Police Constable David Packer can keep a secret. His wife, Anne, didn’t find out for six months that her husband was a hero. He had been cited for bravery by the Metropolitan Toronto Police Department for saving a three-month old infant from a fire in a building on Spencer Avenue. The child’s deaf-mute mother had put her arms together and made a [...]
Pro-lifers are very valuable people to other pro-lifers. A rather obvious statement. When you are taking up a cause where your opponents are not only morally wrong but nasty rich and influential you appreciate your allies. But pro-lifers are so caught up in their convictions of the rightness of their cause it sometimes doesn’t occur to them that they could fall heir [...]
A Toronto police officer has refused to perform guard duty outside the Morgentaler clinic and has been charged by his superiors with committing an offence under the Police Act. Constable David Packer, 35 is a father of five and a ten year veteran of the force. Two years ago he was decorated by the Police Department for bravery in rescuing a three-month [...]
The third in a continuing series of pro-life Members of Parliament John Reimer is a native of Kitchener, Ontario, and before his political career was an educator and member of the Waterloo Country Board of Education and the Board of Governors of Wilfred Laurier University. He has served one previous term in the House of Commons during the 1979-80 session. He was [...]
Two labour tribunal have recently ruled against pro-life union members who sought exemption from paying their dues. The pro-lifers object to their union dues being used to promote abortion-on-demand. Bernard Riordan of Whitby, Ontario, is an employee of Revenue Canada and is represented by Public Service Alliance of Canada. Paul Tremblay, a teacher at Georgian College in Barrie, is a member of [...]
The United States Government announced on April 16, 1987, that it is clearing the way for investors to patent new forms of animal life through gene splitting, and that the new policy would be adopted by the Commerce Department’s Patent and Trademark Office. The policy will allow the patenting of animals with new traits, and one report states that “researches will eventually [...]
The Republic of the Philippines have become the third nation in the world to offer full constitutional protection to unborn children, following the example of Ireland and Guatemala. The new Filipino Constitution greatly supports the rights of the unborn and affirms marriage as the foundation of the family to be protected by the state. According to Justice Cecilia Munoz Palma, the president [...]
A synopsis of who said what on pro-life, pro-family issues in Parliament. ABORTION – John Cormley, Brian White, Benno Friessen, Tony Roman, Elliot Hardey, Ross Belsher, Girve Fretz, Rob Nicholson, Joe Reid, Gus Mitges, and Blaine Thacker presented petitions supporting protection for unborn children in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Mitges’ motion); Bill Gottselig made a statement paying tribute to the [...]
Ontario Premier David Peterson was met by a contingent of Campaign Life picketers when he left the recent Liberal Cabinet Meeting at the Cornwall Civic Complex. When asked about the lack of bail conditional for Morgentaler and the continued operation of the illegal abortuaries, Mr. Peterson replied that he had “already answered those questions earlier.” When he told that we were not [...]
On April 8, Campaign Life and Liberal for Life organized a joint picket at the nomination meeting for the Liberal Candidate in the Oakwood Constituency (Toronto). Chaviva Hosek had been parachuted into the riding as a nominee by the party hierarchy. She is a well-known advocate of abortion on demand and a past president of the pro-abortion National Action Committee on the [...]
I’M not a political animal! I have lived in three different countries for considerable periods of my life (27, 30 and 16 years – that should up to 73) and I have never belonged to a political party. But I have always voted since I became of age. I have voted for people not for parties. If I had good reason to [...]
In January this year an In Vitro Fertilization clinic opened at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre. This prompted meetings and considerable correspondence between members of the IVF team and the League of Life in Manitoba. As a result;, the recent Vatican document, “On Respect for Human Life and its Origins and the Dignity and Procreation,” which formally condemned IVF, has created more than [...]
If “yes” is your response to this question, you’ll want to take the time to attend a special Conference on Family issues and Values being help at London Ontario’s City Centre Holiday Inn, Saturday May 23, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The traditional family is under attack as never before. Advocates of “homosexual rights,” increasingly explicit pornography and social attitudes which [...]
In mid-March Drs. Robert Walley, and Robert Quigley, both members of the Board of Directors for the Right to Life Association Newfoundland, filed a complaint to CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) against the CBC, for what they claim to be censorship. The association accused the CBC of “consistent, blatant partiality” and denial of access to its facilities. The Right to Life [...]
Ex-boxer Reggie Chartrand is still a fighter! President of Foundation Combat pour La Vie, a Quebec pro-life organization, he now fighting for the pro-life cause. In the past two years his efforts to bring Henry Morgentaler to justice have ended in frustration. But this February Mr. Chartrand was at last able to lay seven complaints, through the Quebec ombudsman, against Morgentaler – [...]