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 [...]
Pierre Trudeau famously reminded Canadians that there is a difference between a crime and a sin; now, some 40 years after his infamous Omnibus bill, the distinction has never been less clear. Despite their noble purpose of attempting to eliminate discrimination, human rights tribunals have proven to be a remedy that is worse than the problem they were created to solve. By [...]
Media reactions to Latimer decision The decision of the parole board in December to not grant convicted child killer Robert Latimer day parole was condemned by editorialists across the country. Also, most papers ran letters to the editor that complained that Latimer was being punished for not showing any remorse – in the parole hearings he showed no regret for his actions [...]
City nixes pro-life bus shelter ads HAMILTON – Don Hull, Hamilton’s director of transit, has removed from its bus shelters an ad that says: “9 months. The length of time an abortion is allowed in Canada. Abortion. Have we gone to far?” The Hamilton Spectator reported that there were a handful of complaints from people who found it offensive. Councillor Brian McHattie [...]
Canada Based on estimates as of Oct. 1, 2007, Statistics Canada says the country’s population topped 33 million for the first time, reaching a total of 33,091,200. Immigration drove the increase. The only province or territory with a replacement-level fertility rate is Nunavut … In a 400-page report, Quebec’s chief electoral officer Marcel Blanchet proposed that the province examine proportional representation and [...]
Medical students attend Physicans for Life event in Toronto Canadian Physicians for Life recently sponsored 56 medical students and interns to attend the organization’s fourth pro-life forum in five years. The students, representing 11 Canadian universities, came to Toronto for the three-day event, held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide that was hosted by the Euthanasia Prevention [...]
At Queen’s Park, the McGuinty government smells like something that even the raccoons won’t eat. Basking in the glow of a recent election victory that Dalton McGuinty never won, but that John Tory certainly lost, Dalton is trying to keep one election promise he made. He raced to trim abortion wait times in Ottawa. McGuinty is providing permanent funding for an additional [...]