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More than 34,612 emails and 1,078 letters of support were sent to Ontario Court Justice Rick Libman in support of Mary Wagner. We excerpt some of the communications below. For the story about the letters and Wagner's sentences, see 'Outpouring of support for Wagner' HERE.
I wholeheartedly support the efforts of Ms. Mary Wagner to protect the rights of unborn children – to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jan, 2017 at 17:27 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Euthanasia, Features, Issues | Author:
Interim Staff MPP Sam Oosterhoff
10. Renewed pro-life political activism in Canada
Social conservatives were making news in Canada for grassroots involvement. The October victory of 19-year-old socially conservative Sam Oosterhoff over Ontario Progressive Conservative president Rick Dykstra for the party’s nomination in a by-election was heralded as a victory for the movement over the party establishment. But it began when grassroots supporters got involved in federal Conservative policy and delegate selection meetings in the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Mar, 2016 at 19:24 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Announcements, Cover stories, Features | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Abortion advocates are using the Zika virus to pressure Latin American governments to expand access to abortion. The Zika virus is transmitted to humans bitten by infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes residing in tropical areas. About one in five infected individuals experience mild symptoms of fever, rash, joint pain, and red eyes for up to a week.
The virus was first detected in rhesus monkeys in Uganda and Tanzania in 1947. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Feb, 2016 at 20:01 in
Cover stories, Rory Leishman | Author:
National Affairs Rory Leishman In his latest book, Telling Lives, Ian Hunter, emeritus professor of law at Western University, presents an entertaining and inspirational series of sketches of 10 people with “effective, forcible, striking” personalities.
The book begins with an intriguing essay entitled “Jesus: The Evidence.” Drawing upon decades of experience as an award-winning teacher and practitioner of criminal law, Hunter applies his expertise on the rules of evidence that apply in a court of law to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Dec, 2014 at 8:49 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Features, Politics | Author:
14. UN condemns Vatican for Catholic teaching on abortion
On January 31, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report castigating the Vatican for its moral teachings. The committee, which provides oversight to the 1990 Convention on the Rights of the Child, focused on the Catholic Church’s handling of cases of abuse of children by priests, but in its 16-page report it also ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Mar, 2014 at 10:48 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Features, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns On January 31, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report castigating the Vatican for its moral teachings. The committee, which provides oversight to the 1990 Convention on the Rights of the Child, focused on the Catholic Church’s handling of cases of abuse of children by priests, but in its 16-page report it also took the liberty of calling upon the Vatican to reconsider ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jul, 2010 at 10:44 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Features, Health Risks | Author:
Joseph Jalsevac The so-called liberator of women has actually hurt them
History
The 1892 Criminal Code of Canada outlawed birth control, declaring it obscene and “tending to corrupt morals.” It also, however, left a clause that permitted the distribution of birth control if it was for the “public good.” The American Congress had already banned birth control information in 1873, citing the same reason. So what happened in the intervening years, between ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Feb, 2010 at 5:31 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Euthanasia, Features | Author:
Alex Schadenberg Where are we now? Where do we go?
This article is written to establish the current concerns related to the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide and the direction in which we must turn in order to reverse the trend toward giving physicians the right to intentionally and directly cause the deaths of their patients.
In Canada, the debate surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide has been growing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jan, 2010 at 15:39 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Features, Population | Author:
Paul Tuns
Green activists promote one-child policy,
contraception as keys to save planet
The National Post’s Diane Francis promoted the idea of a global one-child policy in her Dec. 8, column. The article ran at the beginning of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and in it Francis, the editor-at-large of the Post’s Financial Post section, said the real environmental issue is not global warming but overpopulation. Her ... (Continue reading)
10. Quebec gives special rights to abortion mills
In the spring, the Quebec National Assembly passed new safety and hygiene regulations for all health care facilities in the province. In August, abortion mills and supporters were lobbying to have offices and facilities that provide abortions exempted from the regulations and two of them threatened to close or stop committing abortion procedures if they had to abide by the health and safety changes. Health Minister Yves Bolduc capitulated after pressure ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Dec, 2009 at 8:58 in
Announcements, Book Review, Cover stories, Features | Author:
Review by Oswald Clark As I See It by Michael Coren (Freedom Press, $21.95 paperback, 306 pages)
When I went to university in the United States, I stopped following Canadian news, but I did continue reading a few Canadian columnists on the internet. One of those columnists was Michael Coren. There are many reasons why I should not have read him. He supports more government intervention than I, an economist, would like. He has what ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Oct, 2009 at 9:11 in
Cover stories, Features, Issues, Pro-Life | Author:
For living in a great country in which pro-life activism, despite the obstacles and difficulties, still flourishes.
For the means to be actively pro-life – our health, our families, those in the background that make things happen.
For the unwed mothers who keep their babies despite feelings of hopelessness and vulnerability or in the face of challenging emotional or physical environments.
For those who work in crisis pregnancy centres, who help make the decision to carry a child to term a little easier.
For ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Sep, 2009 at 5:30 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Features | Author:
Joseph Jalsevac
It’s back-to-school time and parents and students alike are experiencing the university jitters. First-year students are anxious about the unknown social and academic challenges that lie ahead, while parents – well, parents always worry. The students want to know what they are facing and the parents will want to know whether there is any real basis for concern. Should they ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Aug, 2009 at 13:29 in
Abortion, Activism, Announcements, Cover stories, Features | Author:
Joseph Jalsevac Increasingly abortion advocates acknowledge the child
“Maybe we won’t agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this is a heart-wrenching decision for any woman to make, with both moral and spiritual dimensions. So let’s work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies and making adoption more available and providing care and support ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 1995 at 11:54 in
Abortion, Cover stories, Morgentaler | Author:
Charles Muggeridge What does Canada’s spy agency know about the Morgentaler fire and why aren’t they saying anything?
Pro-lifers are demanding answers from the federal government in light of news reports linking the destruction of Henry Morgentaler’s abortion clinic with radical left-wing groups out to discredit the pro-life movement and force the government to take action against it.
The Security Intelligence Review Committee, in a recently-released report to the Solicitor General of Canada, stated that a CSIS informer “thinks that the bombing was by ... (Continue reading)