One morning, I was picketing with four ladies outside the Buriana abortuary in Toronto. At about 10:30, a large truck pulled up outside and the driver, a pleasant looking young man, alighted. He nodded to us, smiled and went inside. As it is a very busy street, I hadn’t taken much notice of the truck until one of the ladies said to [...]
When Planned Parenthood of Ottawa (PPO) and former Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick targeted the First Place Pregnancy Centre (FPPC) over the Better Halves SENSational Tree Raffle, they maligned not only FPPC, but all crisis pregnancy centres. As a CPC executive director myself, I take exception. Since 1992, Ottawa’s FPPC has been “offering compassionate support and assistance to anyone facing an [...]
The Ontario provincial election of 2007 is history. Conservative leader John Tory is probably history, too, but I will lose little sleep on that account. For arguably, the Tory candidate, despite being named Tory, was the least Tory-like candidate in the history of Ontario politics. There’s no dispute that Tory’s campaign foundered on the issue of providing funding for faith-based schools. He [...]
Henry Hyde’s 1976 amendment considered most important piece of U.S. pro-life legislation On Nov. 29, a former member of the House of Representatives who advanced one of the most important pieces of pro-life legislation in American history, passed away. Henry Hyde died at the age of 83, the same month that President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom [...]
Half of a well-known Nova Scotia pro-life team died on May 23, 2007. “We are deeply grieved to announce the passing of our dear friend Marcella, wife of Joseph MacLellan, of Antigonish,” said the Campaign Life Coalition Nova Scotia newsletter of one its founders. At 78, Cella MacLellan had succumbed to cancer. “Marcella fought the cancer in all the standard ways. For [...]
One word summarizes The Golden Compass, a movie based upon the first book of anti-Christian and pro-atheist children’s author Philip Pullman. This word is boring. I initially intended to avoid the movie. However, I had just co-authored Pied Piper of Atheism: Philip Pullman and Children’s Fantasy (AtheismForChildren.com), a new book by Ignatius Press that forewarns parents and pastors about the spiritual dangers [...]
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical’s Lament by Randall Balmer (Basic Books, $19.50, 242 pp.) In 1925, Dayton’s town fathers saw an opportunity to bring national attention to their little burg in east Tennessee. They met with John Scopes, a supply teacher, to obtain his co-operation in challenging the state law introduced by [...]
Although he now lives in Canada, J.I. Packer, 81, has been named one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the U.S. by Time magazine and is generally considered one of the most important theologians of the modern era. He was previously regarded as an informal arbiter among diverse evangelical churches after the publication of his 1973 book Knowing God, which outlined [...]
Pro-Life students at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) are currently in a legal battle to be recognized as an official club. The University of British Columbia Okanagan Student Union (UBCOSU) holds the power to grant or deny club status to campus groups. For the school year 2005 until April 2006, the pro-life club, University of British Columbia Okanagan Students for [...]
Recently there has been a new buzz about abortion on Canadian university campuses. Another face to the abortion debate is being represented as campus pro-life clubs host the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. Women and men from the campaign share their testimonies about abortion and how they regret their “choice.” The first campus visit was at McMaster University in March 2007. In [...]
Twenty-year-old Amanda Phillips is an example of what a young woman can accomplish when she sets her heart on serving Canada’s unborn. She is an office assistant with Alberta Pro-Life, which describes itself as “a province-wide group which works to educate and motivate Albertans on life issues, most notably abortion and euthanasia.” She is also the ministry co-ordinator for The Back Porch, [...]
Broad coalitions stem the tide of euthanasia Amidst the presentations at the First International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Toronto Nov. 30-Dec. 1 were three speakers who spoke about the successful attempts by those opposed to the practice to halt the passage of laws legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide in England, California and Vermont. They were represented by Dr. Bill [...]
The first International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide held in Toronto Nov. 30-Dec. 1 hosted numerous informative speakers on the subject. However, the most poignant testimonials came from those who spoke from personal experience, those whose lives bore the wounds inflicted by the culture of death mentality. Alison Davis, from the United Kingdom, was one such speaker. A disabled activist, she [...]
Commentary Michael Coren True wisdom begins with the fear and love of God. True knowledge, however, requires reading. And if we do not read, we are rejecting the great communication given us by our Creator to appreciate, understand and enjoy. Literature is a force for light and good, too often abandoned to those who dance in very different places. There are legions [...]
It has spent the last quarter-century providing valuable scientific insight into life issues in Canada and, as co-founder and co-president Dr. L.L. Barrie de Veber pledges, the Toronto-based de Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, which bears his name, is only just beginning. “We closed down last year – we ran out of money. But now, we’re up and going again, [...]