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Monday, 14 May 2012 13:36 |
National Post, May 14 2012: Abortion rights activists repeatedly tell Canadians that without legal abortion, women die. Recently, Carolyn Egan of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion repeated this mantra in discussing Stephen Woodworth’s non-binding motion proposing a bi-partisan committee to discuss when life begins. Ms. Egan took the benign proposal to be the first step toward outlawing abortion, and said: “[W]e know if it is outlawed, we are going to go back to a situation where women will die from illegal abortions. Anywhere in the world where there are illegal abortions you see the death rates just go up and up and up.”
If that’s the case, what’s happening in Chile? Keep reading |
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Friday, 11 May 2012 10:26 |
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John Carpay, National Post, May 11, 2011: This week, in the case of Pridgen v. University of Calgary, the Alberta Court of Appeal affirmed that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the free speech rights of university students on campus.
The case arose from a Facebook page called, "I no longer fear hell, I took a course with Aruna Mitra," wherein some U of C students described their "Introduction to Legal Studies" professor as inept, awful and "illogically abrasive." Read more... |
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 07:53 |
 A Christian high-school teenager in Nova Scotia, William Swinimer, wore a T-shirt that says "Life is WASTED without Jesus". For that he was given a 12 day in-school suspension. When he wore the shirt again, he was given a full 5 day suspension! The argument from the school is that William's opinion is too offensive to other student's beliefs. The school board has this whole human rights thing totally upside down. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion - which are FUNDAMENTAL freedoms (meaning they are fundamental to the operation of a free and democratic society), are trumped by the right of others to not be offended. To read the story, click here. |
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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 15:24 |
 May 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - André Schutten - Last month marked the 147th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. On the evening of April 14th, 1865 he was shot in the head and succumbed to the wound on the morning of April 15th.
I finished reading a 700-page biography of this man, this heroic character who fought so hard for the end of slavery in America. And I was reminded of that political struggle on Thursday evening as I listened to the House of Commons debate over MP Stephen Woodworth's Motion 312.
All other speakers during the hour-long debate (with the exception of Mr. Albrecht, who stood on a point of order) spoke against the motion, including the Honourable Mr. Gordon O'Connor, government whip. It was his statements that reminded me of the American political discussions over slavery during the rise and reign of President Lincoln. Keep reading... |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:44 |
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National Post, April 25 2012: For spanking his children with a wooden fork, a judge found a Fredericton man guilty on Tuesday of three counts of assault with a weapon. Jeffrey Kerr Smith, 48, spanked his three children with the fork after they were quarrelling outside his home over the Easter 2010 weekend. "The spanking was done in anger," said Court of Queen's Bench Justice Judy Clendening. Keep reading |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:37 |
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ARPA Note: Find our response to the Ontario court decision here and our policy document on prostition here.
 Globe and Mail, April 25 2012: The federal government has asked the Supreme Court of Canada to put the brakes on the decriminalization of a key prostitution law. A 30-day stay on imposed by the Ontario Court of Appeal last month when it rewrote the pimping provision is due to be lifted later this week. The provision was struck down last month by the provincial appeals court in a decision that also removed prohibitions on keeping a brothel. Keep reading
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012 08:09 |
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Globe and Mail, April 23 2012: While they didn’t initially take part in last year’s popular uprisings in the Arab world, one by one, the region’s Islamist parties, especially those affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic resistance movement that started in Egypt in 1928, came to the fore in each and every country that rose against its non-democratic leaders. Read the full article |
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