On April 8, pro-life students at the University of Calgary set up the controversial outdoor display the Genocide Awareness Project. They have done this for a number of years and last year were charged with trespassing by police at the request of the university administration. Though they were scheduled for a court date in the fall of 2009, the charges were stayed [...]
From Feb. 17 to March 28, thousands of people across North America participated in 40 Days for Life, a campaign that raises awareness about abortion through prayer, fasting and community outreach. Each vigil is held outside of an abortion site. The campaign reflects how God used 40-day periods in biblical history to bring about change. The first 40 Days for Life campaign [...]
The Globe and Mail reports that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff continues to follow Frank Graves' culture war advice, telling $500-a-plate Liberal supporters in Toronto: "But let’s be clear: we didn’t end the 25-year consensus on a woman’s right to choose. They did." Except that isn't true. It was Ignatieff that brought up abortion in the context of maternal health. The Harper proposal to combat maternal [...]
Suzanne T. Poppema, chairwoman of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, writes in a letter to the editor of the New York Times: "As a physician, I firmly believe that women need access to birth control, education and abortion in order for them and their families to flourish ... It’s clear to me that a 'blue state' model — including abortion — is [...]
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A month ago, Harris Decima found that Canadians were evenly split on whether abortion should be part of the government's maternal health initiative (48% opposed to including abortion, 46% in favour) but now 58% say abortion should be included while just 30% think it should not. The Canadian Press report on the Harris Decima poll: A new poll suggests that a majority of Canadians opposes [...]
From Thomas Sowell: Make no mistake about it, letting old people die is a lot cheaper than spending the kind of money required to keep them alive and well. If a government-run medical system is going to save any serious amount of money, it is almost certain to do so by sacrificing the elderly. Real compassion, as Sowell makes abundantly clear in [...]
For years, professional journalists have touted their superiority by noting that they have fact-checkers and editors (which is barely true in many publications today, but that's another issue). This correction in the Toronto Star yesterday, however, shows that even publications that have editors and fact-checkers maybe aren't worth the paper they produce each day: News corrections for May 11 An excerpt from veteran [...]
The National Post has an excellent editorial on the feds nixing funding for the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto. People have asked me why is LifeSiteNews "obsessed" with the possibility of the Toronto Star buying the Post and I only have to point to editorials like this one that provides a rare dissent from the politically correct orthodoxy that finds funding special [...]
Catholic Insight has issued a statement strongly opposing a proposal in Toronto city council to allow stores to open on Christmas and Easter. Bottom line: "The greedy, the godless, and the childless want to steal the last few holidays from the working and middle classes." The course of action suggested by CI: Please lobby your councillor to vote No to holiday store [...]
The Globe and Mail reported that the Conservative government was under fire yesterday for refusing to fund Toronto's Gay Pride Parade. “Why does ideology trump economics in this Conservative government?” Brampton Liberal MP Navdeep Bains asked. He was criticizing the decision to cut funding to Toronto’s gay pride parade; last year Ottawa gave the event $400,000 in funding under its marquee tourism program. [...]
Our lead May editorial on the student union at McGill placing onerous restrictions on the pro-life club there. The editorial concludes: Thus, by abusing their little brief authority, the SSMU is besmirching McGill’s good name and its prized ideals. The final indignity in this sordid affair, however, is the administration’s refusal to criticize the SSMU’s disgraceful actions. Declining to comment on the [...]
Extensive coverage of Roxanne's Law from the May issue is now available online. Notable point beyond the confines of this bill is Rod Bruinooge's comment that the backlash against the bill and the PMO's distancing itself from it confirmed the “ineligibility of abortion as a matter to be discussed in Canada.”
Eight pro-life students at the University of Calgary have been found guilty of a major violation under the non-academic misconduct policy. It isn't quite clear what the punishment will be, but it could be a reprimand, it could be an expulsion (and a range of punishments between). “We are going to challenge this verdict,” stated Alanna Campbell, president of Campus Pro Life said [...]
The London Free Press notes that back in 1982, then Liberal MP Garnet Bloomfield was the lone Grit to vote against repatriating the constitution. Bloomfield voted against the Constitution Act of 1982 because it did not protect the right to life. Bloomfield is a tremendously principled politician. He voted against his prime minister and his party on an issue of utmost importance. The [...]