The Family Coalition Party’s second run in Ontario provincial politics was declared a success by party leader Don Pennell of Burlington, Ontario. “There as been 50-100 per cent increase in support in a number of ridings where the party had a candidate in 1987,” he stated; “and some new ridings produced over 2000 votes. “As for the future, we now have four [...]
Conservative Premier Gary Filmon won a slim majority in the Manitoba provincial election September 11, taking 30 seats. Liberal leader Sharon Carstairs saw her part fall to third place, shrinking from 21 seats to seven. The final tally 1990 1988 Tories 30 25 NDP 20 12 Liberals 7 20 Popular vote Tories 204,870 (42%) NDP 139,853 (29%) Liberals 137,248 (28%) Other [...]
After 57 years of waiting in the Ontario legislature, the NDP was elected to form the government on September 8, 1990, with Bob Rae as the new Premier. NDPers were elected in 74 of the 130 ridings. The seemingly unassailable Liberal Party under David Peterson, which had been swept into power with a 95 seat landslide a mere three years earlier, lost [...]
Here we are in the middle of another provincial election, and while we complain about the millions of dollars this unnecessary election is costing general tax coffers over cool drinks on the summer patio, no one is likely to do anything about it. To be Canadian, it would seem, means to be impervious to political injustice. One glaring example is what the [...]
Ontario’s Family Coalition Party (FCP) was founded in 1986 by pro-lifers. Provincial approval followed in 1987 on the presentation of 11,000 signatures fulfilling the requirements. It was just in time – Premier David Peterson had called an election. The party ran candidates in 36 ridings, receiving a total of 48,000 votes on election day. In 1987, candidates for the FCP won [...]
Abortion and birth control are popularly believed to have no material consequences outside of the body of the woman. Whatever moral, physical, or psychological ramifications there may be as a result of an abortion or of taking a hormone pill for twenty years are thought to be locked in and confined to the mother, and there is nothing more to be said. [...]
Toronto Councillor Jack Layton and his companion spouse Councillor Olivia Chow are living in low-cost housing. Together the two earn $120,000 in municipal salaries alone. This was the story the Toronto Star broke on June 15. The next day the Toronto Sun found three other well-paid New Democrats living off taxpayers’ money: Dan Heap, MP; Roger Hollander, Metro Councillor and Marilyn Churley, [...]
At the end of June, Mr. Justice James Southey of the Ontario Supreme Court ruled that Ontario’s Retail Business Holidays Act was unconstitutional. AN amendment to an otherwise “Charter proof” Act had given the right to determine whether or not stores could open on Sunday to municipalities. This, Judge Southey declared, is unacceptable; local councils have no right to decide such matters. [...]
The Liberal Government of Ontario has an overwhelming majority in the legislature (95 out of 130 seats). Fearing that adverse economic and constitutional problems on the Canadian horizon may damage its future “credibility,” it has decided to go to the polls without delay. That’s it good right. But it’s our right to reiterate again the folly of being naïve about this government [...]
Ontario PC leader mike Harris told people in Guelph that abortions should be equally available in hospitals across Ontario. “The government of Ontario, which is responsible for health-care services as mandated by law, should make them available across the province,” he stated on August 18. Harris thought even Guelph’s Catholic hospitals should provide them. (Toronto Star, August 19, 1990)
In May 1985, the Ontario Liberals formed a minority government with the NDP. In September 1987, they won a landslide majority, getting 95 out of 130 seats. In July 1990, they called another election to confirm their grip on power. What is the party’s record on the all-important family life issues? Item 1 In April 1985, before the election, new Liberal leader [...]
Following the 140-131 approval of Bill C-43 by the Commons on May 29, Bill C-43 has gone to the Senate for final approval. Senator Stanley Haidasz promised to do all he could to defeat or delay the legislation which he considers “a threat to the survival of Canada.” “We’re permitting a national genocide,” he said of Bill C-43 (Times Transcript, May 29, [...]
Bill C-43 has met with various responses from provincial ministers of health and attorney general. In New Brunswick, Health Minister Ray Frenette stated that the province would continue to insist on a second medical opinion. “We have a legal right to do that.” The province does not pay for abortions done in “clinics” whether inside or outside the province. (Times Transcript, May [...]
Statement of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on the passing of Bill C-43. May 29, 1990 Now that Parliament has given this country a new abortion law, all efforts must be directed to the continuing task of building a greater sense of the value of human life, removing any social and economic conditions that may contribute to abortion, and achieving better [...]
Abortionist Henry Morgentaler’s Halifax court appearance was a two-week tour-de-farce in the Theater of the Bizarre. It opened with Morgentaler huddled outside the courthouse in a baby blue ‘Linus’ type blanket worn over his raincoat. It ended with his day-long pontification and rambling schizophrenic testimony. And in between, he fell sound asleep in court. While others testified, he walked about the courtroom [...]