Mr. Michael Wilson’s first budget speech on May 23 included a sentence on charitable institutions that is of interest to pro-life educational groups. According to the Globe’s report (May 24): Charitable institutions need no longer be concerned about having their registered tax-exempt status cut off when they carry out lobbying campaigns on public issues as long as charitable institutions are not [...]
Just after noon on Friday, June 28, two pro-life picketers were attacked by abortionist Robert Scott outside the Morgentaler abortion clinic on Harbord Street in Toronto. Provoked by the activities of pro-life counselors with regard to two approaching female clients, abortionist Scott (6’4”) rushed out the door and threw Fred Huston, a 71- year old man off the steps [...]
On Tuesday, June 12, private member’s bill No. 53, died a natural death in the Saskatchewan legislature when Minister of Justice, Gary Lane, moved that the bill be referred to the Court of Appeal for a legal opinion on its constitutionality. Bill 53, originally titled the Freedom of Informed Choice (Abortions) Act, proposed that women seeking abortion [...]
Forgive me for interrupting the peaceful moral slumber of CBS Morning News, but in the interest of balance (something to which the national media profess a ferocious commitment) certain observations are in order regarding the segment dealing with the videotape film The Silent Scream aired on March 4, 1985. To begin with, the terms of the debate were [...]
We are about to be conned again. This time it is the daycare question. A federal task force likely will give it solid endorsement, while much of the Big Media see proliferating daycare as a desirable objective. But is it? As I noted in an earlier column, in Sweden daycare has become a nightmare where parents now are [...]
Radical feminist groups continue to build pressure on the PC government in Ottawa to secularize and revolutionize Canadian society and the family. NAC, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (President Chaviva Hosek; Vice-President Louise Dulude) held a three-day lobbying effort in Ottawa in May. They came armed with resolutions from a three-day conference, including a call for [...]
On February 16,1985 the Toronto Star reported the proposal of the present Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Rev. Alex Calder, to tighten the abortion law in order to permit abortions only where there is “imminent threat to the mother’s life.” ( See The Interim, April 1985). One month later, on March 16, the same newspaper, on its [...]
On May 9, 1985 the Supreme Court split sharply on how to measure pornography in obscenity trials. By a 4-3 majority, with two judges missing, the court ruled that it does not matter who the supposedly obscene material is aimed at. The only measure that counts Madame Justice Bertha Wilson said for the majority, is the national community standard of tolerance. [...]
On January 29, 1985, Member of Parliament Bill Gottselig (Moose Jaw) condemned in Parliament the misuse of public funds by the National Film Board to promote pro-abortion views in the film “Abortion: Stories North and South.” He said it was outrageous that the National Film Board provide funds “to pro-abortionist Gail Singer to present her one-sided view of this matter, which [...]
Tuesday April 17, 1985, was the date when the equality rights provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms went into effect. Stated the Hon. Flora MacDonald (Minister of Employment and Immigration) speaking for the Government: As of today the Constitution of Canada guarantees that every individual in Canada is equal before and under the law, and has [...]
On April 16, 1985, Margaret Mitchell, NDP (Vancouver East), requested the Minister of Justice to “celebrate equality” (according to the Charter of Rights): by designating major funding for an independent endowment… through a credible organization such as the Legal Action and Education Fund, so that women may fight equality cases under the Charter. The Minister of Justice pointed out [...]
On March 26 the House of Commons Justice Committee agreed to refer the issue of “sexual orientation” to a sub-committee to see whether it qualifies as a form of discrimination prohibited in the Charter of Rights. New Democrat MP Svend Robinson, (Burnaby) introduced a private member’s bill calling for the inclusion of sexual orientation in the [...]
The Attorney-General of Ontario’s appeal of the jury acquittal of Morgentaler and his two associates on November 8th, 1984, and, the request for a new trial, began on Monday April 29, 1985, before a panel of five judges from the Ontario Supreme Court of Appeal. Because of the importance of the appeal, which will require rulings from Ontario’s highest [...]
In a period of one month, six provinces rejected Henry Morgentaler’s request to set up medicare-funded, provincially-recognized, abortuaries. “We have no intention of allowing Dr. Morgentaler to enter Saskatchewan,” Health Minister Graham Taylor declared on April 25. “In fact we will be doing everything within the power of this Government to prevent him from establishing a clinic in this province.” [...]
Montreal. Henry Morgentaler announced on May 9 that he would campaign in the next Quebec election if anti-abortion groups try to force political parties to make abortions more difficult to obtain. Abortion laws have not been enforced since 1976 when the Parti Quebecois formed the government. In August 1984, during the federal election campaign, Morgentaler endorsed the NDP [...]