This poem accompanied an entry in The Interim essay contest You cannot feel the fear that I feel You cannot cry the tears that I cry You are not about to die You have a choice in your life I do not You can speak for yourself I cannot You are not about to die You have laughed, you have cried I [...]
The following essay won first place in its category - 12-14 years. It is reprinted without any alterations. My thoughts on abortion Abortion is an important issue in society. It is being widely discussed and in this essay I will present my views. First of all, when I look at abortion, a strange thought occurs to me. Why do people consider babies [...]
As a parting gift to weary teachers heading got a much-needed summer vacation, the Women's Liaison Committee of the Toronto Board of Education sent out a list of questions teachers should ask of candidates in the upcoming federal election. The list appeared on a sheet circulated to all schools of the Board. One of the eight sets of questions, headed "Reproductive Rights," [...]
On Wednesday, June 20, Kingston General Hospital held its annual Board of Governors meeting. Two Vita-Campaign Life members are now Governors. An unsuccessful attempt was made to amend a motion which ratifies the Actions of the Board of Directors annually, hoping to eliminate the approval of the Therapeutic Abortion Committee. It ruled "out of order," but under "new business" we moved "that [...]
May 1, 1984 MEDICAL CARE Need for Hospital Ethics Committees Mr. Stanley Hudechki (Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of National Defence): Mr. Speaker, the time has come when all large hospitals and medical schools must have a formal ethics committee. With the current rapid social transformation, and with the continuing advances in medical technology and techniques, doctors and society at large face dilemmas [...]
New Brunswick Canoe for life Two New Brunswick men plan a canoe crusade for life this summer. Mike Murphy and Marcel Arsenault will travel along the St. John River from Edmunston, N.B., to St. John N.B., a distance or 270 miles (430 km), between August 8 and 19. Pro-life prayer rallies will be held in communities along the route. The canoeists are [...]
In June we celebrate Father's Day So conspicuous have women become of late, so much an "issue", or a focus of issues, that pop tends to be forgotten, After all, who is this election year is angling for the "man's vote"? No one has started a "masculinist movement"-the Real Man business was never more that adolescent joie de vivre. Yet behind the [...]
TORONTO - More than 2,500 pro-life supporters braved chilly temperature and gushing winds to march through the streets of downtown Toronto on Mother's Day eve to protest against hospitals performing abortions. The walk was organized by the Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area to celebrate respect for life and the protection of the unborn. This was the fifth annual walk [...]
On Saturday, May 12, 1984, Planned Parenthood of Canada placed an ad in the Toronto Globe and Mail. The ad stated that Planned Parenthood has "helped make birth control legal in this country," and that "a vocal minority world-wide is gaining support to ban all forms of birth control." The ad asked for financial support to "help prevent this from happening in [...]
On May 25, 1984, at the Toronto Harbour Castle Hotel, eight R.E.A.L. Women were guest at a luncheon to meet and hear Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney. This was the first in a series of "Luncheon with the Leaders," organized by the feminists to meet political leaders. The experience of being in the company of 2,300 other women, mostly feminists, was educations. [...]
On Father's Day (June 17th), Campaign Life organized a province-wide one-hour vigil in front of many of the Ontario hospitals that perform abortions. Vigils were in place in front of 52 of the 83 hospitals in the province, which perform abortions. Mr. John Deans, Campaign Life organizer, estimated that in spite of the rain, more than 2500 people across Ontario participated in [...]
TV Ontario's "Saturday Night at the Movies." Hosted by Elwy Yost, broadcast Lina Wertmuller's film. Seven Beauties at 8:00 p.m. on 31 March 1984. This film contains explicit scenes of at least three women being raped, men being shot in the head of machine-gunned after diving into an overflowing latrine, a sexually provocative girlchild, sexual intercourse between a Gestapo prison inmate and [...]
On May 14,1969, to the acclaim of the Liberal establishment, Section 237 of the Criminal Code of Canada was fatefully amended. It was a triumph of compromise, accommodating the law of the land to the increasingly pluralistic tendencies of 20th century man without, at least in word, denying the moral heritage which had given him birth and nurtured him. It was an [...]
Ed O'Brien has died. He will be missed. I first met Ed some forty odd years ago, when I was an eager beaver teenager, anxious to change the world. It was during World War II, and the Great Depression was scarcely beginning to peter out as the country was being launched on an unprecedented career of industrialization. Those of us who lived [...]
On March 1, 1984, about 60 students from the University of Toronto's Campaign Against Abortion marched with signs and placards from the downtown Sr. George campus to the County Court Building on University Avenue, the site of the continuing Morgentaler pre-trial hearing. A statement to the press was issued. The statement began, "We have gathered here today, representing most of the colleges [...]