Politics

Ont. says ‘no’ to same-sex legislation Bill 167 defeated 68-59

Chaos broke out in the Queen’s Park visitors’ gallery the minute it was announced that the Ontario government’s controversial same-sex benefits bill had been defeated. After filling the legislature with cries of “shame, shame,” homosexual demonstrators tussled with police and then took to the streets, blocked traffic and chanted “We’re here, we’re queer, we all pay taxes.” The reason for the high [...]

2010-02-16T12:11:46-05:00June 16, 1994|Marriage and Family, Politics|

Barnes puts spotlight of life issues at the Liberal convention

Twenty-five years after the criminal act of abortion was given a government stamp of legality by then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Justice Minister John Turner, the Liberals met in Ottawa at their biennial Convention. A number of pro-life Liberals became delegates for the mid-May convention in order to remind fellow Liberals of the country’s 25 year legacy of abortion. These same [...]

2010-02-16T12:10:18-05:00June 16, 1994|Politics|

NDP going out in style

The wacky Ontario NDPers are winding down their first and last term in office (please, Lord) with a howling display of governmental incompetence and bungling. Here, in no particular order, is a partial list of their biggest goofs. It was Bob Rae who hired his old pal Maurice Strong as chairman of Ontario Hydro. Under Strong’s excellent direction, the corporation lost 3.6 [...]

2010-02-16T12:27:45-05:00June 16, 1994|Politics|

Someone control the controllers

A small group of South and Central American countries – Nicaragua, Argentina and Venezuela – worked with the Vatican to stun a high-powered collection of North American population controllers.  In doing so, they effectively thwarted U.S./UN efforts to mass murder millions more unborn babies over the next twenty years. At a meeting to determine the agenda of this year’s International Conference on [...]

2010-02-16T12:06:10-05:00May 16, 1994|Politics|

UN resolution supported by Clinton administration

The American State Department is aggressively working with the United Nations towards a goal of zero population growth and greater access to abortion in developing countries. The State Department, with President Clinton’s blessing, has endorsed a draft document which pushed contraception, sterilization and abortion as means of achieving their goal.  The U.S. and the UN will use the September International Conference on [...]

2010-02-16T11:32:55-05:00May 16, 1994|Abortion, Politics|

Voters nix same sex benefits

Mike Harris’ conservative Party will win next spring’s Ontario provincial election. Remember you read it first in this humble scribe’s column. (I should warn you that I was the guy who predicted that I would never lose my hair.) Do you know what’s going to win the day for Harris? The “same-sex” issue. Harris cleverly trotted the issue out in a recent [...]

2010-09-07T09:04:59-04:00April 28, 1994|Politics, Society & Culture|

Rookie MP fights for family values

“I’m opposed to pro-choice on any issue. If we have a choice for this, for that, for whatever, after a while, you’re going to have a nation without a conscience.” Pro-lifers have a new heroine on Parliament Hill in the form of rookie Liberal MP Roseanne Skoke. Judging by her career so far, the new member from Central Nova Scotia will be [...]

2010-01-28T00:50:01-05:00April 28, 1994|Politics|

Off the wire

Svend Robinson’s private Member’s bill, which aims to change the Criminal Code with regards to euthanasia, has been declared non-votable by a Parliamentary committee.  No official reasons have been given but Ottawa insiders suggest that further-reaching, Liberal-backed legislation will replace it.  ••••  American Life League predicts that President Clinton’s Fiscal Year 1995 budget for world population control will hit $585 million, a [...]

2010-02-16T11:27:21-05:00April 16, 1994|Politics|

Taxpayers foot injunction bill

Toronto. It’s not yet Christmas time, but the Ontario NDP government is in a very giving mood. An investigative reporter in Toronto estimates that the government of Ontario has spent over a million dollars of taxpayers’ dollars in legal fees in its attempt to ban all pro-life activism. The court case which was concluded at the end of August involved months of [...]

2010-03-25T22:00:30-04:00March 25, 1994|Politics|

B.C. activists charged

Three B.C. pro-lifers were found guilty of civil contempt of court on December 13 for counselling outside the Everywoman’s Health Centre in Vancouver. In making the decision, Mr. Justice Low admitted the term “watching or besetting” which is in the 1989 court order restricting pro-life activity outside the clinic, is “difficult to define.” However, he decided the actions of one of the [...]

2010-08-30T08:40:17-04:00January 28, 1994|Activism, Politics|

NDP to impose Common values on schools

Parents must relinquish power as new guidelines mold Ontario’s children into little New Democrats Parents in Ontario are bracing for major changes in their schools over the next three years with the release of the Common Curriculum, an “outcomes-based” strategy for teaching students. It doesn’t matter whether the school is public, separate, private or at home, the document handed down by the [...]

2010-08-30T15:10:23-04:00January 27, 1994|Politics, Society & Culture|

Reason to be wary of UN plans

First came the United Nations decade of the woman. Then there was the year of the child. Now the family holds the spotlight as the member countries of the United Nations proclaims year 1994 the Year of the Family. But some people interested in the future of the family are withholding their joy at this recognition by the international body. Long experience [...]

2009-08-27T09:40:05-04:00January 27, 1994|Politics|

UN looks to strengthen family ties

This month marks the beginning of the United Nations International Year of the Family. The UN General Assembly, in sponsoring the year, declared the family to be “the basic unit of society.” The family unit “therefore warrants special attention,” the proclamation states. Although the UN record promoting family values has often been tarnished, especially given its vigorous depopulation policies, the current declaration [...]

2009-08-27T09:33:20-04:00January 27, 1994|Politics|

The bad outweighs the good in report -Royal Commission on Reproductive Technologies fails to deal with the basic issues

When the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies was formed by the federal Progressive Conservative government four years ago, its mandate was to investigate the baby-making industry in Canada, to listen to the concerns raised by both experts and ordinary people, and give the politicians a guide on how to form public policy in an area which has been allowed to expand [...]

2009-08-27T08:28:59-04:00January 27, 1994|Abortion, Bioethics, Politics, Population|

Forage ahead into the New Year

“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.” Robert Louis Stevenson Greeting and salutations! If you are now reading this column, congratulations are in order. You have just received the bonus [...]

2010-09-01T09:52:05-04:00January 27, 1994|Across Canada, Politics|
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