Articles for Month: November 2008

Monday April 12, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips MANY U.S. DAY CARE CENTERS HARMFUL: STUDY WASHINGTON, Apr 12 (LSN) – A study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission found that many of [America’s] child-care centers have conditions that are hazardous to the safety of children. The study says two-thirds of licensed child-care centers studied by federal investigators last year had at least one condition that could cause harm to children. The CPSC said that today it knows of at least 56 children who died in child-care settings since 1990. Nineteen percent of the child-care providers had cribs […]

Friday February 26, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips NO FAULT DIVORCE KILLING FAMILIES TORONTO, ON, Feb 26 (LSN) – A study released yesterday by the C.D. Howe Institute indicates that no-fault divorce is one of Canada’s most destructive social policies. Professor Douglas W. Allen of Simon Fraser University argues that “one would be hard pressed to find another example of a single piece of legislation that has had as much impact on families a the introduction of no- fault divorce.” Among the tragedies blamed on no-fault divorce are the huge increase in children growing up in poverty […]

Monday October 23, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips GM, AT&T;, ECHO STAR AND TIME WARNER TAKE OVER AS PORN KINGS Demand and profitability soar as new technology increases access ease and anonymity NEW YORK, Oct 23 (LSN.ca) – In a revealing report today on the big business behind the $10 billion a year U.S. pornography industry, the New York Times reveals the who and the how of the erosion of civilization. The lengthy Times report is titled “Erotica Inc. — A special report” and subtitled “Technology sent wall street into market for pornography.” While most thought of […]

Tuesday July 18, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips RUBBERIZING AFRICA AND THE FINANCING OF GENOCIDE PROVO, Utah, July 18 (LSN.ca) – Carol Ugochukwu, President of United Families of Africa in Enugu, Nigeria, commented in an interview with Mary Mostert of Original Sources that Western delegations at the United Nations are trying to “exterminate the whole race” with their promotion of condoms. The comments are reminiscent of remarks made by Canada’s General Romeo D’Allaire, head of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda. After the Rwandan massacre Dallaire reported that peacekeepers referred to the “rubberizing of Africa” by the […]

Thursday December 17, 1998 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips BC SUPREME COURT NIXES SCHOOL BAN OF HOMOSEXUAL PUSHING BOOKS FOR KIDS VANCOUVER, Dec 17 (LSN) Yesterday, Madame Justice M.E. Saunders of the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled in favour of a group of pro-homosexual teachers in B.C. Whether this leads to a marked increase in the number of home and private educated children in the region remains to be seen. The teachers took the Surrey School Board to court to maintain the right to provide kindergarten and grade one children with pro- homosexual books. Last April the […]

Monday June 26, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips PRO-GAY PAPER CONFIRMS GAY ACTIVIST POLITICAL INFLUENCE TORONTO, June 26 (LSN.ca) – The June 22-28 edition of Toronto’s subculture newspaper, NOW, contains a major article by writer Scott Anderson confirming the extensive political involvement of key homosexual activists in the Harris government and the Tom Long Alliance leadership campaign. The article names names and details how the homosexual movement influenced Mike Harris and Tom Long to accept its agenda. One of the activists the article extensively quotes is George Marsland who, along with Jaime Watt, co-founded the gay Canadian […]

Friday February 29, 2008 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Pro-Family Forces Achieve Compromise to Allow Continuation of Abstinence Education in Massive US AIDS Program PEPFAR program extended and budget tripled to $10 billion annually for next five years By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman February 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family forces in the U.S. House of Representatives hammered out an agreement on Wednesday to maintain abstinence education programs in a bill to extend President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which has been credited with effectively reducing the rate of HIV transmission in Africa during its five year existence. […]

Thursday January 20, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips MORE FALLOUT FROM MP BULLYING PRO-LIFE PRIEST VANCOUVER, Jan 20 (LSN.ca) – A Tuesday editorial in The Province, a mainstream newspaper in MP Svend Robinson’s home province of BC commented on Robinson’s bullying of Fr. Tony Van Hee. The editorial, titled “Svend can dish it out but he sure can’t take it,” after recounting some of Robinson’s freedom promoting undertakings, said “it staggers us that the latest opponent Svend Robinson has thrown into a headlock is not bombs or bigotry or a Chinese despot, but rather good old Canadian […]

Monday December 13, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips LIBERALS TO IMPOSE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IN BILL C-19 – Federal Government Will Surrender National Sovereignty – OTTAWA, Dec 13, (LSN.ca) – On Friday the Liberal government introduced what may well be seen as its most dangerous piece of legislation to date, Bill C-19, which will “implement in Canada the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).” Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Anne McLellan are calling the bill the Crimes Against Humanity Act. “I am proud that Canada is […]

Friday August 21, 1998 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips U.N. GEARING UP FOR ANOTHER CONFERENCE TO PROMOTE ABORTION NEW YORK, Aug 21 (LSN) – The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) reported yesterday on a U.N. report which will serve as a base for the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo+5) scheduled for next June in New York City. The report issued two weeks ago is entitled “Round Table of Human Rights Treaty Bodies on Human Rights Approaches to Women’s Health with a Focus on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.” It was developed by the […]