Recent Canadian News

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Toronto Star report Wednesday claiming the Canadian government is set to add strippers and escorts to its national job bank is “completely and utterly false,” says a spokesman for the government. The Star cited an October 1st ‘draft memo’ from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada that said occupations such as exotic dancer, nude dancer, striptease dancer, and escort, among others, would “be acceptable for posting on Job Bank.” The piece, written by Star reporter Richard J. Brennan, suggested the “surprise” memo was a change in Conservative policy, noting that the […]

Monday October 4, 2010 Canadian Bishops’ Agency Goes to Court to Conceal Info on Groups they Fund Editorial by John-Henry Westen MONTREAL, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews (LSN) has learned that the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) has applied to the federal court to block an access to information request from LifeSiteNews. In April, after D&P refused numerous requests for information from LSN, we paid the required $300 government fee and made the formal application. The request was simply for the names of each D&P partner group and how much in funding each was given this year and […]

Thursday October 7, 2010 BC Government Sues Contraceptive Patch Manufacturer By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia government has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson Inc., claiming the maker of the “Ortho Evra” contraception patch “aggressively marketed the contraceptive without disclosing the safety hazards associated with Evra.” The lawsuit claims that women using the patch “did not receive any warnings about the increased risk of developing blood clots, pulmonary emboli, strokes, heart attacks or deep vein thrombosis associated with Evra.” The BC government is seeking to recover past and future health care costs associated with […]

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Antigonish Diocese to Run Conference with Dissident Paul Lakeland By Patrick B. Craine SYDNEY MINES, Nova Scotia, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, has organized a conference this month to be delivered by dissident theologian and former Jesuit priest Dr. Paul Lakeland of Fairfield University in Connecticut, who openly holds views on abortion, homosexuality, contraception and women priests that go against Catholic teaching. The conference, entitled ‘Catholicism at the Crossroads: How We Can Save the Church’ and scheduled for October 22-24, has a strong emphasis on the role of lay people in the Church. […]

Tuesday October 5, 2010 Fewer Children, Later Marriage, More Divorce in Canadian Families: Study By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vanier Institute of the Family has released “Families Count: Profiling Canada’s Families IV,” the fourth in a series of publications since 1994 that draw on the most recent data to provide a new picture of Canadian families and the challenges they face. For pro-family advocates, the report paints a worrying picture of increased cohabitation and divorce, later marriages, and fewer children. Timed to provide a backdrop for National Family Week (October 4-9), Families Count details the trends that are […]

By Patrick B. Craine CALGARY, Alberta, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading Canadian pro-life organization is aiming to “raise the bar” for pro-life activism in the country with the launch of a new website geared to training our multimedia generation in pro-life arguments and strategy. “We want the site to be a must-stop location for anyone who wants to know about abortion in Canada,” explained Jose Ruba, co-founder of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR). The site features an in-depth and brand-new Pro-Life Classroom with a series of four-to-six-minute video clips illuminating the sound science, philosophy, and reasoning undergirding the pro-life […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Carleton University said earlier this week that it had five pro-life students arrested mainly because they had set up a display in an area on campus that the university claimed was “not normally permitted” for displays, a university representative today told LifeSiteNews.com that the real issue was “the nature of the content.” The students – four from Carleton and one from Queen’s University – were arrested around 9:00 a.m. Monday as they were preparing to set up the Genocide Awareness Project, which compares abortion to past atrocities through graphic imagery, […]

By Patrick B. Craine LONDON, Ontario, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In hosting a talk this month by a leading U.S. homosexual activist, King’s University-College, a Catholic institution affiliated with the University of Western, is “caving into a false compassion which neuters the healthy teachings of the Church,” says David MacDonald, a Canadian Christian musician and speaker who left the homosexual lifestyle. Jody Huckaby, executive director of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), is set to deliver a talk at the College on October 21 entitled ‘Social Justice and Social Stigma: Building the Bridge of Inclusion of Gays, their […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian government is funding abortion-on-demand for refugees under a health plan meant to provide “emergency and essential health-care,” revealed the Toronto Sun in a recent report. In the government’s handbook on the refugee health-care program, which is administered by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), abortion is singled out from all other surgeries, which are only covered if a doctor deems them to be an emergency or essential. The Toronto Sun reported that CIC is reviewing the program after the Sun questioned the fact that it provides, in some ways, more health […]

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