How do you spell chicken? I'm an eternal optimist - that is, when I keep my eyes fixed on eternal things. But there are indeed times when the sun breaks forth through the clouds and reveals the victory before us. This is such a time. A group of British Columbia University students who just happen to be pro-life, carefully planned a "pro-life" [...]
HUMAN RIGHTS CASE ENDS IN SETTLEMENT After a difficult five- year struggle, seven Ontario health care professionals win the right to choose life They did it! After a five-year battle, eight Ontario nurses won the right to refuse to assist in abortions at the Markham-Stouffville Hospital, just outside Toronto. The nurses had taken their fight to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and [...]
Recently, nurses at Calgary Foothills Hospital broke rank to reveal that they are being forced to participate in - and sometimes actually perform - abortions. Joanne Hatton, the president of Alberta Pro-Life, said in an April 12 press release, "We have internal memos from the hospital which say that nurses must administer the drugs which induce labour, and deliver the baby. Nurses [...]
On April 30, Foothills Hospital and the Calgary Regional Health Authority obtained a court order forbidding Alberta Report from repeating information contained in the story the magazine broke about reports of aborted babies born alive and then left to die. They also attempted to force the magazine to reveal its sources. What follows is editor and publisher Link Byfield's response. There's a strange [...]
The Death Peddlers: War on the Unborn, by Rev. Paul Marx, O.S.B. (Human Life International Canada, 1998, 208 pages, $12.45 postpaid.) In 1971 Fr. Marx attended a special pro-abortion symposium in California. Calling himself simply "Doctor," since he had a doctorate in sociology, he applied to attend, and got permission to tape the proceedings. He wrote this book in 1971 based on [...]
In March of 1994, the decades-long legacy of Vancouver Grace Hospital ended. Grace was a proud institution, operated by a proud denomination known as the Salvation Army.My daughter Natalie was born there. But the Army was having difficulty with the brave new world now upon us. Feeling pressured into areas of "medicine" that no Christian would dare contemplate, the Army relinquished control, [...]
This question came from students after the news of Ruby Mercer's death. Ruby Mercer was a well-known opera singer, who sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. When she was semi-retired she devoted her life to opera, and to helping and encouraging young singers. She was well known on radio. Ruby Mercer had been a foundling. The story is that she [...]
Will forgive Third World debts if 'human rights' are respected On March 25, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announced in Winnipeg that Canada is going to offer debt relief to Third World countries, but this relief will be tied to "human rights." Canadian pro-life leaders warn that tying Third World debt relief to "human rights" could force abortion, contraception and sterilization on these [...]
When U.S. Chief Justice Harold Blackmun passed away on March 4, 1999 at the age of 90, modernism lost one of her most infamous sons. Blackmun had brought to fruition what people like Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Frederich Nietchze, Sigmund Freud, and Margaret Sanger could only dream of: the death of God throughout Western civilization. Blackmun, who was appointed to [...]
Are abortion advocates convinced that they have won the public relations battle, or do they fear public confrontations with today's confident pro-life defenders? These were the questions on the minds of students at the University of Western Ontario in London as they went about organizing a March 9 debate on the morality of abortion. Western Life, a pro-life group at the university, [...]
It has been revealed that Health Canada wrote Exelgyn, the French company owning the rights to the abortion pill RU-486, to promise that Canada's drug-testing process will be "fair." In so doing, the federal government has tipped its hand and shown that far from being "fair," it may give RU-486 favoured treatment in the drug-approval process. The Food and Drug Act forbids [...]
While the Harris government has been a big disappointment, the PCs still deserve some credit In last month's Interim we presented a general overview of the Ontario Progressive Conservative government's record on life and family issues. This month, we present details and a rating of the Tories on some of the issues most important to social conservatives.Although there is a lot of criticism [...]
On Jan. 20, I was a guest on the Crossroads Television System program,The Michael Coren Show. The subject was The Nuremberg Files website. The other guest, by telephone, was Rev. Donald Spitz, of a group called Pro-Life Virginia. Spitz is a close friend of NF creator Neal Horsley. The Nuremberg Files is what we at Campaign Life Coalition call "anti-abortion" rather than pro-life. [...]
"Religious leaders didn't pull the trigger on Dr. Slepian or bash in the skull of Matthew Shepard, but their blood is dripping off the hands of religious leaders who have, with vitriolic language, incited zealous followers to murder abortion doctors and gays and lesbians. "We must hold accountable the Pope, the bishops, local clergy, conservative Protestant leaders such as Dr. [...]
Tory Senator Ron Ghitter, Q.C., believes that religious conservatives "pose the greatest threat to the maintenance and advancement of human rights in our nation." In Ghitter's estimation, "theo-conservatives" are more dangerous to Canadian society than "skinheads, the Aryan Nation and white supremacists." Senator Ghitter's recent address entitled, "Theo-conservatism: A Threat to Human Rights," delivered at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., amounts [...]