Special Reports

Study: Assisted Suicide Has Frequent Mishaps

BOSTON, Feb 24 (LSN.ca) – A Dutch study published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has found that assisted suicide does not go smoothly for about 1 in 5 patients. The findings shatter the “death with dignity” mantra of an easy and peaceful death. In 18 per cent of the 114 cases of assisted suicide studied, there were so many problems that the attending physician decided to see to the death of the patient personally by administering lethal drugs changing the cases to acts of euthanasia. Dr. Johanna Groenewoud of Erasmus University in Rotterdam found […]
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UA Could be stolen right out from under Reform

The United Alternative initiative, which spawned the Canadian Alliance over the weekend, could be taken over by “the Machiavellian Ontario Tories,” according to John Ibbitson in a front page Globe and Mail story on Saturday. Indeed, Ontario Tories Tom Long and Tony Clement, often mentioned Mike Harris and the “Common Sense Revolution” in their frequent appearances as organizational leaders at the United Alternative meeting. Ibbitson suggests that Long may try for leadership of the Canadian Alliance and be backed in his bid by the Harris “campaign team” including “Alister Campbell, communications specialist, Paul Rhodes, master spin doctor, Mark Mullins, the […]
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UA Retains Reform MP Voting Policy

OTTAWA, Jan 28 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite is at the United Alternative/Reform Convention in Ottawa. Both positive and negative developments have taken place from the pro-life and pro-family perspective. Of greatest concern so far has been the delegates’ approval of Reform’s MP voting policy in the UA. The passed item states “Where an MP finds that a clear consensus has been reached on an issue; his or her responsibility is to represent that consensus over party or personal views.” The item was passed with a strong majority. Some speakers asked for support for an alternate wording that might have allowed MPs […]
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Concerns About Ontario Tory Influence On UA

TORONTO, Jan 20 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Premier Mike Harris’ campaign wizard, Tom Long, has bid adieu to the federal Tories in his article in the January 18 National Post. The article is causing concern among social conservatives who fear Long’s involvement in the United Alternative may be to transform it into a clone of the fiscal conservative only Harris regime. Long was once president of the young Progressive Conservatives of Ontario and was at that time outspokenly pro-life. Since then he has quietly adopted a plan for power which no longer includes social conservatism. In the National Post article “So […]
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Pro-Life Priest: “Religious Leaders Must Defend Sacrament of Marriage! Sodomy Is A Sin!”

HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL News Release PRO-LIFE PRIEST: “RELIGIOUS LEADERS MUST DEFEND SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE! SODOMY IS A SIN!” FRONT ROYAL, VA, January 5, 2000-“Marriage is a sacrament. It is founded by God Himself. It is holy. Courts and legislatures are trying to destroy marriage, and religious leaders must end their silence and start speaking up in defense of it.” So said Fr. Richard Welch, CSSR, JCD, president of Human Life International, in response to a recent ruling by the Vermont Supreme Court.“Vermont’s high court ordered the legislature to confer upon active homosexuals, who affirm that they reside together and commit […]
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David Suzuki’s gloomy world of nothingness

National Post, April 8, 1999 Reprinted with permission from the author David Suzuki’s gloomy world of nothingness by Terence Corcoran Lock up your brains and keep the children out of reach of any radio: Here comes David Suzuki with another tax-supported CBC propaganda series in which we learn for the umpteenth time that the world would be a better place if there were no ugly human beings around. “If all humanity disappeared…the rest of life would benefit enormously,” says one of Mr. Suzuki’s expert guests on From Naked Ape to Superspecies, an eight-part radio series that begins this coming Sunday […]
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UN & IPPF Behind International Promotion of “Emergency Contraception”

The rapid proliferation of abortifacient “emergency contraception” around the world in the past few years, has been engineered by an international consortium of abortion supporters.  Formed in 1996, the International Consortium on Emergency Contraception, includes UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (Geneva); International Planned Parenthood Federation (London); The Population Council (New York); The Concept Foundation (Bangkok); Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (Los Angeles); Pathfinder International (Boston); Population Services International (Washington, DC); and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). The stated objective of the group states that it is “committed to making a […]
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Second Chance For Conscience Legislation Possible

Despite the failure of Maurice Vellacott’s conscience legislation to get the full hearing it deserved in Parliament on November 18, the Saskatchewan MP’s efforts and House of Commons speech on the bill have laid the groundwork for future initiatives on this issue. The future may not be long in coming if the Senate conscience bill makes its way through Parliament in a timely fashion. Also, in late-breaking news, Mr. Vellacott contacted LifeSite to report that his bill can be reintroduced in its current form, but with a new number. His bill first entered the schedule of Parliamentary business after being […]
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‘Comedy of Errors’ Kills Conscience Clause Bill

OTTAWA – Reform MP Maurice Vellacott’s conscience clause bill (C-207) was debated in Parliament last Thursday, November 18. Pro-life Canadians have been waiting since prior to the last election for the bill to come before Parliament. Campaign Life Coalition followed the process closely and many grassroots Canadians called their Members of Parliament encouraging them to support the bill. As reported previously by LifeSite, Mr. Vellacott ended up with written support for his bill from at least 100 other MPs from all the parties in the House of Commons. This level of endorsement guaranteed that the bill would be debated in […]
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Bill S-2 – The Medical Facilitations Act – Euthanasia in disguise.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario has grave concerns with the wording of Senator Sharon Carstairs Bill S-2, the Medical Decisions Facilitations Act. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario has been formed in order to prepare a well-informed, broadly-based network supporting measures that will create an effective social barrier to euthanasia and assisted suicide. One of our goals is to preserve and enforce legal prohibitions and ethical guidelines prohibiting “mercy killing.” President, Barrie deVeber M.D. FRCP(C) is Professor Emeritus in Pediatrics/Oncology at the University of Western Ontario in London and the President of the deVeber Institute in Toronto. He practised […]
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