Statistics Canada Pro-life advocates are calling for a federal investigation after Canada’s official statistics agency has confirmed that 491 babies died after they were born alive during abortions between 2000 and 2009. Statistics Canada confirmed the information in an e-mail to LifeSiteNews. Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney of Blog for Life first discovered the data about the abortions in the federal agency’s online [...]
Oliver Capko A British Columbia campus pro-life group has won its fight to become a recognized club. Protectores Vitae, formed by students, and led by president Oliver Capko at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in the Greater Vancouver Area, obtained legal representation from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and announced, on Dec. 3, that it would take the Kwantlen Student Association [...]
Early childcare can have a negative impact on a child’s development. Developmental psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld told the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (IMFC) that early interaction between young children, often heralded as a reason to send kids to daycare, does not lead to better socialization, which is defined as cooperating with others while retaining a sense of individuality. “Premature socialization [...]
According to the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, a private member’s bill creating special protections for “gender identity” and “gender expression” is unnecessary and may even be dangerous. In a Dec. 7 letter to Canadian MPs, Don Hutchinson, vice president and general legal counsel of the EFC, states that the “courts and human rights tribunals have already developed jurisprudence under existing human rights [...]
A new report by TD Economics advocates extensive investment in early childhood education once the economic situation improves. Issued on Nov. 27, “Early Childhood Education has Widespread and Long Lasting Benefits,” written by chief economist Craig Alexander and economist Dina Ignjatovic, concludes that “with an unquestionable number of positive effects, it is evident that more focus should be put on investing in, [...]
Planned Parenthood is facing a Canada-wide shortage of condoms after a major donor stopped supplying them to the organization for free. Ansell Canada Inc., in a program that lasted for about 10 years, supplied 30 affiliates of the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health (the Canadian version of Planned Parenthood) with free lubricants and 500,000 Lifestyles condoms. The St. John’s, Newfoundland, branch, which [...]
The womb is the most dangerous place to be a Canadian child, says a billboard put up at one of Toronto’s busiest intersections by Niagara Region Right To Life. The idea for the billboard was thought up by youth members of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC Youth), who want to remind the public that Canada is one of the only countries in the [...]
The vandalized nativity scene in front of Old City Hall in Toronto. A nativity scene in front of Toronto’s Old City Hall was vandalized for the sixth time in seven years. On the night of Nov. 27, two days after its installation, a woman saw a man walk up to the scene, break the glass, and tear the head off [...]
In a recent video battle against gay activist/sex-advice columnist Dan Savage, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins quoted an old headline: “Dan Savage Explains Why He Started ‘It Gets Better’ Project: ‘When a gay teenager commits suicide, it’s because he can’t picture a life for himself that’s filled with joy,’ columnist tells MTV News.” Incredibly, Perkins used the image of that headline as [...]
Mark Warawa launches his campaign to have Parliament condemn gendercide during a Dec. 5 press conference. Immediately after Stephen Woodworth’s M-312 was defeated in September, Conservative MP Mark Warawa (Langley) announced he was introducing a private member’s motion condemning the practice of sex-selective abortion. The motion – which expresses the view of the House of Commons and does not affect [...]
The awarding of the Diamond Jubilee medal to Mary Wagner and Linda Gibbons, two pro-lifers jailed for counselling within the “bubble zones” of abortion facilities, has caused public controversy. In a statement, Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott, who nominated Wagner and Gibbons for the medals, said that they “are trying to protect defenceless, voiceless human beings in the womb from butchery and death, [...]
The death of a pregnant woman has led to international media coverage as abortion advocates condemn Ireland’s ban on abortion. Savita Halappanavar died on Oct. 28 at University College Hospital in Galway from septicaemia after a miscarriage. The case is now being investigated by the hospital and Ireland’s Health and Safety Executive. Halappanavar’s husband, Praveen, told the media that on Oct. 20, [...]
The man who discovered induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has received the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a researcher from Kyoto University, developed a new process in 2006 that used four genes to reprogram skin cells in mice to behave like embryonic stem cells, which are pluripotent and thus capable of developing into any cell of the human body. [...]
On Oct. 23, the Alberta government brought forward a new Education Act that is being met with approval by homeschooling and parental rights organizations. “The more people got exposed to it and the more dialogue we had with it, the more we realized it wasn’t quite the right fit,” said Education Minister Jeff Johnson about the older version that was met with [...]
An Ottawa-area Catholic school that planned to send 52 of its students to Ohio in the final days before the U.S. presidential election, has cancelled the trip. While the school board claimed the trip was simply an opportunity for students to “observe” the U.S. political process, the teacher leading the trip, Scott Searle, has presented it to students as a chance to [...]