More than 15,000 Canadian pro-lifers took part in the National March for Life in Ottawa, addressed by MPs and numerous pro-life and religious leaders addressed the crowd. And this year, something different happened: the media covered it. Campaign Life Coalition organizes the annual march to mark the day in 1969 when Pierre Trudeau’s Omnibus bill broadened the abortion law and effectively legalized [...]
From our June issue: "Conservatives win majority, but don’t expect much to change." The primary benefit for social conservatives with Harper's majority is that the pro-life movement and pro-family forces should not have to fight defensive battles for the next four years. But at some point, social conservatives should ask the Conservative Party "what have you done for me lately"? It was not surprising [...]
Last week his colleauges in Parliament elected Conservative MP Andrew Scheer as the Speaker of the House of Commons. As LifeSiteNews.com reported today, Scheer is rated pro-life and pro-family by Campaign Life Coalition. In 2009, we had a profile of Scheer in our paper. At the time he said he was unsure if he would run for Speaker, but expressed a strong interest in procedure. However, the [...]
Thomas Friedman trots out the over-population argument as part of his New York Times column "The Earth is full." There are too many people and the world is getting hotter and food prices are increasing and productivity is improving which aggravates climate change and the over-populated planet can't deal with it and so on and so forth. It is a vicious cycle, if you believe these nattering nabobs [...]
Material from our special coverage of Fr. Ted Colleton, a Canadian pro-life hero who passed away in April, is now online. We have an editorial, obituary (with photos), brief remembrances from various pro-life leaders, and excerpts from Fr. Ted's books. He was an Interim columnist for 25 years and an early benefactor and without his support in the 1980s, we would not be around today. This [...]
Americans United for Life is using a video campaign to encourage people to get behind the effort to defund the billion-dollar Planned Parenthood organization. The American Independent has the story. About one-third of PP's revenues come from various levels of government (federal, state and city). AUL president Charmaine Yoest quotes Rep. Mike Pence, who says it is time to let the abortion providers provide for [...]
Pro-lifers hold their own politically When the five-week campaign was done and all the votes were counted, the Conservative Party defied the pundits and won their elusive majority. After a campaign in which the three major parties courted the “family vote” and some opponents of the Tories, including a coalition of abortion advocates, attempted to paint Stephen Harper and the [...]
Catholic parents fight separate system to maintain moral teaching Ontario bishops have issued a memo urging Catholic school boards to set up clubs explicitly aimed to counter “bullying related to sexual orientation,” even though they banned the establishment of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) at Catholic schools just months ago. Meanwhile, parents at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) are speaking out against [...]
Fr. Ted Colleton was a Pro-Life Hero to those who knew him, read about him or met people who who had inspired over the years to take an active role in the Pro-Life movement. Many of us will give him the credit for inspiration and encouragement to make the pro=life issue their lives work as well. Here are four articles about him [...]
God so loved the world Is this a new discovery? By no means. “Long time ago in Bethlehem …” the world was given a lesson in love which has never been equalled. It took the experts in human psychology 2000 years to arrive at a rediscovery of this lesson. Christ could have come into this world in any way He wished. He [...]
“Fr. Colleton was one of us at Campaign Life Coalition. He attended our strategy meetings, helped us plan strategies, and carried them out even to the point of locking the gate at Morgentaler’s abortuary and going to the jail for the unborn. He was an inspiration to all of us by his courage and his conviction. He was a remarkable speaker. He [...]
When President Jomo Kenyatta unceremoniously expelled Fr. Edward Colleton from Kenya in 1971, the Irish Spiritan who had spent the last 30 years living and working in Africa might well have thought his missionary days had come to an end. But Fr. Ted was on the cusp of a new mission. Having come from a place where pregnant woman were honoured and [...]
Jack Kevorkian died last Friday. I am at something of a loss to add anything to what Andrea Mrozek said: "You always knew this was coming. It’s just hard to know what to say when a man like that dies. It takes a bit of a psychopath to kill over 100 people and then have 'no regrets' about that." It is hard to watch [...]
Fr. Ted Colleton dies at the age of 97 In the evening of April 26, Fr. Ted Colleton passed away peacefully in La Salle Manor in Toronto where he had been convalescing for four years. The pro-life movement lost one of its giants. Edward Colleton was born in Dublin on July 20, 1913. Fr. Ted joked, “my mother was there at the [...]
Ethics and Public Policy Center Fellow James C. Capretta has a must-read essay on "The Demographics of Social Security" which is sub-titled "Why Entitlement Reform Needs a Fertility Boost." The essential point is that America is not producing enough kids to produce enough workers to support the welfare state. In brief, there are too many retirees living off too few workers ("As fertility falls, [...]