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... and subsequently withdrew food in order to hasten his death, this would be a case of euthanasia, not palliative care. Such an action is not part of palliative care. Dame Cicely Saunders, who founded ...
Thursday, 09 September 2010
2. Action Item: Petition Against Child Exploitation
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
ARPA Note: We received the following notice from Canada Family Action and we encourage you to not only print off and collect signatures, but also print off extra copies and get your family and friends ...
Tuesday, 07 September 2010
... between Canada and Italy. "Our study found Canadian parents to be the most tolerant. They had less rules and less disciplinary actions," said Dr. Michel Claes, a psychology professor at the University ...
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
... about their move toward early learning here. Click here for a video from the Langley ARPA event on full-time K. Finally, you can find some talking points on this issue here. Take Action: If you ...
Monday, 30 August 2010
...  The groups represented at the first forum on June 14, 2010 were LEAF (Women’s Legal Education Action Fund), the legal arm of the feminist movement, Match International (whose purpose is to spread feminism ...
Friday, 06 August 2010
... leaders who bravely do the same." --30-- For suggestions for action to support Roxanne's Law, click here. For the latest new, articles, and videos from ARPA Canada, click here. The Association ...
Wednesday, 04 August 2010
... agenda in schools and elsewhere. Chief Commissioner Barbara Hall prefaced the report with the statement: “Our work can be summed up in three words: educate, empower and act – actions that can transform ...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
8. Freeze Mob: Child Porn is a Crime Scene
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
This is part of Canada Family Action's effort to strengthen Canada's laws against child exploitation. It is a great example of thinking outside of the box to open the eyes of Canadians to an issue that ...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Take Action: Send a note of thanks for this brave and principled decision to Stockwell Day, Jason Kenney, and Stephen Harper (Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, Day.S@parl.gc.ca, Kenney.J@parl.gc.ca) Globe & ...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
ARPA Note: We can be thankful that this year hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars aren't funding this. This is an example of how your taking action makes a difference. By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
11. Is your church facing zoning problems?
(Issues/Research/Justice/Freedom)
...  appears to be some misunderstanding about the applicability of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to municipal government entities and their actions. They are in fact subject to the Charter and their ...
Monday, 28 June 2010
June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new grassroots group in Quebec is urging Quebecers to join the campaign to stop euthanasia and assisted suicide from being “smuggled” into the public health care ...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
... the Ministry’s actions as “totalitarian,” a word the coalition has been criticized for employing in the past.  He noted, in fact, that the judge went even further in the comparison to the Spanish ...
Monday, 21 June 2010
... been urging you to take action in support of this legislation. MP's and Senators have heard from Canadians and have responded. Here is an email message from MP Joy Smith, the sponsor of this bill, followed ...
Friday, 18 June 2010
... necessary if a provision for 'utterance of threats' already exists in the Criminal Code?" and "How would one prove or disprove that an act of coercion took place?" Take Action 1) Pray that this effort ...
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
ARPA Action Note: For more information on this campaign, including videos and action items, go to www.ChildSafeNation.ca. Update from CFAC: Bill C-22 – the Protecting Children from Online Sexual Exploitation ...
Monday, 31 May 2010
What follows is a selection from an article "Early Christians' love for others helped spread the faith" in the WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - May 15, 2010: The new faith was also was very attractive for women - ...
Friday, 21 May 2010
18. ARPA and Armageddon
(News/News)
... we all share a common view of the end times which motivates us to political action. Click here for a good review from the EFC, along with a list of more reviews. Click here to watch the author debating ...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
19. Alberta Government Asks for Input on New Health Act
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... the issue of abortion funding that we brought forward last year (see below).   Related ARPA Action Item from 2009 By ARPA Canada (April 17, 2009): In light of the economic down turn, ...
Thursday, 13 May 2010
... also some concerns. The four who met the Minister at her constituency office for an hour were Langley residents Bryan Grim and Eric Vandergriendt of ARPA (Association for Reformed Political Action), ...
Monday, 10 May 2010
21. Send a thank you note for cuts to pride festival funding
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
ARPA Action Item: Take action today by sending your MP and Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement a note of support for these funding cuts [Send it to Clement1@parl.gc.ca, Clement.T@parl.gc.ca, and minister.industry@IC.gc.ca ...
Monday, 10 May 2010
22. Reflection on Proposed Refugee Reforms
(Issues/Research/Canadian Politics)
... The Conservatives had a responsibility to take action on a file that has languished for far too long, unfairly punishing legitimate refugees. It may be that Mr. Kenny is overreaching with some provisions ...
Thursday, 29 April 2010
23. Missing the Point on Forced Sex-Ed
(Issues/Research/Education)
... about-face is only a distraction. It’s a small step back in a headlong rush to the precipice. Neil Dykstra lives in Langley, BC and works in the pharmaceutical industry. A graduate from Trinity Western ...
Thursday, 29 April 2010
... Reformed Christians to political action and to shine the light of God’s Word to Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments. . For questions relating to donations, please contact John Voorhorst ...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
25. ARPA’s Engage Parliament With Faith-Based Perspective
(Strictly ARPA Related/General ARPA)
... Reformed Christians to political action and to shine the light of God’s Word to Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments. . For questions relating to donations, please contact John Voorhorst ...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
26. ARPA’s Engage Parliament With Faith-Based Perspective
(Strictly ARPA Related/ARPA Audio)
... Reformed Christians to political action and to shine the light of God’s Word to Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments. . For questions relating to donations, please contact John Voorhorst ...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
27. Euthanasia Bill Defeated!
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
The House of Commons has voted down Bill C-384, a bill which proposed to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. Thank you very much to many of you who took action in recent days, months, and ...
Friday, 16 April 2010
ARPA Action Item: Please send Mr. Blackett a thank-you note calgary.northwest@assembly.ab.ca for speaking up, and encourage him to make the necesary changes to the Alberta HRC (even getting rid of it) ...
Thursday, 08 April 2010
Read the shocking results of an access to information request regarding the Pro-Choice Action Network on this blog posting here. Not only is this radical pro-abortion organization getting paid with tax ...
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
... attractions to simply accept that they are homosexual. The group has launched the Web site FactsAboutYouth.com with material for educators and students. [Continue reading this article here.]  ...
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
31. Promotion of Homosexuality in Schools
(Issues/Research/Sexuality)
... attractions to simply accept that they are homosexual. The group has launched the Web site FactsAboutYouth.com with material for educators and students. [Continue reading this article here.]  ...
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
32. ARPA Event in Yarrow, BC: Full-time Kindergarten
(Strictly ARPA Related/General ARPA)
...  Rev. C. Bowman-Pastor of Yarrow Canadian Reformed Church - Biblical perspective on early education Mark Penninga - Director of ARPA Canada - Action Items for this issue A brief AGM for ARPA Fraser ...
Monday, 05 April 2010
33. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely (Part 1)
(Issues/Research/Biblical Worldview)
... of human political action more.  Without the seemingly natural devolvement from power to corruption, old empires might still exist, poverty might have ended long ago and communism might be a legitimate ...
Monday, 29 March 2010
34. Not such good news afterall: CHRC to grow, not shrink
(Issues/Research/Justice/Freedom)
... of justice in this nation. Click here to read a report about the HRC's. ARPA Canada is working on a campaign to give you the tools to learn more about the HRC's and to take meaningful action. Here is a ...
Friday, 26 March 2010
... readers who wrote to our government leaders since we first informed you about this vote on Friday evening. This is a clear example of the fact that your action makes a difference. Click here to read ...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
...  This event is brought to you by ARPA Canada. We are a non-profit organization promoting political awareness and action in Canada's Reformed churches. For more information about us, please visit www.ARPACanada.ca ...
Monday, 22 March 2010
... for some time, and he tabled this Motion in Parliament as M-386 prior to prorogation. "I am very pleased to be able to accelerate action on this motion with the unanimous support of my colleagues ...
Friday, 19 March 2010
... stand up and demand they be abolished or replaced. Ralph Vis Association for Reformed Political Action Niagara Dunnville  ...
Friday, 19 March 2010
39. How to Foster Hatred
(Issues/Research/Justice/Freedom)
... “homophobia” with government-funded intolerance. That’s about the same as treating a bullet wound in your leg by shooting the other one. Affirmative action is still discrimination. The fact that it is ...
Friday, 19 March 2010
... to die. "We've been overwhelmed by the amount of reactions, especially because people took it so seriously and reactions were mostly positive," spokeswoman Marie-Jose Grotenhuis told reporters earlier ...
Friday, 12 March 2010
OTTAWA, Ontario, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canada Family Action (CFA) has launched a nation-wide citizen action campaign to demand tougher laws to protect children, deter pedophiles and achieve ...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
... in science classes." Christian school administrators are concerned that the South Australian board decision to stop the teaching of creationism as part of science lessons will precipitate similar action ...
Friday, 05 March 2010
... outside of government build capacity for providing critical services over the long term." Cardus released its analysis of the federal budget asking three core questions: 1. "Has the Economic Action ...
Thursday, 04 March 2010
... Marketing found that 72 percent of parents thought parents should be able to choose between ERC and a denominational religious education program. In December, the Action Democratique du Quebec party renewed ...
Monday, 01 March 2010
45. Why is CIDA Funding Domestic Advocacy Groups?
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... concrete suggestions for change. Written by David Murrell Ph. D Thursday, 18 February 2010: Last December at the Copenhagen climate talks, a Canadian environmentalist group – the Climate Action ...
Thursday, 25 February 2010
... (IPPF) and Action Canada for Population and Development, who are pushing for an international "right to abortion," they provide no evidence to back them up. [Keep reading this opinion piece here]  ...
Thursday, 25 February 2010
47. To Rule is Sacrifice
(Issues/Research/Biblical Worldview)
...  One example from Dutch history should provide modern magistrates with someone to admire and imitate.  William of Orange was of German abstraction, but he was called to be the “stadtholder” of ...
Monday, 22 February 2010
... other action items   Note: Click here for more information and a sample letter about this issue. We will be video recording this for use in other locations. Let us know if you are interested in ...
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
49. Video: Langley ARPA Event About Full-Time Kindergarten
(Strictly ARPA Related/General ARPA)
... other action items   Note: Click here for more information and a sample letter about this issue. We will be video recording this for use in other locations. Let us know if you are interested in ...
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
ARPA Note: This move in Ontario schools follows the precedent set in BC over the past few years. Learn more about this and find resources for action at www.TakeBackOurSchools.org (ARPA Canada is one ...
Monday, 15 February 2010
ARPA Canada previously made readers aware of the petition from MP Brad Trost (pictured on right) to stop funding Planned Parenthood International, a radical pro-abortion advocacy group. It now appears ...
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
... to fire, hire, or put our media on probation.  And Mark Penninga gave the main presentation where he passed on suggestions for effective political action, based on interviews with MP's. Earlier ...
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Southern Alberta ARPA, Action Item: Please write to the Alberta government regarding their plans to cut funding for PDD (Persons with Developmental Disabilities).  Use this sample letter as a guide ...
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
... to $10,000. Margot Blight, writing the factum on behalf of the CHRC, argues that, whether the CHRC's actions are conciliatory or not, those actions cannot themselves make the statute unconstitutional.  ...
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
... for God to enter and stir us to action to defend their lives." Kelowna Right to Life executive director Marlon Bartram said the airing of the advertisement, which was created by Priests for Life in New ...
Monday, 01 February 2010
... preach to and serve the city's poor. In December, a provincial court judge sided with Pawlowski and SCM, striking down several city infractions against them.  Further, the judge found that "the ...
Friday, 22 January 2010
... stop the hospital from carrying out this action.” Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, has spoken with Rebecka several times, and explains that this situation ...
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
58. Immediate Action Item: Contact your MP today!
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... here. When you have completed your action item, be sure to mark it down on the Action Meter at www.ARPACanada.ca. This includes those of you who distributed the e-Luminary in your church, ...
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
59. Churches and Political Action
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... not the members. Allowing only one party to be promoted is implicitly partisan political action. CRA’s motivation: Why does our government even care about what charities do? Our country gives ...
Thursday, 14 January 2010
...  Wake up Canadians. Learn from those who went before us and speak out against this legislation. Go to www.ARPACanada.ca for a list of action items to consider. The number one action item is to pray ...
Thursday, 14 January 2010
61. Give Your Input About the Federal Budget
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... the continued funding for Status of Women, which has given tens of millions to feminist groups. Be sure to record your action item on the Action Meter so that we can reach our goal of 2010 action items ...
Friday, 08 January 2010
... this call for action).  ...
Thursday, 07 January 2010
63. Request for a Royal Commission to Look Into "Global Warming"
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... this call for action).  ...
Thursday, 07 January 2010
ARPA Note: Keep in mind that there is a private member's bill in our Senate the proposes to criminalize most corporal punishment in Canada. Click here for more information and an action item. National ...
Wednesday, 06 January 2010
65. ARPA Action Challenge: 2010 Action Items this year!
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
In 2009 we were thrilled when ARPA Canada readers met our goal of 500 action items already by June. Given the growth in interest from the Reformed church community, we are now aiming much higher - 2010 ...
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
66. Toronto
(Strictly ARPA Related/General ARPA)
Toronto ARPA Toronto ARPA was formed in the fall of 2009 under the leadership of Mike T, Bruce D, and Margaret V. The group works to increase awareness and action in the Bethel CanRC and hopes to grow ...
Monday, 21 December 2009
Excerpt from article by Don Hutchinson, Christianity.ca: Aside from the fact that the complainant in this case has expressed same gender attraction, the case has nothing to do with sexual orientation. ...
Monday, 21 December 2009
68. Climb Off the Merry-Go-Round
(Issues/Research/Biblical Worldview)
... attention that is being devoted by Christians to living their faith and taking action in response to social and political issues in 2009. But there is so much room for growth. May this next decade be a ...
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
...  stated, "While finding that the accused acted in good faith, I am concerned by the actions of certain City officials." He further wrote that "the City's attempts, through Bylaw Officers and police officers ...
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
70. Action Item: Defend the Debate on Abortion
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... against Vellacott (see links to dozens of articles here). Action Item: We need to write letters to the editor in defence of Vellacott's statements. Canada is one of the most liberal countries in the world ...
Friday, 27 November 2009
71. In the Shadow of Death
(Issues/Research/Pro-Life)
... care, and how Christians can talk about compassion. Click here to access this booklet. For resources on this topic from ARPA Canada, click here. And for action items relating to Bill C-384, click here. ...
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
In this ARPA Canada video tutorial (below), we explain the steps that legislation has to take to become law. This is helpful to better understand the news and action items that we provide about particular ...
Monday, 23 November 2009
ARPA Note: Canada Family Action Coalition is working on a campaign to urge changes to the Criminal Code to combat child internet sex crimes. Learn more about how you can help out here. Globe and Mail, ...
Monday, 23 November 2009
74. The Copenhagen Treaty
(Issues/Research/Science/Environment)
ARPA Note and Action Item: The United Nations (including Canada) are meeting in Copenhagen in December with the purpose of making a treaty to combat climate change. Why has there been so much pressure ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
75. Pro-life display turns motorists’ heads
(Action Items/Success Stories)
... by The Association for Reformed Political Action, a Christian political action group, at their school. The students said they were inspired by the presentation and made arrangements to bring the display ...
Thursday, 12 November 2009
76. Update on Euthanasia Bill From Alex Schadenberg
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... doses of analgesics to kill pain so long as the actions and the intentions are oriented to killing the pain and not the patient. Guidelines exist to in the proper use of morphine and the abuse of morphine, ...
Friday, 06 November 2009
Action Item: Life Canada, the sponsors of this poll, is encouraging ARPA readers to get these findings out into the public through letters to the editor, letters to your MP, or by forwarding the press ...
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
... the Crown Prosecutor; Campus Pro-Life has consistently maintained that all of our actions were in full compliance under the law.” The charges were initially delivered to the homes of several students ...
Monday, 02 November 2009
... CBS News on August 19, 2009 that "young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine" and that a girl is more likely to die from an adverse reaction to Gardasil ...
Thursday, 29 October 2009
80. Ontario makes kindergarten plan official
(Issues/Research/Education)
ARPA Action Item: Ontario residents, please contact your MPP about this issue (contact information is here.) There are many good articles that explain why the government should be encouraging parents to ...
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
... of the Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC), told LifeSiteNews.com earlier this year, in regard to Pride Toronto, that the event is “not a gay parade, it’s a sex parade … People are marching down the ...
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
82. ARPA Canada Event in Cloverdale - Monday Nov 2nd
(Strictly ARPA Related/General ARPA)
Monday, November 2nd at 7:30pm (Cloverdale Canadian Reformed Church): ARPA Canada's director Mark Penninga will bring our latest presentation "Godly, Effective Political Action" to the Fraser Valley on ...
Thursday, 08 October 2009
ARPA Action Item: MP Kelly Block is being ridiculed for standing up for parental responsibilities. Send her a note to thank her for addressing this issue. And send a note to your MP, the Justice Minister, ...
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
84. Legalized Polygamy on our Doorstep
(Issues/Research/Family)
... the importance of promoting traditional families. Action Item: Now is the time to call for a Royal Commission on the family. A recent Compass poll indicates that as many as 85% of Canadian oppose ...
Thursday, 24 September 2009
ARPA Note: Read our article "Polygamy on the Doorstep" by clicking here. It includes the action item calling on our government officials to conduct a Royal Commission on the Family.  CTV.ca News Staff, ...
Thursday, 24 September 2009
86. ARPA Makes Inroads Into Ontario
(Strictly ARPA Related/General ARPA)
... for the evenings was "Godly, Effective, Political Action." ARPA Canada's director Mark Penninga shared a number of principles about engaging in political action as Christians and then played three video ...
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
87. Warning: All-Day Kindergarten Investment Scam
(Issues/Research/Education)
... research for purely political purposes.”  (Like deficit distraction?) “The solid evidence for the effectiveness of early interventions is limited to those conducted on disadvantaged populations," and ...
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Update - Follow up on an important action item, calling on Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to make changes in light of this decision, by clicking here.   September 3, 2009 - ...
Thursday, 03 September 2009
89. Sample Newspaper Ads to Respond to Bill C-384
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... to these ads. For more information on Bill C-384, check out the action item here. For two articles on euthanasia, click here and here.  ...
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Jessica Murphy, THE CANADIAN PRESS: MONTREAL - Revellers at Montreal's gay pride parade had one more reason to celebrate on Sunday: Quebec's wide-ranging action plan against homophobia, years in the making, ...
Monday, 24 August 2009
... his or her actions. If a marriage commissioner cannot do that, she or he cannot hold that position." The judge did not tell marriage commissioners who object to performing same-sex "marriages" that they ...
Friday, 24 July 2009
92. What Would We Do With $400,000?
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... are worth supporting. Action Items: Let's not settle for cop-out answer from our government officials who give us one answer and the mainstream media a different answer. Phone, write, or email your MP ...
Thursday, 09 July 2009
93. Kingdom Citizens in Secular Canada (Part Four)
(Issues/Research/Biblical Worldview)
... who are accountable to God’s overarching absolute sovereignty, make such decisions. Businesses are free (within the scope of what God allows as just) to determine their own best course of action. Private ...
Friday, 03 July 2009
94. Kingdom Citizens in Secular Canada (Part Three)
(Issues/Research/Biblical Worldview)
... message, although that is certainly a factor as well. My present thinking about political strategy has been influenced by interaction with Dr. James Davison Hunter, a professor at the University of Virginia ...
Friday, 03 July 2009
95. Kingdom Citizens in Secular Canada (Part Two)
(Issues/Research/Biblical Worldview)
...  The second phase There were exceptions to this trend, however. Some Reformed people continued to believe in the need of separate action in politics and other areas. Prominent among them were members ...
Friday, 03 July 2009
96. The Smiling Unborn Child
(Issues/Research/Pro-Life)
Music in Utero, By Chuck Colson: 6/29/2009 In 1984, a video called The Silent Scream helped change the way people think about the unborn child. The footage of an actual abortion and the fetus’s reaction ...
Monday, 29 June 2009
97. Important Summer Action Item: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
(Action Items/Current Action Requests)
... Member of Parliament Harold Albrecht has introduced a motion (M-388) that urges action against those who counsel or assist in suicides, specifically targeting those suicides that are promoted through ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
... then pay down the deficit and decrease the debt our children will have to repay. So I ask you for action - please stop the funding for this parade.    ...
Monday, 22 June 2009
ARPA Action Suggestion: Send Ms. Evans a note (Fin-ent.Minister@gov.ab.ca) to thank her for standing up for the truth on this point. CTV.ca News Staff Alberta Finance Minister Iris Evans has backtracked ...
Friday, 19 June 2009
100. Alberta Tour Pictures and Report
(Strictly ARPA Related/General ARPA)
... be a welcomed and much needed addition.  The two issues that generated the most reaction from Albertans are the oppressive human rights commissions and the bill in Parliament that would legalize assisted ...
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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