The three national pro-life groups, Alliance for Life, Coalition for Life and campaign Life, met in Ottawa last December to discuss further initiatives aimed at unifying the pro-life groups across Canada. The meeting came at the end of a year during which all three groups had worked closely together. The two political groups, Campaign Life and Coalition for Life, [...]
When a Catholic priest is fired as editor of a church-sponsored magazine, the first reaction is that it is a matter of interest only to Catholics and not a case of censorship. Perhaps that is why the situation of Father Albert Lalonde in Saskatchewan has not received major publicity and why the editorialists of our national newspapers have not [...]
Toronto: Gay activist and admitted homosexual John Campey won the NDP nomination in the new provincial riding of St. George-St. David in Toronto. The riding has a sizeable homosexual community. Campey, 29, took the vote 59-25 over his only opponent, lawyer Harry Kopyto. The NDP, the party most firmly committed to abortion on demand, both in Ontario and nation-wide, also [...]
Toronto: After 14 years of publication, “Canada’s magazine for gay liberation Body Politic, announced it will end publication with its February 1987 issue. By almost any standards of normal behaviour, Body Politic’s articles, photos, and illustrations were obscene. Yet, it managed to beat the charge of distributing indecent material through the mail in a five-year court battle related to the article [...]
The motion of Gus Mitges (Grey-Simcoe) which seeks the agreement of the House of Commons to consider amending the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to explicitly protect the unborn child received the first of five hours of debate on Friday, November 21. The debate in the House of Commons was attended by ten Members of Parliament, the Acting Speaker [...]
Court-ordered contraceptive sterilization of the mentally-handicapped should become unknown in Canada following a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in late October. Judge Gerard La Forest wrote that such cases should be approached with “the utmost caution,” adding later in the judgement that “it is difficult to imagine a case in which non-therapeutic sterilization could possibly be of benefit to [...]
On December 2, MPPs voted to amend Ontario’s Human Rights Code to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination. The amendment, part of Bill 7, and omnibus bill bringing Ontario legislation in line with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, passed after weeks of intense lobbying from groups on both sides and after a week of intense debate [...]
The process of secularizing the nation proceeds unabatedly. The first battle to make the homosexual lifestyle equal to the normal family in law and society was won in Ontario on December 2, 1986. The assault on Sunday as a family and religious day of rest is in full swing. New proposals, by the Law Reform Commission, calling for reducing the charge [...]
It seems that the Ontario Attorney General’s commitment to enforcing the law operates on a double standard these days. Look at the continued prosecution of store owners opening illegally on Sunday and the lack of similar action against Toronto’s two illegal abortuaries. Paul Magder is a Toronto furrier who has been challenging Sunday-closing laws for many years. His [...]
Members of the national women’s group REAL Women brought their concerns before Progressive Conservative and Liberal members of Parliament on November 18 at a national lobby held on Parliament Hill. The lobby was attended by over 250 REAL Women supporters from across the country. Members of Parliament were keenly interested in the brief presented by REAL Women, and gave the group encouragement [...]
Canadian Members of Parliament will soon have the first opportunity since the constitutional debates of 1981 to vote on an item concerning the protection of the unborn child. The motion of Gus Mitges (Grey-Simcoe), which seeks to amend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to protect the pre-born child has been deemed a votable item” by the Standing Committee on Private Members’ [...]
I talked to a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament the other day who found it passing strange, if not downright incredible, that during the 1984 election he was met at doors across his riding with enthusiasm and encouragement for his pro-life stand, yet was turned away with the admonition “we’ve always voted NDP, and will continue to do so. This was riding [...]
The following statement was issued by Ontario’s 20 Catholic Bishops on October 1, 1986. The Catholic Bishops of Ontario gathered in plenary session in Toronto (September 29-October 1) are opposed to the present form of omnibus Bill 7 now before the Provincial Legislature. Much in this Bill is good and quite acceptable. However, section 18, nos. 105, to amend the Human Rights [...]
In the past, Campaign Life Saskatchewan has had a single election strategy: identify pro-life candidates to inform pro-life voters. Last spring it was decided that our campaign for this provincial election must have two distinct parts: one to identify pro-life candidates and a separate campaign directed specifically to the voters. In previous campaigns, we have used short advertisements on radio and television [...]
Discussions on forming a pro-life political party have been ongoing since the 1985 Campaign Life annual meeting authorized a committee to investigate the possibilities. During the winder of 1985-6, weekly meetings were held to draw up a series of general policy statements on a variety of topics which run more or less parallel to ministries in federal and provincial governments. In April [...]