A 28-year-old mother of three from St. Catharine’s, Ont., after breaking up with an abusive boyfriend, met a man on Facebook who promised her a rich and comfortable lifestyle if she would work as an escort at Private Genies in Toronto. As the Toronto Sun reported, the mother was inadvertently drawn into the world of sex trafficking with the promise of earning [...]
In an interview with The Interim, Conservative MP Joy Smith (Kildonan-St. Paul) reported on her 10-year fight against human trafficking. She first became aware of trafficking in Canada when her son, an RCMP officer, was in the Integrated Child Exploitation Unit. While she served as justice critic in the Manitoba legislature, Smith started to sit in at stakeouts and become aware of [...]
The Ottawa Citizen reports that Ottawa figures show the number of cases of chlamydia jumped to 2,023 in 2009 from 1,328 in 2005, an increase of 52 per cent. There were 217 cases of gonorrhea in Ottawa in 2009 compared to 154 in 2005, an increase of 41 per cent. The number of syphilis cases more than doubled to 51 in 2009 [...]
The Los Angeles Times endorsed pro-abortion Democrat Barbara Boxer over semi pro-life Republican Carly Fiorina, and the abortion and same-sex marriage issues loom large: Boxer supports California's ban on assault weapons and the revival of a similar law at the federal level. Fiorina has criticized the federal law's definition of assault weapons as "extremely arbitrary" and emphasizes other ways of combating gun [...]
I'll be on Behind the Story on CTS Saturday evening (6 pm in Ontario, 8 pm in Alberta). It is replayed on Sunday morning and, I think, Sunday evening at 7 pm. You can also watch online after it has been broadcast. We will be talking about prostitution, the Maclean's cover story on Quebec corruption, David Frum and the conservative movement, and women [...]
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada responds to Justice Susan Himel's decision to throw out Canada's restrictions on prostitution. Don Hutchinson, vice-president and general legal counsel for the EFC, said: “This is an opportunity for the Government of Canada to take strong action that will affirm the value and dignity of all Canadian women. It is a defining moment in which they can affirm [...]
The Globe and Mail has a thorough (if biased) story on the Ontario Superior Court's decision which makes the three restrictions on prostitution unenforceable in Ontario. Their editorial slams Justice Susan Himel for deciding this issue on her own: "An Ontario judge had no business striking down three major anti-prostitution laws in the Criminal Code on Tuesday." The paper says Parliament should weigh the [...]
The Globe and Mail coverage of Judge Susan Himel's Ontario Superior Court's decision on prostitution is much better than CP's. All three provisions of the Criminal Code's restrictions on prostitution have been thrown out. And the GM also reports what is likely to happen next: the Crown will ask to stay the decision until the Supreme Court can hear the appeal. Security [...]
This Canadian Press article is mostly useless. It states that, "An Ontario court has struck down key provisions of Canada's anti-prostitution laws, saying they contribute to the danger faced by sex-trade workers." It is not exactly clear what provisions the Ontario Superior Court has invalidated, but according to CP three "sex-trade workers" argued against Criminal Code "prohibitions on keeping a common bawdy [...]
Rita Burnie, who with her sisters Helen (deceased) and Mary, long served in the frontlines of the Canadian pro-life movement. She passed away last Dec. 13th. Burnie, a nurse, had been active in the pro-life movement since 1984 when she first picketed Morgentaler’s newly opened Toronto abortuary. “I went in to nursing to save lives,” Burnie is quoted as saying [...]
On Feb. 2, Toronto-area pro-lifer Rita Holmes, passed away in her 89th year. Rita had a perpetual dedication to her family – her husband Ray and sons Jim, David, and Bill, and daughters Lorie (Futch), Cathy (Roth), Honey (Ellerby), and Genevieve (Carson). She also had 26 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Married for 67 years to Ray, her love, care and [...]
Canada According to an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll, just 20 per cent of Canadians are aware that there are absolutely no restrictions in law on abortion, while 43 per cent believe that under current law women can obtain an abortion only in the first trimester while nearly a quarter believe that women can get an abortion when their life/health is endangered, [...]
A pro-life witness that extended 5,000 km from Vancouver to Ottawa was completed on August 14 when the Crossroads Walkers arrived in the nation’s capital, welcomed by dozens of local pro-life supports, including Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast. The group of six arrived at the Hill around noon, where they were awarded a certificate of accomplishment by Audrey Lemieux, wife of [...]
The African Union (AU) finished its annual summit at the end of July with governments agreeing to make maternal and child mortality a continent-wide priority. The summit in Kampala, Uganda, ended with member states extending the controversial, non-binding Maputo Plan of Action (PoA) for an additional five years and expanding a new initiative called the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction on Maternal Mortality [...]
From LifeSiteNews.com: "Day 6 of 40 Days for Life: 44 Babies Saved!" Babies saved and one abortion mill even closed for the day on Friday. Make sure to follow 40 Days for Life -- with locations and current news -- at their website.