Region: Canada

By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) has recommended a set of photos to the media for abortion-related stories that, according to one pro-life leader, shows the “foolish” lengths to which the abortion lobby will go to hide the humanity of the unborn. At the same time, the pro-abortion group has admitted that the number of abortions reported by Statistics Canada is lower than the true figure, saying “many” abortion facilities do not report the abortions they commit. As reported by the blog Big Blue Wave, the ARCC […]

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Catholic bishops have now publicly endorsed the implementation of the Ministry of Education’s controversial equity and inclusive education strategy in the province’s Catholic schools. In an October 4th statement, the bishops explain that they have endorsed a Catholic version of the equity policy.  “The Bishops believe that the proposed template will help ensure that our schools will remain faithful to Catholic teaching as they move forward with the Ministry’s directive,” it reads. The statement, meant to deal with concerns over the treatment of homosexuality in the Ministry’s […]

Friday October 15, 2010 Arrested Carleton Pro-Life Students to Host Controversial Talk on Campus By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the arrest of five pro-life students last week at Carleton University, the Carleton pro-life club is inviting the public to a talk on campus this Monday where they will explain the message behind their “censored” display. “We’re inviting anyone who’s heard about the controversy over our arrest and who wants to know why we are so willing to speak up for the unborn, to hear the presentation,” said Ruth Lobo, president of Carleton Lifelife […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life battle will only be won if we embrace Christ’s Cross, become “the poor and despised of the world,” and “listen … to the promptings of the Holy Spirit,” said acclaimed author and artist Michael O’Brien at LifeSiteNews’ inaugural all-staff planning event in Barry’s Bay, Ontario in August.  O’Brien will be a featured speaker at next week’s International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa. He will address the theme ‘Overcoming Evil and Impossible Odds with Faith’ during lunch on Saturday in a special ticketed event. (To register for the conference, […]

Wednesday October 13, 2010 2010 International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Oct. 28-30: Register Now By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The upcoming international pro-life conference, set to take place in Ottawa at the end of this month, is “one you won’t want to miss,” says Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition, who emphasized the impressive line-up of international speakers. (To register, click here.) “Anytime you can hold a conference in the nation’s capital and bring international speakers to it, it offers the opportunity for all the local pro-lifers to be inspired and to […]

Wednesday October 13, 2010 BC Court Allows Challenge against Prostitution Laws By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The BC Court of Appeal ruled on October 12 that a Vancouver based pro-prostitution lobby group will be allowed to challenge Canada’s prostitution laws in court. Madam Justice Mary E. Saunders overturned a December, 2008 ruling by the BC Supreme Court and told representatives from the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence (SWUAV) lobby group that she was granting them legal standing to challenge the Criminal Code, despite the group not being actively involved in prostitution themselves. The […]

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The arrests of five pro-life students at Carleton University last week should inspire pro-lifers to step up and engage in the pro-life battle, said Fr. Simon Lobo, brother of arrested Carleton Lifeline President Ruth Lobo, in a powerful homily in Ottawa on Sunday. “Yes – yes I am the brother of Ruth Lobo,” said the priest, a member of the Companions of the Cross community.  “I’ve never been more proud to admit that, actually, than I am now.” The students – four from Carleton and one from Queen’s University […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The trial of Don Spratt and Cecilia (Sissy) von Dehn, charged with breeching the Access to Abortion Services Act in June 2009, is set to continue March 16th 2011, after presiding judge Jeanne E. Watchuck found the four days set aside in BC Provincial Court, Oct 4-7 2010, proved to be insufficient to hear all the testimony. The BC Access to Abortion Services Act forbids any counseling against abortion to be given within 50 metres of an abortion mill, however, Spratt and von Dehn were not counseling against abortion in […]

Tuesday October 12, 2010 Canadian MP Decries ‘Censorship’ at Carleton U over Pro-Life Arrests By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian Member of Parliament has decried what he termed the “censorship” at Ottawa’s Carleton University, following the arrest last week of five pro-life students who were attempting to erect a pro-life display. “Free speech is a foundational principle for Canada’s free and democratic society. Academic freedom, a key aspect of freedom of speech, has long been protected and promoted in Canadian universities,” said Maurice Vellacott, MP for Saskatoon-Wanuskewin. The students – four from Carleton […]

Tuesday October 12, 2010 Alberta Government Sued by Eugenics Program Victim By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EDMONTON, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Alberta woman has filed a lawsuit against the Alberta government claiming she was sterilized as a teenager in 1961 without her knowledge or permission. Darlene Gabler, 64, says she was wrongfully certified as mentally deficient at 15 and irreversibly sterilized under the Sexual Sterilization Act by the Alberta Eugenics Board, a government-run eugenics program which operated from 1928 to 1972, sterilizing over 2,800 teenagers who were deemed “mentally defective.” In 1972, the year the Sexual Sterilization Act was […]