Special Reports

Value of school choice recognized for natives but not for other Canadians

Trudeau's corruption of parliamentary tradition, which gave dictatorial powers to the PM, has been continued by subsequent Prime Ministers.

The following open letter on the International March of Women was written by Mrs. Jakki Jeffs, a Life Member of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL).  A Life Member is given permanent membership on the national council of the CWL. Mrs. Jeffs is a former president of the CWL of the Hamilton diocese (this diocesan CWL has 12,500 members – about 10% of the CWL national membership). She was also a member of the CWL Ontario provincial board acting as the Educational Convener. Moreover she was recently featured in The Catholic Register as a model CWL leader. A VOICE IN THE […]

These three items on the Canadian Alliance leadership race are excerpted from the May CLC National News. They provide an excellent overview of the main candidates from the social conservative perspective. CLC National News – May 2000 CANADIAN ALLIANCE LEADERSHIP CANDIDATES ONE MEMBER, ONE VOTE TOM LONG WIN WOULD BE ALLIANCE DISASTER CANADIAN ALLIANCE LEADERSHIP CANDIDATES Since the last newsletter, two other contenders have joined former Reform Party leader Preston Manning and former Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day in seeking the Canadian Alliance leadership. Toronto lawyer Joe Peschisolido has since announced he is dropping his leadership bid. As we reported last […]

Reproduced by LifeSite News with permission from Michael Coren May 4, 2000 By MICHAEL COREN Sun Media They must be the most exploited two words in North American politics: family values. Everybody claims to stand for them and approve of them. articularly on the political right. For that reason all of the men running for leadership of the Canadian Alliance are declaring themselves to be the family values candidate. Of Preston Manning and Stockwell Day there are no doubts. But what of Tom Long? He has already fudged issues, refusing to say very much about very much. More revealing is […]

Canada Played Leading Role Against Family Last month, from March 3-16, radical feminists from the west took another stab at advancing their pro-abortion and homosexual agenda at the United Nations during the Beijing+5 PrepCom. Once again, however, they were beaten back by aggressive pro-family forces and resisted by developing countries, organized at the UN as the G-77. A conference reviewing the progress in setting up an International Criminal Court followed on the heels of the Beijing+5 PrepCom, and continued to push similar radical agendas. At the Beijing+5 PrepCom, the UN was reviewing the compliance of signatory nations to the Beijing […]

Reprinted with permission from – Vivant! Pro-abortion NGO renews attack on Holy See’s UN status Western Nations Oppose Beijing+5 ‘Family’ References Beijing Platform For Action Serves Only West’s Interest Beijing+5 Delegates Battle Again Over Abortion References Western Nations Rethink Population Control, Family ———————————————————————————————————————— Pro-abortion NGO renews attack on Holy See’s UN status By Theresa Bell NEW YORK – “Catholics For a Free Choice” (CFFC), the UN-accredited pro-abortion NGO that has been lobbying for revocation of the Holy See’s UN status as a Permanent Observer delegation, placed a full-page ad in the March 16 issue of the Earth Times that was […]

Grave threat to national sovereignty and cultural and religious traditions UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court began its fourth session of negotiations on the elaboration of the rules and guidelines for the eventual functioning of the Court. The session runs from March 13-31 and will focus on the texts of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crimes, for which the completion deadline is June 30. The rules cover such issues as composition and administration of the Court, penalties for crimes, obligations of international co-operation and assistance, as well […]

Reprinted with permission from – Vivant! – March 8, 2000 By Vivant! staff NEW YORK – Unhappy over the unexpected presence of a substantial international contingent of pro-family youth NGO representatives, radical-feminist lobbyists objected publicly yesterday to the presence of the World Youth Alliance (WYA). In a one-page circular distributed in the afternoon to Beijing+5 PrepCom participants, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) issued an “alert” to European delegations “concerning the threat to the five-year review process caused by a large presence” of what the EWL called “right-wing, ‘pro-life’ participants.” According to the EWL, the “numerous right-wing fundamentalists are so far […]

NEW YORK, Feb 29 (LSN.ca) – The 44th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) began yesterday and will run to March 17. Eleven days of the three-week session will be allocated to the Commission acting as the final Preparatory Committee for the General Assembly Special Session, “Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century” (Beijing +5).  Three main documents were included with the information packages to delegates and together they demonstrate that a major focus of the whole exercise remains the promotion of abortion, “emergency contraception” and sex education for children and adolescents. […]