that in July, Quebec registered 7,400 births, the highest monthly total in the 2000s … A Federal Court in B.C. is considering a case brought forth by the Sex Party, a registered political party [...]
Turkish immigrant Aysun Sesen, 25, was pregnant with her four-month child when she was found stabbed twice in the abdomen, alongside her injured mother-in-law, in their Toronto home. She later died of her wounds and the baby was born stillborn. Sesan’s husband, Turan Cocelli, 29, was charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of assault. The police said, “In [...]
Newsweek’s pro-abortion columnist, Anna Quindlen, recently wrote that pro-lifers have generally avoided the question of how women should be punished if they obtained the procedure when abortion was re-criminalized. The “news hook” for this column was a short documentary on the internet website YouTube where a man with a video camera asked a half-dozen American pro-life demonstrators what should be done with [...]
On a bid to divide and confuse the public on the issue of abortion, some pro-abortion zealots have taken to asking pro-lifers how much jail time they think a mother should serve for procuring an abortion for her child. In response, many pro-lifers have been tongue-tied and for good reason: the question is not amenable to any simple answer. The Criminal Code [...]
A sure sign that a Liberal victory in the recent Ontario election was never in serious doubt was the fact that the abortion issue was ignored during the campaign. In Canada, whenever a left-of-centre party is in trouble, the social issues that cannot be brought up because they are “settled” suddenly become the only issues. The “social peace” surrounding abortion-on-demand can be [...]