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Written on 26 May, 2010 at 14:10 in
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Canada
Marylou Talbot, whose teenage pregnant daughter Olivia was murdered in 2005, has renewed calls for the enactment of an unborn victim’s of violence law ... Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett, who oversees the Alberta Human Rights Commission, said Darren Lund’s complaint against Pastor Stephen Boissoin should never have gone before the AHRC: “It’s not there to mediate hurt feelings caused by some words” ... Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan said the province will consider dissolving the Saskatchewan Human ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2010 at 14:01 in
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Pro-abortion justice retires
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a pro-abortion liberal appointed to the Supreme Court by Republican President Gerald Ford in 1975, has announced he will retire after the current term ends in June at the age of 89. He voted to uphold Roe v. Wade in the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and endorses the notion that the U.S. Constitution supports a woman’s “right” to abort her child. Nancy Keenan, the president of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2010 at 13:58 in
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Order of Canada resignation
OTTAWA – Governor General Michaelle Jean has officially accepted Frank Chauvin’s resignation from the Order of Canada. Chauvin, inducted into the Order in 1987 for his work with Haitian orphans, returned his medal last Fall to protest the appointment of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order in 2008. Chauvin, a former Windsor police officer, unsuccessfully launched a legal challenge against Morgentaler’s Order of Canada, pointing out that the Advisory Council reportedly altered its protocol from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Apr, 2010 at 6:19 in
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Morgentaler suit against N.B. proceeds
FREDRICTON – A lawsuit launched by Henry Morgentaler to make New Brunswickers pay for abortions at his Fredericton abortion facility will advance to the trial stage after the New Brunswick government refused to appeal a court ruling in late August that gave Morgentaler legal permission to represent women seeking publicly funded abortions. The lawsuit was filed in 2004 and has advanced slowly through the preliminary stages before trial. Morgentaler claims that New Brunswick is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Apr, 2010 at 13:40 in
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Interim Staff Dynamic Women of Faith, an event held on International Women’s Day, attracted women from Toronto, Oakville, Brampton, Milton, Orangeville, Collingwood, Stouffville, Nottawa, Cambridge, Richmond Hill and Scarborough, among other areas. Women of all ages, united by their love of Christ, came together to be replenished and renewed in their journey of faith.
Speakers addressed a variety of issues to help women deal with the competing demands of being a wife, mother, sister, friend, employee and Christian in an increasingly secular world. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2010 at 5:17 in
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Alberta family wins 3-week reprieve for son
EDMONTON – On Feb. 19, Court of Queen’s Bench Judge Michelle Crighton ordered Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton to keep Isaiah James May on life support until March 11 to give May’s parents three weeks to assemble medical experts to assess their son’s chances for further recovery. The order extends an original reprieve granted on Jan. 27, after the family received notice from the hospital on Jan. 13 that their baby’s condition ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Mar, 2010 at 18:32 in
Bits n' Pieces, Issues | Author:
Canada
The National Parole Board denied the request of Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who murdered his disabled daughter, for extended leave from his halfway house in British Columbia ... According to an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll 67 per cent of Canadians think euthanasia should be made legal while 23 per cent are opposed. Just over four in ten (41 per cent) agreed that “legalizing euthanasia would leave vulnerable people without sufficient legal protection,” and 28 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 2010 at 15:24 in
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Canada
Governor General Michaelle Jean has formally accepted the resignations of Father Lucien Larré and Renato Giuseppe from the Order of Canada. Both had objected to the awarding of the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler in July 2008. Fr. Larre, who started the Bosco Centers for troubled youth in Saskatchewan, said Morgentaler’s investiture “was a terrible mistake.” In total, nine medals of the Order of Canada have been publicly returned while several recipients returned their honours without publicity ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Dec, 2009 at 7:57 in
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Canadian swine flu vaccine ethically produced
OTTAWA – Children of God for Life, a pro-life group that provides information on vaccines, confirms that Arepanrix, the HIN1 vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline, is produced with chicken embryos and does not use fetal cell lines in its manufacture. Health Canada’s Arepanrix product information leaflet says the “H1N1 antigen is prepared from virus grown in the allantoic cavity of embryonated hen’s eggs.” Debi Vinnedge, executive director of Children of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Dec, 2009 at 5:59 in
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Hospital has duty of care to unborn
GUELPH – The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled that Guelph General Hospital did owe a duty of care to an unborn child whose parents claim negligence during delivery that caused brain damage. Kevin Liebig was born in 2001 with hypoxic ischemic encyphalopathy, brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation. The family argues that Susan Liebig was given excessive amounts of a drug to speed up labour and was not ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Oct, 2009 at 8:05 in
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Canada
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party wooed Toronto Sun city hall columnist and married lesbian Sue-Ann Levy to run in a by-election in the downtown Toronto riding of St. Paul. She lost to Liberal candidate Dr. Eric Hoskins, 48 per cent to 29 per cent … Ontario MPP Gerry Martiniuk (PC, Cambridge) introduced a private member’s bill that would require all schools and libraries to put porn-blocking filters on any computer that is accessible to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 5:01 in
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Canada
Nature magazine reports that most developed countries have seen fertility rates rebound after steady declines over the past 40 years, but Hans-Peter Kohler of the Population Studies Centre notes there are three exceptions: Canada, Japan and South Korea. Toronto Star columnist Carol Goar said Canada needs to follow Quebec and Europe’s lead in expanding the welfare state to become “a truly family-friendly country” by paying for childcare and generous parental leave programs … Tim Hudak’s Progressive ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Aug, 2009 at 5:48 in
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Indian capital legalizes gay sex
NEW DELHI – Justice S. Muralidhar of New Delhi’s High Court decriminalized consensual gay sex between adults in a controversial decision on July 2. The law only applies within city limits, but sets a legal precedent that may be invoked by courts across India. While India’s gays celebrated the victory, spiritual leaders in the religiously diverse country strongly voiced their disapproval. “Islam is totally against it. Islam does not allow any unnatural act,” said ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Aug, 2009 at 5:22 in
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Montreal, Vancouver pride events denied Marquee cash
OTTAWA – The Canadian Press reported that the Marquee Tourism Event Program, which doled out $400,000 to the Toronto Pride parade in June, refused in July to fund similar gay pride events in Montreal and Vancouver. Divers-Cite, the organizing committee in Montreal, had asked for $155,000 to promote their gay pride events and add performers, but were denied their request. CP noted, however, that the same committee received an unreported amount ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2009 at 11:43 in
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From the Editor's Desk A few thing that caught my eye. This editor’s desk column will be, as it often is, less a column delving into an issue than mentioning a couple items that came across my desk, but for which there wasn’t room in the paper.
The leftwing website AlterNet.org had a story by Byard Duncan who wrote about “Maggie,” her university friend in Indiana, who at the age of 22 found herself pregnant. Duncan wrote that the question when Maggie shared this information ... (Continue reading)
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