Obama could bring ‘new world order’: Kissinger
Michael O'Brien warns about the wrong-headedness of a ‘New World Order'.
Pro-life caucus chair boldly speaks out
Rod Bruinooge wrote an opinion piece entitled, "Why I Am Pro-Life" that appeared in the Dec. 29 edition of the National Post. It ignited a mini-debate on talk radio and on the internet, but also forced the mainstream media to press Canada's political leaders for their reaction to the existence of a group of MPs who want to restrict and ban abortion. [...]
The 40 Days for Life campaign gains ground in Canada
Last fall, Ottawa saw hundreds of pro-lifers of all denominations rise up and head to the streets to participate in the Canadian debut of the 40 Days for Life campaign. The campaign, developed by American pro-life activist David Bereit is a 40-day vigil of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. Over 750 participants in the Ottawa region filled up 960 [...]
Wappel’s 13 recommendations for Catholic clergy and bishops
Editor's Note: On Nov. 19, 2008, former Liberal MP Tom Wappel addressed the Campaign Life Coalition Catholic clergy luncheon and during his talk, presented 13 recommendations to help the clergy and bishops become more effective in motivating Christians to fulfill their civic obligations on political issues. This is an excerpt of that talk. Here are my 13 suggestions - from 13 [...]
Wappel joins CLC as legal counsel
Before Tom Wappel retired from politics, choosing not to run for the federal Scarborough Southwest riding he has held since 1988, he had a conversation with Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes. The CLC leader suggested to Wappel that he join the pro-life lobby group in some capacity and they quickly agreed to a role that best suited the former lawyer: [...]
Gibbons freed, then rearrested
The jig may well be up for a "temporary" court injunction that has been unjustly squelching pro-life demonstrations and counselling outside some Toronto abortion sites for almost 15 years. On Jan. 12, longtime pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons walked out of a downtown Toronto courtroom a free woman for the second consecutive time after beating the rap for allegedly violating terms of the [...]
Bits & Pieces
Canada When Rod Bruinooge (C-Winnipeg South) wrote a pro-life column in the National Post - see page 3 of this issue - declaring that he will fight to protect the unborn, David Sweet (Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale) and Mark Warawa (Langley), two Conservative MPs who signed the CLC questionnaire in 2006 indicating they were pro-life, said that with the current economic turmoil, now is not [...]
Prestwich was known as a prescient researcher
Long time pro-life campaigner, Campaign Life Coalition activist and Interim columnist Winifride Prestwich, passed away in her 93rd year on Dec. 6 in Toronto. Prestwich, a prominent geologist and geographer, taught at Toronto's Havergal College. She was a published author of Canadian geography textbooks and was, notably, one of five geologists chosen to examine damage to the Niagara escarpment the first time [...]
Book examines enduring institution of marriage
Marriage: The Dream That Refuses to Die, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, $33.50, 196 pages) The push for same-sex "marriage" in much of the Western world is only the most recent example of how the concept of marriage has changed. As Elizabeth Fox-Genovese demonstrates in Marriage: The Dream That Refuses to Die, the movement to redefine marriage as a relationship between [...]
Quebec man acquitted of assisted suicide
Stephane Dufour, 30, was found not guilty in assisting the hanging suicide death of his uncle, Chantal Maltais, 49, of Alma, Que. Although he initially denied even being in the room with his uncle at the time of his arrest, Dufour told the court he gave into pressure to help Maltais commit suicide. Family members who talked to the press when Maltais [...]
Obama’s election prompts pro-life song
It was the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency of the United States that spurred Elizabeth Schmeidler to action. The news had just come in that the virulently pro-abortion Illinois senator had been successful in his quest to attain the highest office in the land when the Kansas mother and singer heard the call to compose a piece of music [...]
Corporate Watch Update
The American Family Association has issued a "hall of shame" report on "Corporations in Opposition to Conservative American Values," produced by the Research Institute for Corporate Accountability. It examines the worst U.S. offenders in terms of support for elements such as abortion, the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender agenda, pornography, anti-family media and more. The report cites as the worst offenders: Microsoft, Anheuser-Busch, Comcast, Walt Disney, [...]
Across Canada
Lakehead student union erects strict club restrictions THUNDER BAY, Ont. -- On Nov. 28, the board of directors of the Lakehead University Student Union voted to adopt an amendment to the student union constitution adding a broad range of restrictions applying only to religious and political clubs. The restrictions include: "Campaigns must be positive in nature and cannot slander the opposing stance [...]
Conference revitalizes northern pro-lifers
A northern Ontario city on Lake Superior held its first-ever pro-life conference, bringing pro-life leaders from across the continent together with local pro-life activists and supporters. The All Points North: Facing Truth conference was hosted by local right to life group and Alliance for Life Ontario and was held Dec. 5-6 at the United Reformed Church. Speakers included Vicki Thorn of Project [...]
In the boneyard of ambition
Into an Ottawa government office poured a distraught looking young woman carrying a load of files that she dumped on a desk near the door, which she then kicked shut with her foot. She turned and spoke to a slim, bespectacled, middle-aged man in an ill-fitting suit standing behind a much larger desk near the window. [...]