Articles for Month: February 1999

OTTAWA, Feb 15 (Lifesitenews.com) – The Ottawa Citizen reported today that same-sex pension benefits may be included in the federal budget being presented this week. The federal government did not appeal the Rosenberg ruling which charged that it was discriminatory against homosexuals not to allow same-sex couples to collect pension benefits, so it is under pressure to amend pension legislation accordingly. Introducing such reforms in the budget, however, is seen by many pro-family forces as an underhanded way of pushing them through since it raises the stakes significantly for Liberal backbenchers who oppose such changes. If the government loses the […]

ASIA, Feb 15 (Lifesitenews.com) – Abortions are rising in Russia again and the declining economy is being blamed. A weekend report by the U.S.-based Pro-Life Infonet reveals that a phenomenal 2.5 million unborn children were killed. This, nevertheless dwarfs the 3.5 million deaths in 1992. At this rate, however, twice the number of children were aborted than born alive. According to available, data nearly 40% of Russian abortions result in complications which require antibiotics or hospital treatment. This is further evidence of the false nature of the mantra of the pro-abortion lobby that legal abortion is synonymous with safe abortion. […]

WATERLOO, ON, Feb 12 (Lifesitenews.com) – On Wednesday Waterloo regional council voted to give the local Planned Parenthood office a $27, 230 grant for this year and a $27,774 grant next year. For the past 3 years pro-lifers were able to convince a majority of their city councillors to refuse to fund the abortion promoting agency. This year councillors voted 11-10 in favour of funding the group. (with files from Pro-Life E-News)

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 12, 1999 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates made a $2.2 billion dollar donation to his own William H. Gates Foundation, a foundation which is heavily involved in promoting population control. Writing in WorldNetDaily, Jon Dougherty reveals that the William H. Gates Foundation is a member of Partners in Population and Development, (PPD) which falls within the scope of the United Nations Population Fund. A UN report on the PPD notes that its activity “takes place in key areas of reproductive health,  including family planning and sexual health, and population and development, not only in […]

TORONTO, Feb 12 (Lifesitenews.com) – With an Ontario election seeming imminent this spring, Ontario voters for whom life and family are the first priority are feeling deeply betrayed by the Tories.  Grassroots Ontarians are asking whether the Mike Harris Tories are more “progressive” than conservative. In the February issue of the Interim, Canada’s pro-life newspaper, the Tory track record for life and family is reviewed. Steve Jalsevac, a Toronto director of Campaign Life Coalition, writes that while a good number of Tory MPPs are family-values oriented and want to have social conservative policies implemented, their general inexperience and timidity, and […]

THE HAGUE, Feb 12 (Lifesitenews.com) – From a late breaking report today, the last day of the Hague Forum,  LifeSite has learned that the UN has used physical assault to carry forward its ant-life and anti-family agenda. A report from the conference by Tom McFeely, on assignment for Human Life International Canada, indicates that a young Syrian law student who was covering the conference for an Arabic magazine was ordered ejected from the conference by UN officials for exposing the pro-homosexual and pro-abortion agenda at the Youth Forum. According to a letter of complaint which Bachar Jamali sent to UN […]

OTTAWA, Feb 12 (Lifesitenews.com)  BillC-63, a government sponsored bill to regarding Canadian citizenship would allow the cabinet to redefine “spouse” to include same-sex couples for the privileges of granting immigration and citizenship status. Section 43 of the Act refers to orders in council decisions decisions which can be made by the privy council and do not have to be approved by the House. Section 43i allows states that government in council can make regulations “defining who is a spouse for the purposes of this act.”  The bill is scheduled for 2nd reading on Tuesday Feb 16, 1999. Insiders note that […]

OTTAWA, Feb 11 (Lifesitenews.com)  In the House of Commons Tuesday, pro-life MP Maurice Vellacott (Wanuskewin, Ref.) reminded MP’s of his conscience legislation introduced last month. Vellacott remarked that the law would protect the rights of health care workers to refuse to participate in abortion or euthanasia. The MP noted that there have been cases where nurses “have been forced out of jobs for choosing not to participate in abortion procedures or acts of euthanasia.” The bill must be drawn from a hat or else supported by 100 MP’s in order to go before the House.  Supporters are encouraged to contact […]

OTTAWA, Feb 11 (Lifesitenews.com)  On February 5, pro-life MP Rob Anders (Calgary West, Ref.) introduced Bill C-469, an act to amend the Canada Labour Code. It would allow union members to avoid being forced to contribute to political parties or causes against their will. Speaking on his bill Anders said “The Canada Labour Code affects over 700,000 employees (some)  who do not believe they should be funding partisanship, who want to promote the sanctity of human life they do not want to be forced against their will to contribute to causes they do not believe in.” The bill must be […]