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Affidavit naming Axworthy associate as mystery caller

VANCOUVER, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Five political parties will be attempting to fill the riding left vacant in 2005 after the death of popular independent MP, Chuck Cadman. The two traditional marriage supporting and pro-life leaning candidates are the CHP’s Kevin Pielak and the Conservative’s Dave Matta. Election of any candidate in this riding is far from certain. However, the New Democratic Party’s Penny Priddy, who currently appears to be the front runner, received a boost when she was endorsed by the Chuck Cadman family. Conservative candidate Matta was expected to be an openly pro-life, pro-traditional marriage candidate in […]

By John-Henry Westen BALTIMORE, January 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a ruling issued today, Judge M. Brooke Murdock struck down Maryland’s 1973 law prohibiting homosexual ‘marriage’. Commenting on the activist nature of the judge, Maryland Senate President Thomas Miller, a Democrat, accused the ACLU and the homosexual activists it represented in the case of shopping-around for a willing judge.“I don’t think the same opinion would have been rendered in 90 percent of the other circuits in the state of Maryland,” he said. “There is no apparent compelling state interest in a statutory prohibition of same-sex marriage discriminating, on the basis […]

By John-Henry Westen  Editor  LifeSiteNews.com The current election has taken the attack on social conservatives in Canada to new heights.ÂNever before have pro-life, pro-family and pro-faith Canadians been as frequently and broadly painted as extreme,Âscary, and harbouring secret agendas. The two leading political parties in the election have had an ongoing war to point out to the media the subversive social conservative elements in each others ranks. An example of the invective comes from Prime Minister Paul Martin who said at a campaign stop in Atlantic Canada today: “What’s going to happen after the election? Are these social conservatives going […]

Some pro-life activists suggest strategic voting for Liberal to Stop His Bad Influence on Tories

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, January 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spike in sexually transmitted diseases is being described by Canadian gynecologists as an “epidemic.” The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC) have highlighted alarming statistics from Canada’s Public Health Agency indicating that since 1997 there has been an 80% increase in gonorrhea, a 70% increase in Chlamydia, and a staggering 908% increase in syphilis rates in the country. The group warned, additionally, that 400 women die each year as a result of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection, the cause of cervical cancer – killing 40 times more women […]

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, January 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – NARAL Pro-Choice America is worried that incremental gains by pro-lifers at the state level are making it impossible for many women to abort their “unwanted” children. “It’s a picking away at our freedom and privacy, legislature by legislature, law by law, with the ultimate goal of overturning Roe v. Wade,” said NARAL president, Nancy Keenan. While pro-life Americans continue working at the federal level to solve the constitutional deadlock created by Roe v. Wade, activists at the state level have met with much success in closing abortion facilities through regulations, state […]

By Gudrun Schultz STRASBOURG, January 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNew.com) – The secretary-general of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences said the EU has overstepped its role in urging all states to stamp out “homophobia” and enshrine homosexual ‘rights’ through legislation, in an interview on Radio Vatican. The EU’s adoption of the resolution showed “an aversion for certain values of our tradition, notably religious values,” said Aldo Giordano. “It should be clear that certain subjects, especially those relating to the family, are not within the direct competence of the European Union but are the recognized competence of nations. Such resolutions risk de-legitimizing […]

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