Who are the women Joe Clark is willing to dance with? According to a report in Reality, the bimonthly newsletter of REAL Women, of March/April 1992, only with committed feminists such as Doris Anderson, Toronto Star columnist and former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women; Sally Armstrong, editor of Homemaker magazine; and their friends. Last summer, for [...]
We believe in freedom of conscience and religions, and the right of Canadians to advocate, without fear of intimidation or suppression, public policies which reflect their most deeply held values… From Reform Party policy The Blue Book 1991 This policy statement, along with the personal views of Reform leader Preston Manning and its sole M.P., Deborah Grey, have led many Canadian pro-lifers [...]
Toronto – Following a sustained two-year-long campaign by big retailers, Jewish businessmen, and the Toronto media, the NDP Premier of Ontario, Bob Rae, announced Sunday shopping on June 3, 1992. The campaign in favor of shopping on Sundays was marked by law breaking, phony arguments, and slanted polls. (See Interim editorial, June, 1992) Several retailers such as storeowners Herzog and Magder owed [...]
“Youth will document for their children the moral bankruptcy of this nation,” Angela Costigan told the Canadian Youth Pro Life Organization (CYPLO) conference held in Whitby, Ontario, October 18. The Toronto lawyer and pro-life activist called for an amendment to the Canadian constitution to protect future unborn Canadians. “What is happening to Canada is the result of abortion. We’ve got a recession [...]
I was visiting in Ireland and England during the period of the alleged rape case of the 14-year-old Irish girl. There were frequent comparisons in the media to the Bourne case. What was the Bourne case? J.S. Nepean The Bourne case (1938) in Britain involved a 14-year-old girl who was criminally raped by several soldiers, and became pregnant. Dr. Alec Bourne, out [...]
Vernon, B.C.—After Premier Mike Harcourt and his N.D.P. government of British Columbia struck down the abortion policy of the locally-elected hospital board, the nine pro-life members of the Board resigned. The 16-person board at Vernon’s Jubilee Hospital had voted last June that the hospital would no longer perform abortions. Elizabeth Cull, the newly appointed Minister of Health, repudiated this policy in March [...]
Constitution Ottawa. A federal cabinet minister has applauded a Catholic Bishops’ call for a return to family-based values. Catholic bishops of Ontario are warning if the country is to survive, we must rediscover a sense of community. Energy Minister Jake Epp couldn’t agree more. “I think the bishops have given us a good service by putting forward into the public debate what [...]
On March 25, New Brunswick Health Minister Russell King introduced legislation to seize control of the province’s thirty-three hospitals. Just over a week later, the bill had passed through its three readings and become law. The hospital boards had ceased to exist, to be replaced by regional boards under the direction of the Health Minister when these are set up. Given the [...]
Many readers of the Globe and Mail’s Focus section for January 11 must have been surprised to find in it support for something that Campaign Life Coalition, REAL Women, and The Interim have been saying all along: that there exists a loose coalition of judges, lawyers, law professors, bureaucrats and media people which is pursuing a pro-abortion, anti-family agenda. “Forget Parliament. It’s [...]
Judy Rebick named to council On March 5, NDP Premier Bob Rae appointed Judy Rebick to the Ontario Judicial Council. Short of Henry Morgentaler himself, Ms. Rebick is one of Canada’s most strident defenders of abortion on demand. The appointment is for three years. A few years ago, the Liberal government of David Peterson had appointed pro-abortion feminists Doris Anderson and June [...]
What is the objection of pro-life people to being called “anti-abortion?” After all, they are anti-abortion. R.P., Whitehorse, Yukon True enough, but that is only half the story. Pro-lifers are also against other evils: euthanasia; infanticide of handicapped new-borns by starvation and dehydration; the creation of human embryos (ex utero) to be vivisected in experimentation; fetal transplants and so on. Anti-abortion is [...]
During his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the new U.S. Attorney-General, William P. Barr, said that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand, was “wrongly decided” and should be rescinded. The Roe v. Wade judgment opened the way to the mass killing of unborn children. Mr. Barr, 41, who succeeds Dick Thornburgh as the [...]
On January 22, 1992, American pro-lifers gathered in large numbers in the nation’s capital to mourn the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. President George Bush, like his predecessor Ronald Reagan, reiterated his opposition to abortion. “I am with you in spirit,” he told the crowd by telephone. Unlike Reagan and Bush in the U.S., no Canadian Prime Minister has championed [...]
The federal budget tabled by Finance Minister Don Mazankowski in late February has shown once again that feminists have nothing to fear from the Mulroney government. Startled In a move that must have startled many Tory back-benchers, the budget for the Status Of Women Co-ordination Office shot up from $3.98 million to $10.24 million, a 157 per cent increase. The budget for [...]
The warning sign for pro-lifers came early. Three days before the Federal Liberal policy convention opened in Hull, Quebec on Thursday, February 20, the Ottawa Citizen blew the whistle on the efforts of pro-life Liberals to restore their political party. Pro-life faction Under the heading “Battle shapes up over abortion,” the Citizen noted that “A pro-life faction within the Liberal Party will [...]