Mary Wagner was in court Feb. 29 on a charge of mischief and two counts of failing to comply with probation orders concerning her arrest at the site of the Bloor West Village “Women’s Clinic” Nov. 8, 2011. Justice S. Ford Clements of the Ontario Court of Justice presided over the day-long trial where he heard from three witnesses and listened [...]
Protestors oppose Charles Rice lecture WATERLOO – At least two groups led by professors protested the appearance of Charles Rice as keynote speaker at the Pascal Lectures on Christianity and the University at the University of Waterloo. Rice, a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame Law School and devout Roman Catholic opposed to same-sex “marriage” and abortion, will give a [...]
In February, two Australian professors argued in the Journal of Medical Ethics that because “both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons,” “the fact that both are potential persons,” and that “adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people,” abortion should be permitted after birth. Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth issued a press release [...]
The Conservative Government’s pledge to create an office of religious freedom within the Department of Foreign Affairs is welcome and encouraging news. This proposed office would monitor the status of religious freedom in countries around the world and provide valuable information about the relative restrictions of religion under certain regimes. The research this office would produce could greatly assist diplomatic efforts to [...]
The intrepid pro-life activist, Mary Wagner, has been in and out of jail for more than a decade. Not content to witness from a distance, Wagner often enters the facilities where abortions are committed in the hopes of warning pregnant women about the reality of abortion and the dangers it poses for them and, of course, their unborn children. At Wanger’s trial [...]
Over the past 30 years, freedom of religion in Canada has come under increasing attack by unprincipled judicial activists and authoritarian politicians. Now the Supreme Court of Canada and the Legislature of Quebec have taken this proclivity to a new extreme, by arbitrarily decreeing that Christian parents no longer have an inalienable right to shelter their children from anti-Christian propaganda [...]
White guilt is a terrible thing to waste. Something that became profoundly clear during the trial of Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya, and their son Hamed earlier this year. Although the case was shocking, it was in fact only the most recent of a dozen murders in the last 12 years, most involving Muslim patriarchs killing young girls who [...]
I couldn’t imagine what Pierre Trudeau was thinking when he declared that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation. Oh, the declaration impressed me all right, but not the sense of it, only the sound. The sense puzzled me. I wondered why Mr. Trudeau singled out the bedrooms of the nation. Didn’t he know that the [...]
If I had just arrived from a far-away planet it would be easy to convince me that the people on planet Earth are just crazy about babies. Yes, born and pre-born babies. It has been a big media story about Kate and Prince William expecting their first heir to the throne and not just among royal watchers; the whole world wants to [...]
As a purely anecdotal aside, I’d like to mention that few of the people I know who’ve walked the Camino de Santiago, the ancient pilgrim trail that provides the setting for Emilio Estevez’ film The Way, were actually Catholic, or even appreciably Christian. The Camino has become, in an age of widened horizons but jaded palettes, a kind of extreme tourism destination, [...]
Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion M-312 calling upon Parliament to debate whether an unborn child is a human being and the human rights implications of those findings, is scheduled for debate on April 26. The Kitchener Center MP introduced his motion in early February and in the first week of March the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs’ subcommittee on [...]
The Conservative government is creating an Office of Religious Freedom to shine a light on religious persecution abroad with the hope of defending religious minorities. Before looking abroad though, the Canadian government would do well to attend to the country’s own problems in enshrining freedom of relgion, conscience, and expression for Christians at home. Perhaps the most obvious threat to the [...]
The Youth Conference occurring in Ottawa the day after the National March for Life promises to be a valuable experience for young people interested in learning about pro-life issues and becoming more involved in the pro-life movement. According to the Campaign Life Coalition website, the youth conference will take the form of “an intensive workshop for young people, designed to arm youth [...]
At the Youth Banquet during the National March for Life, young people will have the opportunity to listen to keynote speaker Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a prominent member of the American pro-life movement. Rev. Mahoney is the president of the Christian Defense Coalition, a national ministry challenging Christians to live out their faith in the public square. Rev. Mahoney is an ordained [...]
The National March for Life in Ottawa is always an excellent opportunity to listen to distinguished pro-life speakers. This year Steven Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), will be the keynote speaker at the Rose Dinner on May 10. He will also give an address on the steps of Parliament Hill before the March earlier that day and [...]