Gordon Watson who has been a constant thorn in the side of the B.C. government has been jailed for contempt of court and ordered to stay away from an abortuary. However, after serving one day in jail, Watson was granted an appeal and was freed until the appeal was heard. Prosecutor Carey Veinotte asked Judge Mary Southin to order Watson to file [...]
Paul Hill has a month to wait before he finds out whether he will pay for his actions with his life. Hill has already told friends he is willing to die for the shooting deaths of abortionist John Baynard Britton and his bodyguard. A jury of six men and six women deliberated for only 20 minutes before they found the ex-Presbyterian minister [...]
However unintentionally, it has given the impression that the law enforcement arm of the Government can be used to enforce a partisan political purpose” (Steven Owen, Globe & Mail, August 25, 1988). “The rule of law in a democracy requires the public’s ongoing consent and confidence in order to survive. Any widespread unease with the essential fairness of our justice system can [...]
At approximately 7:15 a.m. on November 8, two shots rang out in a quiet neighbourhood of Vancouver, B.C. Inside his home Gary Romalis, gynaecologist and abortionist, bleeding profusely, called the police. Reports would late indicate a lone sniper, using a high powered rifle had targeted the abortionist in an attempted murder. Romalis was left with a shattered femur and a severed femoral [...]
Charlottetown. Across Canada, October 2 was Life Chain Day. It was also Walk for AIDS Day, opening AIDS Awareness week. In Charlotte, AIDS PEI had unintentionally scheduled their fundraising walk to begin at almost the same time as the Life Chain, and almost beside it. With some quick rearranging, they avoided having their walkers get caught up in the Life Chain. Organizers [...]
The pro-life movement has seldom received any corporate or media support and for this reason has always survived at a grassroots level. Events such as the September 10 Christian Family seminar are perfect examples of how the movement strengthens its grassroots and stays alive, despite the unfriendly times. Held in a small Ukrainian-rite Church basement, the lively seminar drew over 1000 people [...]
I once read that as one gets older all Christmas memories blend into one. There is some truth in this saying, but there are certain Christmases that stand out in one’s memory as clearly today, as decades ago. For me, Christmas 1943 is such a memory. It was war-time in England, and Christmas shopping was very different from today. Not only was [...]
Toronto. It’s not yet Christmas time, but the Ontario NDP government is in a very giving mood. An investigative reporter in Toronto estimates that the government of Ontario has spent over a million dollars of taxpayers’ dollars in legal fees in its attempt to ban all pro-life activism. The court case which was concluded at the end of August involved months of [...]
Vancouver Jack Clarke, columnist for the Vancouver daily, The Province, commenting on the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas for the U.S. Supreme Court, considered with some horror that the Court might overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion-on-demand ruling. Apparently he has just now discovered that the Supreme Court “has set itself above political opinion.” “We want nothing like this in Canada,” [...]
Toronto – On September 20, 1991, Judge Donald Graham ruled that corporate, public prayer within 500 feet of Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary, at 85 Harbord Street, is prohibited under the terms of the injunction issued in May 1989 by Mr. Justice Craig. Quiet prayer On March 9, 1991, twenty people met for quiet prayer in the lane behind the Morgentaler ‘clinic.’ This [...]
When it comes to AIDS, educational videos abound. And for the most part, they are produced either directly by or through funding from government and government agencies. To date, their message has been monotonously uniform: to prevent infection by HIV, use a condom. (HIV, human immunodeficient virus, is the known cause of AIDS). Wise message Into this steady stream of ‘safe sex’ [...]
Hospitals Richmond, B.C. – On July 26, Ken MacQueen, reporting from British Columbia for the Toronto Star, struck a note of panic. He informed his readers that “hospital boards are the front-line of the pro-life movement” in Vernon, B.C., in Dauphin, Manitoba and “in dozens of other communities across Canada.” States Mr. MacQueen: “the superb political machine of the pro-life activists kicks [...]
By a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that nude dancers can be prosecuted under public indecency laws and table dancers are required to wear G strings. The court overturned a ruling that nude dancing was a form of expression entitled to protection under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. At issue was the right of topless and bottomless [...]
Students of Modern Philosophy appreciate the Bon Mot that Rene Descartes’ great blunder was to put [De Cartes’]before [De Horse.] In making thought prior to experience, this 17th century philosopher, who is alternately called the Father of Modern Philosophy and the Father of Modern Confusion, got things exactly reversed. His famous adage, ‘I think, therefore, I am,’ did not capture what really [...]
“I am gay and I hate it. I want to be like everyone else and marry and have kids. Please give me the name of a therapist who will make me heterosexual.” - A letter to Sue Johanson in her book, Talk Sex. One could weep over Sue Johanson’s response: “No qualified therapist would try to make you heterosexual – that would [...]