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Written on 12 Nov, 2008 at 19:55 in
Pro-life Groups | Author:
The Central Student Association of the University of Guelph unanimously decided to pull accreditation from Life Choice, the pro-life student group, deeming it "unsafe to women" due to its promotion of the pro-life message. Accreditation was pulled after the club's "Life Fair," in which pro-life speakers addressed the audience and pro-life signs and images were displayed.
The CSA said the pro-life activism of Life Choice violated the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Oct, 2008 at 10:42 in
Columnist, Physicians for Life, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman
Pro-life physicians in Ontario should beware: The Ontario Human Rights Commission has served notice that any physician who refuses to perform an abortion could be charged with violating the ban on discrimination on the basis of sex in section 1 of the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Sep, 2008 at 10:17 in
Pro-life Groups | Author:
Maria Dalgarno
The North Bay Right to Life/Pro Vie group has been bringing the pro-life message to the northern Ontario city for a quarter-century. Nancy Tremblay, the secretary of the executive, talked with The Interim, sharing stories and recollections about 25 years of pro-life activism.
The group notes that in the early 1970s, there ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2008 at 7:30 in
Pro-life Groups | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Tony Gosgnach
Assistant Editor
Following in the footsteps of several Canadian university campuses that have attempted to squelch the pro-life point of view, the city of Hamilton earlier this year removed pro-life advertisements from its bus shelters, claiming they were “inappropriate” and “controversial.” But now, the Hamilton Right to Life organization is fighting back.... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2008 at 13:34 in
Real Women | Author:
Pete Vere Senior Writer
Gwen Landolt is a lawyer, long-time pro-life activist and a co-founder of Toronto Right to Life, the Coalition for Life and REAL Women of Canada. But most important, she says, she is a wife and mother.
Landolt’s involvement with Canada’s pro-life movement began in 1971. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2008 at 10:45 in
Pro-life Groups, Youth Activism | Author:
Interim Staff
On April 3, nearly two dozen pro-lifers, led by Rosemary Connell of Show the Truth, displayed Genocide Awareness Project signs on the University of Toronto campus outside the Robarts Library. Thousands of students and members of the public witnessed the signs that compare abortion to other historical tragedies including the Holocaust and slavery.
On ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Apr, 2008 at 8:49 in
Pro-life Groups, Youth Activism | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor
A debate on abortion at Toronto’s York University that was initially cancelled at the last minute at the behest of the university’s student federation finally went ahead March 18 with more than double the number of spectators than attended the first time.
About 130 people, under the watchful of eyes of heightened security, packed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2008 at 13:05 in
Palliative Care | Author:
Steve Jalsevac Special to The Interim
An injunction preventing Winnipeg’s Grace General Hospital from removing life-sustaining care from Samuel Golubchuk has been upheld by Justice Perry Schulman of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench. The 84-year-old cognitively disabled patient’s family has been battling hospital doctors who are determined to starve and dehydrate him to death regardless of the family’s wishes.... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2008 at 13:03 in
Activism, Pro-life Groups | Author:
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Written on 23 Mar, 2008 at 12:58 in
Pro-life Groups, Youth Activism | Author:
Theresas Matters Reporter While some pro-life students are in battles with their student unions for recognition as official clubs on campus, students at Sir Wilfred Laurier and Ottawa Universities are planning events for their first terms as a club. Both campuses had clubs in earlier years, but for various reasons, were unable to continue them until now.
Their applications for club status were submitted ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2008 at 12:56 in
Pro-life Groups, Youth Activism | Author:
Theresa Matters Reporter The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) Ontario has decided to weigh in on the controversy at Lakehead University. The Lakehead Student Union officially became “pro-choice” at an emergency meeting on Jan. 21. The motion stated: “the Lakehead University student union (will) withhold any and all funds, space, resources and services within its control from any group … if that group holds any aim, principle, belief, goal, etc. that is ‘anti-choice’ in nature, explicit ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2008 at 11:50 in
Pro-life Groups, Youth Activism | Author:
Theresa Matters Reporter On Jan. 25, professionals and students gathered at the University of Toronto for a day to mark the 20th anniversary of the R. v. Morgentaler decision in 1988. The symposium, entitled, “Of What Difference: Reflections on the Judgement and Abortion in Canada Today,” was a collaborative effort by the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program at the Faculty of Law, the University of Toronto, and the National Abortion Federation. As well, there was ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2008 at 10:41 in
Abortion statistics, Pro-life Groups | Author:
New website provides Canadian stats, history and research
Editor’s Note: This Pro Life BC press release was issued Jan. 23.
British Columbia’s largest pro-life organization is calling on all Canadians, including members of the news media and politicians, to become better educated about the harmful consequences’ of abortion.
Pro Life BC, which represents more ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2008 at 9:57 in
Pro-life Groups, Youth Activism | Author:
The Lakehead University Student Union (LUSU) voted 20-3 on Jan. 10 to deny the pro-life club, Lakehead University Life Support, club status. This is another example of discrimination against pro-life students on Canadian campuses.
The club was given four conditions on Dec. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Feb, 2008 at 11:49 in
Pro-life Groups | Author:
Cyril Doll Raji Shankar’s voice nervously breaks as she speaks into the phone. It’s her first telephone call with the media, she explains, and the topic of conversation isn’t the type of benign chatter she’d share at a dinner party. Nor is she rehashing her proudest moment. Shankar, a business analyst in Toronto, is recalling how on two separate occasions she accompanied friends for abortions – once in her native India and ... (Continue reading)
