On January 14, at the Senator Motor Hotel in Timmins, Ontario, Premier Petereson was picketed by 50 pro-life protesters as he attended a cabinet meeting. Campaign Life Timmins organized the demonstration which took place in –28 degrees winter weather. Premier Peterson was scheduled to arrive at 6:00 p.m. when the picket began but because of a flight delay didn’t show up until [...]
On October 17 the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down Metro-Toronto’s bylaw prohibiting all nude “exotic” dancing as unconstitutional. The bylaw had been enacted under a provision of the Provincial Municipal Act. The judges stated that: “In our opinion, the true object and purpose of (the bylaw) is not the regulation of the trade and business of an adult entertainment parlous, but [...]
for parole for at least 10 years, for the second-degree murder of her newly-born granddaughter. The child was found buried in a garbage bag in a flower bed in the woman’s garden. An autopsy report showed the cause of death was asphyxiation by strangulation. Imogene Souliere, a registered nurse, had helped her 19-year-old daughter deliver the baby. Renee Souliere had kept her [...]
Pro-lifers across Ontario are now able to get up-to-the moment news and information via a new pro-life telephone hotline. The hotline has been set up by Campaign Life Canada, together with its Ontario co-ordinators, as an experiment. If successful, the hotline will be developed into a national news and information service. Inspiration for the telephone hotline came from a similar service established [...]
During the early part of an evening just two days before Christmas, a message was painted on the door of the Morgentaler abortuary by Anthony Canhoto, a long-time protestor of the abortion clinic. Tony had designed a mono print from a piece of foam rubber that said “murderer” and depicted a hand on either side of the word. He dipped this form [...]
Depo-Provera, the controversial contraceptive-abortifacient drug, has been given the green light for use in Canada by an advisory committee to the Department of Health and Welfare. However, the Minister of Health, Jake Epp, has said that government approval for the drug is not likely “for some months.” Depo-Provera, manufactured by the Upjohn Company, is a progesterone steroid. It is legally used in [...]
A Stellarton, Nova Scotia, community worker was fired from her government-funded job after exposing the “radical lesbian feminist” policies of the Pictou County Women’s Centre. Judy Davidson, 39, designed a project to inform the public about all aspects of sexual abuse against women and children. Under the sponsorship of the Pictou County Women’s Centre, the project received government approval and a grant [...]
In the early morning hours of July 17, 1984, when John Carroll was told that his newborn daughter had Spina Bifida, he asked “What’s that?” Spina Bifida, one of the most common birth defects, involves the improper development of the spinal cord. This damage is done between 12 and 28 days after conception. A section of the back fails to close and [...]
On November 20, Toronto Judge Samuel Darragh imposed a $50 fine on Tom Brown, 48; his wife Barbara, 43; Annette McLoughlin, 24; Stephen Jalsevac, 38; and Antonio Canhoto, 45. He called the act of entering the clinic in order to make a citizen’s arrest a “charade”, on the grounds that none of the accused saw anyone performing an abortion. On the same [...]
Just about the most despised word among libertarians today is censorship. They equate it with fascism and other such vile terms. Why, the strong proponent of censorship is regarded as in reincarnation of old man Hitler himself. Especially are they riled when the subject of censorship is sex. Let a few seconds be deleted from a movie called The Tin Drum, or [...]
When I was at college, I didn’t major in history – I majored mostly in meals! But I do love to dabble in history, both ancient and modern and there is a great deal to be learned from just reading history. Wasn’t it the philosopher, George Santayana, who said, “Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to [...]
Abortion advocates often base their arguments for wider access to abortion on their belief that women have an explicit civil right to be free from any number of complications – physical, emotional, financial, etc – of an unwanted pregnancy. They tend to deny, or attempt to minimize, the many complications, physical and psychological, which frequently follow induced abortion. The Human Life Research [...]
Union dues, often compulsory for employees in industry, are being used for many purposes other than collective bargaining. These purposes include ideological warfare, often contrary to the views of those who pay the dues. They further include anti-family and anti-child policies such as abortion and homosexuality. On December 18, 1985, the Supreme Court of Ontario began hearings on a challenge to the [...]
Pro-Life activists in the U.S. have long believed that it’s important to know the strategies and attitudes of the other side. Joe Scheidler, director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League and Andrew Scholberg, editor of Life and Family News of Collegeville, Minn., have attended the annual meetings of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) since 1979. In previous years, the two non-members of [...]
One day after the Lavigne hearing (see “Use of Union dues being challenged”) started before the Ontario Supreme Courts on December 18, 1985, an Ontario civil servant was granted partial exemption from paying union dues. On December 19, the Ontario Public Service Labour Relations Tribunal declared that Rose Marie MacLean falls under a religious exemption to that part of compulsory dues which [...]