Our June cover story is now online. It's about the huge National March for Life in Ottawa. Make sure you don't miss the photos. As part of our coverage we included the EFC's Don Hutchinson's moving Prayer for Life.
LifeSiteNews.com has the story. Here is the decision. Linda Gibbons is a pro-life protester who has demonstrated inside the bubble zone. The technical legal question -- the basis of the appeal -- is whether or not the Crown should use the criminal court to enforce a civil injunction. It should be noted that is was a "temporary" injunction granted in 1994 that is [...]
Don Hutchinson Activate blog HERE Editor’s Note: Don Hutchinson is vice president and general legal counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. This is the prayer he offered on May 10 at the National March for Life on Parliament Hill. Father, we stand together in awe and wonder at the miracle of life. Science may speculate about the origins of life, but [...]
Assuming that Brian Storseth's private member's bill removing Section 13 from the Human Rights Code of Canada passes in the Senate. It passed the House of Commons by party-line vote last night. Section 13 severely impinged on freedom of thought and freedom of speech.
WBO welterweight boxing champion and member of the Philippines House of Representatives Manny Pacquiao caused a storm of controversy when he said he opposed same-sex “marriage” and Examiner.com reporter Granville Ampong added a quote from Leviticus 20:13 (“If a man lies with a man… they must be put to death”) which the boxer did not utter. Immediately there were petitions [...]
Every year since it started in 1997, the National March for Life has grown. In the past three years, it has nearly doubled, from just over 10,000 to 19,500. Organizers say next year, for the first time, they could smash through the 20,000 ceiling and some youth said afterward they want to see 25,000 people on the Hill next year. Yet, Campaign [...]
Despite its seeming simplicity, there are problems with the thinking that if Catholics don't like being made to accept (not tolerate, but accept) homosexuality as perfectly normal and protected, they shouldn't accept taxpayer funding for their schools -- expressed most recently by Heather Mallick but a common argument recently. First, Bill 13 is being made part of the Education Act which governs education in [...]
Bill 13 passed this afternoon by a vote of 65-36. Xtra! reported: The passing of Bill 13 will cap a one and a half year battle in Ontario that has pitted queer students against Catholic school administrators who have repeatedly denied student requests for GSAs. The bill is called the Safer Schools Act, which is ostensibly about bullying and, you know, making [...]
The Ontario legislature will vote on Bill 13 today. (See past Interim coverage of Bill 13, but especially this editorial.) Also today, Camilla Gunnarson responds in the Waterloo Region Recordto Martin Regg Cohn's column attacking the Catholic Church's moral teachings, which Gunnarson says is a form of bullying. There are some people who think the real goal of the Liberal government is to undermine [...]
The Ontario Liberal government’s Bill 13 passed second reading on May 3 after it was fast-tracked by Liberal House Leader John Milloy. Bill 13, the Accepting Schools Act, forces high schools to establish homosexual clubs and promotes tougher penalties against bullying, including expulsion. The Progressive Conservatives were accused of stalling debate on the anti-bullying bill by frequently ringing legislative [...]
C-304, Brian Storseth's (CPC, Westlock—St. Paul) private member's bill, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (protecting freedom), is up for debate today. Here's our previous coverage of C-304. Here's Kathy Shaidle on C-304 at Five Feet of Fury and Sun News Network; in the latter (which is video) she explains that Section 13 is a poorly worded bad law because it is realistically impossible [...]
According to new Census numbers, Canada is getting older. We've written about this before -- you can't have broadly available abortion and contraception and still grow the population -- and we'll have more coverage in the July edition of the paper. But I wanted to bring this to your attention: check out the photo in this CTV story and you might understand why Canada [...]
Everyday for Life notes that between Bill 13 (education) and Bill 33 (everything else) Ontario will have acceptance of homosexuality trump religious freedom every time. Important if depressing read.
Canada In the Alberta provincial election campaign, PC Premier Alison Redford attacked the Wildrose Party for having opponents of homosexualiy run as candidates and condemned leader Danielle Smith for being open to enacting laws to protect the conscience rights for medical workers and marriage commissioners ... Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said that once again he will not be attending the city’s Pride [...]
A new report recommending the installation of three “safe-injection sites” in Toronto and two in Ottawa is setting off a public debate. The findings of the four-year study, Toronto and Ottawa Supervised Consumption Assessment, were released on April 11 by researchers Ahmed Bayoumi (at St. Michael’s Hospital’s Centre for Research on Inner City Health) and Carol Strike (at the University of Toronto’s [...]