In 1987, pro-lifers lined a busy intersection in Yuba City, California, holding signs such as “Abortion Kills Children” and “Jesus Forgives and Heals.” The event attracted a gathering of 2500 and the organizers, Please Let Me Live (PLML), deemed this first “Life Chain” to be a modest success. Little did they know that their rally would soon gain widespread appeal and become [...]
(Counter-Witness is a column of record for those who have eyes and never see, ears and never hear. (Ezek. 12:2) Perhaps one day they will see and hear.) United Way In 1976 Toronto’s RC Archbishop Philip Pocock objected to the United Way’s decision to start funding Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the chief promoter of the anti-life, anti-family mentality in Canada and [...]
August 17- Vancouver Betty Baxter, 40, former Canadian volleyball team member and spokeswoman for Vancouver’s “gay games” in 1980, will run for the NDP in the coming federal election as Canada’s first openly lesbian candidate. She became a lesbian in her twenties. Baxter will run in Vancouver Centre, now held by current Justice Minister Kim Campbell, former NDP member- turned Social Creditor-turned [...]
Early one sprng mornig a few weeks ago, in downtown Toronto, Tom Brown was handing out pro-life pamphlets on the streets in front of Buruiana’s abortuary. He was waiting for his partner , Mary Burnie. Nearby, he noticed a man and a woman approach the abortuary but then hesitate. Politely, he asked if he could speak to them before they went inside. [...]
Two dozen Canadian pro-lifers took part in the Spring of Life rescue campaign in Buffalo, willingly facing violence and abuse from pro-abortion forces and the fear of indignities and incarceration of which we can justifiably be proud. But if I may speak frankly to you, all my fellow Canadian pro-lifers- why is it that we do not have rescue campaigns in Canadian [...]
Until September of this year, Joanna Manning was the head of the religious department of Monsignor Percy Johnson Secondary School of the Metropolitan (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB). She resigned the position, of her own accord, and has become a part-time history teacher in the same school. Manning is the leading spokeswomen for the Coalition of Concerned Canadian Catholics (CCCC), an organization [...]
In 1991 inmates of federal prisons received condoms as a special Christmas gift from Health and Welfare Canada. This, reports the Canada Diseases Weekly Report (October 1991), is the “first important step” the Canadian government has taken to combat the spread of AIDS in federal penitentiaries. The editors of the Report state their opinion after summarizing the preliminary results of a two-year [...]
Constitutional checklist Parliamentary Reform -New Senate to include six senators from each province, one from each territory, plus six native senators (68). -Senate would have absolute veto on new taxes on natural resources; questions of French language and culture require double majority of total senators and of francophone senators; a simple majority against other Commons bills forces joint sitting of Senate and [...]
On May 19, eight pro-life prisoners of conscience entered the Allantown prison system to serve what may turn out to be a one-year sentence. At the sentencing hearing after their trial for a rescue in Allentown, Pa., in July 1991, Judge James Knoll Gardner offered to have them serve only one month providing they pay a fine and accept probation. They all [...]
Four people are in prison in a remote area. They have never been charged with a crime; they have never received even the pretence of a trial. On the arbitrary command of an appointed government official, they were simply rounded up and ordered held indefinitely. The reason- they refused to obey his demand that they do something intrinsically evil, that they act [...]
Pro-lifers in Ireland are still wondering how the bottom fell out of their world. Can they salvage anything out of the mess in which they find themselves as a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Constitution gives a woman a right to an abortion in her life is in danger, and that her threat to commit suicide is proof of [...]
I believe that we are all called by our Christian faith to be more then bystanders The Family Coalition Party of Ontario gives us an opportunity to work towards a better tomorrow for all the citizens in Ontario. The morals that form the cornerstone of the FCP have formed the basis of society around the world. Anti-life is anti-family Unlike any previous [...]
Campaign Life Coalition and Alliance for Life do not take a position on the Referendum. The following editorial, therefore, is the opinion of the editor. *** Since 1980 Canadians have faced half a dozen government- manufactured “crises” about taxes, trade and unity. With a gun to the head, voters are told to say “Yes” or else they are accused of destroying the [...]
Yellowknife is a thriving community of 15,000 located on Great Slave lake, 960 kilometers north of Edmonton. The are is characterized by low rock outcrops and stunted trees. Summers are warm but January temperatures range from –33 to –25 degrees Celsius. The city has nine schools, many social agencies and at least 13 religious denominations. It is a centre for mining, transportation, [...]
Pro-life organizers are blaming themselves for a narrow defeat at the hands of a high-profile Liberal at the Scarborough East nomination meting Sept.21 Doug Peters, who has been hand picked by the Liberal party and parachuted into the riding, squeaked by pro-life candidate Joe Bissonnette plans to appeal the results to the Liberal Party of Canada. The voting saw bus loads of [...]