On Aug. 3, the National Post featured Linda Gibbons on its front page in what LifeSiteNews.com called “the largest piece on the pro-life heroine yet from Canada’s national media.” Religion reporter Charles Lewis interviewed Gibbons at the Vanier Centre for Women where Gibbons told the reporter she has a constitutionally protected right and religious obligation to witness against abortion. According [...]
Discussing freedom of speech on campus Editor’s Note: Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, interviewed John Carpay, former executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation and who continues to the students involved with Campus Pro-life at the University of Calgary, about the case and freedom of speech on campus for pro-life groups in general. The Interim: How did you get involved with [...]
Organizers for the 2010 international pro-life conference have announced the list of individuals who will be speaking at the conference this October in Ottawa. Michael D. O’Brien, Canadian author and artist, will be joining Bill Saunders of Americans United for Life, John Smeaton of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, and Brad Mattes, winner of a 2010 Emmy [...]
Sexual Sabotage: How one mad scientist unleashed a plague of corruption and contagion on America by Judith A. Reisman (WND Books, 403 pages, $25.96) Judith Reisman has devoted her life to exploring one of the most depressing and disturbing stories of the 20th century: the “scientific research” about human sexuality conducted by Alfred Kinsey that altered the mores, culture and legal system [...]
If I had a second chance at life, I think I’d come back as a bureaucracy. Bureaucracies, whether private or public, seldom die. I could live with that. Consider the March of Dimes. It was set up to raise money for the fight against polio. Well, in the 1950s, Dr. Jonas Salk figured out how to get rid of polio, and it’s [...]
For many people who oppose euthanasia the issue is one of morality -- intentional killing of innocent people is wrong. But QMI's Brian Lilley raises a prudential question: "Do we want to give the government and government-run hospitals the power to kill us?" As Lilley says, "That’s really what is at the heart of the debate and special commission on euthanasia taking [...]
One of the many notable speakers at the 2010 International Pro-Life Conference will be Brad Mattes, host and executive producer of the Emmy-Award-winning television show Facing Life Head-On. In Facing Life Head-On, Mattes, who is also the executive director and co-founder of the Life Issues Institute, a Cincinnati-based organization that develops and distributes pro-life educational material, interviews people who were [...]
Support for mercy killing is usually couched in terms of dignity, which seems bitterly ironic since it's hard to think of a more extreme denial of dignity than killing, however benevolent the motive. Still, we accept that those arguing for euthanasia as a dignified alternative are fully sincere in their views...There are, Quebecers should remember, real alternatives to euthanasia. Pain management can [...]
An analysis of the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM No. 199) dealing with “Developing and Implementing Equity and Inclusive Education Policies in Ontario Schools” says that while some goals are laudable, the new policy could imperil the Catholicity of the province’s separate school system. The analysis, prepared for Campaign Life Coalition by a retired educator, says there is “much that [...]
It's a small sample size but 538's Nate Silver looked at 58 Democrats and Republicans (29 of each) in close Congressional races, analyzed the issues they highlighted on their websites and found that more than half of Republicans highlight their abortion position while just 14% of Democrats note theirs. That seems strange considering that polls show the populace is about evenly divided on the issue. [...]
National Review has a long editorial in its September 20 edition making "The case for marriage." It all sounds so wonderfully antiquated. NR takes note that society regulates sex through marriage, that biologically it takes a man and woman to create a child and thus: That does not mean that marriage is worthwhile only insofar as it yields children. (The law has never [...]
Two of our four stories on our cover feature, "The attack on CPCs," are online. "The campaign against CPCs" focuses on a NARAL study that calls crisis pregnancy centers "fake clinics." "Toronto Star attacks crisis pregnancy centres" is pretty self-explanatory.
A record nine Canadian cities will have 40 Days for Life starting September 22. There's a story at LifeSiteNews and here are the links for each Canadian location: Calgary, Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Sudbury, Ontario; Perth, Ontario; Ottawa, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; Moncton, New Brunswick; Halifax, Nova Scotia. In May, we wrote about the success of the Spring 40 Days for Life campaign [...]
This is not really news. The Globe and Mail reports: Despite its refusal to consider abortion in its maternal-health plan, the Harper government has given financial support to an international agency that provides abortion illegally in some African countries. A number of things to clarify. I'm not crazy about the fact that Canada funds abortion abroad, but there is no hypocrisy in not [...]
Reuters and CNN have reports on the hostage situation at Discovery Channel headquarters. As Business Insider reports about James Jay Lee, the man who has explosive strapped to himself and taken hostages at DC HQ: "He is an anti-capitalist Malthusian who wants the Discovery Channel to stop any programming that promotes capitalism, human birth, progress..." Lee's11-point manifesto includes this: 2. All programs [...]