Toronto - Shelly Peterson, wife of Ontario Premier David Peterson, told an audience of 500 high school girls that the role of motherhood has been unfairly “downplayed” and “downtrodden.” Peterson thought women today can have both happy families and successful careers and they don’t have to be “superwomen” to do it. She has been married to the Premier for twelve years while [...]
The Minister of Health, Jake Epp, has announced the establishment of a parliamentary task force on child-care. The enquiry will focus o the care of children in a broad context and will include consideration of the child-care needs of all children, not just whose with working parents. Announcing the task force in the House of Commons on November 26, Mr. Epp said [...]
Three days of hearings on an application by former Manitoba Highways Minister Joe Borowski to declare Canada’s abortion law invalid, concluded in Regina on December 18, 1985. The hearings were before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, which reserved judgment until later. Although a full complement of seven judges was originally considered for the case, second thoughts led to a hearing by three [...]
I write as a member of the Mennonite Community in respect to the problem of abortion. I have read the statements from various Mennonite Conferences, and will try to distil what appears to be a consensus of understandings on this very difficult moral and social issue. We believe that the family continues to be the basic unit of our society. The New [...]
A new national pro-life organization, LIBERTY (Living Infant Babies Everywhere, a Right of Tomorrow’s Youth), protested in front of Queen’s Park on Saturday, December 28, to call on Attorney General Ian Scott to enforce the abortion laws. Linda Gibbons, 37, the head of the new organization says she has the backing of more than 800 ministers and plans to build a $27,000 [...]
Women using Natural Family Planning can now buy a computerized device to help them keep trace of their fertility cycle. The Bioself 110, invented by Quebec resident Edmond Desjacques, is available in drug stores in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. The cost is $97. The Bioself, placed under the tongue, records the woman’s basal body temperature each morning when she wakes. Basal [...]
Svend Robinson’s Private Member’s Bill, C-238, to remove abortion from the Criminal Code, was defeated in the House of Commons at the end of October. MPs successfully used the tactic that has been used by pro-abortion Mos in the past to block private members’ bills seeking tighter control on abortion. That is, debate following the Bill’s second reading continued until the Speaker [...]
The possibility of forming a new political party is to be examined by a special Campaign Life Committee. The Committee is to draft a platform, examine technical details of selection and nomination of candidates, and to report back to the national body. This was the decision of Campaign Life Canada at its annual meeting on November 25, 1985. Campaign Life is Pro-life’s [...]
Like it or not, each month seems to bring further evidence that pro-life faith in the politicians of Canada’s three political parties is misplaced. Even rather firm declarations of pro-life sentiments by candidates at election time are now to be looked at with extreme caution. They often prove to be no more than vote-getting devices. They certainly do not guarantee either understanding [...]
Alliance for Life has written to the Minister of Communications, Marcel Masse, protesting the showing of a pro-abortion episode of a popular TV serial. The Alliance reminded the Minister that in 1984 the CRTC has insisted on such rules as equal time for pro-abortion movies if a pro-life movie were shown; the need to carry a warning of bias, and the rejection [...]
In late October, the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association presented a brief to federal members of parliament in Ottawa. Edward Landgraf, executive director, and Thomas Schuck, vice-president, met with many MPs and discussed the imbalance of government funding in favour of pro-abortion organizations. Below are the main points covered in the brief. Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association represents some 20,000 members of all denominations in 32 [...]
Everyone loves to hate the Post Office. It’s almost a national pastime. However, recent incidents involving pro-life mail invite serious comments on the actions of mail handlers across the country. A majority of these incidents involve the “Forgetting Someone” brochure available from the Eastern Ontario Pro-Life Association. It was recently reported in the Globe and Mail that letter carriers in Nelson, B.C., [...]
Joe Borowski, Canada’s foremost pro-life activist, was in Toronto in November to attend the Annual Campaign Life meeting. After the weekend meeting, Mr. Borowski went down to the Morgentaler abortuary on Monday, November 25, and spoke to the picketers on the front steps of the illegal abortion clinic. (He was later arrested at the rear for “trespassing.”) In his statement to the [...]
On November 27, Ontario Labour Minister Bill Wrye announced that the Peterson government is considering making it illegal to “discriminate” against homosexuals. Wrye promised to unveil “reforms” to the Ontario Human Rights Code within a few weeks. “I think we ought to take a real close look at it (sexual preference)” the Toronto Star (Nov. 28) reported Wrye as saying. Wrye acknowledged [...]
“You’re killing babies,” said Shirley Witt as she met Ian Scott, Ontario’s Attorney General. Witt, reported the Pembroke Advertiser on December 18, was one of about 14 quiet protestors outside the Heritage Inn during Scott’s visit to the city. Outside temperatures were – 18 degrees Celsius yet the protestors followed Scott on his tour during the day. Among the picketers were members [...]