Canada On March 17, the Liberals won three by-elections and the Conservatives one. Among the new Liberal MPs is former NDP Ontario premier Bob Rae, who brought in the temporary injunction against peaceful pro-life witnessing in 1994 … REAL Women is pleased with changes to the advisory board of the federally funded Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. The museum, which has received $1 million from Ottawa [...]
Planned Parenthood statement to UN NEW YORK –The International Planned Parenthood Federation released a statement endorsing the theme of the 41st session of the Commission on Population and Development: “Population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development.” The session is scheduled to take place April 7-11. According to the IPPF, “Urban growth is predominantly fuelled by natural population increase rather than migration. It [...]
Canada Dr. Joseph Roncaiolo, a Newmarket, Ont. gynecologist, says he did not phone 911 when he discovered his wife dead at their home because he wasn’t sure she had stopped breathing and didn’t want her to survive “as a vegetable.” He said he did likewise when his pet was sick: “I did the same thing when my dog died – I didn’t call [...]
Media reactions to Latimer decision The decision of the parole board in December to not grant convicted child killer Robert Latimer day parole was condemned by editorialists across the country. Also, most papers ran letters to the editor that complained that Latimer was being punished for not showing any remorse – in the parole hearings he showed no regret for his actions [...]
City nixes pro-life bus shelter ads HAMILTON – Don Hull, Hamilton’s director of transit, has removed from its bus shelters an ad that says: “9 months. The length of time an abortion is allowed in Canada. Abortion. Have we gone to far?” The Hamilton Spectator reported that there were a handful of complaints from people who found it offensive. Councillor Brian McHattie [...]
Canada Based on estimates as of Oct. 1, 2007, Statistics Canada says the country’s population topped 33 million for the first time, reaching a total of 33,091,200. Immigration drove the increase. The only province or territory with a replacement-level fertility rate is Nunavut … In a 400-page report, Quebec’s chief electoral officer Marcel Blanchet proposed that the province examine proportional representation and [...]
Illegal abortuaries raided in Spain BARCELONA – Police in Barcelona have discovered bone-crushing machines attached to drains in four abortion facilities run by Peruvian Carlos Morin. The abortuaries, which advertise across Europe, are suspected of committing abortions in the eighth month of pregnancy and police say the bones were crushed and drained into the city’s public drains. In Spain, abortion is legal [...]
Lamer helped strike down abortion law OTTAWA – Former judge and lawyer Antonio Lamer has died at the age of 74. Lamer joined the Supreme Court in 1980 and was appointed chief justice in 1990, retiring from the bench a decade later. The Toronto Star said he was “one of the key architects of how courts interpret the 1982 Constitution and Charter [...]
Canada A Liberal party mailing from leader Stephane Dion to thousands of households in the Vancouver East riding has criticized the Conservatives for “dithering” in their handling of the InSite “safe injection” drug site and claims that “harm reduction saves lives.” Elizabeth Whiting, the party’s communications director, defended the mailing by saying InSite’s funding is a “major issue.” Earlier this year, Health [...]
Canada The federal Conservative government’s omnibus anti-crime bill includes a provision to raise the age of consent for heterosexual sexual activity from 14 to 16 … Conservative MP Joy Smith(Kildonan-St. Paul) will introduce a private member’s bill targeting human trafficking by amending the Criminal Code to outlaw sexual tourism and transmitting, distributing or advertising information for the means of sexual exploitation. Smith [...]
Former gay PQ head quits politics MONTREAL – Former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair, the first open homosexual to be chosen leader of a major party, has announced he will leave politics. His party fell to third, behind the Liberal Party of Quebec and Action Democratique in March, and he subsequently was forced from the party’s leadership. Few pundits blamed his sexual [...]
Columnist alarmed by motherhood authors TORONTO – In the October issue of Chatelaine, Katrina Onstad complained that U.S. author Rebecca Walker is promoting the joys of family life in her new book, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence. Walker, the daughter of Alice Walker, author of The Colour Purple, has repudiated her mother’s feminist worldview – for which she [...]
Canada Pro-life Conservative MP Art Hanger(Calgary Northeast), who was first elected as a Reform MP in 1993, has announced he will not seek re-election … The Montreal Gazettereported that in July, Quebec registered 7,400 births, the highest monthly total in the 2000s … A Federal Court in B.C. is considering a case brought forth by the Sex Party, a registered political party [...]
Williams promises baby bonus JOHN’S – As part of the Progressive Conservative re-election campaign, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams says if he is re-elected, he will provide a financial incentive for women to have more children in an effort to arrest the province’s sagging birthrate. In 2004, there were 4,488 births in the province, compared to 8,929 in 1983. Each year, [...]
Mixed signals on U.S. funding of foreign abortion groups WASHINGTON – White House Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte announced that the Bush administration will deny funding to the United Nations Population Fund for the sixth year in a row, on the grounds that the program co-operates with forced abortion and sterilization in China. At the same time, the Senate voted 53-41 [...]