Recent Canadian News

April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – What follows is the speech that Cameron Wilson, a student at the University of Calgary, gave to the media on Monday, April 19, 2010.  He read it on behalf of the team of pro-life students who were charged with non-academic misconduct, with the possibility of expulsion, for displaying the Genocide Awareness Project on campus (Read more about this story here): We of Campus Pro-Life have been told countless upon countless occasions that the Genocide Awareness Project, and the pictures contained therein, are offensive and hurtful to look at. But if an action is too terrible to […]

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Windsor Children’s Aid Society Pursuing Homosexual Foster Parents By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WINDSOR, Ontario, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Windsor branch of the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) has formed a partnership with a local homosexual advocacy group, ‘Windsor Pride,’ to encourage adoptive and foster parenting by the area’s homosexual community. The Windsor Star reports that the initiative’s first public information session, which will feature homosexuals who have already adopted or are foster parenting children, will take place on April 14 at the homosexual organization’s downtown center. “I think a lot of people in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper's spokesman, Dimitri Soudas, refused today to say whether the PM would allow a free vote in his party on the recently-tabled private members bill from Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge that seeks to protect women from coercive abortions. Asked by LifeSiteNews (LSN) whether there would be a free vote, Soudas responded that “the government's policy is that we will not initiate or support legislation that reopens the debate on abortion.” “That's been the consistent policy of this government and this Prime Minister since he took the position and since […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EDMONTON, Alberta, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Talbot, mother of Olivia Talbot who, along with her unborn son Lane, was murdered in 2005 by Jared Baker, has sent an email to supporters saying she intends to renew efforts to reintroduce the Unborn Victims of Crime Bill C-484 to Canada's Parliament. The initiative follows a March 19 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada dismissing an appeal by Baker of his 2007 first-degree murder conviction for killing the then 19-year-old Olivia. Baker was not tried or convicted for the killing of Olivia's unborn child due to federal law, […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Member of Parliament Peter Goldring (Edmonton East) is accusing pro-abortion Liberal MP Raymonde Folco (Laval—Les Îles) of deliberately misleading him in order get his weight behind an association of parliamentarians that he has now learned is bent on promoting abortion in the developing world. Folco, who serves as chair of the Canadian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (CAPPD), asked Goldring to serve as vice-chair on the executive committee of her group. Goldring told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that Folco made it seem that CAPPD, which was founded in 1997 by pro-abortion […]

By Patrick B. Craine NEW YORK, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has come out in favor of the U.S.'s approach to maternal health, which includes the promotion of abortion, over that of Canada. At a UN news conference Wednesday, WHO's director-general Dr. Margaret Chan praised U.S. President Barack Obama's promotion of the legal “right” to abortion. Dr. Chan sat next to Canada's Minister for International Cooperation Bev Oda. Both of them were joining UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as he announced the UN's new effort to curb maternal deaths during childbirth and pregnancy. Chan said abortion is a […]

By Patrick B. Craine EDMONTON, Alberta, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Canadian medical experts have called for new medical guidelines to prevent sex-selective abortions in Canada, noting that with the country's legal vacuum on abortion, the burden of regulating the practice is left to obstetricians and gynecologists. In an article published in the January 2010 edition of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, Dr. Brendan Leier, a bioethicist at the University of Alberta, and Dr. Allison T. Thiele, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Saskatchewan, point out that widespread availability of ultrasound technology and abortion in […]

By Patrick B. Craine COBOURG, Ontario, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The human rights complaint filed against Bishop Nicola De Angelis of Peterborough, Ontario over his decision to disallow an open homosexual from acting as an altar server in the diocese will now go to mediation, with a hearing scheduled in Toronto for May 11th. The complaint was filed with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal by Jim Corcoran, owner of a highly-rated spa in Grafton, Ontario, on June 17th, 2009 following the bishop's decision that April.  Alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation, Corcoran is seeking up to $25,000 in damages from the bishop, and […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Wagner from the Vancouver, British Columbia area has spent the past four years discerning her vocation in a Catholic convent in France, which she says she felt called to leave in order to share Jesus' love with those involved with abortion – a calling that has most recently landed her in a Toronto prison. On Monday, March 29, during Holy Week, Mary entered the “Woman's Care” abortion facility where she said she was able to “speak to a few grieving Dads, whose partners had already gone in for their abortions, and […]