On June 3-5, the Faith and Freedom Alliance Conference was held in Toronto, during which they educated the public about the threats to religious liberty and trained lawyers to fight back to protect certain freedoms from assault in the public square. J. Scott Kennedy, chair of the Alliance, opened the conference reminding participants that the freedoms of religion, conscience, and expression “are [...]
At least a dozen Canadian youth have been scheduled to take part in at least a portion of the Crossroads walk from Vancouver to Ottawa, the third time since 2007 the pro-life youth group has provided the travelling pro-life witness in Canada. Crossroads was founded in 1994 by Steve Sanborn, a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville, as a response [...]
The 20th century saw a great change in Christian attitudes towards contraception, which previously had been almost universally condemned. As it stands today, the majority of Christian denominations accept birth control to some degree, in one form or another. The Church of England provides a good example of how quickly the change in teaching sometimes occurs. At the Lambeth Conference in 1908, [...]
PDF of Side effects of The Pill Head/Brain Cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding into the cranial cavity) Cerebral thrombosis (blood clot that drains blood from the brain) Melasma, which may persist (skin discoloration) Migraine Headache Dizziness Loss of scalp hair Acne Eyes Retinal thrombosis Change in corneal curvature Intolerance to contact lenses Cataracts Heart/Blood Thrombophlebitis (blood clots in the veins) Hypertension Mesenteric thrombosis (blood [...]
In 1969, journalist and women’s health activist Barbara Seaman published a book detailing the horror stories of women experiencing terrible side effects from the contraceptive pill, including blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, depression, suicide, obesity and loss of libido. After U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson read the book, he joined forces with Seaman to instigate a series of Senate hearings on the issue. [...]
The so-called liberator of women has actually hurt them History The 1892 Criminal Code of Canada outlawed birth control, declaring it obscene and “tending to corrupt morals.” It also, however, left a clause that permitted the distribution of birth control if it was for the “public good.” The American Congress had already banned birth control information in 1873, citing the same reason. [...]
Canada CTV reported that Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he will not support Rod Bruinooge’s private member’s bill to make it a crime to coerce a woman into having an abortion ... If, as expected, pro-life witness Linda Gibbons is released on June 3 after the second day of her scheduled trial, she will have been jailed exactly 500 days since her [...]
Following the National March for Life on May 13, more than 100 people, predominantly campus pro-life students, joined together for the 2nd annual Campus Pro-Life Student Dinner at the Mambo Nuevo Latino restaurant in the nation’s capital. The National Campus Life Network, together with University of Ottawa Students for Life (uOSFL) and Carleton Lifeline, co-organized the evening that brought together students from [...]
In 2007, a group of New York pro-abortion activists decided to provide doulas to women undergoing abortions. Traditionally, doulas assist women throughout the last few months of pregnancy and during labour. They do not have the same education as midwives or social workers. Rather, they provide comfort to the mother through techniques such as hand-holding, breathing, visualization or pain management. The New [...]
CRTC promotes Canadian porn industry OTTAWA – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has approved a new Canadian pay TV pornography channel that will air in Québec beginning in October. The channel, Vanessa, licensed by Sex-Shop Television in Montreal, will also air in English in the rest of the country in 2011. Under the licence, the new channel’s programming must be 20 [...]
The scientist Stephen Hawking recently returned to TV screens with a new miniseries, his first since 1997, and like all eager presenters, he took the time to do some interviews to publicize the show. The series, Stephen Hawking’s Into the Universe, is the sort of symphonic, planet-hopping science entertainment that it seems so much easier to produce in an age of flashy [...]
Back in the Fifties boxing used to be criticized for its regular Friday night fights which were called ‘bum of the week’ where it seemed that every washed up fighter who ever lived got a chance to pick up one more pay cheque ending flat on his back in the ring. This farce has only been equaled by the New York Times [...]
Under intense public pressure, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty may have withdrawn his government’s revised curriculum guidelines on sexual education for a “serious rethink,” but this battle is far from over. Proponents of ever more explicit sexual education for young school children have been quick to mount a concerted counterattack. They commend the revised curriculum for proposing to normalize homosexuality in [...]
In a motion that was unanimously adopted by the Québec legislature, Quebec MNAs have unanimously called on the Harper government to affirm the right to free access of abortion and to stop cutting funding for pro-choice women’s groups. They also asked “the federal government and the prime minister of Canada to put an end to the current ambiguity on this issue.” The [...]