Politics

Brazil elects socially conservative president

Jair Messias Bolsonaro, a social conservative was sworn in as the 38th president of Brazil. Last month, Jair Messias Bolsonaro was sworn in as the 38thpresident of Brazil. A former member of the Chamber of Deputies, the Brazilian legislature, and captain in the reserve army, Bolsonaro became leader of the conservative Social Liberal Party and was elected president on Oct. [...]

2019-02-07T21:09:27-05:00February 7, 2019|Politics, Religion|

Pro-lifer running for PEI PC leader

Kevin Arsenault for leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island. Campaign Life Coalition has endorsed Kevin Arsenault, a contender running for leadership of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party. Arsenault is a long-time Island pro-life activist. The PC Party will choose a leader on Feb. 9, when all party members will vote in a preferential ballot. [...]

2019-02-05T21:29:00-05:00February 5, 2019|Announcements, Features, Politics, Pro-Life|

BC voters reject electoral reform

British Columbia voted to maintain the current First Past the Post voting system by a three to two margin. Polls showed majority interest in amending the system to have elections decided by some form of proportional representation. The result of the mail-in referendum held between Oct. 22 and Dec. 7 was announced on Dec. 20 by Elections BC. More than six in [...]

2019-02-25T09:54:36-05:00February 5, 2019|Politics|

Ex-president George H.W. Bush didn’t start off pro-life

Former US president George Bush, with wife Barbara, was committed to protecting reborn children after Ronald Reagan picked him as his running mate. Former president George H.W. Bush died Nov. 30 at the age of 94 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Bush, who served as Ronald Reagan’s vice president from 1981-1988 and president for four years beginning in [...]

2019-01-25T09:58:19-05:00January 21, 2019|Politics, Pro-Life|

Bubble zone defeated in Manitoba

The Progressive Conservative majority defeated a private member’s bill that would have established anti-free speech bubble zones around Manitoba abortion facilities and pharmacies that dispensed the abortion pill. NDP MLA Nahanni Fontaine (St. Johns) tabled Bill 200, Safe Access to Abortion Services, that would have established bubble zones of 150 meters around facilities where abortions take place, outlawing any pro-lifer from “inform(ing) [...]

2019-01-14T06:26:10-05:00January 14, 2019|Bubble Zone, Politics|

Fr. Van Hee challenges bubble zone law

Fr. Tony Van Hee, who was arrested Oct. 24 for violating Ontario’s anti-free speech bubble zone around abortion facilities, is mounting a constitutional challenge of the law. The Ontario bubble zone law, the Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, prohibits pro-life demonstrations and communications within at least 50 metres of abortion facilities in the province – abortuaries can petition for larger exclusion [...]

2019-01-14T06:27:59-05:00January 14, 2019|Bubble Zone, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Summer jobs ideological litmus test modified, not scrapped

Federal Labour Minister Patty Sandju has abandoned talk of core mandate, but still discriminates against pro-life organizations in the Canada Summer Jobs program. On December 6, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government announced that it would modify the attestation it added to the federal Canada Summer Jobs program. When the application process was unveiled in December 2017, the Trudeau government inserted a [...]

2019-01-11T07:11:48-05:00January 11, 2019|Announcements, Features, Human rights, Politics, Pro-Life|

U.S. midterms offer mixed results for pro-lifers

The Nov. 5 midterm elections for 35 of the 100 Senate seats and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, plus nearly 40 governors races and elections in the majority of state legislatures, looked bad for Donald Trump’s Republicans, but for pro-life voters, the results were more mixed than an outright defeat. While Democrats picked up the House and gained seven [...]

2018-12-10T15:18:51-05:00December 10, 2018|Election, Politics|

Social conservative victories at PC convention

Delegates vote nearly unanimously on a pro-family resolution at the PC Party policy convention. Grassroots pro-life and pro-family members of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario helped pass three parental rights and anti-sex ed resolutions to become PC Party policy and then ensured that another eight pro-family policies would be considered at the 2019 PC policy convention. Campaign Life Coalition [...]

2018-12-10T15:11:28-05:00December 10, 2018|Announcements, Features, Politics|

Rights talk

The 70th anniversary of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) ought to be an occasion for celebration. Framed in 1948 in the aftermath of the Second World War, this document promised a future all the more bright for its contrast with the recent past. The promise of that future, however, has not been kept, and the rhetoric of rights [...]

2018-12-10T15:25:14-05:00December 10, 2018|Announcements, Editorials, Features, Human rights, Politics|

Trump administration may not recognize transgender self-identification

A leaked memo suggests that the Trump administration is considering an official definition of “sex” that rejects gender confusion in favour of strictly biological criteria, much to the consternation of pro-LGBT voices. On Oct. 21, the New York Timesreported that it obtained a draft memo from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stating that, “Sex means a person’s status as [...]

2018-11-30T08:53:37-05:00November 29, 2018|Politics, Society & Culture|

Politicized courts

National Affairs Rory Leishman New York Senator Charles E. Schumer, Minority Leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, has aptly described the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States as “one of the saddest, most sordid chapters in the long history of the federal judiciary.” Is it conceivable that judicial nominees to [...]

2018-11-23T10:53:34-05:00November 25, 2018|Human rights, Politics, Rory Leishman|

CHP wins court battle over transgender posters

On Oct. 4, the Christian Heritage Party scored a legal victory over the City of Hamilton, Ont., regarding removal of their political advertising about transgender issues from bus shelters in the city. In 2016, the CHP purchased bus shelter ads that depicted a male entering a door with the sign “Ladies Showers.” There were also words “Competing human rights: where is the [...]

2018-11-23T10:13:40-05:00November 23, 2018|Human rights, Politics|

Canada’s giant legal pot experiment

On Oct. 17, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s experiment in legalized cannabis became a reality. The Criminal Code changes prohibiting use and possession of marijuana required provinces to change their laws and municipalities to alter their bylaws as the country begins a new regime of decriminalized pot. Provinces have different rules governing the sale of legal marijuana and cities have different rules governing [...]

2018-11-23T10:05:35-05:00November 23, 2018|Marriage and Family, Politics|

Former CHP Jim Hnatiuk, RIP

Former CHP leader Jim Hnatiuk We, the leadership and national board of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada, want to offer our condolences to the family and friends of Jim Hnatiuk. Our contact and relationship with Jim go back to the days when – as he often explained – he planned to start a Christian political party and found to [...]

2018-10-19T08:52:29-04:00October 19, 2018|Politics|
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