Recent Canadian News

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this month the Toronto Star published an article about a sting operation purporting to expose the “deception” used by Toronto’s pregnancy resource centres – an account that has been dismissed as “inaccurate,”“misrepresentative,” and full of “twists” on the truth, according to its targets. After infiltrating eight centres claiming to be six weeks pregnant, Star reporter Joanna Smith wrote in an August 7th article that the centres use “misleading information” to scare women out of having abortions.  She claimed that they lure women in “without always readily disclosing their belief […]

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Quebec Bishop on Cardinal Ouellet: “Emotional” and Out of Touch with Quebec By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amidst the congratulations and best wishes imparted this week to Cardinal Marc Ouellet as he heads to his new post in Rome, the head of the Quebec Bishops’ Assembly has publicly criticized certain aspects of the Cardinal’s efforts to restore faith and morality in the once vibrantly-Catholic province. In an interview with the Canadian Press on Friday, only days before the Cardinal’s farewell Mass, Bishop Martin Veillette of Trois-Rivières called Ouellet “an emotional person, […]

Friday August 20, 2010 Cardinal Ouellet Leaves Canada with a “Thank You” to Campaign Life Coalition By John-Henry Westen QUEBEC CITY, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As he completes his hectic preparations for his departure for Rome next week, the new head of the powerful Vatican office which helps select bishops, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, took time to thank Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and impart his blessing upon the organization and all pro-life activists in Canada. In May when the cardinal, who has served eight years as the archbishop of Quebec City and the primate of Canada, came under fire for […]

Monday August 9, 2010 New Study Finds Thinking about God Reduces Anxiety For Believers By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thinking about your faith in God may make you less upset about making mistakes, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “Eighty-five percent of the world has some sort of religious beliefs,” said Michael Inzlicht, who co-wrote the study with Alexa Tullett, in a University of Toronto statement. “I think it behooves us as psychologists to study why people have these beliefs; exploring what functions, if […]

Tuesday August 10, 2010 Free Condoms for Canada’s Prisoners Questioned By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leader in Canada’s pro-family movement is demanding answers from the Canadian government in light of a report that they have been spending tens of thousands of dollars per year to distribute free condoms in the country’s federal prisons. “Something is seriously wrong with the system if people who are incarcerated are involved in these sexual activities,” said Gwen Landolt, national vice president of REAL Women. “How is this permitted to go on?” The government spent approximately $120,000 on […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – From October 28 to 30 Ottawa will witness a gathering of some of the titans of the global pro-life and pro-family movement at the annual International Pro-life Conference. The lineup of speakers will include John Smeaton (President of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, UK), Bill Saunders (Senior Counsel, Americans United for Life), Dr. Jack Willke (President, International Right to Life Federation), Brad Mattes (winner of a 2010 Emmy Award for his pro-life TV show, “Facing Life Head-on”) and John-Henry Westen (Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews.com). It will also feature […]

Commentary by Alex Schadenberg, Chairman, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, I received a phone call and then an email from Bernard Stephenson M.D., M.Div., concerning Joshua (Kulendran Mayandi) the pastor of a small Christian church in Brampton. The letter outlines several significant problems and two huge concerns for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. First: Joshua (48), who is not otherwise dying, is being dehydrated to death (euthanasia by omission). This is not a case when hydration and nutrition need to be withdrawn because he is actually dying and nearing death, but rather the decision appears to have been made […]

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Cross-Canada Walk for Life Wraps Up on Parliament Hill By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of young Canadians concluded their 5,000 km. cross-country walk for life this Saturday in Ottawa, where they were welcomed on Parliament Hill by dozens of Ottawa pro-life supporters, including Archbishop Terrence Prendergast. The group of six arrived at the Hill around noon, where they were awarded a certificate of accomplishment by Mrs. Audrey Lemieux, wife of pro-life Member of Parliament Pierre Lemieux. The group then processed to St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Catholic […]

"We have suffered from this mentality of dissent" that is "still dominating the intelligentsia," said Ouellet.

By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The infamous dissident priest Fr. Raymond Gravel of the Joliette diocese has again published an article criticizing Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s efforts to bring Christian truth into the public square. At the same time it has been revealed that he was scheduled to celebrate a “Pride” Mass in Montreal this past Sunday, the Catholic feast of the Assumption. In an article published at L’action.com, the priest criticizes the homily that Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the former archbishop of Quebec, gave at his farewell Mass in Ste. Anne de Beaupre on Sunday.   “The […]