Prime Minister Kim Campbell has trumpeted that she stands for the politics of inclusion. More Canadians, she says, must be brought into the political process. Despite the rhetoric, Campbell’s real intentions appear to be to usher in an era of political exclusion. Above all else, she wants to exclude what she calls special interest groups and all those Canadians who support such [...]
A well-known abortion activist is calling for a new push to get the injectable contraceptive/abortifacients Depo Provera into Canada. Dr. Marion Powell, speaking at a forum in Toronto, said the new Prime Minister, Kim Campbell, should be approached by Canadian women to approve the drug in this country. So far, Canada leads the world in taking a cautious approach to the drug [...]
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants” …William Penn Something strange happened to me on the way to the Conservative Leadership convention. Actually the thought of attending this event never occurred to me until a few months ago. It has been almost five years since I ran as a Tory candidate in Vancouver East. In political [...]
UNICEF’s Collaborators Among the recommendations which UNICEF endorsed at a 1987 Kenya Conference were: “Community education programmes should emphasize the risks involved in pregnancy in order to ensure social support of contraceptive practice.” “This conference…calls on the sponsoring organizations to further extend their collaboration at a notional level…” Two of the sponsoring collaborators of UNICEF are perhaps less well known. The Population [...]
I feel sorry for all those poor media types who have recently, in numerous heart rending columns, eulogized the brave and courageous Anita Hill. Here she is hobnobbing with the likes of Hilary Clinton and Gloria Steinem and being named Vanity Fair’s Woman of the Year. Why she’s even given credit for the election of President Clinton, the number of women elected [...]
Text from a speech given in Vancouver by pro-life MP, Don Boudria Before I begin to talk to you about what we are fighting for, let me take a moment to tell you who and what I am not fighting against. I know that there are many people who endure physical and mental pain when they are terminally ill. One such person [...]
“Our policy on abortion is one the government and executive council stand behind. We don’t plan to change it.” …..Health Minister Alan Buchanan Charlottetown, PEI – On April 22, Henry Morgentaler launched a lawsuit to force the Province of Prince Edward Island to pay all associated costs for women obtaining abortions at his clinics outside of the province. Alan Buchanan, PEI’s Liberal [...]
The Southern Ontario riding of Durham won’t have a pro-life Liberal candidate. Organizers are saying pro-lifers have only themselves to blame. Rosemary Connell mounted an impressive campaign, had a broad range of policies, and uses her roots in the area to create an organized machine. But in the end she came up 40 votes short. “Every single person counted,” Connell said as [...]
The Christian Heritage Party has sorted out its leadership problems and will head into the next election with Heather Stilwell in charge. The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed an application by former leader Charles Cavilla to have a convention in June in Southern Ontario. The court also decided May 18 to set aside an injunction by Cavilla preventing the CHP from saying [...]
Pro-life activists in Nova Scotia are shedding no tears at the defeat of Tory Premier Don Cameron and his government in the provincial election held at the end of May. Leader John Savage swept his Liberals into power and CLC spokesperson Cynthia Haughn said there are “some hopeful things” about his victory. “Maybe John Savage will at least look at the issue,” [...]
British Columbia pro-lifers could soon have to deal with the same intrusions into their rights ass their Ontario counterparts. The government recently announced the members of an “Abortion Access Task Force” which is working on ways to promote abortion in the province. The NDP government has released the names of the six members of the task force. John Hof, president of Campaign [...]
The Ontario government’s plan to gag pro-life activity has met with stiff opposition and pro-life organizers are saying it’s not over yet. “We plan to keep the pressure up until every single recommendation of the Task Group report is scrapped,” said Louis Di Rocco, of Campaign Life Coalition. Di Rocco led a campaign which collected more than 50,000 petition cards demanding that [...]
The results of the elections are in and Ontario voters have made it overwhelmingly clear that they want the NDP out. After the dust had cleared from the April 1 provincial by-elections, Liberal lawyer Tim Murphy was the winner in the downtown Toronto riding of St. George-St. David and Conservative Dave Johnson easily took the Toronto-area riding of Don Mills. The Family [...]
Cavilla may not accept board’s decision The Christian Heritage Party has a new leader. Or does it? It depends on who you talk to. In a highly unusual move the national board of Canada’s only pro-life federal party suspended its leader and appointed Heather Stilwell until the 1994 leadership convention in Vancouver. According to the board, Stilwell, a pro-life activist from B.C. [...]
Parliament has passed a bill which will gag politically active groups such as Campaign Life Coalition. Under the Tories’ election reform bill, only political parties and candidates will have the freedom to do partisan advertising during election campaigns. Other groups or individuals will be allowed to spend no more than $1,000 on advertising which identifies or promotes particular parties or candidates. That [...]