Every year, Canada’s pro-life university students look forward to the National Campus Life Network national symposium on the final weekend in September. The symposium is designed to educate, network and motivate post-secondary student leaders for pro-life activism. Students from across the country travel by car, bus, subway and plane to partake in this important event. This year, 46 attendees, representing 22 Canadian [...]
The pro-life club at Capilano College in British Columbia is seeing a ray of hope as the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decides to take on a complaint filed in June. Minerva Macapagal, president of the club, filed the complaint after pro-life students were twice denied club status, once in March 2006 and again last December. The club in waiting is called Capilano [...]
September is upon us and campus pro-life clubs across Canada are gearing up for another year of activism among their peers. Every year, pro-life students balance their studies with the task of informing their campuses about the reality of abortion: it kills a human being and it harms women and society. Not everyone agrees with these sentiments, especially on the predominantly liberal-minded [...]
When the Great Canadian Wish List began, the CBC aired a promo segment telling everyone it was starting this project as an experiment. The hope was that Canadians would log on to Facebook, make their wishes known and do it "as loud as possible." Mike Wise from the CBC teamed up with Taylor Gunn from Student Vote for this initiative, but they [...]
Week 5: Unfriendly Regina June 17-23: Saskatoon-Regina, Sask.-Verdun, Man. Total Distance: 354 km We began this week by piling into the Fraser family's motor home and driving from a very wet Saskatoon to the drier climes of Moose Jaw. Situated 70 kilometres west of Regina, on the straight-as-an-arrow Trans Canada Highway, we continued our cross-country walk parallel from the spot we left [...]
Six young persons walk across the country for life What is Crossroads? On May 19, six young adults from across North America started their cross-Canada trek in Vancouver. In a span of 12 weeks, they will cross more than 5,000 km, taking them as far east as Montreal before arriving in Ottawa on August 11. As they walk, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with [...]
The National Campus Life Network is expanding its staff to include a Western Canada co-ordinator. Sarah Buckle just completed a year with the NCLN as executive director for 2006-07 and her move to British Columbia has created the opportunity for a new staff member for it. The NCLN works to train, equip and network pro-life post-secondary students at over 40 post-secondary campuses [...]
In an effort to encourage the youth of Canada to speak up about their thoughts on our country, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation began a forum entitled, “The Great Canadian Wish List” on the internet site Facebook. Facebook is a social networking website that has become popular for connecting and re-connecting with friends, colleagues, co-workers and family through the internet. As of February [...]
Over 600 students from high school and university spent the day after the 10th National March For Life at a pro-life youth conference. It was designed to educate, motivate and equip attendees to leave the conference ready to bring the message of pro-life to their communities, schools and personal lives. The May 11 conference was held at the Hampton Inn Conference Centre [...]
Amnesty International has finally admitted it has adopted a new policy supporting abortion. After pro-lifers exposed the organization’s secret adoption of a pro-abortion position in early May, AI officials admitted May 9 that the human rights organization would begin lobbying for abortion to be decriminalized globally. Widney Brown, senior policy and campaigns director, told Reuters that the board of AI agreed on [...]
Abortion hurts women. That was the message 20-year-old Julie Sluzar wanted to send to her fellow students. So the third-year Dalhousie undergraduate recently braved the Maritime winter, stood outside the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax and held up a sign bearing this message at a pro-abortion conference for medical students. “My friend Nicole Campbell and I had received an e-mail from a [...]
I am 17 years old and have now attended seven election forums in my lifetime – five federal, one provincial and one partisan. At every one of them, candidates and members of the audience have brought up many different matters, a great deal of them trivial. Seldom has anyone brought up that matter which is of such importance that it can clearly [...]
The standing ovation for keynote conference speaker Camille de Blasi Pauley indicated the success of the Third Annual Culture of Life Leadership Conference, which was attended by 120 students from 14 high schools in the Halton and Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Boards of Ontario. The conference is a joint effort by the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, Halton Pro-Life, the Halton Catholic District [...]
There’s a great initiative underway that involves students, raising money, the National March For Life and dancing! In December, Kerriann Miller and Robin Mendonca were the head organizers for the second annual Dance for Life in southwestern Ontario. They were helped by their committee of Mitch Gunnarson, Stephanie Hoffbauer, Tracey Mendonca and Karynn Scott. It is estimated that this year’s dance was [...]
On Jan. 9, the Carleton University Students Association voted in favour of granting the campus pro-life group, Carleton LifeLine, club status. This came after much controversy and concern from a motion put forward and accepted by CUSA in December, that seemed to make it impossible for any group opposed to abortion to attain official club status. LifeLine threatened legal action and both [...]