The Assembly of Quebec Bishops (AEQ) has outlined several conditions for an independent Quebec in a submission to the Quebec Belanger-Campeau Commission. The Commission has been holding hearings on constitutional changes. Most of the submissions so far have favoured a sovereign Quebec state. In a brief presented on November 13, three representatives of the AEQ explained that ‘reform’ would require the following: [...]
Pro-life activists, like everyone else, are concerned about war. On the surface nothing is more anit-life than war. Yet ours is a different perspective from that of political commentators, be they professionals or amateurs. We are not about to bestow darts or laurels on one or other party in the Gulf. Nor are we prepared to judge whether war or sanctions is [...]
In the last attempt to prevent our country from falling into a tragic error, The Interim sent the following statement to all Canadian senators. Interim editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk appeared before the Senate Committee on Legislation on January 21, 1991 and submitted the same statement In a word swirling with pragmatic accommodations to evils of one kind or another, it is [...]
“The most liberal-minded and controversial member of the Supreme Court of Canada is stepping down,” said a news story on November 21. Mme. Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the court (in 1982), said she was resigning in order to spend more time with her husband, a retired minister. Tributes The announcement brought a chorus of tributes to her. The [...]
Besides Lake Victoria in Tanzania and in the mountainous country of Burundi, Pope John Paul II told large crowds of his ten-day African trip in early September, that AIDS is a moral issue which calls for changes in human behaviour. His message was bound to exasperate those who consider that the AIDS epidemic must be countered with contraception and ‘safe-sex.’ AIDS is [...]
Today is the 28th of November 1990. Last evening I watched the CBC news with horror. In the first news item, Douglas Archer, the Ontario Auditor, reported that the care of seniors and mentally handicapped people in homes is so inadequate that a number of deaths have resulted. He gave the opinion that the Ministry of Community and Social Services is “kind [...]
Queen’s Park, Toronto Ontario Premier Bob Rae’s office claimed they had never seen the letter from the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops (OCCB), urging the NDP government to reconsider its new policy of providing easier access to killing of the unborn. The letter from the president of the OCCB, Bishop John O’Mara, was dated November 19, 1990. It was reported in a [...]
Family Coalition Party candidates from across Ontario met in Toronto in November to assess the party’s showing in the recent provincial election. Regardless of how they did at the polls, all the candidates agreed that they would run again if they had the chance. In fact, doing it again quickly became the focus of the meeting. The second day was devoted to [...]
At its October National Convention, the Communist Party of Canada issued the following endorsement: “The Communist Party should support the election of an NDP federal government and the NDP provincial governments in English Canada as the only governmental alternative for labor and the people’s movements at this time.” Pro-abortion Judy Rebick, president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, [...]
Father Tony VanHee, S.J. resumed his Fast for Life last September. He continues to quietly stand outside the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, reminding the MPs who pass him, on their way to the House of Commons, of their failure to legislate in favor of the preborn. His fast, so far, has been uneventful compared to the furor which erupted when he was [...]
Responding to demands to address what were perceived to be “women’s issues,” the Reform Party of Canada recently assembled a women’s work group to help formulate a position. This initiative, however, fell short of universal acceptance. Many party members raised their hands in alarm, not only due to the basic concept which was seen in several quarters as divisive, but because of [...]
Bill C-43 is stalled in the Senate. Meetings of the Senate Committee studying the Bill have been called and then postponed indefinitely, and while Campaign Life Coalition was asked to appear in mid-December, there is no guarantee that the routine postponements will not continue. There is no consensus on the eventual fate of this new abortion legislation in the Senate. While some [...]
Rome. The Senate of the Polish Parliament voted by a large majority, September 29, to approve a legislative proposal which will punish abortionists with up to two years imprisonment. The proposal, entitled “Law to protect Conceived life” now goes to the lower chamber, or Sejm, for study and approval before being signed into law by the President. If enacted, it will replace [...]
Premier Bob Rae declared in mid-October that “access… [to abortion] is critical to our government.” Thus did the anti-life program of Ontario’s NDP government start with a bang. Within two weeks of assuming power, the Premier and several of his new Cabinet ministers fired off warning shots to leave abortion on demand alone. On October 13, the Minister responsible for Women’s Issues, [...]
MP Svend Robinson (NDP, Burnaby-Kingsway), a self-declared homosexual, introduced a private member’s Bill on June 27, 1990, which would amend Section 318 of the Criminal Code to include “sex” and “sexual orientation.” This Bill, Mr. Robinson stated, “would provide a clearer method of enforcement so that material which promotes violence and hatred against women, gays, lesbians or bisexuals can be prosecuted as [...]