Equal Rights
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Written on 23 Jun, 1997 at 8:42 in
Equal Rights, Religion | Author:
Commission to study faith persecution
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Canadian Christians cannot remain silent while the religious liberties of Christians and other people of faith are increasingly under attack throughout the world.
Consequently, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) May 8 announced that it will establish a Religious Liberty Commission to raise awareness in Canada of the persecuted church.
The announcement was made by EFC president-elect Gary Walsh to correspond with the opening of the World Evangelical Fellowship’s (WEF) General Assembly ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 May, 1997 at 13:51 in
Equal Rights, Pro-Life | Author:
Interim staff
A Toronto man risks strained relations with his employer by posting pro-life signs on the walls of his workplace.
Emidio Galea of Scarborough is a dedicated pro-lifer and a supporter of the Aid to Women service on Gerrard St. East in Toronto. For nearly ten years, Galea has worked as a stockroom clerk at the Ryerson Polytechinical University bookstore. On many occasions, Galea spends his lunch hour at Aid to Women, offering sidewalk counseling to abortion-seeking women.
To show his ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 11:52 in
Equal Rights, Euthanasia, Human rights, Pro-Life | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo
Pro-life groups across the country welcome the February 6 Supreme Court of Canada decision granting a new trial for Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer.
While there exists a possibility of a second jury acquitting Latimer of murder charges, pro-lifers hope a new trial will refocus attention on the innocent victims of so-called mercy killings.
Convicted of second-degree murder in the November, 1994 death of his 12-year-old disabled daughter Tracy, Latimer was originally sentenced to life imprisonment, with no chance of parole for at ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Nov, 1996 at 14:20 in
Abortion, Equal Rights, Religion | Author:
Two events half a world apart to add some extra chill to the cold November days.
In British Columbia the Supreme Court upheld the province’s Bill 48 which severely restricts pro-life witnessing outside abortion clinics and hospitals. The ruling comes on appeal of a January court decision in the Maurice Lewis case, which found Bill 48 to a violation of freedom of expression and religion guarantees. The January ruling was immediately appealed by the provincial New Democrats for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Sep, 1996 at 10:20 in
Equal Rights | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo
While most of the country sat back and watched the exploits of Canadian athletes competing in the Atlanta Olympic Games, Marie Claire Ross of London, Ontario had training on her mind.
The competitive swimmer is one of a host disabled athletes who took part in the Paralympic Games August 15-26 in Atlanta. From modest beginnings, the Paralympics have emerged to provide a competitive outlet for disabled athletes around the world. While they don’t rival the regular Olympics, these ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 1996 at 13:48 in
Equal Rights, Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
Charles Moore Charles Moore
First, bravo to Tom Wappel, Roseanne Skoke, Dan McTeague, Dennis Mills, and several other MPs on the government side who have braved derision and scorn from their caucus colleagues, risked party discipline, and put their political careers on the line to oppose enshrining the gay-rights agenda in law.
Boo to the ideological conspiracy hell-bent on ramming not only tolerance, but also acceptance and approval of homosexual behaviour down Canadians’ throats by force. A big, loud, boo to New Brunswick Tory ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 1996 at 13:47 in
Equal Rights, Marriage and Family | Author:
Why Bill C-33, which guarantees special rights to homosexuals, was not warranted
Opinion
Michael Farrell
The history of the 20th Century has been marked by a multitude of technical advances which have helped mankind harness nature and control the environment. Medical advances have extended lifespans and new understanding of genetic mechanisms has changed aspects of human biology once considered innate and immutable.
In addition to alteration of nature which extend and make life more livable, other technologies, which destabilize society have also been developed. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 May, 1996 at 9:50 in
Equal Rights, Events, Pro-Life | Author:
Gloria Lawrenson
Don’t be tempted to believe that the radical feminists who dream up the Beijing document have retired to their New Age bookstores to sip herbal teal and discuss the “goddess within.” Instead, they are active—planning workshops and lobbying politicians. Pro-family forces hope that a stalled economy drives them back to the bookstores.
Seven months have passed since the Forth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Memories of torrential downpours, rivers of mud and thoroughfares blocked by hundreds ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Apr, 1996 at 9:12 in
Abortion, Equal Rights | Author:
A recent article by a prominent feminist may signal the beginnings of a shift in the feminist attitude toward abortion.
Naomi Wolf, in Our Bodies, Our Souls: Re-Thinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric, acknowledges that the pro-choice movement has hurt itself by relinquishing the moral frame around the abortion issue.
“The movement’s abandonment of what Americans have always and rightly, demanded of their movements—an ethical core—and its reliance instead on a political rhetoric in which the fetus means nothing, and proving fatal,” she says.
The author ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Aug, 1995 at 12:16 in
Abortion, Editorials, Equal Rights, Human rights, Issues, Population | Author:
Interim Staff As this paper goes to press, 40,000 of the most powerful and angry women from all around the world will gather in Beijing to rant and rave about their unjust plight. There will also be a pro-family contingent but don’t expect the press to acknowledge their presence.
All rational people (men included) support the just and equal treatment of women. Holding a conference to promote this seems absurd. But equality, as we understand it, is not the issue at this latest ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 14:30 in
Abortion, Equal Rights, Human rights, Population | Author:
Fr. Ted Collection The Toronto Sun’s Sunday Magazine of March 26 carried an article entitled ‘No Girls Allowed.”
We have all heard of the custom in China and other Eastern countries of killing baby girls—even after birth—as boys are a financial asset to the family, while girls are the opposite. According to statistics given in the article there are some 38 million more men then women in China because of this mass murder of female babies.
I was not aware ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 1995 at 9:39 in
Equal Rights, Marriage and Family, Motherhood, Society & Culture | Author:
Bonnie Jalsevac Dr. Dobson’s speech wows 4,000 at Toronto’s Convention Centre
Several thousand people, cordially greeted by 100 volunteers poured into the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on December 5 to spend an “Evening In December” with Dr. James Dobson, founder and President of the non-profit Christian organization Focus on the Family.
The excellent 20 minute video on the history of Focus on the Family since its founding in 1977 showed its beginnings with Dr. Dobson and a few helpers to its present day headquarters ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Sep, 1993 at 14:17 in
Equal Rights, Politics | Author:
Public debate
A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision may have ramifications for the 18 Ontario pro-life activists who have been named in an injunction to ban pickets in front of hospitals, abortuaries and abortionists’ homes. Canada’s top court has ruled that the city of Peterborough could not stop Kenneth Ramsden from putting up posters in prohibited areas. The city had argued that the ban was necessary to keep the appearance of the city and it argued Section 1 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 1993 at 12:50 in
Abortion, Equal Rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton Over a year ago, the Ontario Minister of Health set up a “Task Group” to make proposals regarding changes in the health policy of the provincial government.
One proposal is that all hospitals with obstetrical and gynecological services perform abortions. Presumably, the price of refusal would be the loss of government assistance.
This appears to me to be directed at the Catholic hospitals which cannot—if they are to remain Catholic—agree to murder babies. I believe the Grace Hospital run the Salvation ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Dec, 1990 at 7:06 in
Equal Rights | Author:
Interim Staff
Sexual equality and respect for women are the keys to ending wife assault, the Ontario government says.
Anne Swarbrick, the NDP government’s Minister of Women’s Issues, is convinced that education, women’s services and women gaining control over their lives will stop this crime. Hence the government will extend a five-year anti-violence program and start a province-wide education campaign to teach the public that violence against women is a crime.
Swarbrick said people must “think of it as heinous for ... (Continue reading)
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