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Written on 30 Jan, 2012 at 10:20 in
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Canada
On Nov. 24 The Brunswickan, a newspaper at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton), reported that the Student Union (UNBSU) had concerns about accrediting a Fredericton campus UNB Students for Life Club (one had been operating at the Saint John’s campus), and on Dec. 5 the UNBSU requested more information about the club’s activities including the centers the club would be referring pregnant women to in cases of crisis pregnancies or post-abortion counseling. The National Campus ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Jan, 2012 at 9:23 in
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Honourable mentions: There are notable stories that would typically make the top 10 list, but do not – although they still warrant acknowledgment: the media fury over the 7 billionth person in the world being born; the British Columbia Supreme Court ruling against polygamy; the Supreme Court of Canada decision to keep the Insite “safe injection” clinic in Vancouver open; the release of the pro-life film 180; the Pro-Life Club at the University of Calgary challenging the university’s “non-academic misconduct” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Dec, 2011 at 12:44 in
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Canada
Chief Justice Robert Bauman of the British Columbia Supreme Court upheld Canada’s ban on polygamy on Nov. 23. The case came before the B.C. Supreme Court after charges against two men from a Mormon sect in Bountiful were stayed. “Based on the most comprehensive judicial record on the subject ever produced, I have concluded that (there is) a reasoned apprehension of harm to many in our society inherent in the practice of polygamy,” said Justice Bauman, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 6:59 in
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From October 2010: “Borlaug proved Malthus wrong”
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich said in his best-selling apocalyptic book The Population Bomb that the world was headed toward a Malthusian hell in which mass starvation would wipe out large swaths of people, most notably in Africa and Asia, making specific note that Pakistan and India would suffer collapse within the decade. Indeed, he called it a “fantasy” that India would ever be able to feed itself. By 1968, Pakistan had already ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2011 at 8:06 in
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Canada
While Ottawa has given $6 million to International Planned Parenthood Federation projects in conjunction with its maternal health initiative, the Canadian International Development Agency has refused to give grants to MaterCare International. MaterCare, which works to reduce maternal mortality in the developing world but does not carry out abortions, was denied a funding request for the eleventh time in ten years. Founder and executive director Dr. Robert Walley told EWTN that he was informed MaterCare was ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Oct, 2011 at 9:46 in
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Canada
Quebec resident Ginette Leblanc, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is challenging the federal Criminal Code prohibition on euthanasia. Her lawyer, Rene Duval, will file an application with the Quebec Superior Court asking that 241b of the Criminal Code outlawing assisted suicide be ruled unconstitutional. According to reports, Duval expects both that court and the Quebec Court of Appeal to uphold the prohibition, but he hopes that the Supreme Court of Canada will reconsider the issue ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Sep, 2011 at 11:41 in
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Canada
The British Columbia Catholic Civil Rights League condemned the Burnaby School Board’s equity policy with director Sean Murphy declaring, “It is now time to recognize that parents are the first line of defense against the abuse of state power in education, and the first protectors, not just of children, but of civil liberties.” The CCRL’s B.C. wing released its “Declaration on the Authority of Parents and Guardians in the Education of their Children,” which cites international conventions and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Aug, 2011 at 13:05 in
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Canada
On July 15, the Ontario Court of Appeal extended a stay on the ruling that struck down legal restrictions on prostitution. The court will hand down its final decision in the fall, though most legal analysts expect the case will eventually make its way to the Supreme Court of Canada … The Toronto Star reports that Rev. Brent Hawkes, who preformed same-sex “marriages” in Toronto two years before they were legal in Ontario, says that Toronto’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Aug, 2011 at 12:59 in
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Once again most news sources reported that a million people were present at Toronto’s gay pride parade. But as more than one source has demonstrated, such an attendance figure would prove impossible.
REAL Women of Canada did the math on this a decade ago. They calculated that the route was 3,300 meters long. Each side of the route would need to have 425,000 people on it (plus participants who march down the middle of the street). In order for that to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Jul, 2011 at 18:13 in
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Canada
MPs elected pro-life Conservative Andrew Scheer, a father of four, as Speaker of the House. In a 2009 with The Interim Scheer spoke about balancing his professional and personal life and how he always tried to be home in time to tuck his children into bed and not to schedule events on Sundays … The Hill Times reports that Stephen Harper is said to have ordered his MPs to not bring up “pet projects,” including abortion and gay ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Jul, 2011 at 18:04 in
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Feminist hijack education, population meetings
TURTLE BAY – A June 2011 paper from the Washington-based Heritage Foundation examined the difficulties raised by the radical feminists at UN Women, the United Nation’s feminist super agency. The organization was designed to take the place of several previous UN agencies to “hold the UN system accountable for its own commitments on gender equality.” UN Women is supposed to fight for women’s human rights, however, Saudi Arabia and Red China both have seats on the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jun, 2011 at 17:17 in
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Canada
According to an Abacus Data Inc. poll, 52 per cent of Canadians say “we shouldn’t be afraid to debate” abortion, that 49 per cent think abortion should not be fully covered at taxpayer expense, and only 22 per cent support the status quo of abortion permitted through all nine months without limit. While 27 per cent say human life should be protected from conception, only 8 per cent said abortion should be illegal in Canada. Sun media columnist ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2011 at 14:10 in
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Carleton Lifeline files notice
OTTAWA – The Carleton pro-life club has filed a Notice of Application for Judicial Review of the policies and decisions of the Carleton University Students Association (CUSA). Carleton Lifeline lost its club status on Nov. 15, 2010 after CUSA applied sections 5 and 6 of their Discrimination on Campus Policy. Section 6 prohibits any effort “that seeks to limit or remove a woman’s right to choose her options in the case of pregnancy.” Yet, Lifeline ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 May, 2011 at 6:24 in
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On May 2, Canadians will go to the polls to elect members of the 41st Parliament and, even now, the mainstream media is shaping the simplified story that will be told about the day’s results. The upcoming election will be taken as some sort of referendum about the incumbent government and, with no more precision than the ancient augurers, a legion of commentators will scrutinize the entrails of the electoral results, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 May, 2011 at 6:01 in
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Saanich-Gulf Islands
Conservative MP Gary Lunn is Minister of State (Sport) and won re-election by nearly 2600 votes in 2008 over Liberal Briony Penn, but this time he is facing Green Party leader Elizabeth May and the other left-of-centre parties are pulling back their efforts in an apparent attempt to help her knock off the incumbent. Lunn is rated pro-life and pro-family by CLC and has a perfect 11 for 11 voting record on issues of importance rated by the national ... (Continue reading)
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