Lakehead student union erects strict club restrictions THUNDER BAY, Ont. -- On Nov. 28, the board of directors of the Lakehead University Student Union voted to adopt an amendment to the student union constitution adding a broad range of restrictions applying only to religious and political clubs. The restrictions include: "Campaigns must be positive in nature and cannot slander the opposing stance [...]
A northern Ontario city on Lake Superior held its first-ever pro-life conference, bringing pro-life leaders from across the continent together with local pro-life activists and supporters. The All Points North: Facing Truth conference was hosted by local right to life group and Alliance for Life Ontario and was held Dec. 5-6 at the United Reformed Church. Speakers included Vicki Thorn of Project [...]
Into an Ottawa government office poured a distraught looking young woman carrying a load of files that she dumped on a desk near the door, which she then kicked shut with her foot. She turned and spoke to a slim, bespectacled, middle-aged man in an ill-fitting suit standing behind a much larger desk near the window. [...]
UN honours abortion, gay-rights activists NEW YORK - UN General Assembly president Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann announced the 2008 winners of the UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights, an award for "outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms," and they included former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and Human Rights Watch, both [...]
On Nov. 23, The Washington Post published a remarkable profile entitled, "A hard choice: a young medical student tries to decide if she has what it takes to join the diminishing ranks of abortion providers." The article focused on 24-year-old Lesley Wojcik, an activist with Medical Students for Choice who recently attended a conference for aspiring abortionists at the Johns [...]
Sadly, the effects of the HRCs' pernicious thinking were displayed by the University of Calgary last month when, without even a fig-leaf of justification, authorities attempted to halt a display by the campus's pro-life group. The Genocide Awareness Project, which has held similar displays on the U of C's campus for the last five years, was threatened and intimidated by campus thugs, [...]
In a time of unprecedented political upheaval, it seems that there is only one thing about which all Canadians can agree: that Section 13 of the Human Rights Act should be repealed. In a stunning display of intellectual honesty, voices from all across the ideological spectrum have emerged to denounce the outrageous behaviour of Canada's self-appointed censors. The human rights commissions' campaign [...]
The Interim talks to its first Person of the Year about human rights commissions Editor's Note: Interim editor Paul Tuns interviewed Ezra Levant by e-mail on Dec. 12 about his own case with the Alberta Human Rights Commission and his ongoing battle against the human rights commission industry. The Interim: In your reply to the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, famously posted [...]
Ezra has been the indisputable man in the battle against the "human rights" racket. I've been happy to coast along, but he's doing the heavy lifting. I'm Dean Martin to his Jerry Lewis: he's doing all the work and I feed him the occasional line. Shortly after this thing started, I had lunch with a journalistic bigshot in Montreal [...]
Canada Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South) is the new chair of the multi-party Parliamentary Pro-life Caucus, replacing Maurice Vellacott (C, Saskatoon-Wanuskewin). Bruinooge said in a press release, "I am honored to chair a caucus that doesn't shy away from this vital issue." He said that pro-life Canadians' "concerns need to be represented" ... Brian Finnemore, a retired B.C. physician and a [...]
A look back at many of the important moments for the pro-life and pro-family community in 2008.
On Dec. 8, the Catholic Oblate Fathers of Assumption Province wrote to Governor-General Michaelle Jean to express their outrage over the July 1 awarding of the Order of Canada, the country?s highest civilian honour, to abortionist Henry Morgentaler and to notify her that they were returned the OC award two of their members had previously received. In a letter signed by Fr. [...]
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has just released its annual performance report for 2007-2008 and boasts of pushing its abortion agenda among its member associations in traditionally pro-life countries throughout Africa, Latin America and the Islamic world. The IPPF asserts that "access to safe legal abortion is a public health and human rights imperative" and that the organization's goal is to [...]
With the potential reinterpretation of the Universal Human Rights Declaration to be extended to abortion at the UN, international pro-lifers need to be on their toes.
Last Summer (July 19), the Toronto Globe and Mail featured a sociological look into women who had abortions. Titled, "The hidden abortion issue," it explored why, though abortion has been unrestricted in Canada for two decades, so few women who have undergone abortions ever talk about it, even with close friends. Journalist Cate Cochran did not provide any answers to the question [...]