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Written on 22 Sep, 2012 at 6:01 in
Abortion Law, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns The Christian Heritage Party of Canada issued a position paper outlining its support for various incremental measures to restrict abortion to offer guidance in what it seems as the best ways to limit abortion in Canada on route to eventually eliminating it. The document, signed by party leader Jim Hnatiuk and deputy leader Rod Taylor reiterates the party’s “unequivocal and unwavering defense of innocent human life from conception to natural death” as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Sep, 2012 at 6:10 in
Abortion statistics, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns In January, the Ontario legislature passed the government’s Bill 122, the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act, which, despite is laudable sounding name, puts the provinces abortion statistics beyond public access. Overall, the BPSAA increases public access to information about hospitals and clinics, but when it comes to abortion, the bill amends the Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act – or FIPPA – to exclude media or citizens from requesting information about ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Sep, 2012 at 17:33 in
Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns The Canadian Medical Association, the largest association of doctors in the country, voted August 15 to maintain the current wording of the Criminal Code definition of human being and oppose M-312, a private member’s bill that would require Parliament to examine scientific evidence as to whether the child in the womb is a human being and the human rights and Criminal Code ramifications of those findings.
Delegates to the CMA’s 145th annual general meeting in Yellowknife voted on the motion opposing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2012 at 6:48 in
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Paul Tuns While Bev Oda, the former federal Minister for International Cooperation and head of the Canadian International Development Agency, resigned amidst an embarrassing controversy surrounding her five-star hotel stay at the Savoy in London, England at which she enjoyed $16 orange juice, the real scandal, pro-lifers say, is the financial support she gave to International Planned Parenthood Federation even while the government said it would not promote abortion abroad.
While the media revisited some ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:43 in
Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns On June 13 Bill 33, a private members bill in the Ontario legislature that would add “gender expression” and “gender identity” to the Ontario Human Rights Code and give special legal protection to people who self-identify as transgender and transsexual, passed with all-party support in an unrecorded vote.
Opponents of Bill 33 and similar bills at the federal level have called the amendments to human rights legislation the “Bathroom Bill” because among other consequences it would allow men access to female ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jul, 2012 at 14:34 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Catholic school funding questioned in aftermath
After facing months of protests by pro-family and religious groups, the McGuinty government rammed Bill 13, the so-called Accepting Schools Act, through committee for a final vote on June 5. Bill 13 passed 65-36.
Although the Accepting Schools Act was presented as a broad-based anti-bullying initiative, its focus is on promoting homosexual rights in schools, including the province’s publicly funded Catholic school system. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Jul, 2012 at 12:06 in
Abortion, Announcements, Features, Politics, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka A group of young pro-lifers are using a defining campaign of the old pro-abortion movement to spread the message that abortion kills unborn babies across Canada.
In 1970, a group of pro-abortion feminists from the Vancouver Women’s Caucus met in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery to begin a journey across Canada in a caravan. Using images of coffins and coat hangers, participants aimed to eliminate Canada’s abortion laws and win the “right” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2012 at 18:41 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Commentary Pauline Kosalka “It’s been a while since I’ve seen this level of outrage from women,” said Carolyn Egan, spokesman and pro-abortion activist for the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, in a press release regarding MP Stephen Woodworth’s introduction of a motion to create a committee to re-examine whether an unborn child should be considered as a legal person under the Criminal Code. “Women are fed up with these not-so-subtle attacks on their fundamental ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jun, 2012 at 9:59 in
Fetal Rights, Issues, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Government whip gives ‘most stridently pro-choice’ speech
On April 26, the private member’s motion of Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth (Kitchener Centre) calling for the creation of a committee to examine the modern medical and scientific evidence of whether the unborn child is a human being and the human rights ramifications of those findings was given its first hour of debate on the floor of the House of Commons. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jun, 2012 at 8:14 in
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Editor’s Note: These are the prepared remarks for MP Stella Ambler’s (Conservative, Mississauga South) address at the National March for Life May 10.
Thank you for marching for life. For the babies whose lives were ended prematurely and for babies yet to be born. And, for their mothers.
I am a mother. Being my son’s and my daughter’s mom has been the most challenging, joy-giving, and, yes, occasionally frustrating, responsibility that I have ever ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 2012 at 8:49 in
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Pauline Kosalka and Paul Tuns
The Ontario Liberal government’s Bill 13 passed second reading on May 3 after it was fast-tracked by Liberal House Leader John Milloy. Bill 13, the Accepting Schools Act, forces high schools to establish homosexual clubs and promotes tougher penalties against bullying, including expulsion.
The Progressive Conservatives were accused of stalling debate on the anti-bullying bill by frequently ringing legislative bells, calling MPPs for votes, to force the government into having ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 May, 2012 at 10:50 in
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Paul Tuns On March 26, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld most of a 2010 Ontario Superior Court decision that struck down restrictions on prostitution. In 2010, Judge Susan G. Himel ruled that the provisions of the Criminal Code that restricted abortion – prohibitions on keeping a common bawdy-house (brothel), living off the avails of prostitution, and communicating for the purpose of prostitution in public. At a time when the Robert Picton case (a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 May, 2012 at 10:39 in
Announcements, Editorials, Features, Politics | Author:
On March 26, the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a perverse 2010 decision which ruled that the Criminal Code’s laws prohibiting keeping a common bawdy house and communicating for the purpose of soliciting prostitution violated Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Without a thought for the victims of prostitution, the lower court struck down these prudent legal protections on the grounds that they violated the “security of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 May, 2012 at 15:00 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns The media and Liberal Party partied like it was 1982 and wondered why not everyone wanted to join them. But as pro-lifers warned in the negotiations leading up to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it has been a flawed document, divisive and undemocratic. Worst of all, for all the trumpeting of its protection of individual rights, it does nothing to protect the most precious and important right – the right to life.... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 May, 2012 at 14:49 in
Activism, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Between 1500 and 2000 concerned parents and taxpayers turned out for a hastily organized protest at Queen’s Park to call upon the McGuinty government to drop its so-called Safe Schools Act, calling the supposedly anti-bullying bill a Trojan horse to introduce gay activism into the schools and undermine parents as the primary educator of their children when it comes to matters of faith and morals.
Although the focus of Bill 13 has been ... (Continue reading)
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