A year and a half after the “Global ‘Safe Abortion’” conference took place in London, abortion advocate Marie Stopes International and Ipas have just released the conference’s report, detailing the abortion movement’s worldwide strategy. While organizers claimed the primary objective of the conference was to “save women’s lives and reduce maternal mortality,” the report reveals participants prioritized a so-called “right” to “safe [...]
Gurbax Malhi ................................ (L, Bramalea-Gore-Malton): ................................. May 7; June 9 Paul Szabo ................................... (L, Mississauga South): ..................................... May 11; May 13; May 15 David Sweet ................................. (C, Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale): .... May 14; June 17 Colin Mayes .................................. (C, Okanagan-Shuswap): .................................... May 14 Stephen Woodworth ...................... (C, Kitchener Centre): ......................................... May 14 Dan McTeague .............................. (L, Scarborough East): ....................................... May 27 Tom Lukiwski ................................ [...]
NDP MP doesn’t support petition intent but still presents it after school group met in her office during March for Life The pro-life petition campaign begun prior to this year’s National March for Life in Ottawa marking the 40th anniversary of the legalization of abortion has proven to be a phenomenal success, with over 30,500 signatures collected by press time and more [...]
On June 19, three pro-lifers were arrested outside of the “Everywoman’s Health Clinic” abortion site in East Vancouver. They were released the following day, with a court hearing scheduled for July 3. David Spratt and Sissy von Dehn were arrested while protesting the bubble zone legislation, the B.C. Access to Abortion Services Act, which prevents pro-life counseling or protesting within [...]
On June 15, one week before Toronto Pride Week, Diane Ablonczy, minister of state for small business and tourism, announced the federal government of Canada was funding the homosexual event with a $400,000 grant under a new Marquis Tourism Events Program. The program is designed to assist major Canadian tourist events and the grant money will be used to improve the Pride [...]
On June 3, the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada released Private Choices, Public Costs, a report on the cost family breakdown to taxpayers. Interim editor Paul Tuns spoke with Rebecca Walberg and Andrea Mrozek, co-authors of the report. The Interim: Why did you choose to look into the public costs of individual, private choices such as marriage, living single and divorce? [...]
On June 3, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada released a report entitled, “Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Cost us All,” detailing the cost of family breakdown in Canada by examining the relationship between poverty and family structure. Co-authors Rebecca Walberg and Andrea Mrozek say that the cost of poverty alleviation for broken families is “a bare minimum” of [...]
Canada The gay advocacy group EGALE gave its first ever Leadership Award for LGBT (“lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender”) to Jaime Watt, co-chair of the Navigator communications firm and a long-time adviser to Progressive Conservative politicians in Ontario, including running Ontario PC leadership contender Christine Elliott’s campaign this spring. According to Maclean’s, Derek Vanstone, chief of staff to federal Finance Minister Jim [...]
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what it wants.” - Mother Teresa at the 1994 Washington, D.C. prayer breakfast On May 31, Wichita, Ks. abortionist George Tiller was killed while handing out bulletins as an usher in the foyer of his Reformed Lutheran church. The murder was quickly [...]
This spring, Campaign Life Coalition launch a petition campaign in anticipation of the National March for Life. Calling for legal protection for all human life, the petitions containing more than 10,000 names were presented to the House of Commons by pro-life MPs in the week before the march. The petition read: "The petitioners therefore call upon Parliament to pass legislation for [...]
On May 12, Francine Lalonde (Bloc, La Pointe-de-l'Île) introduced C-484, a private members bill to legalize euthanasia in Canada. It is the third time that she has introduced such a bill, with two previous attempts in 2005 and 2008 dying on the House floor when an election was called. Bill C-484 would add an exception to the criminal code, ensuring that doctors [...]
With close to 240,000 members, the Knights of Columbus is Canada's largest Catholic organization. In keeping with Catholic teaching, the order is officially pro-life and over the years, has donated thousands of volunteer hours and millions of dollars to the pro-life cause. Leading the charge in Ontario is Dan Heffernan, the organization's state advocate for the province. Heffernan first became [...]
Canada CLC president John Hof says that the British Columba election maintained the status quo, noting that every pro-life MLA seeking re-election won and that several new pro-life MLAs were also elected including Mark Dalton (Lib, Maple Ridge Mission) who was vocal about his pro-life convictions. Also, 61.3 per cent of BC voters opposed the single-transferable vote scheme ... Amendments made [...]
Campaign Life Coalition has endorsed Frank Klees for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party, noting that he is its "preferred candidate" in a field that includes three of his fellow Tory MPPs. Klees is rated "pro-life" by CLC, whereas Randy Hillier (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox-Addington) is rated "not pro-life," Tim Hudak (Niagara West-Glanbrook) is rated "unknown" and Christine Elliot (Whitby-Oshawa) is [...]
As Easter weekend rolled around, and with it the end of my agonizing Lenten sacrifice of caffeinated drinks, I couldn’t help but remember childhood Easters and the ritual rolling out of 50s- and 60s-era biblical epics on the big three U.S. networks. The big event was always Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 remake of his own 1923 silent-era Mosaic blockbuster, The Ten Commandments, [...]