“It is difficult to conclude that Nancy has good reason to shorten her life.” Kurt Gayle’s thoughtful letter together with a re-examination of the principles involved in such cases and further information about Nancy’s condition, has in face led me to a different conclusion from the one I reached before. People hold very strong opinions about whether or not suicide and euthanasia [...]
Editor: On January 6, 1992 Mr. Justice Jaques Dufour handed down his ruling in favour of Nancy B’s request to discontinue her respirator. The following is a summary of his conclusions. Judge Jaques Dufour “It would be nature taking its course.” Summary The plaintiff, Nancy B., is twenty-five years old. She suffers from a progressive motor paralysis caused by Guillain-Barré syndrome. She [...]
A Canadian chapter of the U.S.-based Rutherford Institute has opened in British Columbia. Members of the international organization say they’re dedicated to fighting for traditional values in the courts. One of the first issues to be tackled, according to B.C. founder Charles Lugosi, is a recent Calgary Art Exhibit that went unchallenged by civil authorities. “There was a pornographic art display involving [...]
A radical review of the Canadian Constitution in the offing could be seized as a chance to destroy the publicly-supported Catholic school system in all of Canada. This is what Tom Reilly, the Superintendent of Education of Dufferin-Peel RC Separate School Board, fears to some extent, as expressed in a letter dated September 19, 1991, to Donald Clune, the Chairman of the [...]
The Ontario NDP government has presented a bill that angers both pro-lifers and the pro-abortionists. Let’s not stop there. It angers a coalition of twelve churches (including Anglicans, Catholics, Baptists and Mennonites). It angers Jewish rabbis. It also angers a host of social workers and previously non-regulated people such as naturopaths and other private counseling groups. The new legislation includes Bill 43, [...]
Alberta Report On November 7, the editor of the Edmonton Catholic weekly, the Western Catholic Reporter (WCR), was fired. He had been hired August 1. According to Mr. John Gill, lawyer and member of the WCR board, Mr. Rodney Stafford-Mayer was dismissed because the newspaper’s board of directors “were not generally satisfied with the way he was performing his job.” Reports that [...]
Peace River (FNIF) Teachers in northern British Columbia endure religious persecution from the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. Two dozen teachers in the Peace River area, most of them Protestants, received notice in a BCTF Newsletter that the organization planned to “nail them to their respective crosses” after they defied union picket lines last spring to continue teaching. The two dozen are part of [...]
For years a few atheists and influential sectors of the Jewish community have lobbied to ban Christianity from public schools in Ontario and elsewhere. Christianity in public schools, it must be understood, meant Protestantism. Public schools in Ontario had always been Protestant schools. That’s why from the 1840’s onwards, Catholics in Ontario fought to have their own schools. In recent years, the [...]
Toronto – The Ministry of Education policy allowing only education about religion, effective from the beginning of 1991, has been the subject of mixed reviews. It is seen by some as an attempt to be fair to all. Others view it as a non-solution to the problem it attempts to address. Under the new policy, boards of education are permitted to offer [...]
Rosary for Life Canada hosted its second annual world-wide Rosary for Life in London, Ontario, on October 12. The event began with Mass for the protection of the unborn in Holy Rosary Church. Afterwards, over one hundred participants formed a procession to Victoria Hospital to pray the Rosary for the conversion of abortionists and their supporters. Other groups were praying the Rosary [...]
Dr. Robert McClure was the first layman to serve as Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1968-1971). He died at the age of 91 on November 10, 1991. There were many tributes to a life of astonishing variety and achievement. During his life he had received many honours. McClure had served as a medical missionary for 25 years in China. He [...]
NATIONAL BORDERS ARE NOT IMPORTANT IN GOD’S EYES. WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT ALL PEOPLE RESPECT THE LAW OF GOD AND IN PARTICULAR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE. IF BABIES ARE NOT SAFE EVERYWHERE THEY ARE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE. Mike Gerrety Police Chief Mike Gerrety had only six years to go before retirement on a comfortable pension. He might have retreated from [...]
• A Commons committee holds hearings on the Robert Wenman bill (intended to protect doctors who might have hastened the deaths of terminally ill patients); • The State of Washington holds a referendum on legalized euthanasia (it lost, but in a very close vote, 54 to 46 per cent); • Derek Humphrey’s suicide book Final Exit, is a bestseller. (A Montreal woman [...]
“My presence, fasting, prayer and witness on Parliament Hill provides the whole pro-life movement in Canada with an identifiable focus at the location where legislation must take place. It also provides them with what I consider to be the most radical counter-cultural sign and weapon to combat consumerism, materialism, self-indulgence, and a comfort and convenience-oriented society, a society badly in need of [...]
Summerside, PEI – “In pro-life work, we should leave nothing to chance: we should put the spiritual first,” say Olive Moore, Eileen Lantz and Esther Steele, of East Prince (County) Right to Life, the second largest chapter in the province. And they do. The day we talked, chapter president Olive and secretary Eileen had started by attending morning Mass for the Unborn, [...]