A recent submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) provides evidence of the potentially fatal consequences of “safe” abortion promoted by UN agencies, and includes a list of 113 studies linking abortion dangerous complications such as pre-term birth in subsequent pregnancies. “The encouragement by (the UN Population Fund) and (the World Health Organization) of the [...]
The National Campus Life Network works with pro-life students to maximize the promotion and effectiveness of the pro-life message on Canadian university and college campuses. Over the summer of 2009, it hired a new director to work with students in the Maritimes. Sara Hall was hired for this part-time position and began serving students for the fall 2009 school term. [...]
A Federal Court ruled that the Governor General’s 2008 induction of Henry Morgentaler into the Order of Canada cannot be legally contested. Frank Chauvin, a retired Windsor police officer and a member of the Order of Canada, challenged the abortionist’s award, objecting to the secretive process by which the Order’s Advisory Council made its selection and taking issue with reports that the [...]
Monsignor Thomas Barrett Armstrong, a Toronto priest, long-time teacher and choir director at St. Michael’s Choir school, and fervent pro-lifer, died Nov. 14, days before his 80th birthday. He is credited by St. Michael’s Choir School with “engender(ing) a love for music in the hearts of hundreds of students who passed through” the school from 1958 to 2004. He was [...]
As 2009 draws to a close, we look back at the various gay pride events that took place in major cities across the country and the government, community and corporate sponsors who helped make them happen. From west to east … In Victoria, Vancity Pride 2009 had as a platinum sponsor Sleeman brewery. Silver sponsors included Mike’s Hard Lemonade and Okanagan Premium [...]
In November, the House of Representatives passed the Stupak-Pitts amendment (240-194) prohibiting direct or indirect federal taxpayer subsidies for abortion through the comprehensive health care reform bill before the House. The battle then moved to the Senate where senators Robert Casey Jr. (D, Penn.) and Ben Nelson (D, Neb.) fought for a similar amendment in the bill brought forward by [...]
Ontario’s Family Coalition Party is riding a wave of enthusiasm as it prepares to enter 2010 by welcoming its third leader in its 22-year history. Phil Lees, a Hamilton-area educator and municipal family issues activist, was acclaimed to head the party during its leadership convention at the Hamilton Convention Centre on Oct. 24. He succeeds Giuseppi Gori, who took over [...]
On Dec. 2, just days after erecting a nativity scene in front of old city hall in downtown Toronto, Gethsemane Ministries founder Suresh Dominic received calls from a Toronto news website inquiring about the display’s sign mentioning that it was made possible through a donation from Campaign Life Catholic. Since 2006, Gethsemane Ministries has erected the Christmas display featuring an [...]
You might ask what qualifies me to stand before you and speak on the topic of destroying life in the womb. The words I am about to speak to you are my words; they are from my heart. I am a father of two daughters and grandfather of two granddaughters. I have a heart that is saddened when I think of the [...]
Robert Latimer killed his daughter Tracey Latimer, who had cerebral palsy, in 1993 and after several trials and two Supreme Court decisions, began serving his “life” sentence for second degree murder on Jan. 18, 2001. By March 2008, he was out of prison on day parole. The Canadian Press has reported that Corrections Canada’s parole board had to recently admonish Latimer after [...]
Tiger Woods and his wife were dining in a fashionable Chinese restaurant. When it was time to crack open the fortune cookies, Elin impulsively tore open her husband’s and read the cryptic fortune aloud: “He who drives well on the fairway may not always fare well on the driveway.” “What do you think this means?” she asked in a trembling voice. Her [...]
On Nov. 20, Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical leaders in the United States set a splendid example for their counterparts in Canada by issuing the Manhattan Declaration – a ringing statement of resolve to resist the growing subversion of the moral order and the suppression of freedom of religion by secular zealots in legislatures, governments and the courts. Included among the [...]
I got a call from a group of mysterious people in Florida who pleaded with me – and almost demanded – that I come down to Florida and help solve the marital problems of a prominent golfer whose name they refused to reveal. But it was obvious whom they meant. They referred to him only by his code name: “Mr. T.” The [...]
My career choice hasn’t been a gateway to riches, but it has a few perks, one of which is the appearance of dozens of DVD screeners in my mailbox in the weeks before Christmas. “Academy screeners” is their full name – DVDs of movies made for members of the Motion Picture Academy of America so that members can nominate Oscar winners without [...]
It’s always astounded me that people who accuse pro-lifers of being obsessed with abortion are actually some of the first people to mention the subject whenever they think they can win an argument, even when it’s not directly relevant. One example is whenever an act of Islamic extremist terror occurs. “All religions produce murderers and fanatics,” runs the moan. “Look [...]