Hi, my name is Kathleen Ross and I am an organizer for Ontario Students for Life. I am taking a year out of my university studies at Western to work full time for Ontario Students for Life. Why am I doing this? I guess you could say it is a calling. I feel very moved to devote some serious time and effort [...]
As the long-awaited weekend approaches, the excitement mounts. Over forty enthusiastic pro-life students from Windsor have been working diligently on the upcoming Ontario Students for Life, LIFE IS GREAT!, for a whole year. The conference will take place on October 20 – 22 in Windsor, Ontario, at St. Thomas of Villanova High School. It is going to be amazing! There are over [...]
On Saturday may 13 spring was enhanced by Toronto’s first Youth for Life Conference. The conference arose from a need to learn more about how abortion affects our community, and more importantly to network with other young people to give the framework to build support groups within their schools. Over 70 pro-life teens from area high schools congregated in the cafeteria of [...]
Charlottetown. A panel of young people from different schools spoke during the provincial Realwomen convention in late September, about their efforts to make the world a better place. Sadd Sixteen-year-old Angela Large, a Grade 11 student, represented Students Against Drinking and Driving (SADD), the largest and most active group in her school. They use positive peer pressure to counter teen use of [...]
The sexual revolution coincided with “flower power” and the arrival of The Pill. But the sexual revolution of the ’90s has a whole new flavour. Consider the evidence. In July, more than 7,100 teenagers attending the National Baptist Federation conference in Hull, brought thousands of pledge forms signed by their peers across Canada, promising to abstain from sex until marriage. The pledges [...]
Over 104,000 students from the largest school board in Canada participated in a Respect for Life Week in May. Toronto’s Metro Separate School Board (MSSB) passed a resolution that the second week in May would be set aside for discussion, activities and prayer. This coincidentally tied in with a youth celebration at Skydome and the commemoration of abortion in Canada. The MSSB [...]
The pro-life movement has begun an intense education campaign to train its leaders of tomorrow. It is being billed as the most extensive program designed for the express purpose of educating pro-lifers, leaders and political activists. The correspondence course, called “Life Issues, What You Need to Know about Abortion,” was developed and is administered by Campaign Life Coalition. Retired high school teacher [...]
Charlottetown – Teens in Eastern Canada are learning that peer pressure is not an insurmountable problem, and can even be an asset. They are turning enthusiastically to Peer Pressure Reversal, a program used to promote chastity and other positive values. “If peer pressure can be used negatively, it can also be used positively,” says Ray Malone, a guidance counsellor with the provincial [...]
I was invited to be a speaker at the Human Life International Conference in Cork, Ireland. The Conference was held at the Blarney Park Hotel, outside Cork City, October 30 to November 1, and it was a great success. I had intended to stay in Ireland with my family until November 16. But, just before taking off for my native land, I [...]
Charlottetown – Five hundred youths from all across Canada gathered here in mid-October for the national conference of the Canadian Pro-Life Youth Organization (CYPLO). They described the experience as awesome. MLA Leone Bagnall, House Leader of the provincial Opposition, showed her support by making time to drop in. However, the local media didn’t find the province’s first national youth conference important enough [...]
Organizers of the upcoming Lift up Life Conference in P.E.I. are hoping that the positive mood generated from Toronto’s Save the Planet’s People conference will carry up the St. Lawrence and into the Maritimes. The list of speakers for the October 16, 17, 18 meet is extremely impressive and serves as an early indication that the conference will be as successful as [...]
About 300 members of Students for Life picketed Toronto’s Bay Centre for Birth Control on November 30. The pro-life group of mostly high school students has designated Canada’s largest and oldest abortion referral agency for monthly demonstrations. On this occasion, Students for ‘Choice’ were on hand to mount a counter-demonstration in support of the activities of the Centre, originally founded by contraceptive [...]
The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) national conference attracted 450 enthusiastic young people in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from October 12 to 14. Youth from across Canada were present to educate themselves on various pro-life topics including youth action, the media, Planned Parenthood, adoption, euthanasia, Post Abortion Syndrome and chastity. During her address on youth action, president-elect Coby Vandenberg stressed that “an individual can [...]
Teenage pro-lifers mounted a rescue at Nikki Colodny’s Toronto abortuary on January 5th, at the same time as 7 other young offenders were on trial for their part in the injunction-breaking rescue at the Morgentaler `clinic’ in August 1989. Fifteen members of Teenagers Rescuing Unborn Tiny Humans (TRUTH) were arrested after effectively shutting down the Colony `clinic’ and preventing abortions. In the [...]
A fourteen-year-old boy who frequently pickets outside the Morgentaler abortuary in Toronto was recently held in custody overnight by Toronto police. The youth was arrested March 26, for allegedly coming too close to the Morgantaler aborturary. The charge is that he violated restrictions placed on him some three weeks earlier by a Family Court Judge. At that time Robbie, (his real identity [...]