NDP MP doesn’t support petition intent but still presents it after school group met in her office during March for Life The pro-life petition campaign begun prior to this year’s National March for Life in Ottawa marking the 40th anniversary of the legalization of abortion has proven to be a phenomenal success, with over 30,500 signatures collected by press time and more [...]
On June 19, three pro-lifers were arrested outside of the “Everywoman’s Health Clinic” abortion site in East Vancouver. They were released the following day, with a court hearing scheduled for July 3. David Spratt and Sissy von Dehn were arrested while protesting the bubble zone legislation, the B.C. Access to Abortion Services Act, which prevents pro-life counseling or protesting within [...]
On June 15, one week before Toronto Pride Week, Diane Ablonczy, minister of state for small business and tourism, announced the federal government of Canada was funding the homosexual event with a $400,000 grant under a new Marquis Tourism Events Program. The program is designed to assist major Canadian tourist events and the grant money will be used to improve the Pride [...]
On June 3, the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada released Private Choices, Public Costs, a report on the cost family breakdown to taxpayers. Interim editor Paul Tuns spoke with Rebecca Walberg and Andrea Mrozek, co-authors of the report. The Interim: Why did you choose to look into the public costs of individual, private choices such as marriage, living single and divorce? [...]
On June 3, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada released a report entitled, “Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Cost us All,” detailing the cost of family breakdown in Canada by examining the relationship between poverty and family structure. Co-authors Rebecca Walberg and Andrea Mrozek say that the cost of poverty alleviation for broken families is “a bare minimum” of [...]
Canada The gay advocacy group EGALE gave its first ever Leadership Award for LGBT (“lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender”) to Jaime Watt, co-chair of the Navigator communications firm and a long-time adviser to Progressive Conservative politicians in Ontario, including running Ontario PC leadership contender Christine Elliott’s campaign this spring. According to Maclean’s, Derek Vanstone, chief of staff to federal Finance Minister Jim [...]
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what it wants.” - Mother Teresa at the 1994 Washington, D.C. prayer breakfast On May 31, Wichita, Ks. abortionist George Tiller was killed while handing out bulletins as an usher in the foyer of his Reformed Lutheran church. The murder was quickly [...]