Earlier this week the Senate voted to pass Brian Storseth's C-304, an act to repeal Section 13 of the Human Rights Act. I'll let Brian Lilley of Sun News explain why this matters: This is the bill that repeals the dreaded section 13 of the human rights act. That’s the soon-to-be former law that made it an offence to post something online [...]
Three first degree murder, one involuntary homicide, and more than 230 other charges Kermit Gosnee being processed in prison. Kermit Gosnell will have to serve three life sentences for killing three babies. He was found guilty by the jurors in three out of four first degree murder charges. This came on the tenth day of deliberation after the jury reported [...]
Canada The B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of Cecilia “Sissy” Von Dehn and Donald Spratt’s 2011 conviction in provincial court following a 2009 arrest for standing inside the bubble zone outside the Everywoman`s abortuary in Vancouver as they distributed copies of the B.C. Access to Abortion Services Act (which governs the bubble zone) and wearing a sign reading: “Warning! You [...]
A woman from Montreal died by assisted suicide in Switzerland on April 25. Susan Griffiths, 72, suffering from multiple system atrophy, a rare degenerative disease without remission that causes significant disabilities, died at the Dignitas assisted suicide facility in Zurich. Because assisted suicide is illegal in Canada, Griffiths travelled to Switzerland, the only country that gives the procedure to non-residents. The law [...]
Activists and commentators on both sides of the abortion issue reacted to the Kermit Gosnell verdict. Pro-abortion organizations condemned Gosnell but turned the decision around to argue against restrictive abortion laws. “Anti-choice politicians…will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell,” said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America in a statement. She said Pennsylvania had received an ‘F’ from [...]
There appears to be a new trend among today's politicians and other influential figures: to use one's family members as a reason or prop to support Planned Parenthood. Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and former U.S. president Bill Clinton, is the latest to do so. At the Women Deliver conference, which took place in Malaysia May [...]
A Special Mother is Born: Parents Share How God Called Them to the Extraordinary Vocation of Parenting a Special Needs Child by Leticia Velasquez (2011, WestBow Press, 228 pages, $20.47 paperback or $2.99 e-book) “The most powerful force on earth,” says Velasquez, is “humility united with suffering.” Her book calls readers to abandon themselves to divine providence and so to unleash more [...]
Michael Coren Journalist for Life By the time you read this column, we may know whether or not the television network Sun News, where I host a nightly show, has been awarded a must-carry license by the CRTC. It’s the license enjoyed by every other major TV outfit in Canada, and many minor and irrelevant ones. It’s really a matter [...]
National Affairs Rory Leishman When the law takes leave of both science and morality, the inevitable result is chaos in the courts. As evidence, consider the judgment on May 3 by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Levkovic. The case arose out of the discovery by a building superintendent in Mississauga of a bag containing the remains of a [...]
Some pundits and pro-life activists are pointing to the Kermit Gosnell case as evidence of the necessity for a late-term abortion ban because he killed babies, who survived the abortion procedure, by snipping the spine; pro-life Rep. Trent Franks (R, Arizona) invoked Gosnell when he introduced his bill last month in Congress that would ban abortion after 20 weeks. But Pennsylvania [...]
In a world where serious books sell poorly and newsmagazines are a shadow of their former selves – if they’re published at all – the documentary film has taken up much of the burden of bringing topical issues and debate in front of the public. While feature films have stagnated, pooling into either numbing blockbusters or a host of increasingly spiritless genres, [...]
Light is Right Joe Campbell My editor had got me an exclusive interview with Professor Hans Bunglethorpe. “I’ve never heard of Professor Bunglethorpe,” I said. “Of course, you haven’t,” he replied. “Nobody has. You’ll be the first reporter he has agreed to talk to. Once you’ve broken the story, everyone will have heard of him.” “Everyone?” “He’s made a landmark [...]
For nine years now, March 21 has been designated World Down Syndrome Day, as it signifies the triplication of the twenty-first chromosome. And October’s Down Syndrome Awareness Month will be the thirtieth since the event was recognized by former American president Ronald Reagan. Leticia Velasquez For pro-lifers, these occasions are tinged with sadness, especially given the new availability of non-invasive [...]
Lately, I've been contemplating the extremes pro-life advocates will go to in order to spread our message, and whether those actions are honourable. What about those who oppose our work? We are no strangers to outlandish claims and ad hominem attacks – we've been called “fanatics,” manipulative, and much worse. I hesitate to say anything truly “new” has been added to the list [...]
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