On Friday, March 21, Helen Burnie, Dan McCash and Tom Brown, three regular pro-life picketers, were scheduled to be tried on charges laid against them by Eileen Harbinson. Mrs. Harbinson and her husband own a word-processing business called “Ultra,” almost next door to the Morgentaler abortuary on Harbord Street. Mrs. Harbinson had accused the three picketers of blocking customers from gaining access [...]
An Interchurch Committee on Pornography is pressuring Justice Minister John Crosbie not to accept parts of the 1985 Fraser Report on Pornography and Prostitution. The report proposes strong measures against child pornography and violence against women. But it proposes to make all other explicit hard-core pornography legal. Rev. Hudson Hilsden, who represents the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, is chairman of the Committee [...]
Guy Rondeau, who plans to run from coast to coast to raise funds for the pro-life movement, and to publicize and popularize the pro-life cause, has regretfully decided to postpone his run until next year. He had originally hoped to start running this May, but it has become evident to him that it will take another year to set up a proper [...]
About 50 picketers showed up for a lively picket against Premier Peterson at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre on February 17. The picketers were in “excellent form” according to organizer Dan Mc Cash and sang hymns while handing out a Toronto-and-Area Right-to-Life pamphlet called “The Journey of the Unborn Child” as they waited for Premier Peterson. The picket lasted two hours, until it was [...]
Campaign Life members and the Renfrew County Right to Life group picketed Premier David Peterson as he attended a Liberal fund-raising dinner at The Place in Pembroke, Ontario on February 5. The 30 pro-life picketers were joined by 50 doctors who set up their own picket line to protest a ban on extra billing. With the arrival of the doctors, the pro-life [...]
On February 3, pro-life picketer, Francisco Ganhao was found guilty of causing a disturbance by shouting at the back of the abortuary, was given a suspended sentence and ordered to stay away from the abortuary for two years. Last August 1, Francisco Ganaho, Father Lawrence Abello and Sonja Holtforster were charged with causing a disturbance. Father Abello was found not guilty in [...]
On Wednesday, February 12, at 7:30 a.m., two days after his acquittal of mischief, Father Ted Colleton, 72, tried to lock the gates at Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary. Father Ted, a member of the editorial board of The Interim, was thwarted in his attempt by four burly policemen who prevented him from reaching the gates but did not lay charges. Father Colleton rebuked [...]
The world’s longest skating rink was the scene on the evening of February 4 when Action Life put picketers on skates and sent them after Premier Peterson. This innovative scheme was planned after a large ad in the Citizen invited the residents of Ottawa to go skating with the Premier. Action Life accepted the invitation – picket signs and all. About fifteen [...]
On the evening of Sunday, January 19, 1986, approximately one hundred pro-life supporters gathered outside the Royal Alexander Hospital to hold a candle-light prayer vigil for the victims of abortion, in particular for the babies who have been aborted in this City-owned hospital at which the majority of abortions performed in Edmonton take place. (Figures for abortion in Alberta are around 6,500 [...]
On Friday January 17, two pro-life picketers were found guilty of assaulting abortionist Robert Scott. Fred Huston, 72, and Godwin Cotter, 27, both pleaded not guilty to the offences. Mr. Huston was fined $250 and Mr. Cotter $150. Both were put on a year’s probation and ordered to stay away from the abortuary. Abortionist Scott who sustained a broken nose in the [...]
Picketing – walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the abortuary with a placard in your hand – is frustrating work. At times it does not appear to accomplish much and sometimes one wonders about its effectiveness. Picketing is in fact tremendously effective. One need only consider the reaction of the pro-abortionists and the numerous efforts they have made to [...]
The Quebec Coalition for Life petition, which has been in circulation for some months, has now been signed by over a quarter of a million people. Plans are to present it to the Quebec Assembly in March. An intensive effort is now under way to collect as many more signatures as possible in the remaining weeks. Some areas have responded magnificently to [...]
Approximately 100 pro-lifers picketed Premier Peterson at the Liberal policy convention in Windsor on January 25. Unusual and even overwhelming support was offered by passers-by in Windsor. The picketers were cheered-on by most people as they were walking or driving by. In response the protesters distributed 1000 flyers which carried a copy of Premier Peterson’s promise to close the abortuary in Toronto [...]
People new to the pro-life movement – and even some who are not so new to it – have great difficulty figuring out who’s who and who does what in the pro-life field. “Why are there so many different organizations with different names when you’re all promoting the right to life?” they ask. Part of the answer lies in the fact that [...]
As a missionary on home leave from the Dominican Republic, I was interested in seeing and participating in the Christian witness of life in Canada. What are Canadian Christians doing about the mass killing of the unborn? The church community is divided on the issue of abortion. The official position of the United Church, the Anglican Church and the Presbyterian Church is [...]