30,000 signatures presented to governor-general, judicial review requested of McLachlin On August 20, Campaign Life Coalition presented the signatures of 30,000 Canadians opposed to the awarding of the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler at Rideau Hall, the official residence of the governor-general. Angelina Steenstra, national co-ordinator of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign and a spokesperson for CLC on the Morgentaler [...]
A random telephone poll of more than 13,000 households found that 56 per cent of Canadians are opposed to the awarding of the Order of Canada to abortionist Henry Morgentaler. The national KLRVU poll, sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition, found that a clear majority of respondents in every province but Quebec opposed naming Morgentaler to the Order of Canada and that even [...]
A draft proposal by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario could strip Ontario doctors of their right to the free exercise of religion and conscience. The CPSO has proposed changes to its code of conduct to limit doctors’ ability to act according to their religious beliefs or conscience that result in restricting treatment, taking new patients or ending the doctor-patient [...]
Complainant appeals CHRC’s dismissal of case against magazine Canada’s human rights industry has resumed its persecution of Catholic Insight, a magazine edited by former Interim editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk. On July 31, Rob Wells requested a formal judicial review of the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s dismissal of his complaint against the magazine. The commission had spent 16 months investigating de Valk and Catholic [...]
Peter Kormos, the veteran Ontario NDP MPP member for Niagara Centre, is once again trying to sell the dangerous idea of Ontario organ donors automatically becoming organ donors unless they opt out. What’s not readily understood is that your body’s got to be alive in order to make most organ donations. Viable organs cannot be taken from a corpse. As aToronto Star [...]
I have made it something of a hobby to keep abreast of developments in the art world. We live in an insane society, but nowhere is lunacy more strident than in our galleries and art schools. Here, the pretentious run amok and the foolish rule. And guess what, the institutions, icons and symbols of Christianity and the pro-life movement are frequently the [...]
What is education for? The development of character? Or the acquisition of a marketable skill? These are not new questions. In “Against the Sophists,” the ancient Greek philosopher Isocrates argued that character should be king in education. Isocrates believed that education is primarily about the development of the learner’s character. Isocrates did not oppose the development of technical skill. But he argued [...]
During an address at a campaign rally in Ohio on March 2, Barack Obama professed: “I am a Christian. I am a devout Christian. I pray to Jesus every night and try to go to church as much as I can when they’re not working me.” Obama regretted that he has been too busy during the election campaign to attend church on [...]
New pro-abortion UN human rights chief TURTLE BAY – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named abortion advocate Navanethem “Navi” Pillay of South Africa as the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. The New York Times reported that the United States privately raised concerns about Pillay’s nomination to the top human rights post because of her strong support for abortion. Pillay is a founding [...]
Canada Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced the government would introduce legislation that would consider a victim’s pregnancy as an aggravating factor when sentencing violent offenders. The ramifications or intentions of this bill are unclear, because the wording of such legislation was not available at press time … MP Ken Epp (Conservative, Edmonton-Sherwood Park) issued a 31-page report countering the claims of abortion advocates who [...]
Long-time Campaign Life Coalition supporter John Terrence (Terry) Dalton passed away on May 25 at the age of 86. Described by Paul Lauzon of the CLC Ottawa as a “lifetime supporter” of the organization, Dalton was a regular financial donor to the cause as well as a frequent letter-writer. He was involved with CLC locally from the beginning, and he would regularly [...]
Among Canada’s bishops, one stands out as extraordinarily vocal when promoting and defending the culture of life. He is Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary. In promoting the Catholic church’s teaching on life and marriage, Henry has clashed with former prime minister Paul Martin, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, Revenue Canada bureaucrats threatening his tax-exempt status and even fellow pro-lifers on occasion. The [...]
On June 17, 2008, the Boston Celtics broke their huddle with the chant “ubuntu,” just as they had before every game in their gruelling 116-game season. Then, they calmly walked out onto the parquet court of the New Boston Garden and won their 17th NBA championship, demolishing the Los Angeles Lakers by the eye-popping score of 131-92. It was, in the words of one [...]
I am no friend of Islamic fundamentalism and, according to some people, not even a particular friend of Islam itself. No need to defend myself. As a Christian and as a thinking human being, I embrace the inevitable conclusion of exclusive truth. In other words, if one belief is right, a contradictory belief has to be wrong. This should not [...]