"Hassan!” I called. “Come back with it!” He was already turning the street corner, his rubber boots kicking up snow. He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. “For you, a thousand times over!” he said. So opens the pivotal event in The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini. The movie version, which is now in theatres, was nominated for [...]
New website provides Canadian stats, history and research Editor’s Note: This Pro Life BC press release was issued Jan. 23. British Columbia’s largest pro-life organization is calling on all Canadians, including members of the news media and politicians, to become better educated about the harmful consequences’ of abortion. Pro Life BC, which represents more than 30 affiliated member groups throughout the province, [...]
The people of Newfoundland are often said to be a proud people. In Patrick Hanlon, the pride of Newfoundland’s pro-life community is justified. Just 25 years old, he holds office in many local, provincial and national pro-life and pro-family organizations. He is president of the Right to Life Association for Newfoundland and Labrador, a director of LifeCanada, a volunteer with Newfoundland Campaign [...]
Family physician Dr. Deborah Zeni was called into her local hospital’s emergency ward recently and while entering it, was accosted by a woman asking for help in bringing in her daughter, who was looking pale, sweaty and generally unwell. Later, she saw that the young woman, with her mother by her side, was in a room with an intravenous solution running. Zeni [...]
Does God still talk to man with signs and wonders? Or did He stop communicating with his children 2,000 years ago? Are miracles a thing of the past, or are they taking place as often and potently as each plea is voiced? It appears as though God is still in touch with his creatures in a profound way. He did say that [...]
The Women’s Health Matters Forum & Expo 2008 was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre Jan. 18-19. Hosted by the New Women’s College Hospital and sponsored by GM Canada, the Toronto Star and others, the event offered 40 seminars and was attended by 150 exhibitors with the theme of, “Linking Environmental Impacts and Women’s Health Issues.” A number of the presentations [...]
In 2005, the last year for which there are statistics, there were 1.2 million abortions in the United States – the lowest number since 1976. The statistics were released in a report by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, and represent a decline of nearly 25 per cent from 1990, when they peaked at 1.6 million. The numbers [...]
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeals has ruled that the suspension of a pro-life protester’s nursing license by the Saskatchewan Association of Licensed Practical Nurses (SALPN) was unconstitutional. In 2002, Bill Whatcott, a licensed practical nurse, participated in a protest outside the Regina Planned Parenthood offices. The association judged Whatcott’s protest to have constituted “professional misconduct” and suspended his nursing license, while fining [...]
The most important part of the International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide was the strategy session that was held on Nov. 29, the day before the public symposium began. International leaders had an opportunity to discuss their concerns and successes. This was a ground-breaking moment for many of the leaders who work in their jurisdictions and rarely get the opportunity to [...]
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 [...]