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Written on 21 Oct, 2012 at 7:30 in
Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns When MP Stephen Woodworth addressed the Kitchener Pro-Life Forum, he was given rock-star treatment, getting a standing ovation when he was introduced. The applause was an acknowledgement of his work bringing forward for debate a private member`s bill, M-312, which if passed would require Parliament to re-examine the Criminal Code definition of human being using modern scientific evidence. Currently, Section 223 (1) of the Code says that a preborn child does not become a human being until it has fully ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Oct, 2012 at 14:52 in
Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Photo of MP Stephen Woodworth talking about M-312 to the Kitchener pro-Life Forum
On Sept. 21, in front of a packed gallery, the second hour of debate for Stephen Woodworth’s (CPC, Kitchener Centre) private member’s motion, M-312, took place in the House of Commons. Woodworth was joined by several Conservative colleagues calling for Parliament to set up a special committee that would examine the Criminal Code definition of human being in the ... (Continue reading)
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
Politics | Author:
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 2 Aug, 2012 at 9:06 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns The cover feature of the August Interim is on gestational limits. We surveyed pro-life leaders and groups and asked if they supported incrementalism (which can be a good thing) and specifically gestational limits (which we think are a bad idea). That survey will appear online shortly. Today we've posed a special editorial that we ran alongside the survey in the paper's centerspread, as opposed to the usual page four slot on our editorial page. In it we lay out our ... (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 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:36 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Provinces across Canada are seeking to adopt anti-bullying legislation after a series of high-profile cases in which bullied students committed suicide. In light of these recent developments, a new report by the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada evaluates the overall effectiveness of anti-bullying legislation. “The limits of anti-bullying legislation” by senior researcher Peter Jon Mitchell warns that lawmakers are introducing such laws with little evidence that they work and without adequate ways to monitor their outcomes.
The report acknowledges that ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:32 in
Human rights | Author:
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 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 10:05 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman What accounts for the frenzied reaction by advocates of legalized abortion to the private member’s motion introduced by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth. If passed, M-312 would mandate a committee of the House of Commons to determine if the preponderance of medical evidence is consistent with the declaration in Subsection 223(1) of the Criminal Code that, for the purposes of the law, a child becomes a human being at the moment of complete ... (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)
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