The next provincial election in Ontario is now rumoured to be scheduled for early September. Six weeks ago, most journalistic crystal-ball gazers believed the election would be held at the end of June. June marked the end of what some call the “unholy Alliance” at Queen’s Park between Liberals and NDP. Both Liberals and NDP have nominated some 110 candidates (for 130 [...]
Name Party Province Riding Hon. Warren Allmand Lib. Que. N.D.G./Lachine East Hon. Harve Andre PC Alta. Calgary Centre Iain Angus NDP Ont. Thunder Bay/Atikokan Hon. Lloyd Axworthy Lib. Man. Winnipeg/Fort Garry Les Benjamin NDP Sask. Regina West Gabrielle Bertrand PC Que. Brome/Mississquoi Derek Blackburn NDP Ont. Brant Jean Pierre Blackburn PC Que. Jonquiere Bill Blaikie NDP Man. Winnipeg/Birds Hill Pierre Blais PC [...]
Name: Party Province Riding Bill Attewell PC Ont. Don Valley East Ross Belsher PC BC Fraser Valley East Pat Binns PC PEI Cardigan Don Blenkarn PC Ont. Mississauga South Murray Cardiff PC Ont. Huron/Bruce Hon. Robert Coates PC NS Cumberland/Colchester Gerald Comeau PC NS Southwest Nova Albert Cooper PC Alta. Peace River Howard Crosby PC NS Halifax West Hon. Lloyd Crouse PC [...]
The motion of Dr. Gus Mitges (Grey-Simcoe) asking the House of Commons to consider amending Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to explicitly guarantee the right to life of the unborn was voted upon at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, June 2. The motion was lost by a recorded vote of 62 in favour and 89 against, a difference of [...]
Campaign Life and Coalition for the Protection of Human Life have joined together to form one strong political pro-life group under the name of Campaign Life Coalition. The amalgamation came following a series of meetings held between the two groups in Montreal on the weekend of July 4, during the annual Alliance for Life Convention. Talks between the two groups began in [...]
Laura McArthur, president of the Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area, recently criticized Ontario’s Liberal government in its proposed implementation of the Powell Report on abortion in the province. “Why are we not moving on this? The Powell report has been approved, and in a very short time this multi-million dollar scheme will strive to bring abortion to every city, [...]
On June 2, a majority of federal MPs voted against a private member’s motion, introduced by MP Gus Mitges, seeking to amend the Charter of Rights to give protection to the unborn child. The 89 to 62 vote, which was recorded showed that 41 per cent of the MPs present in the House of Commons for the vote favored amending the Charter [...]
The third in a continuing series of pro-life Members of Parliament John Reimer is a native of Kitchener, Ontario, and before his political career was an educator and member of the Waterloo Country Board of Education and the Board of Governors of Wilfred Laurier University. He has served one previous term in the House of Commons during the 1979-80 session. He was [...]
A synopsis of who said what on pro-life, pro-family issues in Parliament. ABORTION – John Cormley, Brian White, Benno Friessen, Tony Roman, Elliot Hardey, Ross Belsher, Girve Fretz, Rob Nicholson, Joe Reid, Gus Mitges, and Blaine Thacker presented petitions supporting protection for unborn children in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Mitges’ motion); Bill Gottselig made a statement paying tribute to the [...]
The fourth hour of debate on the motion of Dr. Gus Mitges (Grey0Simcoe) to amend the Charter of Rights to explicitly protect the unborn child took place on Thursday, April 2. Six Members of Parliament spoke to the motion, five in favor and one against. The dissenting MP was long-time abortion proponent Svend Robinson (Burnaby). Predictably, he stated his support for the [...]
While the recently-released parliamentary committee report on child care has not satisfied those lobbying for completely institutionalized and government-subsidized day-care, it is viewed as a welcome beginning by REAL women of Canada president, Lynne Scime. The report acknowledges that it is the parent’s right and privilege to choose the kind of child care best suited to the individual needs of the child [...]
I’M not a political animal! I have lived in three different countries for considerable periods of my life (27, 30 and 16 years – that should up to 73) and I have never belonged to a political party. But I have always voted since I became of age. I have voted for people not for parties. If I had good reason to [...]
During the weekend of April 3 to 5, Campaign Life workers from across Ontario met in Niagara Falls for their 1987 Annual General Meeting. Among the 90 delegates were representatives from areas as far as Thunder Bay and Cornwall, and North Bay and Windsor. A number of all those present were wearing two hats for they also represented such groups as Physicians [...]
Nikki Colodny received a cold welcome in Edmonton on April 11, when she addressed a public forum sponsored by the Abortion Caucus of the Alberta Status of Women and other feminist groups. Colondy was in Edmonton attempting to set up an illegal abortuary along the lines of the Toronto clinics. Since extra billing was banned in Alberta in November 1986, many doctors [...]
It should have hit the headlines: over 11,000 Ontario voters so jaded with the position of all three provincial parties that they put their signatures on a form seeking registration of a new political party. The fact that the media as a whole ignored the ceremonial handing over of the thousands of forms to the electoral office speaks volumes. An old newspaper [...]