The Lakehead University Student Union (LUSU) voted 20-3 on Jan. 10 to deny the pro-life club, Lakehead University Life Support, club status. This is another example of discrimination against pro-life students on Canadian campuses. The club was given four conditions on Dec. 5, 2007 that it was required to agree to before being granted club status by Matt Granville, vice-president of finance [...]
Two separate human rights commission complaints launched by student pro-life groups in British Columbia have received rulings. The struggles of pro-life university students to be allowed to present their views on campus has drawn the fire of some major legal players in British Columbia. John Hof, head of Campaign Life Coalition in the province, says student groups facing discrimination on campus should [...]
The family of Samuel Golubchuk, an 84-year-old orthodox Jewish man in Winnipeg, is fighting to save his life. On Nov. 30, Golubchuk’s family was told by doctors at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg that they were going to remove the respirator, fluids and food from him. The family acted by initiating an injunction against the hospital to ensure he would continue to live. [...]
The federal government has wisely stepped back – at least for the time being - from plans that could disengage the people who currently display the nation’s highest levels of civic participation. Bill C-16 would have increased the number of advance polling days to five, including polls on two Sundays. The government has been arguing that Sunday advance polls will increase voter [...]
Michael Polanyi changed his career path from science to philosophy so that, paradoxically, he could help protect science from being absorbed into a narrow ideology. In his 1962 Terry Lectures at Yale University, he recounted a conversation he had with Nikolai Bukhanin in 1935. At that time, Bukhanin, whom Lenin called the “Golden Boy” of the party, was a leading theoretician for [...]
Raji Shankar’s voice nervously breaks as she speaks into the phone. It’s her first telephone call with the media, she explains, and the topic of conversation isn’t the type of benign chatter she’d share at a dinner party. Nor is she rehashing her proudest moment. Shankar, a business analyst in Toronto, is recalling how on two separate occasions she accompanied friends for [...]
In what may be a first, the Canadian Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute of Canada have admitted a link between oral contraceptives and breast cancer. In their 2007 Annual Stats report, an entire section was dedicated to the topic of breast cancer. According to the report, one in nine Canadian women will suffer breast cancer in her lifetime, accounting for [...]
The long process of winnowing down the candidates for each party’s presidential nomination – a process that began almost immediately after the last presidential election in 2004 – began with the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primaries in early January. (A caucus and primary are different ways voters within each state apportion delegates among the candidates prior to the formal nominating convention [...]
A much-celebrated breakthrough that turns adult skin cells to embryonic-like stem cells is not the solution to the problem of destroying embryos for pluripotent stem cells. In November, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka and Dr. James Thomson published separate studies that were hailed as moral alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, both in the media and by some pro-lifers. Both studies involved introducing genes [...]
On Dec. 13, Bill C-484, Ken Epp’s (Conservative, Edmonton-Sherwood Park) private member’s bill protecting the unborn victims of crime, came up for the first hour of debate. Epp reiterated the need to protect pregnant women from criminal violence and discussed the tragic sense of loss felt by family members of crime victims who also lose unborn grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Epp said, [...]
Life Decisions International published a special report recently that described Rotary International’s “dance with death” through its ties to pro-abortion and population control groups. RI founded a 25,000-member Rotarian Fellowship for Population and Development and has entered into an official “co-operative relationship” with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. Procter and Gamble staged a career info session recently to which “lesbian, [...]
Editor’s note: In 2006, the now-defunct Western Standard magazine published the so-called “Danish cartoons” of the Muslim prophet Mohammed in a news story covering the international backlash against the publication of the editorial cartoons in a Danish newspaper. In response, [NAME] filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission. On Jan. 11, 2008, the Standard’s erstwhile publisher, Ezra Levant, appeared in [...]
Fank Magazine – no relation – makes a list regularly of words and expressions that are trite and over-used by journalists and I take off my hat to them for doing so. I also promise to never use that trite expression again - unless I have to. The one trite expression they have never noted is: “I made a mistake.” Like when [...]
For a striking illustration of the repression of freedom of religion and freedom of expression in Canada, consider the plight of Stephen Boissoin, an erstwhile Baptist minister in Alberta. In a letter to the editor of the Red Deer Advocate published on June 17, 2002, Boissoin denounced the indoctrination of children in the public schools by proponents of the notion that homosexuality [...]
Following his rather convincing defeat in the recent provincial election, John Tory is, nevertheless, trying to hold on to his position as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party. That party would do well to look for another Tory to lead it. In our November editorial, we chided John Tory for running a campaign devoid of the only leadership that matters: moral [...]