Across Canada

Live abortions up

VANCOUVER - British Columbia pro-life activist and Interim columnist Ted Gerk has found increasing numbers of babies born alive after botched abortions who lived long enough to be issued birth and death certificates.

Legal skirmish at abortuary

EDMONTON - A former employee of the edmonton Morgentaler abortuary loses wrongful dismissal case. The abortuary was revealed to be an unhappy workplace with feuding employees and questionable medical practices.

Paper profiles pro-life activist

HALIFAX - Breaking the media silence that normally surrounds the pro-life issue, the Halifax Daily News recently ran a profile of pro-life activist Ann Marie Tomlins, who had been active in combatting abortion in the late 1980s and keeps fighting against euthanasia, doctor- assisted suicide, and executions.

New abortuary delayed

KELOWNA, B.C. - The start-up of a new abortuary in the Okanagan Similkameen Health Region of B.C. has been delayed 18 months supposedly for "security concern"s and a lack of space at Kelowna General Hospital.

Hospital policy revealed

MONTREAL - The hospital in which a 76-year-old man died last July apparently has a policy of not requiring consent to wean patients off respirators, a coroner's inquest investigating the death of Herman Krausz has heard.

Quebec population dropping

QUEBEC CITY - The Bureau de la Statistique du Quebec says that as early as 2006, Quebec's population will start to decline. A rock-bottom birthrate and skyrocketing abortion numbers are being blamed for the dwindling figures. It is expected that immigration will not be able to ameliorate the problem.

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