Recent Canadian News

Tuesday April 27, 2010 Canadian Gvmt: No Abortion in G8 Maternal Health Plan By Patrick B. Craine HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada will not fund abortion as part of its ‘signature’ initiative to promote maternal and child health care as president of this June’s G8 summit, International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda announced Monday. “Canada’s contribution to maternal and child health may involve various interventions, including family planning, which includes the use of contraceptive methods,” said Oda, who heads the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), according to the Toronto Star. “The details remain to be determined; however, […]

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Calgary U to Judge Pro-Life Students in Closed-Door Hearings Today CALGARY, Alberta, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Calgary is proceeding with individual non-academic misconduct hearings, which include the possibility of expulsion, for eight members of the Campus Pro-Life (CPL) student group regarding a pro-life display held earlier this month. The University administration notified students that “legal representatives are not suitable Advisors and are not welcome” at the individual, closed-door hearings, scheduled for April 28th and April 30th. “This feels like a show trial where they’ve already convicted us unjustly and now want to […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Debate over the right of religious schools to expect staff to follow a code of conduct in keeping with the school's moral values has been re-ignited after lesbian music teacher Lisa Reimer claimed she was “fired” by Little Flower Academy, one of three private Vancouver Catholic schools. Reimer says she was fired when school administration discovered that she and her homosexual partner were having a baby. Reimer, who is not Catholic, said she signed a “Catholicity clause” at Little Flower Academy saying she would respect the Catholic school's faith and […]

This article is excerpted from the May CLC National News Re-published with permission TORONTO, Ontario, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South) has introduced C-510, a private member's bill formally entitled An Act to Prevent the Coercion of Women to Abortion. The bill would protect pregnant women from intimidation and pressure to have abortions against their will. We applaud Mr. Bruinooge, who serves as the chairman of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus, for this initiative that would amend the Criminal Code in order to protect women from being coerced into having abortions. The bill is also called Roxanne's […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Torstar Corporation, publisher of the Toronto Star, is emerging as a favorite to buy cash-strapped Canwest Global Communications Corp.‘s insolvent newspaper assets, including the National Post, the Globe and Mail reported. The National Post is seen by many to be the last, if sometimes ambivalent, voice of conservatism in the Canadian press, while the Toronto Star, often referred to as the Red Star by critics, has a long history of liberal bias in its reporting of stories related to traditional morality and any institutions supporting that morality. “The Toronto Star […]

MONTREAL, Quebec, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Drummondville couple who requested that their children be exempted from Quebec's new program in relativism, Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC), have decided to take their case to the Supreme Court of Canada following the February decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal to deny their appeal. The parents are being supported in this effort by the Coalition for Freedom in Education (CLE), who praised the family Wednesday for their “principled and courageous” fight for the authentic education of children. Sylvain Lamontagne, CLE's president, declared that “as far as the parents are concerned, […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski QUEBEC CITY, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of the “Day of the Family” to be held Saturday, May 15, 2010 (two days after the National March for Life in Ottawa), Campaign Life Quebec is organizing a conference in Quebec City with the theme, “A Struggle for the soul of Quebec: two visions of marriage and family.” Georges Buscemi, president of Campaign Life Quebec, told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that he hopes that all those who are challenged by the ethical and moral issues faced by the family and by the assault on human life (i.e. abortion, […]

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent Catholic pro-life and pro-family organization is calling on parents and other concerned individuals to take action in the wake of an attempt by the Ontario Ministry of Education to force a new controversial elementary sex-ed curriculum on Catholic schools. Campaign Life Catholic (CLC), which has been lobbying against the curriculum behind-the-scenes since the fall, says that parents cannot let up on the pressure against the curriculum despite the government's decision last week to shelve it for further consultation. “Thanks to pressure from pro-family & Christian leaders, Dalton […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rose Dinner at this year's National March for Life in Ottawa will feature undercover pro-life journalist, investigator, and organizer of numerous sting operations against Planned Parenthood, Lila Rose. Lila is a student activist at UCLA who has dedicated herself to building a culture of life and ending abortion. At age fifteen, Lila founded Live Action, a student-led organization and that uses “new media” to educate and mobilize both local and national audiences to demand accountability from the abortion industry, and human rights for the pre-born. In 2006, Lila began […]