Recent Canadian News

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Wagner, the B.C. pro-lifer incarcerated at Vanier women’s jail since her March 30th arrest, has refused a court demand to stay away from the abortuary where she offered sidewalk counseling, as a condition of her release. Wagner's friend and supporter John Bulsza told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that presiding Judge Clemens said, during a hearing on July 7 at the College Park courthouse, that Mary had served enough time in jail, but then imposed three conditions on her release. The first condition was bail of $500, the second was to be on […]

Wednesday May 26, 2010 G8 Abortion Push Weakened as Study Finds Newborn Mortality at All-Time Low May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report released yesterday demonstrates that worldwide mortality for children under age 5 has dropped at a rate faster than expected and shows that child mortality is falling in every region of the world – a 35% reduction since 1990. The same prestigious institute that reported a significant drop in maternal mortality last month, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, today reported great progress in saving the lives of young children […]

By Charles Lewis July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Monday, the National Post's editorial board contended that Montreal’s Loyola High School should not have the right to opt out of a Quebec government-sponsored ethics and religion program — despite a court ruling allowing it to do so — because it receives public funds. The argument seems fair on the surface: The assumption is that as a religious school, Loyola is somehow outside the public sphere and therefore should be grateful for whatever public support it gets. But what the editorial fails to recognize is that public money does not mean secular […]

By Patrick B. Craine HUNTSVILLE, Ontario, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the G8 meetings in Muskoka on June 25-26, Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems to have held true to his commitment to not fund abortion as part of his “signature initiative” on maternal and child health. But at the same time he endorsed a plan that includes funds for “family planning.” Under the leadership of Prime Minister Harper, the G8 countries announced June 26 that they would be launching the Muskoka Initiative to “accelerate progress” towards improving maternal health and reducing child mortality (MDGs 5 and 4). The plan aims to […]

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Quebec Bishops Welcome Court Ruling Upholding Religious Ed By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Quebec Bishops Assembly has applauded the province’s Superior Court’s June 18 ruling upholding the right of a Catholic private school to teach religion and morality within a Catholic context. In a Monday letter, Bishop Martin Veillette of Trois-Rivières praised Justice Gerard Dugré’s decision to allow Loyola High School, a Catholic boys’ school in the Jesuit tradition, to offer Quebec’s highly controversial and rigorously secular ethics and religious culture program from a faith perspective. “This ruling sheds new […]

Friday April 30, 2010 BC Hospitals Refuse to Release Abortion Data By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two BC hospitals have refused to divulge information about abortions conducted at their facilities, following a freedom of information request from a major pro-life group. “If abortion statistics are going to be hidden in British Columbia, they will be hidden everywhere,” said John Hof, head of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) BC, which requested abortion information from Vancouver General Hospital and Kelowna General Hospital over a year ago. “What better way to win an argument – ‘Oh, how […]

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Analysis: False Gospel of ‘Equity’ Lures Ontario Catholic School Boards TORONTO, Ontario, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many parents are raising serious concerns about what they see as the ready willingness of far too many Catholic School Boards across Ontario to get into bed with the heavy-handed, often dangerous ideologies of the Ministry of Education’s “Equity and Inclusivity” initiatives. One of the first major waves of these initiatives was seen in the Ministry of Education’s recent attempt to introduce a controversial new “Health and Physical Education” curriculum into grades K-8, by September 2010. This curriculum was […]

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Equity Training for Ontario Catholic Boards: Homosexuality ‘Normal’, ‘Natural’ By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The majority of Ontario’s Catholic education establishment has backed the Ontario Ministry of Education’s equity and inclusive education strategy, even where it mandates “equity” based on sexual orientation, on the basis that the Catholic Church has always emphasized equity and inclusivity. But as the Catholic boards prepare to implement their new “equity” policies this fall, it would appear that they are not only being trained to welcome homosexual people, but also to endorse homosexual behavior. As […]

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Major Canadian Businesses Supporting Raunchy Toronto Gay Pride Parade By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews has compiled a list of the corporate sponsors who are supporting Toronto’s sordid annual homosexual “pride” parade (see below). Most of the sponsors are private companies, but some, such as OLG (Ontario Lottery and Gaming) are government-run organizations. REAL Women of Canada’s National President, Cecilia Forsyth, released a letter following last year’s Toronto homosexual exhibition saying, “The Gay Pride Parade is well known for its full nudity, open engagement in public sexual acts and its deliberate […]

Friday June 25, 2010 Creative Math: Abortion Activists and Maternal Health By Andrea Mrozek, Manager of Research and Communications, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada June 25, 2010 (IMFC) – Is abortion a necessary part of the maternal health initiative? Would funding abortion in the developing world really save 70,000 mothers’ lives annually? These are questions the media are not asking as the number has been repeated in news reports across the country and internationally. The 70,000 figure is used to show that excluding abortion from a maternal health package means ideology is trumping sound medical care at the expense […]