If you had over 800 young people excited about being pro-life all in one building, what would you do? Every year, a day-long youth conference follows the National March for Life to provide information and more motivation for youth who want to know about the life issues and how they can make an impact. On May 14, hundreds of students [...]
Eight hundred high school students flocked to the inaugural Campaign Life Coalition youth banquet May 13 to celebrate the gift of human life and hear a powerful testimony from pro-life activist and abortion survivor Melissa Ohden. The event balanced reflection and energy, as the crowd moved from laughter, courtesy of master of ceremonies John-Henry Westen, to exuberant praise led by [...]
While the National March for Life grows every year, mostly through the increased efforts of educators and youth returning after positive previous marches, those who have been in the pro-life trenches in the long haul also continue to make the march a key pro-life event every year. Many of them are excited by the growing numbers of participants, the enthusiasm the young [...]
As 12,500 took part in the National March for Life in Ottawa on May 13, pro-lifers who couldn’t make the trip to the nation’s capital had the opportunity to join them in spirit and provide a public witness in their own regions as local pro-life groups, the provincial wings of Campaign Life Coalition and religious organizations organized provincial marches for [...]
Students to challenge verdict The University of Calgary saga continued with the pro-life students of the club Campus Pro-Life hosting the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) on April 8, despite warnings from the university administration. This was the ninth time the GAP had been hosted at this campus since 2006. The students were issued notices by campus security threatening punishment for their actions. [...]
Editor’s Note: This is a press release issued by the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association on May 3. Youth Protecting Youth, a pro-life student club at the University of Victoria, has initiated a legal action against the University of Victoria Student Society in B.C. Supreme Court. The lawsuit seeks relief from a protracted campaign of censorship and discrimination against the club, in which [...]
Court initiating legal proceedings against their student union, the University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS). The students are members of the campus club Youth Protecting Youth (YPY) and have dealt with years of discrimination against them because of their beliefs about abortion. The lawsuit deals specifically with the UVSS denying the club funding for two years. The conflict began in September 2008, [...]
Opposition says government intimidates opponents Opposition parties attacked the Harper government for defunding a dozen feminist organizations saying that the cuts in taxpayer subsidies to the special interest groups was retaliation against critics of the government’s policy to not include funding of abortion in its G8 maternal health initiative. The revelation by Liberal women’s affairs critic Anita Neville that initially [...]
I'm not sure what our plan is when it comes to how extensively to cover the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings -- we are, after all, a Canadian publication, but with a largish American online readership. For now, read Ed Whelan's pair of posts (here and here) at Bench Memos on Kagan and her position on SSM and her apparent attempt to hide [...]
The Pocono Record reports that a 31-year-old Pennsylvania man, Michael James Lisk, had a long-term sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl who subsequently became pregnant, aborted her own child with a pencil, and had Lisk help dispose of the remains of the aborted child. The paper reports: Still sick on Sunday, the girl went with her mother to Lehigh Valley Hospital. Staff in the Pediatric Intensive [...]
National March for Life 2010 photos More March for Life 2010 photos Last year’s National March for Life in Ottawa saw 12,000 pro-lifers gathering on Parliament Hill in the pouring rain before proceeding through the streets of the nation’s capital for a one-hour march to witness to the injustice of abortion. This year, with the weather co-operating, a record 12,500 Canadians took [...]
Because it will expose their lie that there is a consensus on the issue. Margaret Somerville explains in a Montreal Gazette column: The likely possibility is, however, that pro-choice advocates and politicians will continue to argue there is no need for a debate. But if the consensus they claim does exist, they have nothing to fear. And if it does not, then [...]
My review of Marci McDonald's much talked about The Armageddon Factor is now online. I could have gone in greater detail about the errors, engaged her dishonest and hysterical argument, or used the book as a springboard to jump into the broader topic of the Religious Right in Canada, but alas a newspaper has word counts and space limitations, so I used the review to [...]
The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada by Marci McDonald (Random House, $32, 419 pages) If you deliberately set out to write a bad book you would have a hard time outdoing Marci McDonald, whose The Armageddon Factor is so comprehensively awful that there is no reason whatsoever to ever read it. The long-time journalist has set her sights [...]
Dr. Hedy Fry, a Liberal MP and big-time supporter of abortion, refuses to debate former patient and pro-life advocate Stephanie Gray. Kelly McParland covers it here at National Post and there is a YouTube video Fry getting a staffer to return Gray's call to say that she won't be debating a non-MP: Hedy Fry ducks abortion debate.