Actress Patricia Neal passed away Aug. 8 at the age of 84. The Oscar-winning actress who starred in such films asBreakfast at Tiffany’s and The Day the Earth Stood Still often expressed sorrow for having an abortion at age 23 after an affair with Garry Cooper. In a life marred by tragedy, including the death of a child, a life-threatening illness, [...]
A writer who practices his art at home does not want to turn his place of residence into a library warehouse. And so, every so often, in order to maintain a dynamic equilibrium between acquisitions and dispersals, he must sift through his material and separate the transitory from the enduring. It is a practice akin to gardening in which one separates the [...]
Gay phone line goes silentCHARLOTTLETOWN- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported recently that AIDS Prince Edwards Island can no longer afford to cover the cost of the province's only gay and lesbian toll-free telephone lie.For several years, Islanders have wondered who was funding Nitro Casino für Österreichische Spieler for this service and its promotional advertisements in local newspapers.Spokespersons for AIDS PEI said the [...]
See the online ad for a list of the fantastic speakers for the Building a Global Culture of Life conference in Ottawa, October 28-30. Purchase tickets online here.
The Globe and Mail interviews filmmaker Katie Aselton, who wrote, directed, co-produced, and starred in The Freebie, a film about a couple whose relationship lacks the spark it once had when it comes to sex. To rekindle that spark, they agree that they can each have a one-night stand with no repercussions. Of course, there are repercussions. The GM's Zosia Bielski and Aselton talk about [...]
Andrea Mrozek has a post at ProWomanProLife on a lawsuit against Dr. Norman Barwin, founder of an Ottawa fertility clinic that is being sued for inseminating two women with the "wrong sperm." He is also a former president of Planned Parenthood Canada, who of course was awarded the Order of Canada in the 1990s. Says Mrozek: "I’m starting to think it really doesn’t take much to [...]
Life Chain is a peaceful and silent pro-life witness in which participants hold signs that say "Abortion hurts women," "Abortion kills children," and "Adoption -- the loving option." It is held across North America on October 2. Locations are listed here.
Click HERE for a list of LifeChain locations across Canada
Pro-life has ‘invaded’ my life: UC’s Alanna Campbell As the school year begins, many pro-lifers might be wondering what will happen next at the University of Calgary and the campus pro-life club, Campus Pro-Life. Alanna Campbell is the president of the club and ready to take on whatever the year brings. She is only 21 years old and starting her [...]
I envy people who’ve maintained a constant connection to their faith, but not just for the bedrock of moral certainty that’s been beneath their feet their entire life. If you haven’t walked a meandering path all over the political and spiritual landscape, you probably won’t have experienced the panic that overwhelms you the morning after you’ve returned from that tacitly secular, hyperbolically [...]
Canada now has a “developing national network” that connects pro-choice student groups on campus across Canada. Synergy was created by the Abortion Right Coalition of Canada (ARCC), which is the only nation-wide political pro-abortion group in Canada, to counter the growing pro-life presence on university campuses. Synergy stands for Student and Youth Network for Reproductive Justice and it seeks to raise awareness [...]
Pro-life activism in high schools in Canada is essential. According to Statistics Canada just over 16 per cent of abortions were performed on girls aged 15-19 in 2006. That works out to be 15,217 abortions for girls in their teens. Meanwhile, 15,731 girls in the same age group became pregnant and either had their baby or suffered a miscarriage. Most of these [...]
I’m about to make my annual visit to Britain, the land of my birth and where I spent the first 27 years of my life. Also, the country of John Wesley, who was born a little over 300 years ago. Wesley was, of course, the founder of Methodism, an evangelical grouping that began within the Church of England but eventually [...]
In February 2007, 24-year-old Roxanne Fernando was brutally beaten and left in a snowy ditch outside Winnipeg; she died from extensive blood loss. Roxanne’s murderer was not a violent stranger, but the man who had gotten her pregnant. She was killed for exercising a right which abortion proponents often invoke, but seldom defend: her “right” to choose. Roxanne was violently murdered because [...]
While Rod Bruinooge’s proposed bill lays bare the coerced context of so-called “free choice,” crisis pregnancy centres around the country help women who think they have no way to make the decision they really want: to keep their children. These centres offer expectant mothers vital information about the mental and physical consequences of abortion (which they are usually denied by the medical [...]