Pro-lifer was outside 'bubble zone', but is charged with criminal harassment The police crackdown on any sort of pro-life activity near the Scott Clinic abortuary in downtown Toronto continues. Alex Vernon, a young Campaign Life Coalition office worker and volunteer sidewalk counsellor with the pro-life Aid to Women agency, was arrested by four plainclothes police officers on Feb. 27 while standing down [...]
NDP and Liberals compete for pro-abortion vote With media reports of an imminent provincial election in British Columbia - the government must call one by June - the NDP and Liberals are fighting over the pro-abortion vote, a tactic that has limited the options for the province's pro-life voters. The NDP is staking out ground as arguably the most pro-abortion government in [...]
In exchange for forthrightly denouncing the anti-Christian stance on abortion taken by Progressive Conservative Party leader Joe Clark, Catholic Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary has been accused of violating the sacred wall of separation between church and state. The charge, quite simply, is preposterous. At issue is Henry's condemnation of Clark's "scandalous behaviour" in supporting "a woman's right to choose," while representing [...]
British Columbia NDP leader Gordon Campbell, er, sorry, I mean Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell, has declared that he and his party are anti-choice on abortion. The would-be-leader of the People's Republic of British Columbia has declared in a number of news columns that it's pro-choice or no choice when it comes to that issue. In other words, the pro-choice leader offers no [...]
Joe Clark seems to have had an epiphany on the way to his new, smaller, Parliament Hill office. It apparently has dawned on Joe that, hey, he lost the election, is hanging onto official party status by his fingernails, and that future prospects for the PC party are looking discouraging. Time for a new strategy. "What to do?" (You can see Joe's [...]
During the federal election of November last, abortion surfaced as an issue in the English debate and in the media coverage at large. At one point Jean Chretien intoned that it's a settled issue for Canadians and that we have had social peace on the issue for a long time. Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark used slightly different words, but his pro-abortion [...]
Several of Ontario's pro-life young people earned a crash course in international lobbying January 6 during a United Nations training session sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition in Toronto. Led by Anna Halpine, the president of the New York-based World Youth Alliance, and a former president of Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick, the training session featured an overview of the need for a [...]
American Life League uneasy about how Tommy Thompson will handle fetal experimentation Media reports in the first weeks of the new Bush administration suggest that President Bush is committed to a limited pro-life agenda. This is getting a mixed reaction from American pro-life groups. Bush signed an executive order re-instating the so-called Mexico City Policy, suggested Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy [...]
NDP minister linked B.C. pro-lifer to violence Well known pro-life activist John Hof, president of Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia, announced Feb. 8 he has received an out-of-court settlement of $25,000 from NDP Minister of Labour Joan Smallwood. The agreement stems from remarks made in the media by Ms. Smallwood about Mr. Hof, spuriously linking him to an attack against Vancouver abortionist [...]
An ethical scandal erupted in Hamilton, Ont. recently when it was announced that former United States President Bill Clinton, a staunch supporter of legal abortion, is scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for a Catholic hospital in the city. The Morgan Firestone Foundation, which regularly raises funds for St. Joseph's Catholic hospital, booked Clinton to speak at the fundraiser to take place [...]
Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville Sask.) did not take long to introduce the first piece of pro-life legislation for the current session of Parliament. It was the reintroduction of a motion which he first introduced in the previous session, prior to the recent election, and is designed to pressure the government to redefine "human being" in law to include [...]
Three of five candidates pro-abortion, while Clement and Flaherty send mixed signals It did not take long for abortion to become an issue in the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign - just long enough, in fact, for the media to ask the first announced candidate about his views on the issue during his kick-off press conference. Unfortunately, it was became an [...]
With two official leadership races in this country underway in this country right now - the Canadian Alliance federally, the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario - our minds are focussed on the role of pro-life Canadians in politics. Many of us (too many of us) limit our involvement in politics to the voting booth, if that much. On one hand, it is understandable [...]
There is a very important aspect of the just-completed federal election campaign which I haven't seen addressed honestly anywhere in the mainstream media: that is, the concerns raised about the "personal" nature of much of the election rhetoric - this despite the volume of commentary provided by pundits on the priority given to personal attacks over the discussion of issues during the [...]
Some leaders adopting a wait-and-see approach as cabinet nominees face confirmation After a long campaign and close election, Republican George W. Bush was announced the winner of the U.S. presidential race. While Bush was preferable in comparison to Democrat Al Gore, the reaction of pro-lifers to Bush's victory has been mixed. Groups such as the National Right to Life Committee and Family [...]