Maclean's reports on the growing incidence of cancer of the oropharynx, base of tongue, and tonsils among younger people (20-49) who have never smoked or drank. There is an established "link between sexual behaviour and HPV in the oral cavity" -- and some types of HPV or the human papillomavirus cause various cancers. Maclean's titles its story, "A cancer for the young," but perhaps "A [...]
Media gets story wrong about conscience, misses need for informed consent On Feb. 4, the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons released revised guidelines for dealing with patients who face an unplanned pregnancy. The early media reports erroneously stated that doctors who refused to carry out an abortion had to refer them to one who would. The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix reported [...]
PWPL blogger/full-time mother & wife/part-time political staffer Veronique Bergeon shares with readers how she spent her International Women's Day and concludes with a bit of wisdom denied by most feminists: Here’s your International Woman’s Day wisdom from the trenches, one day late and rushed between making lunches and wiping runny noses with my power suit: children need taking care of. Bosses need [...]
Sun TV, dismissed by the Left as Fox News North, will begin airing April 18. Last month, Sun columnist Michael Coren wrote a column about the refreshing new voice Sun TV will provide Canadians. Coren wrote: The real reason the Fox North title is being used over and over again is that to most in the Canadian media it feels like an [...]
NARAL Pro-Choice America has launched its Birth Control for Me campaign to make free birth control an election issue. NARAL's Blog for Choice describes why free birth control is necessary: 30 million women use birth control and "one in three women has struggled with the high cost of prescription birth control at some point in her life." Does struggling to pay for something [...]
Family Facts is a great new one-stop resource for statistics and studies on family issues from the Heritage Foundation. I've been lost in it for hours already. Professor Moynihan is calling: 40% of babies are born to unwed mothers and fewer than 70% of children are living with two-parents although that number is brought down by the 39.4% figure for blacks in the United [...]
Fr. Raymond Gravel, a priest in the Roman Catholic diocese of Joliette, Que., has sued LifeSiteNews for $500,000, claiming that the pro-life internet news provider damaged his reputation and career as a priest by reporting on his public stances on abortion and gay rights. Fr. Gravel represented the Repentigny riding from 2006-2008, and as an Blocc Quebecois MP he defended [...]
Last weekend there were Walk for Choice demonstrations in the United States (and, apparently, in Toronto). Jill Stanek points out how they were very poorly attended; she has stories and pictures from pro-abortion sources and sympathetic media coverage and W4C still seems pathetically poorly attended. As Stanek notes: "Pro-lifers have something the other side will never, never, ever, ever have: Passionate support [...]
Democratic mouthpiece Donna Brazile tweets, "NASCAR funding intact, but they target poor women who rely on Planned Parenthood & others for medical services like breast cancer screening." That is rich. Everyone knows that the amendment targeting Planned Parendthood is over abortion and if PP really wanted to continue providing those other services to "poor women" all they have to do is stop [...]
Bernard Nathanson, a leading abortionist in the 1970s and later a convert to the pro-life cause, has passed away at the age of 84 following a long battle with cancer. Nathanson was born in New York City and graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal in 1949. As a member of the 12-person Planning Committee created by [...]
Interim Staff The Winnipeg School Division defeated a proposal to ask the province to change existing regulations that allow religious instruction in secular schools. Under Manitoba’s Public Schools Act, religious education is permitted if 25 parents from a school petition for religious instruction and activities. Only the children of the parents who signed the petition would then be able to participate. Board [...]
Canada The National Post had a major feature entitled “When two is too many” that examined so-called “selective reduction” in pregnancies involving twins. The phenomenon of reducing the number of children in utero through targeted abortion has been common-place for multiples but there has been very little mention of the phenomenon among women expecting twins … In an interview with the CBC’s [...]
On Jan. 10, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal declared in the Marriage Act Reference that legislation proposed by the provincial government allowing individual marriage commissioners to refuse marrying homosexual couples if it violated their conscience is unconstitutional. The court rejected two proposed draft bills: one allowing commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex “marriages” and the other granting this exemption only to those [...]
By as split 4-4-1 advisory decision, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a 2008 Quebec Court of Appeal decision that found some of the federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act intruded on province’s jurisdiction over health. Pro-life and faith groups condemned the decision because it gave provinces control of the creation, destruction and manipulation of human embryos. The Supreme Court upheld in part [...]
The Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association’s open support of homosexual clubs in Catholic schools has put them at odds with an explicit directive from the Ontario bishops. In December, LifeSiteNews reported that the union, which represents 45,000 teachers in Ontario, was partnering with EGALE, Canada’s most influential homosexual lobby group. EGALE was one of the leading advocates for same-sex “marriage” and is [...]