Saanich-Gulf Islands Conservative MP Gary Lunn is Minister of State (Sport) and won re-election by nearly 2600 votes in 2008 over Liberal Briony Penn, but this time he is facing Green Party leader Elizabeth May and the other left-of-centre parties are pulling back their efforts in an apparent attempt to help her knock off the incumbent. Lunn is rated pro-life and pro-family [...]
Canada In 2009 there was controversy when the study guide given to new immigrants, “Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship,” did not include reference to same-sex “marriage.” A new guide released on March 14 states: “Canada’s diversity includes gay and lesbian Canadians, who enjoy the full protection of and equal treatment under the law, including access to civil marriage.” The [...]
Canada In an interview with Radio-Canada, child murderer Robert Latimer said he would kill his disabled daughter Tracy Latimer if faced with the decision to do it over again. “People think it is a hard decision, but it’s not,” he told Anne-Marie Dussault. Latimer was granted full parole in December after serving a ten-year sentence ... Writing in the the Journal of [...]
Canada The National Post had a major feature entitled “When two is too many” that examined so-called “selective reduction” in pregnancies involving twins. The phenomenon of reducing the number of children in utero through targeted abortion has been common-place for multiples but there has been very little mention of the phenomenon among women expecting twins … In an interview with the CBC’s [...]
Canada The trial of Don Spratt and Cecilia (Sissy) von Dehn, charged in June 2009 with breeching British Columbia’s Access to Abortion Services Act, will continue on March 16. Four days of hearing in October 2010 were insufficient to hear all the testimony. The law prohibits pro-life witnessing within 50 meters of an abortion facility, and von Dehn was carrying a sign [...]
Canada Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, while speaking at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ont., was asked by a student about abortion. “My personal view is abortion should be as rare and as infrequent as family planning, good medical care and education can make it,” said Ignatieff. Then he added: “But it should be legal.” Earlier this year, Ignatieff advocated that Canadian taxpayers [...]
NB Human Rights Commission to examine abortion funding Fredericton -- The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission will hold hearings on whether the province’s abortion funding policy is a violation of the human rights of women. Under New Brunswick’s Medical Services Payment Act the province will only pay for abortions committed at hospitals and which are referred by a family doctor. The NB [...]
Canada According to an Ipsos Reid poll for Postmedia News and Global TV, 35 per cent of Canadians thought the federal Conservatives best reflected the values and needs of today’s families, while 27 per cent said the same of the NDP and just 19 per cent favoured the Liberals. John Wright, senior vice president of Ipsos Reid, said, “What was … more [...]
B.C. sues contraceptive patch maker VANCOUVER – The British Columbia government has launched a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson Inc. for health care costs associated with treating women who suffered from the company’s contraceptive patch. McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc. and Janssen-Ortho Inc. were also named as defendants. The lawsuit claims that the users “did not receive any warnings about the increased risk of [...]
Canada MP Francine Lalonde (BQ, La Pointe-de-I’lle), who has introduced three private member’s bill to legalize euthanasia, announced she will not seek re-election as she continues her personal battle against cancer. Her latest attempt to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide was defeated in April by a 228-59 vote … The National Parole Board relaxed Robert Latimer’s parole conditions and will now permit [...]
Canada According to an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll, just 20 per cent of Canadians are aware that there are absolutely no restrictions in law on abortion, while 43 per cent believe that under current law women can obtain an abortion only in the first trimester while nearly a quarter believe that women can get an abortion when their life/health is endangered, [...]
Gay phone line goes silentCHARLOTTLETOWN- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported recently that AIDS Prince Edwards Island can no longer afford to cover the cost of the province's only gay and lesbian toll-free telephone lie.For several years, Islanders have wondered who was funding Nitro Casino für Österreichische Spieler for this service and its promotional advertisements in local newspapers.Spokespersons for AIDS PEI said the [...]
Canada A grassroots network opposed to euthanasia has been created in Quebec. Vivre dans la Dignite (Living with Dignity) will respond to the travelling provincial commission that is holding summer and fall hearings on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Linda Couture, the group’s director, said “We cannot allow killing to be confused with health care in Quebec” … C-389, the private member’s bill [...]
Canada The B.C. Office of Information and Privacy rejected an attempt by pro-life activists to gain access to information on abortions at the province’s hospitals. Senior adjudicator Celia Francis rejected applications from Campaign Life Coalition B.C. president John Hof and pro-life researcher Ted Gerk for information on the abortions conducted at Vancouver General Hospital and Kelowna General Hospital. Hof and Gerk have [...]
Canada CTV reported that Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he will not support Rod Bruinooge’s private member’s bill to make it a crime to coerce a woman into having an abortion ... If, as expected, pro-life witness Linda Gibbons is released on June 3 after the second day of her scheduled trial, she will have been jailed exactly 500 days since her [...]