Life Always erected an ad in New York City that simply stated: "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb." The New York Times reported that Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, condemned the ad: “This billboard simply doesn’t belong in New York City,” Bill de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, said in a statement. “The ad violates the [...]
First he was, then he wasn’t, now he is again. In charge of Sun TV, that is. Kory Teneycke is his name and he’s a bright, fearless and startlingly youthful media expert. He’s also someone I’m proud to say is a friend. Frankly, I’ve never really discussed abortion, euthanasia, population size, sexuality and related issues with Kory, but I suspect [...]
Our February story on the need to change public opinion on adoption on numerous levels so that women are more open to adoption and that couples are open to adopting.
Michael Taube linked to our obit of Bernard Nathanson in a tweet but that is not why we are linking to him. No, we are linking to Taube because he nicely summarizes Nathanson’s life: “An interesting man. An astonishing life. An incredible legacy. Bernard Nathanson, RIP.”
Last May, Bill Siksay, the NDP MP for Burnaby-Douglas, introduced Bill C-389, a private member’s bill that would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to include vague concepts such as “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination so that supposed offenses against “gender variant individuals” could be punished under Canadian Law. The bill, in other words, [...]
We sent our March issue to the printer today. Here is the cover story, our obituary of Bernard Nathanson, the abortionist-turned-pro-life-activist, who passed away Sunday. The photo is from 1983, when Campaign Life Coalition brought Nathanson to Canada for a series of speeches and television interviews, including (as you can see in the photo) CITY TV in Toronto.
On February 10, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, an excellent think tank based in Ottawa that studies social policy, celebrated its fifth anniversary. Here are speeches by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, former MP Monte Solberg, and conservative author William Gairdner, among others. I agree with Solberg who thanked them for their contributions to public policy when he said that what [...]
Life Canada, an organization seeking to educate Canadians about the value of life, launched a national awareness campaign in November, to coincide with the Canada’s official National Adoption Awareness Month. Life Canada’s “Adoption in Canada” campaign aims to assure 18 to 29-year-old women facing unplanned pregnancies that adoption is a “heroic” choice. According to the campaign’s website, adoptionincanada.ca, “many will [...]
Mark Shea and Robert George both have very good posts on why people from Live Action misleading Planned Parenthood to say and do incriminating things by pretending to be someone they are not engaged in an illicit tactic for pro-lifers. As we say in an editorial in the forthcoming March issue, the Culture of Life cannot be built on a foundation of lies. Peter [...]
In an important decision, a provincial court judge has ruled that there is enough merit in a complaint by Linda Gibbons’s defence lawyer of abuse of process in the prosecution against her to warrant three days of hearings into the matter this coming March 7, 8 and 9. In a downtown Toronto courtroom Jan. 12, Madam Justice Mara Beth Greene [...]
As we report on page three, the Halton Catholic District School Board caved to gay activists and their allies in the media, by rescinding their admirable and principled equity and inclusion policy that respected and upheld Catholic moral teaching on the issue of homosexuality, while respecting the dignity inherent in all human beings. But for gay activists, who are no friends of [...]
On Jan. 10, Orville Nichols was in a state of shock: He knew he might lose in a ruling that day by a panel of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in the Marriage Commissioners Reference, but he probably was not expecting to lose by an overwhelming five to nothing decision. Nichols is a devout Baptist who has served as a [...]
An inexpensive genetic test has been developed that can detect 448 genetic childhood diseases. The makers of the test are hoping to expand this to 580 conditions within the next six months and the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation, which funded the National Center for Genome Resources research hopes that the new universal screening process will be available commercially within a [...]
Dingwall was telling me about a friend who had a heart attack. “Fortunately,” he said, “it occurred in a cab and the doctor who was driving stabilized him and took him to the hospital.” “The cab driver was a doctor?” “An immigrant who isn’t licensed to practice here.” “We’re short of doctors,” I said. “I know,” Dingwall replied, “but if [...]
My editor's desk column in the February issue provides a "social conservative assessment" of five years of the Harper Conservatives in power. Bottom line: a pass on social issues in general, but a fail on abortion. Yet even that assessment is grading on a curve: Indeed, on most issues, the Conservative government has prevented a liberalizing or broadening of immorality and decadence. [...]