The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) Ontario has decided to weigh in on the controversy at Lakehead University. The Lakehead Student Union officially became “pro-choice” at an emergency meeting on Jan. 21. The motion stated: “the Lakehead University student union (will) withhold any and all funds, space, resources and services within its control from any group … if that group holds any [...]
On Jan. 25, professionals and students gathered at the University of Toronto for a day to mark the 20th anniversary of the R. v. Morgentaler decision in 1988. The symposium, entitled, “Of What Difference: Reflections on the Judgement and Abortion in Canada Today,” was a collaborative effort by the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program at the Faculty of Law, the University [...]
The Lakehead University Student Union (LUSU) voted 20-3 on Jan. 10 to deny the pro-life club, Lakehead University Life Support, club status. This is another example of discrimination against pro-life students on Canadian campuses. The club was given four conditions on Dec. 5, 2007 that it was required to agree to before being granted club status by Matt Granville, vice-president of finance [...]
Medical students attend Physicans for Life event in Toronto Canadian Physicians for Life recently sponsored 56 medical students and interns to attend the organization’s fourth pro-life forum in five years. The students, representing 11 Canadian universities, came to Toronto for the three-day event, held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide that was hosted by the Euthanasia Prevention [...]
Twenty-year-old Amanda Phillips is an example of what a young woman can accomplish when she sets her heart on serving Canada’s unborn. She is an office assistant with Alberta Pro-Life, which describes itself as “a province-wide group which works to educate and motivate Albertans on life issues, most notably abortion and euthanasia.” She is also the ministry co-ordinator for The Back Porch, [...]
After the Huron-Superior District Catholic School Board rejected administering the anti-HPV vaccine Gardasil in its schools to pre-teen girls, Algoma Public Health attacked the board for what it implied were outright sexist views. The arguments were anti-Catholic and silly, so stale and predictable that APH should have been embarrassed to make them. Noting that females get the human papilloma virus from males [...]
After the Huron-Superior District Catholic School Board rejected administering the anti-HPV vaccine Gardasil in its schools to pre-teen girls, Algoma Public Health attacked the board for what it implied were outright sexist views. The arguments were anti-Catholic and silly, so stale and predictable that APH should have been embarrassed to make them. Noting that females get the human papilloma virus from males [...]
He is Britain’s second-most popular children’s author. His books are bestsellers, have won numerous awards for literature and have received glowing reviews from all the fashionable newspapers. Critics hail him as a new Tolkien. His books pop up on many reading lists for young people and Hollywood is finishing the first film-adaptation of his most popular book – just in time for [...]
Every year, Canada’s pro-life university students look forward to the National Campus Life Network national symposium on the final weekend in September. The symposium is designed to educate, network and motivate post-secondary student leaders for pro-life activism. Students from across the country travel by car, bus, subway and plane to partake in this important event. This year, 46 attendees, representing 22 Canadian [...]
The pro-life club at Capilano College in British Columbia is seeing a ray of hope as the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decides to take on a complaint filed in June. Minerva Macapagal, president of the club, filed the complaint after pro-life students were twice denied club status, once in March 2006 and again last December. The club in waiting is called Capilano [...]
Snakeoil is a traditional Chinese medicine that treats joint pain, but the expression is more often used to describe the wildly exaggerated and sometimes fraudulent claims made in selling concoctions that will remedy or cure all sorts of ailments. But it is no exaggeration to call governments, some health officials and many in the media the 21st century snakeoil salesman in their [...]
“Mind you, I don’t plan to be sexually active till at least 16,” said 13-year-old Kalen on national television, while her mother responded with laughter. “We have that on the record now,” she mom, smiling. The two were being interviewed for CBC’s The National in an in-depth look at the new vaccine Gardasil, which was unleashed this September on Ontario’s 13-year-old girls and [...]
September is upon us and campus pro-life clubs across Canada are gearing up for another year of activism among their peers. Every year, pro-life students balance their studies with the task of informing their campuses about the reality of abortion: it kills a human being and it harms women and society. Not everyone agrees with these sentiments, especially on the predominantly liberal-minded [...]
When the Great Canadian Wish List began, the CBC aired a promo segment telling everyone it was starting this project as an experiment. The hope was that Canadians would log on to Facebook, make their wishes known and do it "as loud as possible." Mike Wise from the CBC teamed up with Taylor Gunn from Student Vote for this initiative, but they [...]
“At the end of the day,” says Fr. Stan Fortuna, C.F.R., “we teach more by example than anything else. And that’s always difficult, because our example is not perfect.” Fr. Stan, beloved as the “Rapping Reverend” from the South Bronx, was addressing parents and teachers on the topic of “Reaching Youth in a Media Culture” May 16 as part of a three-day [...]