Over the past three months, pro-life activists have been physically assaulted by abortion supporters, a sign, pro-lifers say, that their message is hitting a nerve. In Thunder Bay, Ont., in June, the New Abortion Caravan saw a man berate three pro-life activists as he poured chocolate milk over them. A few days later in London, Ont., a group of pro-abortion activists confronted [...]
An appeal is being launched into the conviction of Mary Wagner after the judge told her: “Your God is wrong.” The case dealt with Wagner’s arrest on Nov. 8 after she entered Bloor West Village’s “Women’s Clinic” in Toronto. She had already been arrested several times for entering abortion facilities to provide women with counseling and roses as part of her [...]
Great list of "Five Canadian pro-life activists who need to write their memoirs," by Suzanne Fortin of Big Blue Wave: Fr. Alphone de Valk, Gwen Landolt, John-Henry Westen, Steve Jalsevac, and Jim Hughes. Agreed on all of them and would add a sixth: Dr. Barrie de Veber, a medical doctor who helped create one of the first two pro-life groups in Canada, founded the [...]
The pro-life movement in Europe has had some notable successes the previous year with the marches for life held in Italy, Spain, and France. During the weekend of May 12-13, 15,000 showed up for the March for Life in Rome. As reported by LifeSiteNews, the organizers of the march expected the numbers to be three times less and many of the participants [...]
Mark Donnelly’s rendition of the national anthem at the launch of The New Abortion Caravan drew criticism from a Yahoo! Sports columnist. Donnelly is a Vancouver opera singer who is well-known for singing the anthem at NHL hockey games for the Vancouver Canucks. While acknowledging that Donnelly is a practicing Catholic and his brother is a priest, Harrison Mooney, the Yahoo! [...]
Two recent events brought the pro-life message to hundreds of Toronto area high school students, educating students to become conversant on the issue of abortion and inspiring them to become more involved in the issue. Toronto Right to Life Association joined the University of Toronto Students for Life, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, and Student Life Link to host [...]
On Feb. 15 of last year LifeSiteNews announced, much to the shock of our readers, that LifeSiteNews and five of its staff are the subject of a $500,000 lawsuit from a self-professed ‘pro-choice’ Quebec Catholic priest, Fr. Raymond Gravel. Fr. Gravel, a former Member of Parliament, who was forced by the Vatican to leave politics, argued that LifeSiteNews’ coverage of some of [...]
Editor’s Note: Aditya Rau attends St. Robert’s Catholic High School in Richmond Hill and finished third in the Fr. Ted Colleton Essay contest co-sponsored by Niagara Region Right to Life and The Interim. Canada is a nation that values freedom, respect for cultural differences and has a strong commitment to social justice issues. At the heart of our nation’s identity lies a [...]
Candidate fought for daughter with Trisomy 18 Isabella Santorum is one of the most compelling aspects of U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s campaign. Nicknamed Bella, Santorum’s three-year-old daughter has been the focus of media attention because of her father’s care of and pride for her. Bella suffers from Trisomy 18, a rare and often fatal genetic disorder that affects one in 3,000 [...]
After denying a pro-life group official club status in 2010, Carleton University’s student union is proposing a referendum to ban pro-life groups from the campus altogether. The question asks: “Are you in favour of banning groups such as Lifeline, the Genocide Awareness Project, Campaign for Life Coalition and other organizations that use inaccurate information and violent images to discourage women from exploring [...]
Since its inception in 1980, Peterborough Pro-Life has never swerved from what it considers its primary duty: publicly witnessing to the dignity and sanctity of a baby’s human life inside the mother’s womb. On Oct. 12, LifeSiteNews sat down with Paul Morgan and Ali van der Vegt, who recounted what the group had accomplished in 31 years of existence. Morgan, [...]
On Sept. 9, an Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench judge gave a now 25-year-old perpetrator a suspended sentence after her conviction for a six-year-old murder of a newborn was reduced to an infanticide conviction. Pro-lifers both pointed to the intellectual consistency of the ruling and expressed horror over the message the light punishment sends about the value of human life. In April [...]
A Montreal priest has turned away young pro-life pilgrims from entering the city’s basilica because their message in defense of the unborn was too political. Wearing stylish jeans and a white button-down shirt, Fr. Robert Gagne, insisted that the young people walking across Canada to promote the pro-life message could not enter the famous Basilica to pray because of the ‘pro-life’ [...]
Make no mistake: the Family Coalition Party is as pro-life as it has ever been. They just want to pursue a new direction. In their new party platform, the words “abortion” and “pro-life” never appear. While one assumes that an opposition to abortion is still a part of their rather full slate of social, economic, and energy policies, we are embarrassed by [...]
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is an organization that, according to its website, seeks “to advance human rights and constitutional freedoms... through research, education, and litigation to safeguard individual freedom and equality before the law.” Their fight for human rights and liberty has led them to defend pro-life students facing university censorship and other cases protecting the freedom of speech of [...]