A Canadian chapter of the U.S.-based Rutherford Institute has opened in British Columbia. Members of the international organization say they’re dedicated to fighting for traditional values in the courts. One of the first issues to be tackled, according to B.C. founder Charles Lugosi, is a recent Calgary Art Exhibit that went unchallenged by civil authorities. “There was a pornographic art display involving [...]
A radical review of the Canadian Constitution in the offing could be seized as a chance to destroy the publicly-supported Catholic school system in all of Canada. This is what Tom Reilly, the Superintendent of Education of Dufferin-Peel RC Separate School Board, fears to some extent, as expressed in a letter dated September 19, 1991, to Donald Clune, the Chairman of the [...]
The Ontario NDP government has presented a bill that angers both pro-lifers and the pro-abortionists. Let’s not stop there. It angers a coalition of twelve churches (including Anglicans, Catholics, Baptists and Mennonites). It angers Jewish rabbis. It also angers a host of social workers and previously non-regulated people such as naturopaths and other private counseling groups. The new legislation includes Bill 43, [...]
One cannot but have the greatest sympathy for Nancy B, the 25 year-old quadriplegic in a Quebec City hospital, who is paralyzed from the neck down due to Guillian-Barré syndrome. Yet her request to be allowed to die by unplugging her respirator cannot but fill us with sadness, sadness for her and sadness for us. For her, because she lacks the will [...]
In the effort to fulfil its agenda of making abortion more accessible to women, Ontario’s NDP government has instituted Heath Travel Grants for Northern Ontario Residents. The Ministry’s brochure explains that a “ministry-approved health centre” means, among other things, “facilities providing abortions.” Patients who live more than 63 miles from a referral within Northern Ontario or Manitoba or 126 miles to “other [...]
A brief survey of Ontario Members of Provincial Parliament (MPP) vying for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party indicates that all six contenders are pro-abortion. The leader selection will take place in mid-February. Charles Beer (MPP – York North) believes that abortions should be done in hospitals. Abortion should not be “criminalized”. Although he doesn’t like abortion, it should be available, [...]
On October 31, 1991 (Halowe’en), Dawn Black (NDP, New Westminster-Burnaby, B.C.) introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Commons in favour of funding for birth control. Pro-lifers have been saying for years that the contraceptive mentality increases rather than decreases abortions and the dissolution of the family, but feminists and others won’t listen. Dawn Black’s bill proposed to reinstate a [...]
Kitchener abortionist quits Kitchener – Dr. Fred Ufflelmann, the only abortionist in the Kitchener-Waterloo region in Ontario, announced on January 16, 1992, that he had stopped committing abortions. Some of the women, he said, are undecided, make arrangements, then change their minds. “From time to time you get pretty discouraged wondering whether you are doing the right thing,” he said. Dr. Uffelmann [...]
Calgary’s Kensington “clinic”, owned by abortionist Theodore Busheikin, obtained an injunction on December 17 prohibiting protesters from coming within 90 metres of it. Lawyer Wendy Best argued the abortionist’s case, claiming that demonstrators should not be allowed to and out literature that could interfere with Busheikin's “business”. Injunction Michael O’Malley of Campaign Life Calgary, and Gil Ludwig, attorney for Christians Concerned for [...]
This plea was broadcast on CBC’s “Metro Morning”, January 7, 1992. “Nancy B. has the right to die…I agree. But I don’t think that’s the issue. The debate is about dying, but Nancy is living with a severe physical disability…like me and hundreds of other Canadians. Nancy has been made into a pawn for all the people who are interested in the [...]
A Manitoba Court of Appeal verdict handed down November 1, effectively closed the doors of Winnipeg’s estimated 20 video-porn stores. In a split decision, a majority of the judges ruled that Manitoba’s obscenity law is constitutional. “Sexual stimulation is not protected by the charter of rights and freedoms,” the judges maintained, overturning the August 1989 arguments of Court of Queen’s Bench Justice [...]
In the recent case involving a Cincinnati art gallery, jury members deemed the late Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs “lewd,” “grotesque,” and “disgusting” but still they didn’t find them obscene. The jurors had been convinced by a parade of “experts” that the pictures possessed artistic merit. Even though they thought the sexual practices depicted were patently offensive, the weight of the defense testimony made [...]
On November 20, 1990, ten Toronto rescuers appeared before Judge Mercer. They were represented by counselor, Paul Chumak. Charges went back to July 14, 1990, when the ten pro-lifers were arrested and charged with mischief and blocking the entrance to Dr. Monole Buruiana’s abortuary in the east end of Toronto. Receiving sentence were: Adriana Bannon, Stratford George Denish, London Rev. Ken Campbell, [...]
Alberta Report On November 7, the editor of the Edmonton Catholic weekly, the Western Catholic Reporter (WCR), was fired. He had been hired August 1. According to Mr. John Gill, lawyer and member of the WCR board, Mr. Rodney Stafford-Mayer was dismissed because the newspaper’s board of directors “were not generally satisfied with the way he was performing his job.” Reports that [...]
Dartmouth, N.S. – Some 250 people gathered here November 9-11 for the first Human Life International strategy weekend in the Atlantic area. Randy Engel, editor, award winning journalist, and author of the recently published Sex Education: The Final Plague, was one of the speakers. “There is no good form of classroom sex education, any more than there can be a good form [...]