Yearly Archives: 2014

Ministry of education, public health, teacher’s union push graphic sex-ed agenda in Nova Scotia

Editor’s Note: There is sexually graphic material in this story. The Nova Scotia government and teachers union play a big role in the promotion of sex and homosexuality education, and these sensitive topics are being taught throughout the elementary school curriculum. According to the N.S. Ministry of Education’s Learning Outcomes Framework, Grade 1 students are to “explore the concept of gender.” In [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-21T07:17:53-04:00July 21, 2014|Sex Education, Society & Culture|

Quebec Liberal government legalizes euthanasia

The Quebec National Assembly passed a bill that effectively legalizes euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, a law pro-life groups say is dangerous and unconstitutional. With the March election call killing Quebec’s Bill 52, which would have effectively legalized euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, pro-lifers, disabilities groups, and other opponents of the proposed law thought they had more time to work to defeat the bill. [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-21T07:15:57-04:00July 21, 2014|Euthanasia|

University of Calgary allows students to appeal misconduct charges

The University of Calgary has allowed seven students to appeal charges of non-academic misconduct, filed four years ago after they set up a pro-life display on campus. According to a press release from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, the decision was made by the Student Discipline Appeal Committee of the Board of Governors on June 17. It “is a response to [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-21T07:14:30-04:00July 21, 2014|Human rights, Pro-Life, Youth Activism|

For the children

Every pro-life Canadian detests graphic images of the victims of abortion. They are horrific and stomach churning, provocative and divisive. But, most troublingly of all, they accurately depict the reality which is cloaked behind surgical drapes and equivocal language. Images of the murdered unborn reveal what the popular euphemisms about abortion conceal: the ugly reality of child-murder before birth. “For the time [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-21T07:10:55-04:00July 21, 2014|Editorials|

Hamilton city council wants ban on graphic abortion photos

Members of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform unfurl a banner depicting abortion on a bridge overpass in Hamilton in 2013. The activism of Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform has attracted the attention of municipal officials in Hamilton. City councillor Terry Whitehead put forth a motion on June 11, requesting that the provincial and federal governments, “prevent the use of [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-16T21:23:55-04:00July 16, 2014|Abortion, Activism|

Planned Parenthood recommends S&M to teen: Live Action

Live Action, the American pro-life youth organization founded by Lila Rose and best known for undercover stings exposing Planned Parenthood, has released the first of a new video series on the dangerous sex advice it gives to teens. Entitled simply Sex Ed, the film shows Planned Parenthood staff in Indianapolis advising teens on how to perform sadomasochistic sex acts. “It just depends [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-30T07:23:12-04:00July 15, 2014|Sex Education, Society & Culture|

Disappearing Down Syndrome

Wesley Smith writes about how there are fewer people with Down Syndrome (and dwarfism) because about 90% of children diagnosed in utero with Down are aborted, and many parents who do not abort are viewed with contempt for bringing children into the world with such disabilities. We've written before about the dangers of expanding genetic screening when there is no treatment or [...]

paul2014-07-14T12:57:17-04:00July 14, 2014|Soconvivium|

Liberal MP flip-flops on pro-life

Former pro-life Prince Edward Island MP Lawrence MacAulay will follow party line on abortion. On June 2, Campaign Life Coalition launched a web campaign, including petition, with the goal of repealing Trudeau’s ban on pro-life Liberal candidates, calling it a “dictatorial abortion policy and attack on democracy.” Noting that both pro-life and pro-abortion supporters have “pummeled” the Liberal leader, including [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-13T08:01:01-04:00July 13, 2014|Activism, Politics|

CLC launches petition to pressure Trudeau

On June 2, Campaign Life Coalition launched a web campaign, including petition, with the goal of repealing Trudeau’s ban on pro-life Liberal candidates, calling it a “dictatorial abortion policy and attack on democracy.” Noting that both pro-life and pro-abortion supporters have “pummeled” the Liberal leader, including past and current Grit MPs, dozens of newspaper columnists, and six Catholic bishops, CLC says Canadians [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-13T08:03:11-04:00July 11, 2014|Politics|

Euthanasia legalization leads to ‘mass deaths’

The Daily Mail reports: "As assisted suicide bill goes to Lords, Dutch watchdog who once backed euthanasia warns UK of 'slippery slope' to mass deaths." In six years, the number of euthanasia deaths has doubled." Alex Schadenberg explains in his book Exposing Vulnerable People that so-called safeguards in the Netherlands and Belgium have been ignored and that the number of euthanasia and [...]

paul2014-07-10T23:30:14-04:00July 10, 2014|Soconvivium|

The pro-life World Cup: how pro-life is each World Cup country?

Paul Tuns2014-07-09T12:29:48-04:00July 9, 2014|Announcements, Features, Issues, Society & Culture|

Feminists vs. UN population controllers

C-Fam reports: A partnership among abortion backers is showing cracks as feminists in the Global South are pushing back against environmentalists promoting population control measures. During the inaugural meeting of a new U.N. endeavor on the environment, one group took to social media to refute the “dubious linking” between population and climate change, arguing that “population control strategies inevitably lead to abuses, coercion, and [...]

paul2014-07-03T08:53:50-04:00July 3, 2014|Soconvivium|

A profile in cowardice

What the muse of history will sing of our age has never been in doubt. Ours is the story of how a great nation temporarily lost its way: how, for a time, it succumbed to an ancient vice, an iniquity common enough in antiquity, but rare in the modern world until now – the brutal practice of infanticide.The spectacle of our sophistry [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-03T07:24:12-04:00July 3, 2014|Announcements, Editorials, Features, Politics|

Is Justin Trudeau’s abortion hard-line working?

The Liberal goes all in with his dictatorial position Justin Trudeau On May 7, Justin Trudeau told reporters that pro-lifers literally need not apply to become Liberal Party candidates in future elections. He said he was imposing a new rule on the party that would ban individuals who hold pro-life views from seeking the party’s nomination for MP, but his [...]

Paul Tuns2014-07-03T07:38:22-04:00July 1, 2014|Announcements, Features, Politics|

Vancouver parks to become more transgender-friendly

In a unanimous vote during an April 28 meeting, the Vancouver Park Board adopted 77 measures to accommodate “trans and gender-variant people” in the city’s parks and recreation facilities, contained in the report, Building a Path to Parks & Recreation for All: Reducing Barriers for Trans* & Gender Variant Community Members, written by the Trans* and Gender-Variant Inclusion Working Group. The authors [...]

Paul Tuns2014-06-30T08:42:12-04:00June 30, 2014|Society & Culture|

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