Articles Tagged ‘Human rights’
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 9:15 in
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Paul Tuns Pro-life women have urged Rona Ambrose, Minister for the Status of Women, to support M-408, a private member’s motion that condemns sex-selective abortion.
Last Fall, Ambrose shocked some political observers when she joined ten of her cabinet colleagues and a majority of her caucus to support Stephen Woodworth’s private member’s motion calling for a scientific inquiry about the child in the womb. The motion was defeated and unions and feminist groups called for Ambrose’s resignation. Ambrose stated that she supported the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 9:10 in
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Theresa Yoshioka Arün Smith favours diversity, just not diversity of opinion. So in early February he removed the free-speech wall at Carleton University – stole the paper and destroyed the frame – then, on Facebook, rationalized his violent direct action. In his incoherent philosophy, “liberty requires liberation, and this liberation is prevented by providing space for either more platitudes, or for the expression of hate.” He vowed to repeat his crime should the free-speech wall be restored.
Carleton’s stifling cultural climate, known to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 9:06 in
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Declan Ganley Special to The Interim “We’re stepped out upon the world’s stage now – the fate of human dignity is in our hands.”
With the words above, Steven Spielberg’s Abraham Lincoln faces his cabinet down and reminds them of the challenge facing his bleeding nation. He insists that they take a stand before the world, and fight on to abolish and criminalize slavery once and for all. Whether the real Lincoln said these exact words we will never know, but that they reflect the challenge of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:39 in
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Joe Campbell Light is Right Joe Campbell
I try to practice human rights. I don’t mean that I try to practice what governments and their rights agencies preach. On the contrary, I try to practice what they breach. That is, I try to practice human rights.
I also preach them. Chiefly, I preach, and the others breach, the right to proclaim and act on our religious beliefs and to teach ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Apr, 2013 at 13:17 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Human rights, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman National Affairs Rory Leishman
With the unanimous ruling in the case of Bill Whatcott on Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Canada has stepped up its attack on freedom of speech and freedom of religion as never before. For faithful Christians, the implications are clear: Like Whatcott, they, too, could end up in jail as a prisoner of conscience for upholding the plain teachings of Sacred Scripture on the sinfulness of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Apr, 2013 at 13:17 in
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Paul Tuns Supreme Court ruled against Bill Whatcott.
The long legal odyssey of William Whatcott that began with the distribution of four flyers on homosexuality in 2001 and 2002, ended in the Supreme Court on Feb. 27, with the Supreme Court handing a mixed result for advocates of freedom of speech.
After Whatcott distributed his flyers more than a decade, four individuals filed hate speech complaints against him with the Saskatchewan Human ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Nov, 2012 at 9:03 in
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Paul Tuns LifeSiteNews.com reports:
The UNFPA’s 2012 annual report, which declared birth control a “human right,” was released this week.
It states that UN general comments are “the authoritative interpretation of the standards” that “help translate the right to family planning at the abstract…level into policies and programs.”
Not only is birth control -- many of which are abortifacient -- declared a human right, but the United Nations Population Fund report states that religious objection to birth control is a violation ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:32 in
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Interim Staff One small step to restoring our democratic rights
The House of Commons passed Brian Storseth’s private member’s bill C-304 repealing Section 13 of the Canada Human Rights Act that proscribes so-called hate speech.
C-304, An Act to Amend the Human Rights Act, was introduced by Storseth last October and passed third reading June 6 on a 153-136 near party-line vote. All members of the opposition except one voted against Storseth’s bill while every member of the Conservative Party ... (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 16 Apr, 2012 at 6:35 in
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Pauline Kosalka The Conservative government is creating an Office of Religious Freedom to shine a light on religious persecution abroad with the hope of defending religious minorities. Before looking abroad though, the Canadian government would do well to attend to the country’s own problems in enshrining freedom of relgion, conscience, and expression for Christians at home.
Perhaps the most obvious threat to the free exercise of religion is the infamous human rights commissions. The most ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Apr, 2012 at 16:10 in
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When Canada de-criminalized abortion in 1969, technology did not exist to let the world see inside the womb. Thanks to modern microscopic imaging and video technology, we can now see the newly created human being inside the
Day 1 – Fertilization
The life of each individual member of a species begins at conception/fertilization. That is when a genetically new and genetically complete individual first comes into existence. The new ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2012 at 5:38 in
Human rights, Politics | Author:
Patrick Craine The campaign to scrap Canada’s ‘hate speech’ clause moved one step closer to victory Feb. 15 as the House of Commons voted 158-131 to send it to committee. Of those MPs who voted, the bill was unanimously supported by the majority Conservative government and opposed by all opposition members, except Newfoundland MP Scott Simms (Liberal, Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor).
After consideration by the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, Bill C-304 will need to pass a third vote in the House of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2012 at 5:35 in
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Paul Tuns On Feb. 6, MP Stephen Woodworth filed a motion with the Clerk of the House of Commons to ask Parliament to form a special committee to study what he called Canada’s “archaic” definition of human being, a move broadly supported by the Canadian pro-life movement.
Woodworth, a Conservative MP from Kitchener-Centre, notes that Section 223(1) of the Criminal Code which defines human being, originates in a 400-year-old law as recorded by the 17th century English lawyer and jurist, Edward Coke in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2012 at 10:19 in
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Brian Storseth Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of MP Brian Storseth’s (CPC, Westlock-St.Paul) speech Nov. 22 in support of C-304, his private member’s bill to remove hate provisions from the Canada Human Rights Act.
It is through freedom of speech and expression that we change governments here in Canada, not through riots and revolts. This is one of the unique factors that sets us apart from many countries in the world…
Layer by layer, brick by brick, our country has grown and successfully ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 7:28 in
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Paul Tuns Many in the media rallied around the right for Bill Whatcott to speak freely even if they disagreed vehemently with his message, part of what the National Post’s Chris Selley called “the pleasantly broad consensus that the law shouldn’t be limiting Canadians’ right to free speech, however abhorrent.” With friends and allies like Selley …
But Selley was not unique. Just as columnists and editorialists defended Whatcott’s free speech rights, they condemned his “hate speech” and “anti-gay” activities. Writing in the ... (Continue reading)
