A few weeks ago Kady O'Malley left Macleans.ca for the CBC.ca. One good thing about the move is that the national, taxpayer-funded broadcaster is going to take notice of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. In recent years, while Maclean's and the National Post were among the few mainstream media outlets to cover the human rights commission industry, CBC downplayed the story. Perhaps [...]
Gallup finds: Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. Increasingly, independents describe themselves as conservatives and on an issue-by-issue basis, more Americans hold conservative positions, including on abortion (51% pro-life according [...]
From Mark Steyn's opening statement before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights on October 5. Section 13 is deeply destructive. There are some 33 million people in Canada, yet as Ezra pointed out, one individual citizen has his name on every section 13 prosecution since 2002. I'm sure some of you are familiar with Matthew Hopkins, who in 1645 appointed [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports on the development of Vscan, a hand-held, user-friendly portable ultrasound device created by General Electric. LSN trumpets the new device: For pro-lifers on the front lines, the new gadget could hugely improve abortion-bound women's access to ultrasounds, which have [...]
This is no doubt one of the fruits of the 40 Days for Life vigil: an Ottawa chapter of the Helpers of God's Precious Infants has been created. They will outside the Morgentaler clinic from 7:30am-4:30 pm on Wednesdays, Thursday and Fridays. The website explains three ways people can help: prayer at the abortion facility, sidewalk counselors and prayer warriors who cannot [...]
The famous five -- Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby -- have been made senators posthumously. They were the force behind the Persons Case that made its way to the Imperial Privy Council, which allowed women to sit in the Senate. It is a justifiably historic and celebrated achievement, a victory for equality under the law. Conservative Senator Ethel Cochrane [...]
Everyone should read Barbara Kay in the National Post today where she demolishes the Liberal Party's Pink Book III. Here's a tidbit: There isn’t a single body of women in Canada that receives federal or provincial funding that is not ideology-driven, and that includes the Liberal Women’s Caucus. The Pink Book III is rife with debunked statistics – for example, that old chestnut [...]
Former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin talks to TheMark.com about abortion and maternal health. He starts off well enough clarifying a matter that many people do not understand: abortions in the developing world are not done in safe conditions because few are performed in hospitals or by doctors. In that sense, it is like any surgery that is performed in unhygienic conditions with few modern technologies and [...]