On March 17, three Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the motion of George Carruthers and Michael Whelton to be given leave to appeal the BC Appeal Court decision on their case to the full nine member Supreme Court Bench. (See Interim, March 1986, for background on this point.) Lawyer Marvin Storrow of Vancouver outlined the case before Justices Bertha [...]
Editor: An article in the April issue explaining parliamentary procedures on Private Members’ Bills was prepared before recent changes were made. The following explains how Private Members’ Bills now proceed through the House of Commons. The new rules governing Private Members’ Business are substantially different. All Members wishing to submit bills (or Motions) to be debated during Private Members’ Hour enter their [...]
WINNIPEG – Ingrid Krueger has a 24-hour hotline in her home. In this way she provides sympathetic listening and advice to women of all ages who continue to suffer grief and guilt following an abortion which may have taken place a few days previously or 20 years earlier. Krueger, founder of Women Exploited by Abortion in Winnipeg, was guest speaker at the [...]
This is the second part of an ongoing series on the churches and pro-life issues. Part one, the United Church, appeared in the April issue. On August 28, 1985, Dr. Lewis Garnsworthy, with the glare of media publicity around him, appeared before the Ontario Provincial Legislature Committee holding hearings on full funding for Catholic schools. He was accompanied by Dr. Clarke MacDonald, [...]
This article is not addressed to people of religious convictions but to those who are victims of materialism. For the latter, children are regarded as the source of problems – financial problems, and as limitations on their leisure time. There are also people who are in a panic about the future of the world. To them, the atomic bomb may bring doomsday. [...]
The following is the first of several articles, we hope, discussing the political future of the pro-life, pro-child, pro-family movement. Readers are invited to contribute. Well-written articles of no more than 1500 words will be considered for publication. The editors reserve the right of editing and printing. In our next issue, the Committee considering a New Party will publish the results of [...]
In March the 365-page report of the Federally-appointed Task Force on Child Care was released. The Cooke report (named after the Task Force’s chairman, Dr. Katie Cooke, a sociologist and first president of the Canadian Advisory council on the Status of Women) wants a universally-accessible, government-funded and free to the user, “child care” system available to every Canadian child by 2001. This [...]
Two informative events took place during International Women’s Week. The first, on March 3, was a talk given at Carleton University, Ottawa, by Dr. Jill Vickers of the Department of Canadian Studies. She spoke to an audience of about eighty women and a sprinkling of men on the theme, “The Politicization of Gender and the New Right.” Later in the week, Betty [...]
On May 14, 1969, the Parliament of Canada voted on and passed the “Omnibus Bill” encompassing over one hundred reforms to the Criminal Code. Clause 18 of this Bill legalized abortion in cases where the mother’s life or health might be in danger and set out provisions for Therapeutic Abortion Committees. Since then the numbers of abortions in Canada have risen steadily [...]
Calgary City Council appears set to approve 1986 funding for the city’s Birth Control Association, despite being presented with documented information showing that the CBCA acts as an abortion referral agency and actively lobbies for increased abortion access. Mike Malley, president of the newly-formed Campaign Life Calgary, contends that the city is funding a political lobbying programme in its grants to the [...]
A Vancouver couple has taken the provincial social services department to court in protest over the apparent right of social workers to remove children from their parents. It promises to be a precedent-setting case, since it is the first of its kind in Canada. Wanita and Maurice Gareau, a Mormon couple, are suing three social workers and the provincial superintendent of family [...]
During the autumn of 1985 students from the ages of eight to 12 at St. John school in Garson, Ontario prepared posters for a Christian Family Life conference. The posters, which dealt with the themes of “Life is Precious” and “Justice for the Unborn” were displayed locally by Sudbury Right to Life and were so impressive that the group later covered them [...]
Two students of Miss McGrade’s grade six class at St. John the Evangelist School in Weston, Ontario submitted a pro-life project for the annual Math-Science Fair. The two young students, Laura Harkin and Krista Polsinelli said that it took about four weeks of part-time efforts to complete the impressive project. The project features a detailed description of the early life of the [...]
Earlier this year the grade eight students of St. Basil School put on a benefit concert entitled “Choose Life.” Each year, as part of the grade eight music programme, the students are required to create a theatrical performance. A theme is discussed, studied and the students are then asked to work within the theme chosen, preparing skits and integrating music to the [...]
An 11 a.m. ecumenical service to commemorate the unborn who have died at 85 Harbord Street was held on Good Friday, March 28. The service was led by Pastor Bob Baxter, assisted by Father Ted Colleton and Father Alphonse de Valk. The singing was led by Greg Benoit. Sixty people turned out for the service which lasted 45 minutes.