Recent Canadian News

Wednesday March 17, 2010 Prime Minister Harper Addresses Marijuana, National Day Care By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Harper clearly expressed his opinion on a variety of issues, including the topics of legalizing marijuana and instituting a national day care plan, during an interview on YouTube released Tuesday evening. The interview was based on questions submitted to YouTube and voted on by Canadian citizens. Responding to the question about why the government doesn’t end the war on drugs by making marijuana legal for adults, just like alcohol, and instead focus on violent criminals, the […]

Tuesday March 16, 2010 75% of Canadians Say “Abortion is Morally Wrong”: Poll By Thaddeus M. Baklinski and John Jalsevac OTTAWA, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new national poll indicates that a large majority of Canadians are increasingly embracing conservative values, including opposing abortion and supporting the true definition of marriage. The Harris-Decima poll was commissioned for the Manning Centre Barometer, an annual survey of Canadian’s attitudes towards values and policies generally ascribed to conservatives, by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. The poll was carried out by Allan Gregg of Harris-Decima and Dr. Andre Turcotte of Carleton University’s […]

Monday March 15, 2010 Pro-Aborts at University of BC Censor Pro-Life Display By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, B.C., March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dozens of pro-abortion protesters at the University of British Columbia (UBC) disrupted a pro-life demonstration last Tuesday, which was being sponsored by the University’s pro-life club, Lifeline. The club was running the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), which compares abortion to past genocidal atrocities – displaying, for example, an image of a Holocaust victim beside an image of an aborted baby. Lifeline has run a GAP campaign nearly every semester since the fall of 1999. The campus pro-abortion […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada's opposition parties are seeking to force the Conservative government into funding abortion as part of their maternal and child health initiative at the G8 summit this June.  And now rumors are circulating Parliament corridors indicating that the Prime Minister is ready to throw in the towel. Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) National Coordinator, Mary Ellen Douglas, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that the pro-life movement hopes “that the Prime Minister would urge his Party to reject the divisive motion.”  Douglas added, however, that the vote will be beneficial to the political […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the House of Commons yesterday that the government would be considering contraception as part of his maternal and child health initiative at the G8 in June, contradicting comments from cabinet members earlier in the week – and drawing criticisms from one pro-life group that he has “caved” on the issue. “We are not closing the door on any option, including contraception,” the Prime Minister told NDP leader Jack Layton (Toronto-Danforth) during Question Period.  “However, we do not wish to debate abortion in this place […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VICTORIA, British Colombia, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishops of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC), part of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), have petitioned the Vatican requesting full communion with the Catholic Church through the implementation of “Anglicanorum Coetibus.” The apostolic constitution “Anglicanorum Coetibus,” published in November last year, provides a way for groups of Anglicans to enter the Catholic Church through the establishment of personal ordinariates, a new type of canonical structure that would allow them to preserve much of their Anglican liturgical and spiritual traditions. Zenit News reports that the petition […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The House of Commons held a debate Tuesday on Bill C-384, a bill proposed by member of parliament Francine Lalonde (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ) to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. “Who can repeatedly say with confidence that helping someone in unbearable pain, particularly someone in palliative care – that is definitely unbearable pain – is a crime?” Lalonde asked the House.  “Many witnesses speak about helping someone die peacefully, so that they do not suffer. Is that really murder? Is that really a crime?” The bill received an hour of […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski KELOWNA, British Columbia, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers in British Columbia who maintain a weekly vigil protesting abortion outside the Kelowna General Hospital were again this year greeted by pro-abortion sidewalk chalk art. The Executive Director of The Kelowna Right to Life Society, Marlon Bartram, explained that last summer “a woman plus an undetermined number of accomplices repeatedly barraged the sidewalk across from the abortuary at Kelowna General Hospital with pro-abortion, anti-male, radical feminist slogans for nearly a month straight” at the spot where the pro-life vigil is kept. The sidewalk art stopped abruptly when the perpetrator […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Opposition critics and the mainstream Canadian media have lashed out at the Conservative government again over their plan for promoting maternal and child health care at this June's G8 summit.  The criticism follows comments from Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon on Tuesday, in which he insisted that the plan would not involve family planning or contraception. Critics argue that hundreds of millions of women are in grave need of contraception, and that access to contraception is essential to reducing maternal mortality.  But a respected social scientist and expert on population issues […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Family planning and contraception are not included in Canada's new maternal and child health initiative, insisted Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon Tuesday. “This [initiative] does not deal in any way, shape, or form with family planning,” he told the House of Commons foreign affairs committee.  “Indeed, the purpose of this is to be able to save lives.  Too many people are losing their lives on a yearly basis.” Cannon responded to questions from NDP member of parliament John Rafferty, who claimed that the most important and cost effective way […]