Recent Canadian News

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 light on a very complex […]

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 can you prove […]

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 drawn up […]

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 a LifeSiteNews […]

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 disregard of behaviour acceptable to […]

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 of women’s lives in […]

Monday June 28, 2010 Vancouver Archbishop on Pro-Life Activism: “The Time is Now” By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, B.C., June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver has called on every member of the faithful in his diocese to take an active role in the pro-life movement. “We can make a difference; the time is now, and the tide is turning,” he wrote in a pastoral message for Pro-Life Sunday on June 20. “No issue is more important for our society and country. It calls each of us to be part of the solution to the tragedy of abortion […]

Wednesday June 23, 2010 ‘Equity’: Ontario School Board Nixes Christian References in Policy By Patrick B. Craine SIMCOE, Ontario, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of continuing efforts by Ontario’s schools to promote “equity and inclusive education,” a southern Ontario school board has removed references to Judeo-Christianity from their board policy on moral education. The Simcoe County District School Board approved the changes at a meeting in May, with opposition from only two of the 12 trustees – Peter Beacock and Debra Edwards. “The Education Act references Judeo-Christian morality,” Edwards told Simcoe.com. “There’s a question in my mind of what is the great […]

Wednesday June 23, 2010 Group Rebukes Canadian Gvmt for Pushing Homosexuality in Romania By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian national pro-family group is taking their government to task after Canada’s ambassador to Romania, Philippe Beaulne, officially backed the country’s week-long “gay pride” event in the capital last month. “Canada should shut its mouth about the internal affairs of other countries,” said Gwen Landolt, national vice president of REAL Women Canada. Cecilia Forsyth, the group’s national president, wrote to Prime Minister Stephen Harper two weeks ago objecting to Canada’s “interference in the democratic process and domestic policies” of Romania […]

Friday June 25, 2010 Former PM Paul Martin Calls for Abortion in Maternal Health By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Prime Minister Paul Martin has issued a call for abortion to be included in the Canadian Government’s maternal and child health initiative at this week’s G8 summit, and openly criticized Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s handling of the issue. “Regardless of what your position is on abortion, you’ve got to understand that in a huge number of these cases, some people say the majority of these cases, the mother’s health is at risk,” he told The Mark in a […]