Stand Your Ground

Canada: Our Home And UN Land

2012-01-29T19:27:00.002-04:00

Earlier this week Canada kicked out a Rwandan man accused of helping instigate the genocide in his homeland almost 20 years ago, but if were up to the mandarins at the United Nations, Leon Mugesera would still be on Canadian soil.

Despite being found inadmissible to Canada in 1995 by a Liberal cabinet minister, deemed inadmissible by the Supreme Court in 2005 and having lost all of his appeals, the UN stepped in to protect the accused war criminal.

The international body wanted its decisions to supersede Canadian law and courts, and have their people determine when and if we could boot him back to Kigali.

I think most Canadians would find it ridiculous that the UN, the body that told its peacekeepers to stand by and let the Rwandan genocide happen, would intervene to protect a man accused of instigating the mass slaughter.

This isn't the first time the UN has tried to take control of Canadian decision-making.
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Interestingly enough, all those who cry foul about Harper allegedly "selling out Canada to the US", tend to turn a blind eye at all the "progressive" politicians who want to cede Canadian sovereignty to the UN and the UN-run international bodies, such as the IPCC.

Video: MultiCult Explained

2012-01-15T17:20:00.003-04:00

The whole insane concept of multiculturalism and moral relativism explained in just 3 minuts:

H/t Blazing Cat Fur

Why Do We Need Student Unions? For Censorship

2012-01-11T23:03:00.002-04:00

The "student union" has already decertified Carleton Lifeline as a university club. Now they want to outright ban pro-life students from the university:

January 12, 2012. OTTAWA, ON—This week, the CFS National Deputy Chairperson Shelly Melanson proposed a referendum question to the Carleton University Student’s Association (CUSA) which is creating a firestorm of controversy. The proposed question involves censoring certain groups: “Are you in favour of banning groups such as Lifeline, the Genocide Awareness Project, Campaign for Life Coalition and other organizations that use inaccurate information and violent images to discourage women from exploring all options in the event of pregnancy from Carleton University?”

The question has been added to CUSA’s Write of Referenda for 2012, which indicates that the referenda will be held concurrently with the 2012 General Elections.
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In addition to banning pro-lifers, the "union" also proposes banning all groups "that promote guns and gun violence" (want to open a student chapter of the National Firearms Association? Forget it!) and to force "a binding socially responsible investment policy" on Carleton University, that would require it to divest from a number of companies, blacklisted by the "union". Among other suggestions: a student levy hike to raise funds for a committee that sponsors refugee students and "a mandatory universal transit pass for full-time undergraduate students" at a prescribed price.

No, I'm not making this up. Apparently, the "student union" is planning a vote on a mandatory transit pass for all students - including those who have cars as well as those who live close enough to cycle or even walk to the campus. Not to mention, that they believe they can arbitrarily set the price of the transit pass (the actual cost of the OC Transpo Student Semester Pass is $255, not $180) and to limit annual price increases to some prescribed maximum. (Who, do they think, is going to pay the difference? The university? The government? Or maybe, the students themselves, through increased tuition?)

So, that's what these "student unions" are all about. Now, if the "student union" membership was made voluntary (on an "opt-in" base, rather than "opt-out") how many students would actually choose to rejoin this modern-day version of the Hitlerjugend?

Fetal Cells Heal Mother For Life

2012-01-08T18:08:00.003-04:00

Much to the dismay of those who keep using the term "maternal health" to describe abortion (implying that pregnancy is harmful and portraying the baby in the womb as some sort of a foreign body that leaches on the poor woman who carries him) - here's another study that proves them wrong:

Science has been studying the phenomena of fetal cell microchimerism for more than 30 years, after researchers at Stanford University were shocked in 1979 to discover a pregnant mother’s blood containing cells with Y sex chromosomes. Since women only have X chromosomes, they concluded that the cells must have entered into her body from the male baby she carried within her.

Drawing on studies in biology, reproductive genetics, and epigenetics, Pincott outlined in her book what science has learned since the Stanford discovery.

“During pregnancy,” she wrote, “cells sneak across the placenta in both directions. The fetus’s cells enter his mother, and the mother’s cells enter the fetus.”

Scientists have discovered, she said, that a baby’s fetal cells show up more often in a mother’s healthy breast tissue and less often in a woman who has breast cancer (43 versus 14 percent).

Pinctott pointed out that as the quantity of fetal cells in a mother’s body increase the activity of autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis decreases. She called the evidence “tantalizing” that fetal cells may offer the mother increased resistance to certain diseases.

One kind of fetal cells that enter into the mother’s body is the baby’s stem cells. Stem cells have what Pinctott calls “magical properties” in that they can “morph” into other types of cells through a process called differentiation. The baby’s fetal stem cells can actually become the mother’s own cells that make up her liver, heart, or brain.

In what any ethicist might declare to be legitimate ‘embryonic stem cell therapy,’ the baby’s fetal stem cells migrate to the mother’s injured sites and offer themselves as a healing remedy, becoming part of the mother’s very body. Pinctott writes that such cells have been found in “diseased thyroid and liver tissue and have turned themselves into thyroid and liver cells respectively.”

Pinctott calls the evidence “striking” that a baby’s fetal cells “repair and rejuvenate moms.”
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It's known that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, while carrying pregnancy to term reduces it. Now, this study shows us the science behind these facts.

Public Schools - Keep Failing One Generation After Another

2012-01-07T16:34:00.004-04:00

Check out this essay by Girl On The Right. It sounds so darn familiar...

Our class was overcrowded. Our teacher was awesome though; very animated when going through our class reader. She made it fun to learn.
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I knew, at the tender age of six, that some of us were being held back from our potential while the ESL-ers struggled to come to grips with the language. Ok, I was doing fine on my own, but there were kids in my class - english-speaking kids - who struggled with dyslexia, dysgraphia, shyness, etc, and the fact that Mrs C had to slow us all down and spend precious time on the ESL-ers meant that those other kids got shortchanged.

And it meant that the advanced kids got completely screwed. Eventually three of us were moved out of reading hour entirely and sent to Mrs B’s art class to while the time away, lest we become disruptive.
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Overcrowded class, moving at the pace of the, let's say, least intelligent kids, with the best and brightest being held back (if not worse, if not being branded "annoying" and "disruptive" for daring to ask questions...) Practically, an internment center, where kids are being kept under supervision during prescribed hours...

Now, a generation later, public schools haven't become any better, in spite of a disproportional increase in funding. They still keep failing students - even though they actually cost more than private schools:

"The parents surveyed reported lower incidences of bullying, fighting, drug use, and racism in inexpensive private schools compared to public schools. They also found their children did better academically and had improved social skills," said Claudia Hepburn, the study’s co-author and Fraser Institute director of education studies.
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The study found that the average cost of tuition at inexpensive private schools was $4,398 per year, while the cost of providing public schooling per year was more than $8,000 per child in Ontario.
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Not to mention that unlike government-run schools, private schools respect parent's values and parental authority.

Fetal Rights Debate Goes On - With Or Without Harper

2012-01-04T19:12:00.002-04:00

Despite Harper's warning not to rock the boat, we have more MPs expressing their support to reopening the abortion debate:

Kitchener-Centre's Tory MP Stephen Woodworth said in a media release issued earlier this week that Canadian laws governing human rights and the unborn are outdated and need to be re-examined.

"I have to say, I support Steven Woodworth’s call for this kind of discussion," Watson said.

Watson said human rights for the unborn and abortion don't necessarily go hand-in-hand but said "there could be links between the two."

"I’d love to hear the debate on this. What are the various permutations and implications if human rights are extended to the unborn?" Watson said. "Parliament is exactly the place to have that discussion. If it doesn’t happen in Parliament, where do we have these discussions?"
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H/t Run With Life

It's even more surprising that the CBC actually chose to use the words rights of unborn in one sentence and without quotes. And then, just several days later, we heard Rona Ambrose, the minister for Status of Women speaking out against sex-selection abortions.

Harper, of course, was quick to distance himself from these statements, suggesting that while individual MPs can discuss whatever issues they want - that doesn't necessarily reflect the position of the government. Oh well, at least he admits that individual MPs (including those from his own party) actually have rights to bring controversial issues forward for discussion. Let them do just that. Let them keep the discussion going - you never know who's next to be convinced.

Homophobia - A Rhetorical Weapon

2012-01-03T17:22:00.003-04:00

Its primary purpose is to silence anyone who doesn't agree with homosexual activists:

As a rhetorical weapon, homophobia is unequaled. It serves first to define anyone who opposes the legitimization of homosexuality as a hate-filled bigot. The universal inclusion of all opponents as homophobic is of course not emphasized. Homosexual activists publicly associate this label with violent “gay bashers” and hateful fanatics. When they use the term they want people to think about the killers of Matthew Shepard, but in conventional practice they include every man, woman and child who believes homosexuality is abnormal or wrong. The way to expose this fact is to challenge the advocates of the “gay” position to state the difference between homophobia and non-homophobic opposition to homosexuality. They will reveal that they accept no opposition to their agenda as legitimate...

Secondly, the term defines opposition to homosexuality as a mental illness. “Gay” activists take special delight in this since it was scant decades ago that homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry (the listing was removed by the political maneuvering of homosexual activists in a 1973 vote of the members of the American Psychiatric Association).

Thirdly, the term can be used as the semantic equivalent of “racist,” helping the “gay” movement further indoctrinate the public with the notion that opposition to homosexuality is equivalent to prejudice against racial minorities.
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And, as if to confirm that for the homosexual activists there's no such thing as non-homophobic opposition - here's a related story. It turns out that merely answering NO to a question whether you support homosexuality, that too, is "homophobic".

At the same time, if we take the word "homophobia" literally - ("fear of homosexuals") we'll see that unfortunately, the term certainly applies to many in our society; especially those that are at the top - politicians, journalists, clergymen, that are afraid. Afraid of being harassed by militant homosexuals who refuse to tolerate even slightest disagreement.

Foreign Special Interests Against Canada's Northern Gateway Pipeline

2012-01-02T18:37:00.005-04:00

EthicalOil.org launches ad campaign that reveals foreign interests sabotaging Canada’s economy:

Public hearings into a proposal for an energy pipeline from the oil sands to Canada’s west coast are being manipulated by foreign special interests.

Foreign billionaires are hiring front groups to swamp the hearings to block the Northern Gateway pipeline project. Anti-oil sands groups claiming to speak for Canadians are actually backed by millions of dollars from foreign interests.

The pipeline promises thousands of jobs and billions of dollars for all Canadians. Whether we decide to go ahead with it or not, we get to make this important decision about our future — not outsiders.

Click on the anti-oil sands groups to the right; see all the money they’re being paid to fight against our national interest. They don’t answer to Canadians. They answer to their foreign paymasters.

It’s our pipeline. Our country. Our jobs. Our decision.
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No, these are certainly not grassroots environmentalists. They are foreign, professional and well funded. Check out Ezra Levant's video report on the upcoming public hearing and who exactly are those willing to testify against the Northern Gateway Pipeline.

Barren New World

2011-12-31T18:06:00.000-04:00

Who celebrates a birth nowadays, asks Mark Steyn in his article titled "Elisabeth’s Barrenness and Ours":

We now live in Elisabeth’s world — not just because technology has caught up with the Deity and enabled women in their 50s and 60s to become mothers, but in a more basic sense. The problem with the advanced West is not that it’s broke but that it’s old and barren. Which explains why it’s broke. Take Greece, which has now become the most convenient shorthand for sovereign insolvency — “America’s heading for the same fate as Greece if we don’t change course,” etc. So Greece has a spending problem, a revenue problem, something along those lines, right? At a superficial level, yes. But the underlying issue is more primal: It has one of the lowest fertility rates on the planet. In Greece, 100 grandparents have 42 grandchildren — i.e., the family tree is upside down. In a social-democratic state where workers in “hazardous” professions (such as, er, hairdressing) retire at 50, there aren’t enough young people around to pay for your three-decade retirement. And there are unlikely ever to be again.
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If the problem with socialism is, as Mrs. Thatcher says, that eventually you run out of other people’s money, much of the West has advanced to the next stage: It’s run out of other people, period. Greece is a land of ever fewer customers and fewer workers but ever more retirees and more government. How do you grow your economy in an ever-shrinking market? The developed world, like Elisabeth, is barren. Collectively barren, I hasten to add. Individually, it’s made up of millions of fertile women, who voluntarily opt for no children at all or one designer kid at 39. In Italy, the home of the Church, the birthrate’s somewhere around 1.2, 1.3 children per couple — or about half “replacement rate.” Japan, Germany, and Russia are already in net population decline. Fifty percent of Japanese women born in the Seventies are childless. Between 1990 and 2000, the percentage of Spanish women childless at the age of 30 almost doubled, from just over 30 percent to just shy of 60 percent. In Sweden, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, 20 percent of 40-year-old women are childless. In a recent poll, invited to state the “ideal” number of children, 16.6 percent of Germans answered “None.” We are living in Zacharias and Elisabeth’s world — by choice.
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Craig Carter, the author of The Politics of the Cross Resurrected, sums it up plain and simple:

The fact is that as societies cast off the Christian beliefs of their ancestors and embrace selfish hedonism as the meaning of life, those societies die. This is not an argument for the "usefulness" of Christianity, however. One thing is clear: people cannot believe in Christianity just because it is useful. You either believe it or you don't.

But it is also clear that when a culture or a country or a nation decides to reject Christianity, the only alternative is the culture of death. The truth of Christianity can be seen in the fact that those who reject it do not find life, vigor and joy, but long, slow, economic and demographic decline into extinction.
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We see that happening already. The CPP, the alternative-to-children retirement safety net is struggling to make ends meet. With the premiums having hit the psychological barrier of 5% (10% for the self-employed) they now have to change the rules, trying to encourage people to postpone their retirement beyond the age of 65.

But it's even worse in Quebec. There, simply encouraging people to stay in the workforce for a few more years is not enough - they also have to raise premiums. By 2016 (which happens to be the program's 50th anniversary,) QPP premiums are scheduled to reach 5.4% (10.8% for the self-employed) - which is exactly 3 times higher than what they were when CPP and QPP were introduced back in 1966.

No wonder, so many Quebec politicians (including many in the provincial government) are at the forefront of pushing for legal euthanasia. That too is the price to pay for abandoning the nation's Christian values for the hedonistic culture of death.

Cargo Cult Science Triumphs

2011-12-29T20:52:00.001-04:00

Here's the difference between a real science and a cargo cult science, as described by the physicist Richard Feynman during his commencement address at the California Institute of Technology in 1974:

...But there is one feature I notice that is generally missing in Cargo Cult Science... It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty - a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked - to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.

Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can - if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong - to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.

In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgement in one particular direction or another.
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So, it's not like we haven't been warned. Well, it's been 40 years since and, looking at our universities, which resemble totalitarian states, witnessing climate "scientists" twisting data that doesn't fit their alarmist theories, looking at what has been done to the education system, at poor kids being used as guinea pigs in social experiments, looking at diversity and multiculturalism, political correctness and "positive" discrimination - the obvious question is - which "progressive" theory is not in fact a cargo cult science?

Canada's 'Human Development Plan' Is Called 'The Family'

2011-12-28T18:49:00.001-04:00

Check out this National Post article by Tasha Kheiriddin:

This week, Canadians were confronted with yet another report extolling the benefits of Early Childhood Education (ECE), this time as early as age two. The Early Years Study 3 focuses heavily on the gains of ECE for children and the economy. It hyperbolically warns that “Our survival as a species will depend on our children acquiring the skills they will need to cope with the social and environmental revolutions of the 21st century”, implying that if we don’t properly educate Junior cradle-to-grave, we are not just letting down our kids, but the entire planet.

But the report does not talk about what is lost in ECE – and that is critical. Every benefit has a cost, and I don’t just mean financial. For every extra word a child may learn in ECE, he or she will trade something else, and those tradeoffs have to be taken into account when weighing the benefits of ECE.

The first loss is creativity. In addition to observing my toddler, let me cite two recent studies by MIT and Berkeley University, which found that direct instruction can actually limit young children’s learning. They noted that, as reported in Slate magazine and reprinted in the National Post, that “Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific… But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.”

The second loss is attention. A soon-to-be published study by the University of Notre Dame shows that birth spacing – the number of years between kids – increases reading and math scores for first-born children. Why? Because the parents have more time to devote to the child before a sibling comes along. So why would parents then put their children into group care and force them to compete with a classroom of other toddlers for a teacher’s attention?
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Talking about attention - if a child is tossed into a daycare from 9 to 5 (if not from 8 to 6) - how much time does he have left to spend with his family in an average weekday? Maybe, an hour or so in the morning and some two hours, three at most before bed... This may be a desired outcome for some hardcore Marxist who strongly believes in communal upbringing of children, but as a parent - is that what one would wish for a child as young as two or three?

Quebecers Oppose Euthanasia - Despite Fancy Wording

2011-12-27T16:53:00.002-04:00

The fancy wording, of course being the name of the committee, set up by the government of Quebec to study the issue. They could have used the medical therm - Euthanasia or even "assisted suicide", which at least remotely describes the actual subject being discussed - termination of a human life. Not to mention that they could have decided to be straightforward with the people, choosing a name that would leave no doubt about what exactly is being studied... And yet they chose a fancy euphemism such as "dying with dignity". By doing so they not only tried to put some positive light on procedures that intentionally cause another person's death. This was a clear attempt to twist the debate.

Just like the ill-famous "choice" or s-s-"marriage", the expression "dying with dignity" answers the question for us. Instead of discussing whether or not the elderly and the terminally ill should be allowed to live until natural death, we're told that to be put to death by a physician or a relative means "death with dignity" and the question is now whether or not this should be made legal. By choosing to use this "... with dignity" lie in the committee name, the Quebec government made it clear what side they are on and what exactly they wanted to hear. And yet it looks like they still didn't get what they wanted:

A study of submissions to Quebec’s public hearings on euthanasia, the Special Commission on Dying with Dignity, shows clearly that Quebecers overwhelmingly opposed legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia.

The independent analysis of the 427 oral presentations and written submissions to the commission was conducted by Vivre dans la Dignité (Living With Dignity), a grassroots anti-euthanasia group.

The report found that only about a third (34 per cent) of those who submitted to the commission were either somewhat or strongly in favor of euthanasia. “This is a far cry from the inflated survey numbers often used in the media by advocates for legalizing or decriminalizing euthanasia in Quebec,” said Linda Couture, director of Living With Dignity. “The numbers are black and white. In the presentations to the commission there was 99 per cent agreement that palliative care is the dignified choice Quebecers want available at the end of life,” she said. “At the same time, 60 per cent of the submissions opposed any opening for euthanasia. The government’s democratic direction should be clear.”

Living with Dignity also pointed out that a further analysis of the content of the submissions of those who apparently favored euthanasia showed significant confusion between directly taking a patient’s life – outlawed under the Criminal Code – and ceasing futile treatment, which is universally acknowledged as ethical.
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But, as the committee name suggests, confusing the people to get the results they wanted (or at least - those that could be interpreted as such) - was in fact their objective.

Christmas Is For The Unborn Too

2011-12-25T14:37:00.001-04:00

Here's another important Christmas message:

Christmas is universal.

“Behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people…A Savior has been born for you” (Luke 1:10-11).

Christ the Savior becomes man precisely for all who share human nature. He excludes nobody. The good news of Christmas is for all people of all times and places. “Joy to the world.”

In fact, so universal is this joy, that even nature shares in it: “Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall browse together, with a little child to guide them” (Isaiah 11:6).

All of this leads to an inescapable conclusion: Christmas is also for the unborn. The Savior has come also for the children yet living in their mothers’ wombs. The Gospel message is addressed also to our youngest brothers and sisters.

In fact, we can say it is addressed especially to them, because they are the most helpless.
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That's true, and not just for Christmas. Let this Slovak monument to the child who was never born remind us, that not just Christmas, but every single day of the year is for the unborn too.

Merry Christmas

2011-12-24T15:40:00.002-04:00

Let's remember - the first gift of Christmas was a child.

The gift of Christmas - the gift of life. Protect it. Cherish it.

Merry Christmas!

Ezra Levant & Mark Steyn: Christmas

2011-12-24T15:00:00.000-04:00

Check out this video interview titled Christian America - Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn talk about the war on Christmas and some of the great Christmas songs.

Abortion Makes Lonely Toys Cry

2011-12-23T23:14:00.003-04:00

Now, isn't this a touching way to reach out to people's hearts?

H/t Jill Stanek

Interestingly, this isn't a new billboard (in fact, the image was first run on the back cover of National Right to Life News on December 7, 1981). Nevertheless Niagara Region Right to Life should be commended for displaying it, for not letting such a brilliant, touching message vanish in the archives.

I am not kidding when I say that over the years the billboard has evoked some of the worse responses from our benighted opposition that I’ve ever read. Why do pro-abortionists rage against the Toy soldier?…

As a friend described it to me, “The billboard drives the pro-choice side crazy and makes pro-lifers smile because of the implicit message that children are delightfully winsome creatures who play with toys and bring joy and innocence into this jaded and materialistic world.”
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Sometimes, an indirect approach works better - and this billboard is a great example. Instead of pounding the viewers yet again with a message they'd rather ignore, the billboard appeals to the emotional side; making people think back to their own childhood, remember their own old toys (those that must have been lonely for a long, long while) and - feel for those other toys, those that are to remain lonely this Christmas, because the children that could be playing with them simply weren't allowed to be born...

No Peace For Baby Jesus

2011-12-22T22:50:00.002-04:00

Attacks on nativity scenes become more and more widespread. Not just the opposition to having nativity scenes on public display, but real attacks:

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - It's become something of an annual tradition in the city.

For the third straight year, the nativity display on the front lawn of city hall has been vandalized. The statues of the infant Jesus, Mary and Joseph were spray-painted red and a cardboard sign was left beside the display with the phrase, "Keep the state separate from religion" written on it.
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Vandals have attacked the display several times over the last few years, damaging the statues of animals and wise men, and even stealing a baby Jesus statue.

McMullan said whoever is responsible has mistaken the display as an endorsement of a particular religion by the city. The holiday displays at city hall, which include displays for other religious festivals and a large Christmas tree, are meant to reflect the multicultural nature of the city, he said.
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Judging from a similar attack that took place earlier in another Ontario town, even when a nativity scene is on private property (including church lawn) - that doesn't protect it from being vandalized. So it's not about using public property for a religious display. It's about public display of Christian faith, Christian traditions and Christian culture - that's what is being targeted nowadays.

If such an attack was carried out against a display, a parade or an exhibit of some other culture or lifestyle choice - this would be regarded as a "hate crime". But when it comes to Christianity - it's presumed that, being a religion of the majority, it can never be a target of "hate crimes" and therefore - doesn't need such protection.

If anything - the twisted logic of multiculturalism suggests that, for the sake of "equality", nation's founding religion, culture and heritage should be held back to make room for others. Vandalism against Christian displays as well hijacking of public spaces by "devout atheists" (with the sole purpose of keeping the nativity scenes out,) derive from the very same principles.

Hearing The Heartbeat

2011-12-21T21:23:00.005-04:00

Check out this Life Site News article:

The heartbeat I will hear resounds from a heart that began forming two or three weeks after conception. By the fifth week it started to beat and pump blood through much of the body. When we hear it, twenty weeks into Cindy’s pregnancy, his or her tiny heart will beat at roughly twice the rate of my wife’s – a rate that was jarring and even frightening when I first heard Joseph’s heart beat five years ago. I remember tears welling up in my eyes as I wondered aloud, how could something so tiny and so young beat so quickly, with such strength, and so perfectly?

I’d been dwelling upon this sound and these memories when I encountered the opening remarks from Ann Furedi at the “Battle of Ideas” meeting in the United Kingdom. Furedi, CEO of the largest abortion provider in the UK, stated, “I accept that abortion stops a beating heart and I accept that abortion ends a potential human life, even in the very earliest weeks of pregnancy”
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Furedi’s quote, however, uses the dehumanizing phrase often employed by supporters of abortion, “potential human life.” On the contrary, that which is in the womb is a human being in the embryonic or fetal stage and a human life with great potential.
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Exactly. An unborn baby is not a "future child", but a child with the future. This is not a "potential life", but a life with potential.

More Censorship From So Called "Student Unions"

2011-12-20T19:01:00.003-04:00

Again, pro-life students are denied official club status on campus - this time, in Fredericton, NB. The official reason cited by the "student union" was lack of information. But, considering that one of the union councilors also happens to be an "escort" at the Morgentaler's abortuary, the real reason for rejection is quite obvious:

The pro-life students stated in their application that they were “committed to proclaiming, celebrating, and defending the dignity of all human beings from conception to natural death,” adding that their club would look to educating the “students and faculty of UNB and the public on current life issues, directing them to pro-life resources such as crisis pregnancy and post abortion counselling centres.”

However, Student Union council members criticized the pro-life group, calling their beliefs “controversial,” “touchy,” and “negative.”

“This group is negative and should not be recognized. Being an escort at the clinic and dealing with these groups on a weekly basis, I do not think they should have support because of the harassment on a weekly basis,” said Councillor Glenwright during the Student Union’s November 6th meeting.

Their application was stalled at that time until additional information could be provided.
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And again there's a question not just about freedom of speech on campuses (which, as we've already learned, is barely existing,) but also about the freedom of association and whether or not it includes the right NOT to associate. Why should students be forced to be members of a union that marginalizes them? Not to mention that these so called "student unions" are in itself redundant entities, with no real purpose other than their own existence. Without the union, or, if the students could simply opt-out of membership and transfer their dues directly to their own club, they would be much better off.

Christmas Cards To Linda Gibbons

2011-12-19T19:03:00.002-04:00

A woman who's never caused any harm, is to spend yet another Christmas in jail. Please consider supporting the pro-life heroine:

Linda has been arrested again on Friday, Dec 17 and will spend Christmas in jail. I am sure that she would appreciate cards. The address is below. Please be sure not to include anything with your card, do not use mailing labels, both Linda's address and your return address must be written out. Do not ask questions about what jail is like or what goes on in jail. This only has the effect of making life harder for Linda, as all correspondence is opened and read.

With that in mind, your tone of encouragement and support may have an effect upon prison administration, so be aware of that. We don't want to make this harder for Linda. Bless all those involved in this situation.

Linda Gibbons
c/o Vanier Center for Women
655 Martin Street, Box 1040
Milton, Ontario L9T 5E6, Canada
H/t Concerned for Life

If mailed tonight, there's still a chance it will be received before Christmas.

Is Conservative New Media Worth As Much As The Occupods?

2011-12-18T20:00:00.003-04:00

Think about it:

Conservative Bloggers, despite their massive success at wrecking up the leftist narrative, are the chopped liver, ugly unwanted stepchildren, of the American right. What else could explain the stunning lack of support for the dextrosphere by the very people who directly benefit from the largely thankless work that Conservative Bloggers do every single day?

Datechguy explains that the #occupy mobs raked in tens of thousands of dollars from liberals, just so that they could squat in parks (often enjoying gourmet food, at least in NYC anyway) and publicly defecate while wailing about how unfair their lives are, but Conservative Bloggers (who exposed all the #occupy crimes and depravity that the media tried to bury) can barely pay their bills. Hell, I can't even buy a can of fricken coffee right now and traffic here is at an all time high!

Is conservative new media worth as much as the occupods?
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Here's an awkward question. We don't have to go far for an example, just look at the Life Site News struggling to raise money that is needed to merely keep the website going. And it isn't any easier for professional journalists, who face extra challenges all the way from high school and college where being a Conservative - that alone means swimming against the current.

It's a tough choice - either to stay faithful to your convictions and remain a part-time blogger, practically, an amateur who's got nothing but evening and weekends left for his writing - or - to overstep your convictions just a little bit (start with playing devil's advocate and take it further) - and to become a respected professional journalist, reporter, writer... If it's the left that pays the piper - is it surprising that so many choose to play to the tune?

New Stage Of The War On Christmas

2011-12-17T23:38:00.011-04:00

As Michael Coren reports in his Toronto Sun article, things have gone far beyond merely re-branding Christmas as a secular festival. Now, even Santa often faces exclusion, as christophobic fanatics seek to abolish even the cultural cosmetics of Christmas:

This is nothing compared to the school district in Forth Worth, Texas, that banned Santa from its premises, and disallowed Christmas celebrations, including the giving of presents by students.

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has steadfastly and proudly refused to call the decorated tree in the State Capitol a Christmas tree, and instead refers to it as a Holiday tree.
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One thing to stress in all this is that it’s not always a case of expunging God, Jesus, and Christianity from December 25, but also eliminating Santa and Frosty.

So the attack on religion was joined long ago by an outright blitzkrieg against even the cultural cosmetics of Christmas. It’s partly anti-Christian, but also anti-western, and this should not be forgotten.

And it’s incredibly powerful.
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In Soviet Union they re-branded the New Year's Eve to incorporate some of the Christmas traditions, including Christmas tree (which became the New Year's Tree) and Santa (Grandfather Frost) who brings presents. But even that would be way too European, too exclusive of other cultures for the self-hating zealots that seek to airbrush not just Christianity, but all memories of their nations' European heritage.

PEI Stands Firm Against Pro-Abort Lobbying

2011-12-17T13:58:00.003-04:00

So far, both major political parties are committed to keep abortion off the Island:

CHARLOTTETOWN, December 16, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The health minister of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, Doug Currie, has again told a newly formed pro-abortion group that is agitating for expansion of abortion services in Canada’s only abortion-free province, that the existing status quo will not be changed.
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In November, Currie pledged to keep the province abortion-free, telling The Guardian newspaper, “Right now, I see no reason to veer off the current status. I see nothing changing and the status quo is in place and that’s my position on it right now.”

Prince Edward Island’s Opposition health critic, James Aylward, endorsed the government’s position as well, telling the media, “We are in agreement with the government that, at this time, their position on this issue is not changing.”
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Obviously, the story doesn't end here. Hopefully the PEI government stays firm even in spite of a lawsuit or a "human rights" complaint, as the pro-aborts will most likely pursue legal action to get what they want.

Oh, What Would We Do Without The Liberals

2011-12-15T22:17:00.001-04:00

From the tone of Jean Chretien's fundraising letter, it almost looks like he believes that we owe everything that makes Canada great, to the modern Liberal party:

Mr. Chrétien notes that he was first elected in 1963 when there was no medicare or Canada Pension Plan, Canadian flag or Charter of Rights. Nor was there a Clarity Act – which his government brought in to define the rules around holding a referendum should Quebec contemplate separation.
(The Globe and Mail)

It almost sounds as if Canada didn't even exist as a nation back in 1963. Yet, much to the surprise of Mr. Chretien & Co, it did; Canada has been a nation since 1867, not since 1965. And, believe it or not, Canada did have a national flag back in 1963 - the Canadian Red Ensign, which used to incorporate Canadian symbols (including the Maple Leaf) as well as references to Canada's British roots and even its French heritage. That the Red Ensign was later replaced, doesn't necessarily mean it was any less of a Canadian flag than the Maple Leaf.

Same with the Charter - it too didn't come out of thin air. Remember - "I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong...". That was said by John Diefenbaker, in 1960, about the Canadian Bill of Rights, enacted that year. While dismissed by many as having limited effect, the Canadian Bill of Rights was in fact an effective means of protecting real rights and fundamental freedoms.

It included property rights - something you won't find in the Charter. It stood for real equality, without labeling any sort of discrimination "positive" or "affirmative". And the preamble of the Canadian Bill of Rights mentioned the dignity and worth of the human person, the position of the family in a free society, the respect for moral and spiritual values... All these noble principles were stricken out by Pierre Trudeau's government two decades later.

Yes, the more time passes, the more obvious it becomes that under the guise of patriating the Constitution, Trudeau practically rewrote Canada's fundamental Human Rights law of the time, enshrining his own party principles and entitlements for his support groups while leaving behind everything that didn't fit the Trudeaupean vision of Canada. So, when it comes to protecting our rights, not only it wasn't the Liberal party that initiated the move, but, if anything, the Liberals' contribution is actually negative, they actually took away from what we used to have three decades ago.

What else is there? Healthcare? Wrong again! In 1957, the Diefenbaker federal government passed the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act. By 1961, all ten provinces had agreed to start HIDS Act programs. The CPP? Oh, yeah, that mandatory plan, which has nearly tripled the premiums (and they're going even higher in Quebec) over the last 25 years, without increasing the benefits. The RRSPs were introduced in early 1950s and the Old Age Security has been around since 1920s.

Oh, yes, and eliminating the deficit. That is an accomplishment. Unless we mention that it was Trudeau who got Canada into runaway deficits in the first place. Public debt went up from $19B in 1968 to $157B in 1984 and, since the interest rates were at all-time high - that's what brought us these enormous deficits of the Mulroney era.

It's also worth mentioning that it was Joe Clark who first sounded the idea of gradually eliminating the deficits - a task his government could have accomplished by late 1980s - if it had stayed in power. Or that it was Mulroney who planted seeds for the long-term growth (not only with NAFTA, but also with his tax reform that eased the burden on the economy by merely simplifying the system) which allowed Chretien's government to end the deficits, while Chretien himself left behind Kyoto - well knowing that its targets could not be achieved without severely damaging the economy.

So, contrary to Chretien assertions, it's not like Canada really benefited from electing the Liberals into power back in 1963. (Rather the opposite.) Chretien probably realizes that too, so he resorts to that decade-old "hidden agenda" myth in his fundraising letter. And, by the way, here's a good question: why did a fundraising letter become a newspaper article? Has the Globe and Mail become the official fundraising agent of the Liberal Party of Canada?

Want To Be Canadian Citizen? Don't Hide Your Face!

2011-12-13T22:14:00.005-04:00

It might be a symbolic gesture, but it's a step in the right direction. And an important message to all those who defy Canada's founding culture and values, demanding instead special accommodation for whatever culture they brought with them: maybe they picked the wrong country to call home.

QMI Agency reported Monday that new regulations require Muslims to unveil themselves of niqabs and burkas to obtain citizenship.

"We are all coming together as Canadians at that moment in a public ceremony and -- you know what? -- if you don't like it, if you feel uncomfortable, then maybe you chose the wrong country in the first place," said Kenney.

The minister scoffed at suggestions that Muslim women could be taken to a side room for a mini ceremony where they could wear the niqab with a female bureaucrat present.

"I said, 'No, no, no, no, no.' We're not going to have two tiers of citizens, we're not going to treat people differently," he said on The Source, a Sun News TV program.
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It's a great start. Now it's about time to reintroduce the bill that would ban veiled voting - for the very same reason. After all, if people should no longer be allowed to hide their faces while making a citizenship oath - while should we allow them to hide their faces at the polling station?

Finally - Canada Withdraws From Kyoto

2011-12-12T21:38:00.006-04:00

This is surely a good news, although I find the future tense quite disturbing:

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Monday.

"As we've said, Kyoto for Canada is in the past ... We are invoking our legal right to formally withdraw from Kyoto," he told reporters.
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Sun News Network is using the present tense, so hopefully, Canada's withdrawal from Kyoto is after all a "fait accompli". Well, I'm glad Canada is about to officially withdraw from this Orwellian war on hot air. It's about time we dump the faulty "protocol" that fights relatively harmless Carbon Dioxide, instead of addressing real air and water pollution, that excludes such key emitters as India and China and that practically penalizes Canada for its population growth.

Let me reiterate - Kyoto targets for Canada are set as if its population was still 27 million; Canada gets no credit for resettling millions of immigrants from Kyoto-exempt nations, let alone for its natural population increase. Trying to achieve these targets will result in nothing but a sharp reduction in standards of living, not to mention the transfer of at least $14 billion from Canadian taxpayers to other countries. And for what?

The opposition is upset that our government "is abdicating its international responsibilities". What "international responsibilities"?! Our government government must be responsible first and foremost to its citizens. In fact, that's what it was originally called - responsible government. And it's about time our government starts to act as such. Sure, we may not yet see a full-scale return to the principles of a responsible national government, but this move shows one clear advantage of a Conservative government over that led by any other major party.

As for the "the science of climate change" - first of all, that "science" has to prove that there is actually a climate change, that the climate doesn't merely return to what it used to be before the "Little Ice Age". And then, the burden is on them to prove that this climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions and not by solar activity. There are way too many scientists that challenge the theory of man-made global warming to consider the science settled.

Canadian Universities Given Failing Grade On Free Speech

2011-12-11T22:35:00.002-04:00

Pro-Life groups most affected:

The 2011 Campus Freedom Index rates 18 public universities, and their student unions, in terms of their commitment to upholding the rights of students to express their beliefs, opinions and philosophy on campus.

No Canadian university was found to rate “good” in all categories, however the University of New Brunswick, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University received the best marks.

Carleton University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Calgary were ranked the worst.

The introduction to the Index states that one of the biggest threats to free speech in Canada comes from universities which condone illegal activities on the part of people who interfere with, and effectively shut down the events and speeches of people they disagree with. It notes that universities in Ottawa, Montreal, Waterloo, Halifax, Vancouver, and Calgary have turned a blind eye to people physically obstructing and disrupting speech with which they disagree.
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No surprise here, especially when so many universities believe that their campuses are somehow exempt from the constitutional provisions that guarantee freedom of speech. And even when the university doesn't mind the debate on a controversial subject - there are so called student unions, which are by all means redundant bodies, with no real purpose but playing useless politics and censoring opinions they don't like.

I believe it's time for a law that would affirm freedom of speech on campuses and make "student union" membership voluntary (on an "opt-in" rather than "opt-out" basis). These should be the first steps to ensure that universities no longer pose one of the biggest threat to freedom of speech in Canada.

Letter From LifeCanada to PEI Health Minister

2011-12-10T13:34:00.003-04:00

Natalie Hudson Sonnen, executive director of LifeCanada writes to Douglas Currie, PEI Minister of Health and Wellness, responding to the resent barrage of demands to bring abortion back to PEI:

Dear Minister Currie,

I am writing to you on behalf of our 84 member groups across Canada regarding the recent issue of abortion access on Prince Edward Island.

LifeCanada is a national educational organization that is dedicated to the promotion and protection of human dignity at all stages of human life. We firmly believe that elective abortion has nothing to do with health or wellness and that the wisdom of previous governments to keep it off the Island should be upheld and respected.

We are concerned by the erroneous assumption, as stated in a CBC News article on Nov. 24th by Dr. Richard Wedge, executive director of medical affairs for Health PEI that, "The Supreme Court has said that access to legal abortions is a medically necessary service.” This is not, in fact, true. The Supreme Court of Canada never made any such statement, because it is strictly under provincial jurisdiction to decide what is or isn’t medically necessary. Elective abortion is neither medically necessary, nor does it treat a disease. Rather, it is a personal choice that ends a healthy pregnancy.

The plethora of medical and scientific evidence show that abortion is a detrimental personal choice that increases the risk of physical and psychological harm to the mother and is obviously fatal to the child, who ought to be considered a second patient. (The research compiled in the DeVeber Institute's book Women's Health After Abortion is evidence of this fact. http://www.deveber.org/womens-health-after-abortion)

Let me remind you that LifeCanada’s annual Environics polls consistently show that the majority of Canadians (72%) do not support the current status quo in Canada whereby there is no legal protection for the unborn until birth. Our polling also indicates that a majority of Canadians (67%) do not want to pay for abortions either.

We urge you to continue to keep a procedure off the Island that is not only highly contentious due to its very nature (that it kills a new human being), but that it is egregiously harmful to the women who choose to undergo it.

We urge PEI and the other provinces of Canada to put tax dollars towards helping mothers and their babies who are in difficult situations through the funding of pregnancy care centres, housing and other programs.

Please honour the wishes of Canadians and keep abortion off the Island.

Sincerely,

Natalie Hudson Sonnen
Executive Director
LifeCanada/VieCanada

Carleton University Applies To Strike Pro-Life Lawsuit A Second Time

2011-12-08T22:00:00.002-04:00

Censorship case at Carleton University heats up:

December 8, 2011. Carleton University has brought a second motion to strike the lawsuit against them put forward by two pro-life Carleton students, Ruth (Lobo) Shaw and John Nicholas McLeod in February 2010. In October 2011, Carleton University had (Lobo) Shaw and McLeod arrested for attempting to exhibit a pro-life display thereby violating the rights of the students to freedom of expression, freedom from discrimination and freedom of security. The Statement of Claim, which is the document initiating the lawsuit, claims that Carleton University is acting as a delegate of the Province of Ontario in providing post-secondary education to the general public.

The University is attempting to strike the claim that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to the University and its actions in the context of this litigation. They are also attempting to strike the claim that the University and members of its administration were negligent.
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If Carleton University is successful in their motion, Carleton Lifeline’s claims of negligence and violation of Charter rights will be dismissed.

“We are dismayed that the University is continuing with this aggressive approach” said John Nicholas McLeod, current President of Carleton Lifeline and a Plaintiff in the lawsuit. “We had our rights violated and our voices censored. We decided to fight for our rights and Carleton University has employed tactics which are delaying a trial and increasing legal costs. In fact, in October, we were ordered to pay over $18,000 towards Carleton University’s legal costs for the first motion they brought.
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Looks like this is the university's strategy - to keep delaying the trial, until pro-life students just can't afford legal fees to counter all these motions - and then have the case dismissed. They wouldn't want the judge to start digging into their censorship policies.

It's The Reserve System That Failed Attawapiskat

2011-12-07T22:03:00.000-04:00

What happens in Attawapiskat is just the symptom. The problem is with the reserve system that fails the people who live there:

When NDP MP Charlie Angus brought his video camera to the Attawapiskat Native Reserve in Northern Ontario, he probably didn’t want to begin a national debate on the reserve system in Canada but he may well have done that. Charlie may have had some good intentions when he toured this piece of land that more resembles no man’s land between the trenches of the Great War than it does Canada in 2011. He was also hoping no doubt to embarrass the government and specifically Stephen Harper for not doing enough in the area of aboriginal affairs. To the wheezing outrage of Liberal leader Bob Rae, Harper responded that the government has funded the reserve with $90 million since 2006. The government has also placed Attawapiskat under “third party management,” meaning there might finally be some accountability as to where those millions of dollars have gone – certainly not to the natives living in freezing construction trailers.

There are just 2,100 residents living at this reserve. Can you imagine if your community received an envelope of $90 million in taxpayer funding over the last five years? One should surely ask, “Where did the money go?” But if that question is asked, then one is also obliged to wonder where has the money been going on a score of reserves for the past three, four or five decades. This query makes Rae’s latest volley at the government very intriguing: “Are you going to put the entire North of Canada under trusteeship, because Attawapiskat is not the only community that has this level of a problem,” he asked during Question Period on Wednesday.

Well, maybe the government should, because clearly the reserve system in Canada is not working.
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Ezra Levant does some number crunching here. See for yourself if it's the government that should be blamed for not providing enough support for the community or if it's the people who run the community that should be held accountable for mismanagement and corruption:

There actually is a lot of wealth in Attawapiskat. You can't spread 34 million bucks a year around without it landing in some people's pockets.

Like all the very important people who work with the chief.

Chiefs, that is. The former chief, the acting chief and the deputy chief are all on the payroll. So are 19 councillors.

Could you imagine a town of 2,000 people with three mayors and nineteen aldermen?
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The government can certainly be blamed for being reluctant to address the real problem, preferring instead to fight the symptoms (such as poverty) with multimillion subsidies. But the ones to blame for the third world style poverty on reserves are none other than the local chiefs and their third world style management.

Winning Pro-Life Video

2011-12-05T17:16:00.004-04:00

Action Life "Censored For Life" 2011 Video Contest Winner

H/t Island Breezes, SoCon or Bust

And here's another amazing pro-life video: From Conception to Birth

"So perfectly organized a structure it
was hard not to attribute divinity to it..."
H/t The Politics of the Cross Resurrected

Atheism And Britain's Decline

2011-12-03T22:55:00.002-04:00

Or Canada's decline. (Our situation isn't much different.)
Check out this video - Michael Coren interviews Peter Hitchens:

H/t Blazing Cat Fur

The Common Sense Alternative To Kyoto

2011-12-02T22:43:00.002-04:00

Check out this video: Lorrie Goldstein presents his top ten ways to protect the environment while respecting freedom. These are real solutions, as opposed to carbon credit scams (which amount to nothing but paying some other country or business to take the blame for your emissions) and there's much more common sense in them, than in imposed scarcity, proposed by the mainstream environmentalists.

And of course, one of these common sense proposals is to dump Kyoto:

This annual opposition/environmental activist allegation that Canada, responsible for 2% of global emissions (the oil sands account for one/tenth of 1%) is the key to success or failure of Kyoto and efforts to save the planet from runaway climate change, is absurd.

Kyoto failed not because Canada didn't meet its emission targets.

It failed because it didn't require the vast majority of the world's nations - including China and the U.S. which are responsible for a combined 40% of global emissions - to reduce their emissions at all.

Canada failed to meet its Kyoto targets because the Liberals under Jean Chretien recklessly signed us up for them, without having any idea of the huge economic hit it would mean for a big, cold, northern, sparsely populated, oil and natural gas producing nation like Canada.
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An important flaw of Kyoto, which is rarely mentioned, is that it doesn't take into account population changes. Since 1990, Canada's population went up from 26 million to over 34. Reducing nation's emissions to 94% of where they were back when Canada's population stood at 26 million, would therefore require more than 30% cut in per capita emissions - which is impossible to achieve even if Kyoto is extended for 20 more years.

Moreover - some 5 million immigrants came to Canada during these 20 years; most of them - from the countries that are considered to have achieved their Kyoto target and therefore could sell their "emission credits" to Canada. Does Kyoto protocol credits Canada in any way for resettling all these people on its territory? What do you think? And that's another reason to dump Kyoto.

Act Now To Stop Euthanasia Before It’s Too Late

2011-11-30T17:12:00.002-04:00

An urgent appeal by the Campaign Life Coalition:

On November 14th, the Supreme Court of British Columbia began hearing the Carter vs. Attorney General of Canada case. The suit was launched by the BC Civil Liberties Association on behalf of the family of Kay Carter, who died by assisted suicide at the Swiss Dignitas suicide center in January 2010, claiming that Canada’s provisions against euthanasia and assisted suicide are unconstitutional since they violate the “right” to die.

“Let me be clear. When we say ‘euthanasia’ and ‘assisted suicide’ we are not talking about pulling the plug on someone who is being kept alive artificially, with no hope of recovery,” Hughes explained.

“When you hear the terms ‘euthanasia’ and ‘assisted suicide’, we are talking about lethally injecting people. Legalizing euthanasia will empower doctors to kill their patients. That is, to murder them.”
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Here's a video that shows how the legalization of euthanasia & assisted suicide in some European countries has led to killing the elderly without consent and to the euthanasia of children.

Is this the future we want for Canada? It's time to speak up. Sign this petition to the Attorney General of Canada or contact Mr. Rob Nicholson directly by email (rob.nicholson@parl.gc.ca) or by phone at 613-995-1547, urging him to make the strongest possible opposition to the legalization of euthanasia and/or assisted suicide in Canada.

40 Days Works: 19th Abortion Facility Closes

2011-11-29T20:13:00.001-04:00

Among the latest updates on the fall's 40 Days for Life vigil: At least 732 babies (that we know of) were spared from abortion, (bringing the cumulative total of lives saved to more than 5,000 since 40 Days for Life began four years ago) and a few more abortion facilities closing. Watch the video release about the most recent one, the 19th abortion facility to close following a 40 Days for Life campaign outside its doors:

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, my cell phone rang with the exciting news from Brian Gibson (head of Pro-Life Action Ministries and Minneapolis/St. Paul 40 Days for Life campaign leader) that Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota was closing down its abortion facility!

This closure follows SEVEN 40 Days for Life campaigns held in the right-of-way outside the hospital, publicly exposing their deadly side business.

In news stories over the weekend, hospital officials admitted that abortions at their facility had declined by 40% over the past few years and that abortion was no longer economically viable.
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This makes the 19th abortion facility to close following a 40 Days for Life campaign outside its doors.
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Can't wait for a similar closure to take place here in Canada...

The Trap Of Public Funds - Quebec To Ban Prayer In Home-Based Daycares

2011-11-28T17:23:00.003-04:00

It starts with the notion that paying for a service most of us need should not be our responsibility, but that of the government. But once we let the government assume these responsibilities, once government subsidies (and the artificially low prices they create) become the norm, we shouldn't be surprised that the government starts imposing its own rules on all businesses, including home-based, family-run enterprises:

QUEBEC, November 24, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly a year after the Quebec government banned religion from the province’s subsidized daycares, they have signaled that they will extend the directive into daycares run in private homes.

Jean Charest’s Liberal government issued a directive last December stipulating that government-funded daycares must not offer any activity that aims to teach a belief, dogma, or practice of a particular religion.

The directive, which took effect June 1st, banned religious prayers, crafts, and songs – including many Christmas carols. Religious symbols, such as Christmas trees, crucifixes, and menorahs were allowed as cultural expressions, but staff cannot explain their religious significance.

Now the Ministry of Families and Seniors has indicated they will extend the ban into home-run daycares that are subsidized by the government.
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H/t Big Blue Wave

I wonder if daycare owners can sue the government. Not so much for discrimination (although, what we witness is a blatant case of religious discrimination,) but against unfair business practices. There's simply no other name to the situation when the government first uses subsidies to bring the prices down to ~15% of the market price (or no more than one third of the actual cost of doing business) and then withdraws these subsidies from businesses that don't adhere to specific religious (secular fundamentalist) values, leaving them with the choice of complying or trying to survive when their own tax money is used by the government to price them out of business.

If the government chooses to subsidize an entire industry - it should be all or none. And it should be up to the parents and daycare owners, not up to the government to decide whether or not religion they want religion in their daycares and to what extent.

P.S. There's no better argument against government-subsidized daycares than Quebecers' own experience. If anyone believes this wouldn't happen with government subsidized daycares in any other province - he is way too naive.

Homosexual Activist To Sun News: Accept Our Censorship - Or Else

2011-11-28T00:59:00.005-04:00

They are quite upset with the Sun News Network agreeing to run the Stop corrupting our children ad:

Lilley's pad: Trying to silence freedom of speech

Basically, they want to compel Sun News to do everything that the National Post did voluntarily: to find the one responsible for running the ad (and deal with him appropriately,) to stop accepting any more ads from the organization dared to speak out against homosexualist indoctrination in schools, to donate the proceeds to a "charitable" organization that promotes perverse lifestyles, to undergo "sensitivity" training, to provide free ad space in compensation for the network's "misdeed"... Well, I'm glad to hear that, unlike the Post (which went as far as altering their apology to please militant perverts,) Sun News is determined to stand up for freedom of speech.

Diefenbaker said, “I am Canadian, free to speak without fear.”

I say we embrace Diefenbaker’s way, not the way of Michael Erickson and his ilk.
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Well said, Brian Lilley! Way to go Sun News Network!

P.S. Here's the ad that caused the controversy:

Don't forget to sign the petition at Stop Corrupting Children .ca.

What Socialism, Pacifism and Sex Have in Common

2011-11-27T10:35:00.003-04:00

Some nice Sunday reading from The Politics of the Cross Resurrected blog:

What do these three things have in common? It is a very simple principle:
"each can be very good in its proper place,
but highly destructive when allowed to flow
into contexts for which it was not designed."
Let's take them one at a time.

First, sex is easy. Natural reason tells us that sexual activity is oriented to and leads to procreation and that marriage naturally is the best context for procreation to occur. A child is best off with its biological parents. So it is hardly surprising that every culture has some form of marriage based on the mother-father-child triangle. Sex belongs in marriage and every serious form of natural law or religious morality affirms this conclusion. But sex outside marriage is destructive of personal communion, social stability and children.

So we have in human sexuality a very good thing as long as it remains in its proper context. Yet that very good thing can become perverted, twisted and destructive as soon as it bursts its channels and floods into promiscuity or adultery.

Second, socialism is in many ways a high and noble ideal. As practiced by small, disciplined, voluntary communities, for example, monastic ones, it can be a good way of life. Socialism is not bad except when it bursts its natural bonds and becomes an ideology which is imposed by coercion on society as a whole. I would go so far as to say that coercive socialism is as bad as coercive sex.

Socialism is utopian in the sense that it is incompatible with the fact of original sin. The reason that socialism always leads to tyranny, poverty and atheism in this world is because of the tragic flaw in human nature - not because of the idea of socialism itself. As an idea, it is wonderful. But when implemented in a society of fallen sinners, it becomes horribly destructive.

Third, pacifism is also in many ways a high and noble ideal. As practiced by small, disciplined, voluntary communities, for example, the Amish or monastic orders, it can be a good way of life. Pacifism is not bad except when it bursts its natural bonds and becomes an ideology which is imposed by coercion on society as a whole. I would go so far as to say that coercive pacifism (i.e. the government adopting a pacifist stance on behalf of a population containing both pacifists and non-pacifists) is as bad as coercive sex or coercive socialism.
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One other feature that all three of these things have in common is that they are all highly attractive to sentimentalists...
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Global Warm-Mongers Unite

2011-11-26T17:36:00.002-04:00

Check out this video report by Ezra Levant for some disturbing facts about one multinational corporation with the carbon footprint of a small city, which nevertheless is one of the key participants at the global warm-mongers' gathering in Durban. Well, we can't have a big environmentalist convention without Greenpeace, can we?

And, of course, it's quite easy to believe in man-made global warming at a comfy beach resort someplace in the Southern hemisphere, especially if it's thanks to these believes that one gets a free five-star sunny vacation in the middle of winter in the first place. But what happens if a warm-monger has a hard time defending his point of view in a scientific debate? Well, the answer is obvious:

Almost exactly two years since damning email messages were released from Great Britain's University of East Anglia showing a pattern of deception and collusion between scientists involved in spreading the global warming myth, a new batch of such correspondence has emerged that seems destined to get as little press coverage as the original ClimateGate scandal did in November 2009.

James Delingpole reported in Britain's Telegraph Tuesday:
Breaking news: two years after the Climategate, a further batch of emails has been leaked onto the internet by a person – or persons – unknown. And as before, they show the "scientists" at the heart of the Man-Made Global Warming industry in a most unflattering light. Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Ben Santer, Tom Wigley, Kevin Trenberth, Keith Briffa – all your favourite Climategate characters are here, once again caught red-handed in a series of emails exaggerating the extent of Anthropogenic Global Warming, while privately admitting to one another that the evidence is nowhere near as a strong as they'd like it to be.

In other words, what these emails confirm is that the great man-made global warming scare is not about science but about political activism. This, it seems, is what motivated the whistleblower 'FOIA 2011' (or "thief", as the usual suspects at RealClimate will no doubt prefer to tar him or her) to go public.
The BBC is reporting that these email messages also come from UEA, and number around 5,000. The entire set is available at MegaUpload.
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This kind of discourse, has gone beyond the academic circles and is being widely used by governments to silence opposition to their "green" tax schemes:

THE whitewash begins. Now that the carbon tax has passed through federal parliament, the government's clean-up brigade is getting into the swing by trying to erase any dissent against the jobs-destroying legislation.

On cue comes the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which this week issued warnings to businesses that they will face whopping fines of up to $1.1m if they blame the carbon tax for price rises.
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There will be 23 carbon cops roaming the streets doing snap audits of businesses that "choose to link your price increases to a carbon price".

Instead, the ACCC suggests you tell customers you've raised prices because "the overall cost of running (your) business has increased".
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Outrageous, isn't it? But let's look at it from the environmentalist prospective: the science is settled, the debate is over, all we have to do now is pay those carbon taxes, carbon offsets and other eco fees to save the planet from warming up even further...

Free Speech Bill Debated In Parliament

2011-11-25T23:26:00.000-04:00

Bill C-304, that repeals the offensive section 13 of the Human Rights Act, received its first hour of debate last Tuesday. Here are a few quotes:

Mr. Brian Storseth (Westlock—St. Paul, CPC):

Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act eats away at this fundamental freedom. Most people are shocked when I explain to them that in Canada, right here in our own country, a person can be investigated under a section 13 complaint for having likely exposed a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that the person or persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.

The key word is “likely” to have exposed. I think we can all agree that this is a very subjective and unnecessarily vague definition, not one of the narrowly defined legal definitions that would be far more appropriate for this clause. This is where section 13 truly fails to make a distinction between real hate speech and what I often term as “hurt speech”, or speech that is simply offensive.

This means that if someone has offended somebody and is investigated under section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, intent is not a defence. Truth is no longer a defence. The person would no longer have the right to due process, the right to a speedy trial, or even the right to a lawyer to defend himself or herself. In fact, in 90% of the human rights investigations under the Canadian Human Rights Act under section 13, the defendants do not even have legal advice, because they simply cannot afford it. When the people of Westlock--St. Paul hear about this, they are shocked. This is simply not the Canadian way.
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Mr. David Sweet (Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC):

For a clear example of section 13 hindering free speech here in Canada, we do not have to look far. As the member for Westlock—St. Paul previously alluded to, the Canadian Human Rights Commission investigator, Mr. Dean Steacey, was asked what value he gave freedom of speech in his investigations. To me it was shocking that Mr. Steacey replied, “Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value. It's not my job to give value to an American concept”.

I take umbrage with that. Freedom of speech is very much a Canadian concept, one that we should be very proud of and, most importantly, in this second week after Remembrance Day, let us never forget the ultimate sacrifice made by thousands of Canadians from the trenches of Europe to the hills of Afghanistan so that we could enjoy so many freedoms, not the least of which is the freedom of speech but also so millions suffering in Europe during the two world wars and in other conflicts since could also be free.

The list of those affected and stifled by section 13 is long and encompassing. Every journalist, writer, webmaster, blogger, publisher, politician, and private citizen in Canada can be subject to a human rights complaint for expressing an opinion or telling the truth on any given issue.
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Mr. Brent Rathgeber (Edmonton—St. Albert, CPC):

There is no doubt that members are aware of the already workable remedies and workable limits with respect to freedom of speech. There are laws against perjury, the torts of libel and slander and, most important and most germane to this debate, sections 318 to 320 of the Criminal Code. Those are all real hate speech protections.

A distinction must be drawn between hate speech and hurt speech or the so-called counterfeit right of hurt feelings. One does not have a right against having his or her feelings hurt. I am sorry but that is not a right that exists in common law and it is not a right that exists in free and democratic societies.

The Criminal Code sanctions regarding free speech found in sections 318 to 320 require something more than hurt feelings. They require real and actionable hatred. If a person advocates genocide, destruction of a group's property or harm or damage to the person of that group, then that person has fallen offside the hate provisions of the Criminal Code, and, I would submit, rightfully so. However, that is something quite different than the so-called freedom not to be offended, or what my friend referred to as hurt speech.

Free speech, if it is to exist, cannot be subject to some bureaucracy. There is no such thing as government regulated free speech. Either there is free speech or there is not.
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But what about the opposition? If there is an opposition MP that supports the bill - we haven't heard of him yet. All 3 speakers from the opposition (Irwin Colter from the Liberals and Françoise Boivin and Charmaine Borg from the NDP) spoke against the bill. Irwin Colter suggested that the Parliament first lets the Supreme Court have its say and then tries to reform the system rather than repealing section 13 altogether. As for the two NDP MPs, their major argument was that the Criminal code doesn't go far enough in prosecuting hate speech, because it's based on a different system of evidence - as opposed to the freedom-snatching committees in which the standard rules of evidence simply don't apply.

Yes, believe it or not, what is an integral part of every person's right to a fair trial, is regarded to them as a drawback. Charmaine Borg doesn't trust the criminal code to address "hate speech" because "a criminal case requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, while a case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal requires proof on a balance of probabilities". Françoise Boivin not only agrees with her, but she is also certain that "there have not been tons of grievances", that "it is not as though everyone is running to the Human Rights Commission to file a grievance against someone for hate speech under section 13" and that the Conservatives are merely "scaring people and leading them to believe that good citizens will be cheerfully brought before the courts to have their right to freedom of expression challenged and that it will cost them a fortune" - as if there were no frivolous hurt feelings claims filed against Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, Rev. Stephen Boissoin, Ron Gray and many others. What a disgrace!...

P.S. It's interesting that in her speech, Ms. Boivin repeatedly mentioned the Charter, when the bill deals the Human Rights Act. At one point she even went as far as claiming that Bill C-304 was about repealing section 13 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which, of course, has nothing to do with prosecuting opinions "likely" to be seen as hate speech. (Section 13 of the Charter deals with protections against self-incrimination and is not in any way affected by bill C-304.) What was it - a a deliberate attempt to mislead her fellow MPs (let alone the general public) into believing that the Conservatives are about to strike out a section from the Charter or Ms. Boivin simply didn't know what piece of legislature she was talking about?

Pro-Family Citizens Stand Firm Against Occupiers

2011-11-24T20:50:00.003-04:00

Finally - a grassroots response to the occupiers' bullying and intimidation:

Religious believers to left-wing activists: We’re not taking it anymore!

Christian believers and activists with signs and American (and Israeli) flags didn’t give an inch outside of the Holy Grounds Coffee House in Springfield, Mass., as a loud, well-organized “Occupy Springfield” protest converged to harass and intimidate them, targeting Pastor Scott Lively and his inner-city Christian mission. Christian activists also counter-picketed the nearby storefront of the “Occupy” organization with the message that they weren’t backing down.

It’s believed to be the first time in the U.S. that any Occupy harassment action has been met with resistance by those they were targeting.

The demonstration brings to the forefront what many have observed since the beginning of the “Occupy” movement: That along with its socialist and anarchist economic philosophy, at its core it is anti-American, pro-Muslim, and particularly hostile to Christianity and traditional values.
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As if that wasn't obvious from the very beginning:

Case in point: The "Occupy D.C." protesters, who have squatted – in more ways than one – at Washington's McPherson Square, have posted a list of rules by which "occupants" are expected to abide. Rule No. 10 requires that folks not "assume anyone's gender," but, instead, "go with gender-neutral pronouns" like "comrade." (Who knew that a so-called "99 percent" of Americans were gender-bending commies?)
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Here's a video of the stand-off. Lots of chanting and screaming (especially when the occupiers try to shout down Pastor Scott Lively with their drum and their chants) and a bold message to the internazi-sozi thugs: Occupy a job!

H/t So Con or Bust

PEI Will Remain Abortion Free

2011-11-22T19:50:00.003-04:00

Abortion 'clinic' free, to be precise, as the province does pay for women to obtain abortions off-island. But at least, the governing PEI Liberals are nowhere near as radical as their Federal counterparts, and they have no intention to usher abortion into the province:

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I., November 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Prince Edward Island’s Opposition health critic has said neither the Tories nor the ruling Liberals are interested in re-opening a debate on having abortions committed on the island.

“We are in agreement with the government that, at this time, their position on this issue is not changing,” Conservative health critic James Aylward told the CBC.

Aylward endorsed Health Minister Doug Currie’s position that the island’s status as Canada’s only abortion-free province will continue. “Right now, I see no reason to veer off the current status,” Currie had told The Guardian newspaper. “I see nothing changing and the status quo is in place and that’s my position on it right now.”
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Special kudos to all those who took part in the pro-life counter-demonstration on Saturday. It's sure encouraging to find out that there were more participants at the pro-life counter-demonstration than at the pro-abort rally. Great job!

Quebec Follows The Path Of Europe’s Decline

2011-11-20T13:05:00.003-04:00

That's the price of being not so much the most European, but the most "progressive" (e.g. socialist, secularist, moral-relativist) part of North America:

For a long time, visitors to Montreal and Quebec City have commented upon their European character — a touch of the Danube or the Tiber on the shores of the St. Lawrence. That used to be a good thing. But the sound of rushing water heard now is that of Europe’s future swirling down the drain, and regrettably for Quebec, it is the most European part of North America.

The European future is rapidly disappearing, or perhaps it is better to say that the European past has raided the future for so long that there is nothing left for the present. Europe gave up on its future long ago, most fundamentally by not having children, which is the single most enduring tie to the future. A nation that chooses not to replace itself does not intend to stick around.

Once the decision is taken to live in the present, why not defer to the future the cost of as much of the present as possible? It was once accepted that one generation should not burden future generations, but that argument is far less persuasive when the future generations comprise fewer and fewer people.

Thus the Mediterranean model was born (pardon the pun for a continent without babies): low birthrate, generous welfare, rampant tax evasion, early retirement, expansive pensions, rigid labour markets and low productivity. How to pay for this? Borrow recklessly. And hope you die before the pillaged future arrives. Alas, sometimes the future arrives sooner than one thinks. The future arrived for Greece last month and Italy last week. It’s due to arrive in Spain shortly.
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And no, the rest of Canada isn't much better off...

Finally - The Government Addresses Section 13 Abuse

2011-11-19T15:18:00.001-04:00

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson urges all MPs to support bill C-304:

“Our government believes Section 13 is not an appropriate or effective means for combating hate propaganda. We believe the Criminal Code is the best vehicle to prosecute these crimes,” Justice Minister Rob Nicholson told the House of Commons during question period.
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In case you are not sure what exactly is wrong with section 13 of the "human rights" Act and why is it more about abusing human rights than about protecting them, check out this video report by Ezra Levant:

So, for now, the government supports repealing section 13. The key word however is - for now, when they haven't yet faced any considerable pressure from the opposition. Which, of course, won't just stand idly by and let the government de-fang an institution that has "human rights" in its name. (Even if this institution is in fact a freedom-snatching committee.)

Expect the supporters of the HRC censorship to wage a fierce campaign, not so much in defense of section 13, but about "evil" "far-right" "CONservatives" that "breed hate" and that want to "roll back human rights". And, if the pressure from the vocal special interest groups is strong enough, if the opposition parties succeed in positioning themselves as staunch defenders of human rights against "Harper's tyranny", if the (predominantly left-wing) mainstream media convinces the Conservatives that most Canadians either support the "human rights" Act in its current form or don't consider the abuse caused by section 13 to be much of a concern -- the government may cave in and just let the "controversial" bill die in a committee.

So, it's not yet the time to consider the bill "as good as passed". The debate over the bill is going to be long and fierce and our side, the free speech side, too, should be vocal. ARPA Canada offers an "easy-mail" tool to contact MPs - let's use it to express our support for bill C-304, to thank MPs for their efforts and to encourage them not to give up. We shall not rest until bill C-304 receives Royal Assent. And then it will be the time for the remaining sections of the so called "human rights" Act.

P.E.I.'s Status As Pro-Life 'Sanctuary' Challenged

2011-11-17T19:38:00.001-04:00

Pro-abortion groups are mounting the pressure on the provincial government, demanding local abortion facilities:

For 30 years, Prince Edward Island has been known among pro-life groups as a "life sanctuary," the lone province in Canada that refuses to perform abortions.

Since the last abortion was performed on P.E.I. in 1982 - after the merger of Catholic and Protestant hospitals in Charlottetown came with the proviso that the new hospital not perform the procedure - women who wished to end their pregnancies have had to leave the island.

Those who have two doctors' referrals can have their abortions performed at a hospital in Halifax and paid for by the province. Women without referrals pay as much as $800 for the procedure at the private Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton. Last year, as many as 140 women left P.E.I. to have an abortion, about 60 to the hospital in Halifax and as many as 80 to the Morgentaler Clinic.

But a newly formed prochoice movement on Prince Edward Island is hoping to reignite the debate over what activists say is the last government standing against universal access to abortion in Canada.
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Let's put our best efforts to help our PEI friends to counter this assault on babies' right to life.

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If anything - it should be us, the pro-lifers, protesting at the PEI legislature. Because, if some 40% of PEI's abortions are paid for by the province (a share similar to that of NB) that means the province still uses public funds to pay for abortions on demand; even if these abortions are performed outside of PEI.

Social Contract And The "Occupation" Movement

2011-11-16T16:49:00.004-04:00

Here's an interesting rebuttal to the "99-percenters" and their claims that they somehow have a share in business people's income:

H/t SoCon or Bust

Also check out this video interview - Ezra Levant discusses
the hypocrisy of the "occupation" movement with Andrew Breitbart. The statistics and the facts about these "occupation" protests and their organizers make it clear, that it's not about the greedy business people neglecting the social contract, but about spoiled brats (who've never learned to care for themselves) complaining that they're not getting enough goodies from the society.

Video: Right To Life Debate At University Of Ottawa

2011-11-15T20:36:00.001-04:00

What happens when pro-aborts don't chant or heckle or find some other way to drown out the pro-life speaker? They lose the debate. The recent debate on whether physicians should provide or refer for abortion, which took place last week at the University of Ottawa, proves just that.

Here's the video of the debate: Stephanie Gray, from the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform versus Jovan Morales from Atheist Community of University of Ottawa. Watch and see for yourself who is the one that makes a convincing case.

University of Ottawa - abortion debate Nov 11, 2011
from Jeannie on Vimeo.

Even the pro-aborts admit that they lost. (Although they blame the outcome on speaker and the organizers.)

A "pro-choice" commenter to my blog said that:
"this debate was a total set-up. no one from the pro-choice community in ottawa was asked to participate in the debate. while it was nice that Jovan accepted the non-invitation, he did not have the background or experience to argue from the perspective of the pro-choice movement and ended up making some pretty oppressive and ineffectivley thought-out arguments. stephanie spends her entire career articulating these issues, of course she "won". but the pro-life side certainly didn't gain any credibility for such a poorly run event."
(Run With Life blog)

Well, judging from the video it certainly doesn't look like Stephanie was preaching to the choir. You can hear some guy yelling out "bull####", "liar" and similar remarks, which were greeted with cheering and clapping from quite a few students. So the pro-abort public certainly was there. As for that commenter's assertion that Jovan Morales "did not have the background or experience" to defend the pro-abortion position - it looks like all those that supposedly have the background and the experience, simply chose not to participate. Their experience and background must have told them that they had no chance of winning the debate in the first place.

Backdoor Push To Overturn Euthanasia Laws - Court Case Begins Today

2011-11-14T16:51:00.006-04:00

Euthanasia supporters didn't get what they want from the Parliament, so they look forward for unelected, unaccountable judges to rule their way:

Canada’s Parliament had rejected a bill introduced by Bloc Québécois MP Francine Lalonde to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2010, by a vote of 228 to 59. Subsequently, Canada’s Justice Minister, the Hon. Rob Nicholson, stated that the Conservative government will not reopen the issue in Parliament.

However, BCCLA lawyer Joe Arvay, representing the family of Kay Carter and co-litigant Gloria Taylor, argues that the courts rather than Parliament have the “last word” in the creation of laws.

“Parliament obviously has an important role to play in the political process, but when it comes to determining what our fundamental rights and freedoms are, the court has the last word because the constitution is the supreme law of the land and not Parliament,” Arvay told the media in August. “Obviously [Mr. Nicholson] knows Parliament does not have the last word.”
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Actually, the Parliament does have the last word. I'm talking about the notwithstanding clause. The MPs didn't have the guts to use it to protect the unborn, let alone - to preserve the true marriage. But now, when it's obvious that should euthanasia or "assisted suicide" (e.g. direct actions that intentionally cause patient's death) become legal, their lives too will be at risk - I doubt they'll be willing to let someone else have the last word. Way too much is at stake:

"All the protections (in Oregon's law) end after the prescription is written. (The proponents) admitted that the provisions in the Oregon law would permit one person to be alone in that room with the patient. And in that situation, there is no guarantee that that medication is self-administered."

Elder abuse includes physical, psychological and financial abuse. Financial abuse is the most commonly reported type. Elder abuse is, however, largely unreported and can be difficult to detect. This is due in part to the reluctance of victims to report.

Elders' vulnerabilities and relative wealth have led to murder, with the perpetrators often being family members. An example is Melissa Friedrich, the Internet Black Widow. She killed her first husband and is accused of poisoning her second husband and another elderly man to get their money.

If assisted suicide were to be legalized via Carter, new paths of abuse would be created against the elderly...
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Well, before the court hearing has even started, we already have some "experts" "admitting that organ donors are often alive when their organs are harvested" and arguing that "the medical community should not require donors to be declared dead, but instead adopt more “honest” moral criteria that allow the harvesting of organs from “dying” or “severely injured” patients". Imagine what it will be like if the official ban on euthanasia is overturned.

So let's make sure it doesn't come to this. Please sign this petition and support the Attorney General's strongest possible opposition to the legalization of euthanasia and/or assisted suicide.

At Last - The Liberation

2011-11-13T21:24:00.000-04:00

Well, if these internazi-sozi thugs call their actions "the occupation" - then, when the police finally intervenes and drives them out - that's nothing but liberation. Halifax has been liberated and Regina is apparently next, not to mention several cities in the US. Hopefully, officials in many more cities realize that it's better to be among the liberators than among the collaborators:

Way back in 1968, after the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mayor Daley declared that his forces were there to "preserve disorder." I believe that was one of Hizzoner's famous malapropisms. Forty-three years later, Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, and the Oakland City Council have made "preserving disorder" the official municipal policy. On Wednesday, the "Occupy Oakland" occupiers rampaged through the city, shutting down the nation's fifth-busiest port, forcing stores to close, terrorizing those residents foolish enough to commit the reactionary crime of "shopping," destroying ATMs, spraying the Christ the Light Cathedral with the insightful observation "F**k", etc. And how did the Oakland City Council react? The following day they considered a resolution to express their support for "Occupy Oakland" and to call on the city administration to "collaborate with protesters."

That's "collaborate" in the Nazi-occupied France sense: the city's feckless political class are collaborating with anarchists against the taxpayers who maintain them in their sinecures. They're not the only ones. When the rumor spread that the Whole Foods store, of all unlikely corporate villains, had threatened to fire employees who participated in the protest, the Regional President David Lannon took to Facebook: "We totally support our Team Members participating in the General Strike today – rumors are false!" But, despite his "total support", they trashed his store anyway, breaking windows and spray-painting walls.
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Sure, it hasn't come to that here in Canada, not yet, but who would like to be harassed by a bunch of violent brats whose intention (as their very name suggests) is to make their presence felt?

Rath said police have received upwards of 50 complaints about the protesters, some about noise and drug use, and others alleging assault in the park.

"One citizen was spat on. Another person in a wheelchair was unable to take their regular route through the park," said Rath. "We respect the right to protest peacefully, but this really goes beyond that."
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Well done, Halifax Regional Police. In light of all the lawlessness that has run rampant at these "occupation" protests, the police forces that don't stand idly by, but actually intervene and bring back law and order, deserve to be cheers as liberators.

Environmentalist ‘Science’ Is The Blind Faith Cult Of The Decade

2011-11-12T23:03:00.002-04:00

For the umpteenth time, what's being positioned as climate science is nothing but a blind faith cult of "mother Gaia":

But Science! There’s an institution we can still believe in. And most of us still do-as if fallen, sinful human beings turn into angels the moment they don lab coats.

Thanks to Science we have learned to believe in some of the most preposterous and malignant notions ever dreamed up in this poor, sin-laden world. We believe, for instance, in Evolution, or in Man-made Global Warming-because we are told, over and over and over again, that we must believe in it.

Unhappily for Science, but happily for us, Global Warming scientists have been caught cheating more times than all the convicts on Riker’s Island put together; so we now have insight into the magical process that transforms 100% pure humbug into “settled science” that no one is allowed to question.
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And to make things worse, this Gaia cult twists basic social values inside out, branding large families - "unfair" and "selfish" and proclaiming having children "a sin". (The fact that they actually use this word makes it clear what environmentalism truly is.)

That alone would be convincing enough to detest the global warm-mongering cult, even if all other reasons to be a "global warming skeptic" didn't exist. And here are some disturbing facts about the green cult and it's key prophet. We may even call that - an inconvenient truth...

In Flanders Fields The Poppies Blow

2011-11-11T11:00:00.000-04:00

Let's remember to whom we owe our rights, our freedoms and everything else we have.

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

John McCrea

Showing What The Sex Ed Teacher Won't

2011-11-10T20:54:00.000-04:00

...The consequences of abortion, that is:

OTTAWA, NOV. 10/11 – The Ottawa based pro-life group “Ottawa Against Abortion” will be holding signs of aborted children outside of Immaculata Catholic High School. This will be the fourth high school in Ottawa that the group has visited since September as a part of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform’s new EndTheKilling strategy.
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Displays outside of high schools have occurred across the country including Calgary, Chilliwack, Lethbridge and Airdrie. Protest organizer Raphael Deketelle said “I am proud to stand with pro-life activists from across the country who are showing students that abortion is an act of violence that kills a child.” The protest, named “Choice” Chain, displays multiple 4X3 foot signs of aborted fetuses in the first trimester of pregnancy.
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(From Carleton Lifeline e-mail release)

And to all those concerned that such "graphic" pictures are "inappropriate" for teenagers, I say - if this kind of sex "education" is somehow "appropriate" (to the extent that parents are not even allowed to pull their children from these classes) - then "graphic" pictures of aborted babies are not only appropriate - they are necessary.

These "teachers" and "experts" tell our children that "in the operating room it takes about five minutes, and then you go home, you’re fine". It's about time we started countering these lies - right where they are told.

Pro-Life Students Refuse To Be Censored

2011-11-08T01:27:00.003-04:00

Despite the objections from the university, the the Genocide Awareness Project display at Simon Fraser University went on as planned:

BURNABY, British Columbia, November 7, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life students at Simon Fraser University set up a display on campus depicting the horror of abortion without incident Monday morning, despite the university’s disapproval.

SFU administration said they would not approve the event, organized by campus club SFU Lifeline, because the club would not agree to turn their signs so that passing students would not see them inadvertently.

But club president Mary-Clare Turner told LifeSiteNews the event was on despite the lack of official approval. “The university hasn’t threatened us with anything at all. They just told us that they were disappointed that we had not set up the signs the way they had requested us to. But that’s all,” she explained.

“I take that as implied permission to continue the display tomorrow as we had planned,” she added.
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And it's the same rhetorical question once again - imagine if the university told the organizers of occupiers rally to turn their "99%" signs inwards, so that nobody except the participants could see them. Or, if an anti-war protest was only allowed on condition that no images of death and destruction would be visible to the public. I bet, all the newspapers and TV channels would be screaming discrimination within minutes.

Somehow, not many notice the discrimination when such restrictions are imposed on pro-lifers. And I'm afraid that the university hasn't yet had its final say; we may yet see some reprisals from their end - anything from denying SFU Lifeline its official club status and all the way to trespassing or misconduct charges, if not arrests and expulsions. There have been way to many precedents set already.

Raising Large Family - Not As Difficult As It Looks

2011-11-07T21:51:00.004-04:00

Just go for it - without looking for reasons why you shouldn't:

A few months back, I told you how to raise eight children without even trying. Today, I'm going to tell you why I never should have had eight children in the first place. Had I listened to the devil and modern conventional wisdom, that is.

When I was a happy mother of four, seriously considering and deeply desiring another child, an odd feeling overcame me. Over several days, my excitement at the idea of a new little soul became mixed with feelings of discouragement and fear. It began to dawn on me that I was barely good enough "mommy material" for the four treasures I already had, and that any further parenting would be irresponsible. It came to a head one evening: I remember standing in my kitchen, full of fear and anxiety, telling myself that I had no business -- no business! -- having another baby. Not now, not ever.
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As I stood there in the kitchen that night, a moment of grace overtook the moment of discouragement. How many times had I told others, "Discouragement is not from Christ, as Christ only encourages. Discouragement is from the devil!" I remembered it then, and my fears and anxieties were banished. Only the devil himself, the one who hates human beings to his rotten core, would taunt me with the notion that my lack of gourmet skills should preclude new life in my marriage.
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That my family exists as it does is living proof that "with God, all things are possible"...
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h/t Life Site News

Well said. And this makes much more sense than the green cult and its adherents who preach that having children (or as they call them - "gurgling genetic replicas") is a sin. Yes, believe it or not, they actually use the word "sin"...

40 Days for Life in Moncton - Looking Back

2011-11-06T22:47:00.002-04:00

This year, we held two 40 Day vigils - in Moncton and in Fredericton; and we had enough volunteers to keep both vigils going. It wasn't always easy to find at least one spare hour to attend the vigil and the weather was not always favorable, but we made it. 40 days, 480 vigil hours, over 150 committed volunteers who participated at least once.

Unlike the previous year, this year's vigil got some publicity in the newspapers, as an angry letter from a feminist city councilor from Dieppe (who complained about those evil Bible-thumpers that push their religious beliefs on poor women) and then our numerous rebuttals (surprisingly, most of them did get published) led to quite a discussion. Obviously, this got the pro-abort gang up and ready for their counter-protests. But it also got the message out to those pro-lifers who otherwise wouldn't be aware of our vigil. Several times during the vigil I saw a passer-by coming to us, asking if we were the 40 Days for Life group and how does one join...

And, since it was after all a prayer vigil, I decided to try the 54 Day Miracle Rosary Novena to Our Lady. The idea was welcomed by many committed vigil keepers. We started saying these novenas from the very first day and, since the vigil is only 40 days, we better not forget about the remaining 2 weeks.

The 40 Days for Life website mentions 465 babies saved from abortion during this past vigil. Was there at least one life saved in Moncton? Statistically - that was quite probable. But we never know. When a vigil is held at a general hospital, we can never spot a client that has cancelled the deadly appointment and turned back. We have to walk by faith, not by sight. Just be there and pray. Pray to end abortion.

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Special thanks to Dr. Joe who took the trouble to manage a special blog for the Moncton 40 Days where vigil keepers could share their thoughts, their stories, their concerns...

So Where's This "Choice" The Pro-Aborts Keep Talking About?

2011-11-05T22:37:00.004-03:00

We know that pro-aborts don't like the concept of informed choice, because it leaves no room for the kind of "choice" they'd like to see. But what if a woman changes her mind and chooses life at the very last moment? Where's her right to choose then?

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, November 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life sidewalk counselors outside a Milwaukee abortion clinic Thursday morning say that a preteen girl asking pro-lifers for help was forced into the clinic by escorts and a guardian, and that police have responded saying that they could do nothing.

Tobey Neuberger, a sidewalk counselor from Cedarburgh, said the incident occurred just before 10 a.m. outside Affiliated Medical Services, where she and two other female pro-life counselors gave a “very young” African-American girl literature as she entered the clinic, and told her that she could get more information at a pro-life center across the street. Witnesses said the girl looked anywhere between 11 and 14 years old.

Neuberger says she and her companions were “just incredulous” as they watched the girl come back out and ask for help from the counselors, only to be physically blocked by the escort staff.
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Looks like their understanding of "choice" means abortion, at first thought, with no right to reconsider.

No Weapons Means No Remembrance Day?!

2011-11-04T23:14:00.004-03:00

Ottawa school uses this lame excuse to cancel Remembrance Day symposium.

The 20th anniversary of an educational Remembrance Day event is being cancelled at a west Ottawa Catholic high school after the teacher organizing it was told "no tanks or guns" are allowed in the school.

Notre Dame High School history teacher Gene Michaud sent an e-mail to friends last Friday, sadly announcing the end of the Remembrance Day Symposium -- shocking many in the military community.

"There's a huge difference between some kid with a grudge bringing a weapon that's loaded into a school, and veterans putting on a Remembrance display with non-functioning historical replicas," said Wayne Mac Culloch, a retired major who spent more than 40 years in the Canadian Forces, including five missions overseas.

"What we've got going on here is a warped perspective of no weapons in schools."
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It's hard to picture a group of (supposedly) sane people who can't distinguish between a hate-filled murderer with a gun and a veteran bringing in a harmless museum replica for Remembrance Day display. Most likely there must be someone on the school board who despises the military, who is ashamed of our history, who sees himself as a "world citizen" rather than as a Canadian - and who does not approve of an event that honors war veterans. Especially since this year's symposium was actually going to include some veterans from Afghanistan...

We've seen something similar happening in NB a couple years ago: A school principal banned O Canada citing "sensitivity" concerns when the real reason for banishing the national anthem had to do with the principal's radical "Green internationalist" views. Now we most likely have yet another self-hating peacenik using the first excuse he could think of to sanitize Remembrance Day event if not to ban it outright.

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All of this so ironic. As veterans are pushed out a school, professional protestors are breaking a dozen municipal laws everyday as they “occupy” Confederation Park. While the legalities are ignored, we are even providing these squatters with free electricity, which will only encourage long term camping on public land. Veterans be damned and professional protestors who cannot even articulate a coherent political message are welcome.
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That says it all, doesn't it?

Carleton University vs Pro-Life Students: Trespass Charges Withdrawn

2011-11-02T18:21:00.003-03:00

Finally, some common sense in this appalling case of censorship and power abuse:

OTTAWA, ON. November 1, 2011- Trespassing charges that were filed against members of Carleton Lifeline, the pro-life student club at Carleton University, were withdrawn by the Crown yesterday.

On October 4, 2010, members of Carleton Lifeline, a pro-life club at Carleton University, were arrested for attempting to peacefully display the Genocide Awareness Project, an exhibit which compares abortion to other forms of genocide. The University deemed the Genocide Awareness Project to be “offensive” and directed the Ottawa Police Service to arrest and charge four Carleton University tuition-paying students and a Queen’s University student with trespassing. The charges were scheduled to proceed to trial today and tomorrow (November 2nd, 2011).
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But here's the bad news: In a subsequent decision, the judge ordered the students to pay Carleton University over $18,400 in legal costs associated with the students' motion to strike the case against them as frivolous. Hopefully this can still be appealed. After all, the fact that the charges didn't last, proves just that - that the arrest was wrongful and the case against the students was frivolous.

Pat Buchanan On 'Superpower Suicide'

2011-10-31T18:49:00.003-03:00

Michael Coren interviews Pat Buchanan (click here for the video).

Pat Buchanan is someone who has genuinely spoken blunt truth to blunt power for years, which is one of the reasons he's not to everybody's liking. He is to mine however, which is why he appears once again on my Sun News TV show, The Arena, Monday night.
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"The transformation has been dramatic and unique in our history," he says, "and the reason America has and will lose its greatness is that we are no longer unified. Anybody can become a good American, coming from anywhere in the world. But whereas in the past we asked them to become American, now we encourage America to become like them."

No pause, but straight into the argument. "We've given away what made us one. Faith, symbols of unity, the European, overwhelmingly Christian heritage of the majority who were and made the country. People could be who and what they liked, but they had to know what the national core values and identity were. No longer."
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Most of what Pat Buchanan says about the US is also true for Canada. And his prognosis is by no means optimistic.

Grim Halloween Cartoon: Contraception Kills...

2011-10-31T01:15:00.005-03:00

Are you in the Halloween mood yet? Check out these cartoons from the Sword Of Peter blog. Like this one:

Artificial Contraception: Strangles marriage and kills off future generations.

In fact, the caption might as well read "Western Society" rather than just marriage. Because that's exactly what happens to a society that chooses to abort and contracept itself out of existence.

Pro-Life Arguments To Those Who Don’t Care About The Child

2011-10-30T01:45:00.003-03:00

This could be particularly useful in situations when opponents not only don't care, but also heavily restrict (if not outright ban) any debates on unborn babies' rights - the way it often happens at university campuses. The article offers a few pointers on how to keep the debate going:

1. Abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. This truth, evidenced in prestigious, peer-reviewed cancer-research journals is a very important truth to disseminate. Why? Because the anti-breast-cancer movement – in its walks, marches, fun-runs, pink ribbons, shirts – is one of the most pro-woman movements in existence. Breast cancer is a modern plague on the women of our society, and abortion is augmenting its power.
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2. Abortion makes women sad. I do not mean that in some vague way. A study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, synthesizing data from 1995 to 2009, shows that “women who had undergone an abortion had an 81% increased risk of mental health problems.”

From the European Journal of Public Health 2005: Researchers examining deaths among the entire population of women in Finland found that those who had abortions had a 3.5 times higher death rate from suicide, accidents, or homicides in the following year. Suicide rates among aborting women were six times higher compared to women who gave birth and two times higher compared to women who miscarried.
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3. There are other women in existence! And no, I’m not talking about the fact that most children aborted are girls, though it is an interesting question to ask: When, exactly, do women’s rights begin? I’m talking about mothers who want to adopt! A 2008 study by National Center for Health Statistics found that 33.1% of women have at some point considered adoption. Of that number 4.9% were currently seeking adoptions. That’s 901,000 women looking for babies.
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Also, check out the very first comment to the article, left by a nurse. It too has some information that is certainly not welcome by those who equate abortion with "maternal health".

Free Speech Bill Awaits Second Reading

2011-10-29T14:16:00.002-03:00

This time it's not just a motion to repeal section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, but a private member's bill that does just that. Bill C-304, that repeals section 13 (making subsequent amendments where necessary) was introduced by Brian Storseth, Conservative MP for Westlock - St. Paul on September 30. It has been jointly seconded by 19 other Conservative MPs since then. (Unfortunately, no opposition MP chose to come forward in support of free speech.)

Unlike both previous motions on section 13, bill C-304 did actually make it to the order of precedence. It is now 8-th in line for its first hour of debate. And that's where our support is needed. Our MPs still need to hear that we support it. Take action, contact your MP, ask that he votes to uphold our freedom of speech.

Don't be silent, because the opposition is certainly going to fight tooth and nail to preserve this abusive section that allows them to silence opponents so conveniently. They'll make a big stink about "Harper's government empowering hate mongers" and if they are more vocal than all those of us who merely want our freedom of speech back - Harper may block the bill and put the issue under wraps as he did with many others. Let's make sure it doesn't happen this time. Let's speak up for our right to do just that - to speak up.

Abortion: The Most Outrageous Injustice Today

2011-10-27T21:03:00.001-03:00

Finally, CCCB acknowledges that if they are to promote social justice they better address this wholesale slaughter of innocent unborn babies:

CORNWALL, Ontario, October 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - “The most outrageous injustice today is the attacks against the child in the womb,” says Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, the newly elected president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“If there is any example of injustice, it is that,” he added in a recent interview with Canadian Catholic News’ Deborah Gyapong.
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At their 2009 plenary assembly, the CCCB established an ad hoc committee on life and family, and announced at last year’s plenary that they would develop a “concrete plan” for taking a greater leadership role in promoting the culture of life in Canada.

The plan, which launches in 2012 with a year of preparation in the dioceses, is aimed to encourage the faithful to take a stand for the life of the unborn, and at all stages.
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It's about time the clergy takes more active role in promoting fetal rights, family values and the culture of life. Too many of them have been missing in action for far too long.

No, The Pope Did Not Endorse The Occupiers

2011-10-26T21:13:00.002-03:00

That's most likely what the mainstream media would like to see. But the reality however is much different.

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace carries no magisterial weight and even if did, Catholics could disagree with it.

The problem today is that Catholics don’t know what they can legitimately dissent from and what they cannot.

The creation of a central body the way Socialists want is NOT the answer. The exact OPPOSITE is the answer.

The problem with focusing on form instead of substance is that it can lead to totalitarianism.
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Saving Some Is Not A Compromise

2011-10-25T20:07:00.002-03:00

When saving some is all we can do we should never pretend it's all we hope to do. But at the same time, we should not refuse to save some, when there is a chance to do so:

Why is it that this year alone over 80 laws have been passed in the United States restricting abortion and yet in Canada we have not been able to pass one law in over 20 years?
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Given that politics is the art of what is possible, it means that politicians have to work with the sad reality that our society will not ban abortion today. At least two thirds of Canadians would oppose a ban on abortion, and some polls have the figure much higher than that. The political will to address the issue is even weaker than the public will. However, polls do show that at least 60% of Canadians would support some legal protection for the unborn (increasing protection with longer gestation). Given this reality, and given also the fact that every other country in the Western world has been able to pass abortion laws and restrictions, there is room for our Parliament to get rid of the gap between what Canadians would support and the status quo (no legal protection for unborn children).

When pro-life politicians in this country have tried to do what is possible by advancing legislation, they are given very little support by the key organizations representing the political arm of the pro-life movement. These politicians are often singled out as “compromisers.” With immense opposition from pro-abortion activists, the media, and even their own party, is it any wonder that after 20 years of this, most MPs, even pro-life MPs, are hesitant to touch the issue?
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h/t SoCon or Bust

Not sure if the opposition to incremental legislation is as strong as Mark Penninga describes. I don't recall any known pro-lifers opposing the Unborn Victims of Crime Act or the bill against coerced abortions. Although, as I understand, this kind of "all or nothing" approach did play its role in derailing the last government bill on abortion, back in early 1990s. What is certain however is that Canada's pro-life movement sure needs to work on its strategy. The gap between Canada and the US is just appalling.

"Please Mom No" - A Pro-Life Miracle

2011-10-23T17:08:00.007-03:00

Just a lovely pro-life story, translated from Russian :)

...A colleague of mine got pregnant with her second child. Actually, she already had one adult child, her career was going uphill, and her age was by no means youthful... In the end she decided to end her pregnancy. Scheduled a doctor's appointment after work.

But our office administrator kept forcibly changing workstation access passwords from time to time. Usually he was changing them himself, after hours, using random password generator ... and in the morning one would find a piece of paper with the new password under the keyboard.

So, on that day when my colleague was about to have her abortion, she found her new password under the keyboard: "PLZMOMNO".
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A sign like that, only someone blind wouldn't notice. She phoned to cancel her appointment.

Her child must now be close to turning 5...

Abortion Issue - We Want The Debate

2011-10-21T20:57:00.004-03:00

A new campaign has been launched by the Alliance for Life Ontario:

We at We Want The Debate are not demanding every politician convert to a pro-life position. We are not demanding that all ‘pro-choice’ arguments be silenced, a stance which separates us from our opponents. What we are insisting on is that this issue, like any other, deserves to be discussed openly and fairly. We insist that the Canadian people should be informed on all aspects of the abortion debate. We demand our politicians allow this to happen, regardless of their personal political aspirations. We demand that anyone in the political sphere, be it entire parties, separate caucuses or individuals fighting alone be allowed to voice a belief on this issue and have it heard and discussed. In short;

WE WANT THE DEBATE

If you feel inclined to ignore the above because ‘the abortion issue’ is not one you feel strongly about, consider the following question;

If the government of Canada can pervert and ignore democracy on this issue, what would prevent it doing so on any other issue? The answer is nothing, nothing at all.
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Yes, it's about time we bring back the debate. Especially now, when there's no election in sight for some 4 years to come.

H/t SoCon or Bust

Abortion / Breast Cancer Link Now Finally Getting Some Talk

2011-10-19T21:21:00.002-03:00

Thank God for Sun News:

Check us out on SUN News next week!

Less than a week from today, on Tuesday October 25th, 2011, tune into The Arena with Michael Coren on SUN News Network, to see deVeber Institute’s invited guest, Dr. Angela Lanfranchi speak about the biological and epidemiological evidence for the link between abortion and breast cancer at 7:00pm-8:00pmET. Sun News Network is Canada’s home for Hard News and Straight Talk.
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Finally, the truth about the real effect of abortions on women's health will be broadcast to much broader audience than just blogs. Finally, a TV station is stepping in to counter the pro-aborts with their "women's health" / "maternal health" euphemisms (which have become almost synonyms to abortion, just like the ill-famous word "choice"). Finally, we have a media outlet that doesn't sacrifice common sense for the sake of political correctness.

Because We Believe In A Society Where Freedom Is More Important Than Hurt Feelings

2011-10-17T18:55:00.001-03:00

...We support freedom of speech and oppose "human rights" commissions:

Human rights censorship laws are so vague, they become nothing more than the expression of the personal whims of the human rights commission enforcers. It's quite revealing. Canadian censors have persecuted Mark Harding, a Christian pastor concerned about Islam being taught in public schools.

Human rights commissions have gone after Father Alphonse de Valk, a 70-something Catholic priest in Toronto.

They investigated Calgary Bishop Fred Henry because he wrote a pastoral letter against gay marriage.

They hunted down the Christian Heritage Party. They convicted Rev. Stephen Boissoin of Red Deer, Alta., and subjected him to a lifetime ban on giving public sermons, or even writing private e-mails, criticizing gay marriage. The conviction was overturned in 2009.

What do these victims have in common? Pastor, priest, reverend, bishop, Christian party. Canada's human rights censors aren't declaring war on hate. They are declaring war on Christianity. Scratch a human rights commission, find an anti-Christian bigot.
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Well said. Ezra Levant nails it, as always.

The Destroyers (The Occupiers On Our Streets II)

2011-10-16T22:13:00.000-03:00

The title says it all. Check out this great essay by David Horowitz:

A friend of mine sagely observed that the difference between conservatives and leftists is that we are creators and they are destroyers. You couldn’t have a better picture of that than the contrast between the peaceful Tea Party demonstrators and the mobs defacing cities and causing millions of dollars in damage all over America and now the world. That’s because the Tea Partiers love their country and respect their communities, even those they disagree with. Whereas the destroyers respect nothing and are driven by their primary emotions which are envy, resentment and hate.

Make no mistake about who these people are. This is the same global communist movement that attacked the World Trade Organization and “evil corporations” in 2001, and that took to the streets to defend Saddam Hussein and call Bush Hitler in 2002. The forces behind this movement are identical: Soros, the Shadow Party, gangster socialist unions and a “progressive” intelligentsia whose hatred of the capitalist West has caused it to lose its collective mind.
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h/t Scaramouche

And let's conclude with a few cartoons h/t Jill Stanek:

These cartoons would be quite funny if those guys who call their protest an occupation and erect dummy guillotines to show how they would like to treat those who don't agree with them, weren't so serious about seizing by force what others have earned with their skills and hard work.

The Occupiers On Our Streets

2011-10-16T21:33:00.001-03:00

They don't have their schmeissers and panzers yet, they already promise violence. And, while one of their spokesmen was praising French Revolution and its methods, someone out there has already erected a dummy guillotine. But we better not ask ourselves what would be the media reaction if this kind of rhetoric (along with visual aids) was used at, let's say, a Tea Party rally. This is, after all, a peaceful rally, designed to bring people together, isn't it?

It sure is. Just look at this amazing show of unity between the nazi- and the internazi-sozis. We haven't seen so much solidarity among the two branches of the socialist movement for some 70 years... Let the ~~prolet~~arians of the world unite!

Socialist State Versus The Church

2011-10-15T23:39:00.003-03:00

Eventually, the former could no longer co-exist with the latter:

H/t SoCon Or Bust

Just replace Obama with McGuinty (or Charest, who differs from his Ontario colleague in mere minor details) - and you'll get the situation for Canada. To make things worse, there is already a case being heard by the Supreme Court, that could be decisive for religious freedom.

The Occupiers Are Coming

2011-10-14T23:07:00.005-03:00

When a group calls its protest an occupation - it's obvious that there isn't much positive (if any) to expect from their protest. Fortunately, they don't yet have the means to establish their "class justice" by force. But their own vocabulary makes it perfectly clear what they would do to our nation if they had the power.

They argue that "the richest 1%" isn't taxed enough and they claim to represent the remaining 99%. But they ignore one important fact: when we (the real 99%) need money, we go out and work; take extra hours or get a second job, if needed. But when these crazed commies need money - they demand more taxes on those that are more hard-working and more successful than they are.

Don't be fooled; if what they ask for ever gets implemented - it won't stop at the richest 1%. That's just how any "redistribution" works - no matter how hard you try there will always be those believing that they don't get enough, that they deserve more...

And, talking about the "richest 1%" - it was just 7 or 8 months ago when the provincial government rolled back the tax reduction for those in the upper bracket, restoring higher rate to even more than 1% of the richest taxpayers. Do you think it satisfied those crazed commies? Of course it didn't. They won't be satisfied until the extra tax money confiscated from their better-off neighbors goes directly into their pockets.

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Some complain that the media doesn't give those parasites enough coverage. And, although the media has been much friendlier to them than to let's say the Tea Party movement, in some way, it is true - there's a lot about the occupiers (and the ultra-left protesters in general) that never gets media coverage.

Update: Mockupy wall street - Andrew Breitbart, a "bad-boy journalist" from Los Angeles talks about the occupiers' rallies on Ezra Levant's show. The interview includes some video clips - see for yourself what these rallies are all about and who is behind this "mass grassroots protest".

Ontario "Human Rights" Commission: Are Muslims More Equal?

2011-10-13T21:11:00.003-03:00

They believe that "perfect apartment for a student" or "seeking mature couple" is discriminatory. They believe that landlords have no right to describe what they would like their tenants to be - even if that person is going to live in the same apartment. They creep through the apartment rental ads looking for politically incorrect language, threatening violators with "human rights" lawsuits. But there is one specific group that is exempt from this policy. Guess which one...

H/t Blazing Cat Fur

Here's another video report on the subject by Charles Adler: The Human Rights Commission has been exposed as a kangaroo court in the past, new hypocritical actions are just enforcing that fact.

Update: Here's some input from Michael Coren, who explains (in just over 3 minutes) what exactly is wrong with Canada's approach to human rights.

No Fossil Fool...

2011-10-12T22:26:00.003-03:00

Stephen Harper may be reluctant to outright denounce the discredited warm-mongering beliefs, but at least he won't rush into implementing any of those carbon trading scams, that would burden the economy with billions in new taxes, without making the air any cleaner:

But he deserves it for being one of the first political leaders anywhere to understand that whether you call it a carbon tax or cap-and-trade, it doesn't actually lower emissions of greenhouse gases in the so-called fight against global warming.

That all it does is make people poorer and governments and big business richer, by increasing the cost of hundreds of goods and services that rely on fossil fuel energy, including gas, electricity and home heating fuel.

Today, carbon taxes are widely discredited with most politicians afraid to utter the phrase. Even Norway, which has had one for two decades, conceded years ago it hasn't had a major impact on emissions.

Meanwhile, fraud and corruption are rampant in Europe's cap-and-trade market, set up in 2005.
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Harper's only failing is not coming clean with Canadians by explaining what an enormous job moving off fossil fuels will be.
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That would be quite a difficult job in a country where over half of the population still believe in man-made global warming. So "skillfully negotiating through a minefield" appears to be the only option - until the fallacy of all these "climate change" theories becomes obvious to most Canadians.

NB Considers Senate Elections

2011-10-11T17:11:00.002-03:00

A rather unexpected breakthrough in the Senate reform debate. Looks like, in addition to the two elected Senate nominees from Alberta, that actually got to be appointed to the Upper Chamber, we may soon have one from New Brunswick:

Premier David Alward says he'd like to have new legislation in place to allow New Brunswickers to elect their own senators by the time a vacancy comes up next year.

"We know there are three Senate positions that will be up over the next couple of years - one in 2012 and two in 2014. We believe that the opportunity is there for New Brunswickers to have a voice," he told reporters on Thursday.

Alward acknowledged the government has "a lot of work to do" as a team works on the issue, but he stressed his desire to bring it forward "in a timely fashion."

Allowing such legislative change, he said, "is vital for the future of our province."
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He's the first premier in Atlantic Canada to support Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Senate Reform Act, introduced in June, that will see senators' terms limited to nine years and establish a series of guidelines for provinces to voluntarily hold Senate elections.
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So, if David Alward doesn't back down under the pressure of all those who oppose Senate reform, then New Brunswick's very first Senate election will take place in just seven months. Then, we're likely to witness the very first Senate election taking place in Saskatchewan (following the retirement of Robert Peterson, which is scheduled for next October). And of course, Alberta may finally hold its 4th Senate Nominee election, the one that has been put on hold by Ed Stelmach. So we may actually have as many as 5 elected Senators from 3 different provinces - in just a year or so...

But doesn't this require a constitutional amendment? Not at this point. Currently, the Prime Minister has the right to advise just anyone (who meets the property and residence requirements, of course) for appointment to the Senate. If he chooses, out of all the candidacies available, to advise the person who happened to be elected in a non-binding Senate nominee election - that's perfectly within his powers. Now, when it comes to making those elections binding, so that no future Prime Minister could ever choose to ignore the popular vote and appoint his proteges instead - there too, the answer is not so obvious.

So far, Harper keeps trying to avoid touching the constitution by giving the process a different name - instead of electing Senators directly, voters merely compile the list of nominees, from which the Prime Minister could choose his candidates for the actual Senate appointments. So, since the Senators, technically, are still going to be appointed by the Governor General, on the advice of the Prime Minister (except that his choice will be limited to those elected by popular vote,) since there will be no formal shift from appointed Senators to directly elected ones, Harper suggests that no constitutional amendment is required.

And, most likely, he is right. (After all, he's not a newbie in politics and he certainly knows what he's talking about.) Except - why wouldn't he go for a full scale constitutional amendment, if the opportunity is there? Yes, Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest will never agree to the amendment, but the government can go directly to the people, put the question to a referendum and, with some 70% support for directly elected Senate, satisfying the requirement of the 7/50 formula wouldn't be a problem.

Yes, that will take much longer than merely passing a bill; we may even have to wait until the next Federal election for the referendum to take place. But if the choice is between a half-measure - that could be ignored by the provinces, misunderstood by the voters and abused by the Prime Minister, and a full-scale reform - that will mandate the same rules for all provinces, ensure clarity for the voters and get the Prime Minister out of the Senate appointment process - it makes more sense to choose the latter.

Meanwhile, we better take advantage of the Prime Minister that is committed to appointing elected Senate nominees and start holding these elections. Alberta and Saskatchewan have already passed the required legislation, New Brunswick is looking forward to join them - and hopefully more provinces follow suit once all those elected Senate nominees start taking their seats...

Video: Happy Thanksgiving From Michael Coren

2011-10-10T10:36:00.000-03:00

It's Thanksgiving Day, but what exactly is it that we should be thankful for?

H/t Blazing Cat Fur

Oh, well, at least let's be thankful, that thinks didn't turn out even worse. After all, that vote we had just 5 months ago, was quite close, wasn't it?...

So, have a happy Thanksgiving :)

Strong Families, More Babies - Good For The Economy

2011-10-09T19:41:00.005-03:00

Within the decade, Canada will have more retirees than people under 15. How could it be possible to reverse the trend? Check out this video interview of Andrea Mrozek (from the Institute of Marriage and Family) by Brian Lilley. Andrea has a few interesting suggestions. And no, all-pervasive McDaycare is not one of them.

Ontario Election - "Fool Me Thrice..."

2011-10-07T22:31:00.004-03:00

Basically, this cartoon says it all: It's sad to see Ontario becoming Canada's version of California - drowning in debt, marginalizing its hard-working citizens and concerned parents and keeping re-electing the same hardcore socialists...

Voter turnout is at all time low. More than half of the voters apparently don't believe that their vote could make a difference. And the leader who could have inspired them to get out and vote, chose to play moderate instead. As result, Ontario gets another 4 years with McGuinty and his team...

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me..." - now, what does it say about "fool me thrice"?...

Update: Charles Adler's message to Tim Hudak: cross the floor.

Another McGuinty Government - A Disaster...

2011-10-05T22:29:00.004-03:00

A government that inherited a balanced budget and turned it into $6B deficit in its first year (in spite of all the tax hikes they brought to "address" it). A government that inherited a thriving economy, but turned Ontario into a "have-not" province. A government that started by eliminating tax relief for parents that opted out of the public school system - and is aiming at destroying Catholic education altogether; making it Catholic in name only and setting the stage for the inevitable merger of the school boards:

TORONTO, Ontario, October 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After Premier Dalton McGuinty forced Ontario’s Catholic schools to introduce homosexual clubs this summer, Campaign Life Catholics is warning in advance of the October 6th election that another McGuinty government would be a disaster for all people of faith.

“It appears that Dalton McGuinty has an agenda that is not friendly to Catholic education. In fact, he seems determined to thwart genuine Catholic teaching,” said Suresh Dominic of Campaign Life Catholics.

In July, McGuinty said homosexual clubs are “not a matter of choice” for the Catholic schools, while his Ministry of Education has insisted that these clubs cannot help homosexual students “reform their sexuality.”

Behind the scenes, the Liberal government has pushed the Catholic schools to implement gay-straight alliances specifically, even issuing what some have called a veiled threat that the schools’ public funding could be in jeopardy.
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Blazing Cat Fur has a few thoughts on why Tim Hudak is likely to lose the election. (In fact - he talks about that in the past tense - as things are unlikely to change.) It's hard to disagree with what he says. And, to make things worse, there will be many "Red Tories" claiming that it's Hudak's "far right" views that have alienated the voters...

Student Life Link - A Pro Life Canada Starts Here

2011-10-04T21:51:00.003-03:00

Meet those who are right on the front lines of the battle for fetal rights, bringing pro-life message to their fellow students:

Student Life Link does just what its name suggests: connecting high school students who are working to make a difference for life in our country.

Our mission is to support and encourage the Pro-Life Movement among high schools students. The formation and development of high school pro-life clubs is key to effective education on campus, saving lives from abortion, and forming new leaders to build a Culture of Life.
Why is it critical to have the pro-life club on high school campuses? Why are student clubs important and effective?
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If these students have learned from their high-school years not to fear the aggressive crowd, to stand up for what they believe in, in spite of ridicule, ostracism and sometimes even intimidation, to defend their views in the most hostile environment one could think of - then what could stop them in just a few years time, when they become adults?...

Mark Bonokoski & Dan Robertson: McGuinty A 1st Class Liar

2011-10-03T19:38:00.003-03:00

Ontario election debate rehash by Mark Bonokoski & Dan Robertson:

H/t Blazing Cat Fur

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like McGuinty has already outdone Bob Rae - in boosting taxes, in racking up debt, not to mention abolishing parental rights and forcing perverse curriculum on 5 year-olds. If Ontarians choose to give this internazi-sozi thug another mandate - that will be a disaster...

But what about the alternative? This time FCP only runs 31 candidate, plus many Social Conservative voters will choose to vote strategically - in a last-ditch attempt to get rid of McGuinty. And yet, it's extremely important to support FCP candidates where possible:

Back in 1990, I was the Chief Financial Officer for two campaigns in the Kingston area (city and township). During the election, one candidate attracted close to 1500 votes (5.4% of the vote) and the other candidate received over over 2,000 votes (6.9% of the vote). Several candidates received over 10% of the popular vote (the best was 13%).

Some time after that, I remember going to an FCP meeting where our leader at the time, Don Pennell, told those gathered that the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party had contacted him about getting together for a chat. They indeed met and the PCs asked Don, “what it would take to make us (the FCP) to go away”. Don said that he proposed many policies and they didn’t see a problem with any of them, except, of course, the abortion issue.

Why is this an important story? It’s important because it shows that if people were to just vote for their fundamental principles, instead of worrying about “wasting their vote”, they actually can have more influence over the political establishment than they would otherwise have in just “settling” for the mainstream political parties and compromising their beliefs as well.
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Regardless of the outcome, if there's at least a handful of FCP candidates that show strong performance on Thursday - it will be much harder for the "Red Tory" wing of the Ontario PCs to claim that Conservative policies alienate voters.

Life Chain - Despite The Rain

2011-10-02T22:17:00.002-03:00

An hour of silent witnessing for the babies in the womb. In spite of the bad weather, there were about 30 of us there (not to mention those who stayed at the George Dumont to keep the 40 Days for Life vigil going,) plus a few families joined on the way. We even found a few people to start a little chain on the other side of the street...

There were four pro-aborts with their signs, practically waving them at the cars that were passing by. As always, they had no other arguments beside their "choice-choice-choice" mantra: "Abortion, adoption, parenting = choices" (Stopping for a man on a crosswalk and running him over, those too are choices, but are you going to tell me that these choices are equally valid?) "Never going back" - with a small coat-hanger in the corner. (Yeah, those entitlements are sure not easy to let go of.) But at least there, they bothered to clarify what kind of "choice" they stand for. Their other signs just kept saying "pro-'choice'" without completing the sentence - as if the words "choice" and "abortion" were exact synonyms. (For many pro-aborts - they actually are.)

The most ridiculous one was "pro-child, pro-'choice'" - she might as well have written "pro-child, pro-Sparta". If you're pro-child, then what do you have against all those children in the womb, that have a beating heart, that have their fingers and toes (with unique fingerprints already engraved,) that can feel pain and recognize voices - except they are yet to take their first breath? Why can't they have the same protection other children have? I guess that's a rhetorical question...

P.S.
Here's a nice comment posted by Neal Ford in the CHP Canada Facebook group:

Wanted to share with you all something that happened on my campaign today:this is delicious! We just had our Life Chain event, same weekend, same place as every year... wouldn't you know it, Leona Dombrowsky the Liberal candidate has her campaign office right there, so there we were with our pro-life signs right in front of her HQ! And there I am, the FCP candidate, standing there right in the middle of it! They rushed out in a panic wondering why there was an abortion protest in front of their office. We satisfied them by explaining that it's a yearly event always held in the same place. Still, it was great that the situation tweaked their noses so much.

Nice isn't it? There are suggestions that we hold our next year's life chain at the George Dumont Hospital - where we have the 40 Days for Life vigil. This is not such a busy street as Champlain Street, but the target is just right, as the hospital is responsible for about a quarter of New Brunswick's abortions.

National Post Capitulates To Militant Perverts

2011-09-30T23:53:00.006-03:00

They apologized for pro-family ad and promised to donate the proceeds from the ad to a homosexual activist group:

September 30, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian National Post, which until the advent of SUN news network was thought to be the most conservative national mainstream media outlet in the country, has shocked conservatives by apologizing for running a pro-family advertisement. Moreover, the National Post says it will be donating the thousands of dollars paid for the ad by the pro-family group to a homosexual activist group.

The ad, sponsored by the Institute for Christian Values, depicted a large picture of a little girl with the header, “Please! Don’t confuse me.” Below the photo, the youngster said, “I’m a girl. Don’t teach me to question if I’m a boy, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed or two spirited.” The ad specifically addressed the Toronto District School Board’s policy of forbidding parents to opt out of its pro-homosexual curriculum.
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Judging from the comments, the newspaper has capitulated once again, altering the text of their apology. (Just sort the comments from oldest to newest.) In the last sentence of the 3rd to last paragraph, the phrase "people who have made choices about their sexuality with which the group disagrees" was apparently replaced with "people with whose sexuality the group disagrees" - to suit the myths propagated by the homosexualist groups that their perverse behavior is their "identity" rather than an intrinsically disordered lifestyle choice.

Abortion Industry Thugs Are Losing Ground

2011-09-30T21:23:00.003-03:00

In spite of all the euphemisms abortionists use to hide the true nature of their practice, in spite of all their claims that this is merely a "medical procedure", doctors are increasingly refusing to do abortions:

The author, a female abortionist who writes anonymously, says she fears that if current trends are not corrected, the killing of the unborn will be “endangered.”

“I think that [abortion] is a medical practice that is ‘tolerated’ more than it is really accepted, even several decades after its legalization, and including in the heart of the medical community,” she writes.

“It isn’t rare to hear strongly disagreeable reflections [regarding abortion] on the part of fellow physicians, a sign of little openness of spirit and of tolerance regarding VIP [Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy].”

“Just in my ‘small’ experience at the heart of our establishment, few gynecologists commit themselves at a reasonable level to the practice of VIP ... fewer and fewer, and fewer and fewer among the younger generations ... We count them on our fingers, with one hand, where I work ... They use their ‘conscience clause’ to justify their lack of involvement.”
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I'd like to see the author's face when she hears the stories of Abby Johnson and Ramona Trevino:

A lot of the abortion debate has surrounded “demand” while the supply factor (i.e. doctors who are willing to perform them) has been almost ignored. That’s why now, faced with dwindling numbers of abortionists, the abortion lobby wants to strike conscience clauses from the medical code of ethics. They want to force unwilling doctors to perform abortions. In the name of “choice”, of course.

It’s the end of the line for the abortion industry when it starts to do that. They’ve lost the political and social debate and now they are resorting to thug-like tactics.
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Here in New Brunswick the situation is quite similar: We have the Morgentaler's team suing the province for taxpayer-funded abortions on demand, we have a "human rights" complaint launched by none other but the practitioner who performs abortions at the George Dumont hospital. And at the same time, many in the hospital are greatly uncomfortable with all the abortions that take place there. We were told that last year's 40 Days for Life vigil did result in some heated discussions... Let's hope that eventually, some of that gets expressed at the board meeting - prompting the hospital to stop performing abortions once and for all.

180 The Movie – One of the Best Pro-Life Documentaries Ever

2011-09-29T19:47:00.002-03:00

What changed their minds... ...in seconds?

H/t SoCon Or Bust

September 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - What could you say in less than a minute to make a typical “pro-choice” American do a “180” on abortion?

A free pro-life documentary film set for release Sept 26 is challenging viewers with that question, as its creators are giving a sneak peek at extraordinary conversations with young people captured on video as they’re asked to reconsider their position on abortion.

Armed with nothing but a microphone and a Kiwi accent, New Zealand-born pro-life Christian minister Ray Comfort is heard in the trailer for “180” asking youth about their position on abortion - before the tape zips a few seconds later as the interviewees say they’ve changed their mind. “When you put it that way, yeah, it does change your mind,” says one young man.
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Check out the the 180 website for more trailers and information.

40 Days For Life: Tomorrow We Begin

2011-09-27T22:05:00.002-03:00

We have the record number of cities participating - over 300, 15 of them - in Canada, including both Moncton and Fredericton. Now, we have to make sure we live up to our commitment and keep the vigil going:

On the eve of the largest 40 Days for Life campaign ever, I cannot wait to see what God has in store over these next 40 days!

After speaking at the 40 Days for Life kickoff event in Germantown, Maryland on Sunday night, I will be heading out to meet our national director, David Bereit, in Montana for a kickoff event there later this week.

The excitement has NEVER been higher going into a campaign!

This fall’s campaign is BIG. Let’s just look at the numbers:
301 locations taking part from September 28 to November 6

hundreds and hundreds of church congregations joining the campaign

48 NEW locations including Argentina, Puerto Rico and Germany

tens of thousands of people who will take part … and maybe more!
While those numbers are exciting, I really want to focus on a small number — ONE …

… and the one is … YOU!
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Meanwhile two more abortion centers have shut down following the previous 40 Days for Life vigils. That makes sixteen abortion centers where 40 Days for Life vigils have occurred that have shut down. And it's only up to us to make sure that this number keeps growing.

Petition: Stop Corrupting Children

2011-09-26T01:46:00.003-03:00

Basically, this flyer, that features quotes from the Toronto District School Board "human rights education" curriculum, as well as its official policy statements, says it all: Parents have no right to withdraw their children from these lectures that promote perverse "pride" and "gender-bending" to 8 year-olds and, obviously, there's no accommodation for the teachers that find this sort of "curriculum" objectionable.

H/t Just Right

Please make a stand for parental rights, sign the petition. And if you happen to live in Ontario - make sure you don't vote for the internazi-sozi thugs who've forced this perverse curriculum on Ontario children.

Public Education - Just Another Word For Sexual Propaganda?

2011-09-25T23:47:00.002-03:00

The research, done by Lou Iacobelli, the author of the Every Day For Life Canada blog, just confirms the obvious:

What is happening to public education is truly frightening. If you visit any school board web site in Ontario you may be surprised to find that the major educational problems in the province and the rest of Canada are homophobia and bullying based on sexual orientation. In Ontario alone, millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to develop and to implement the Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy. However, as a parent, when I attended consultations meeting on the Equity policy for Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) we were told something entirely different.
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In the past, the average parent has trusted the educational system, but things have dramatically changed to the point that boards will blatantly defy parental rights and abuse children's innocence. Parents have intentionally been uninformed. Let me go on to demonstrate the liberties the Toronto public board has taken in developing curriculum topics. Presently you find, in the TDSB website the yearly planner. It lists all the pro-homosexual days like Pride Week, planned for June 22, 2012. I would encourage parents to visit the site to see what is now considered education this coming school year. Can the TCDSB be far behind?
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Remember that Bill 157 was made law even before the Equity policy was totally approved by all school boards. So there's a clear government agenda to mislead parents to justify what we now see in board planners: an explicit sexual attack on children, moral values and parental rights. If parents believed they could trust the school boards and the government that pays them to do what's right for their children, the implementation of the Equity policy should now have shattered that myth. The policy's very name hides the sexual propaganda about homosexuality, the desecration of the dignity of the human person and the right parents have to be the primary educators of their children's morality.
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Here's the list of "days of significance" which are promoted by the Toronto District School Board. And here's what it looks like in a Catholic school. Concerned parents have set up a legal defense fund to fight for parental rights in education - please consider contributing.

And, of course, remember - it's always worth considering independent education for our children. That's so far is the best and the most reliable way to save our children from abuse. Because even if the legal action succeeds, this perverse curriculum is still not going to be abolished overnight.

Life Chain - It's Next Sunday

2011-09-24T23:45:00.004-03:00

Don't forget about the Life Chain - an annual day of public witness for children killed by abortion. This year it will take place on October 2, in hundreds of cities, including over 200 locations in Canada alone.

Stand with thousands of pro-lifers throughout the USA and Canada! You'll be a light in a darkened world as you help put an end to abortion through prayer!

Faithful Priest Suspended For Denouncing Abortion And Promiscuity

2011-09-23T23:27:00.007-03:00

His superior, Bishop Valery Vienneau, believes that his homily lacked pastoral approach and "sensitivity":

BATHURST, New Brunswick, September 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Diocese of Bathurst, New Brunswick has removed an elderly priest from active ministry after he caused a storm of controversy by denouncing homosexuality, cohabitation, and abortion in an August homily.
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Fr. Wesley Wade, the diocese’s vicar general, told Radio-Canada that Fr. Gionet’s comments were consistent with Church teaching, but lacked the proper “pastoral” sensitivity.

“It was mainly the pastoral approach that was lacking,” Fr. Wade said. “A lack of respect, perhaps, for the people identified, for the groups of people as well, which caused a division in the community. It was a difficult decision.”
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A member of the Eudist Fathers, Fr. Gionet had been accused by parishioners of “homophobia” in media reports last week after he criticized a homosexual parade in Moncton in an August 20-21 homily. His loudest critic was the mayor of Saint-Leolin, Joseph Lanteigne, an open homosexual and member of the parish council, who demanded the priest’s suspension.

In an open letter Thursday, Fr. Gionet laments that the diocese did not give him an opportunity to explain himself before suspending him.

“To you, the diocesan authorities: did you ask me what I said exactly during the homily in question?” the priest asks. “They did not, but only listened to people who are frustrated.”
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Here are some more details about the homily that ignited the controversy:

"I said: ... 'Today, it is we Catholics who are destroying our Catholic Church. We need only look at the number of abortions among Catholics, look at the homosexuals, and ourselves.' (That's when I pointed at my chest - through that action I wanted to say, we the priests) and I continued saying: We are destroying our church ourselves. And that's when I said that those were the words expressed by Pope John Paul II. At that point, in the St-Leolin church only, I added: We can add to that the practice of watching 'gay' parades, we are encouraging this evil ... What would you think of someone who seeing what was happening on (Sept.) 11, 2001, the crumbling of the towers, had begun clapping? We must not encourage evil, whatever form it takes."
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So, Rev. Donat Gionet compared mass destruction of souls, resulting from those perverse parades to the mass destruction of lives that took place on September 11 and argued that applauding the former is no better than applauding the latter. Yes, there were certainly some who didn't like such a straightforward comparison, among them - that perverted politician who happens to run the village in which Rev. Donat Gionet delivered his homily. But is it a valid reason to suspend a faithful priest?

Let's compare Fr. Gionet's ordeal to the treatment of another priest. The one that kept openly objecting the Church teachings and embracing heretical views on the floor of the House of Commons, who insisted that "nobody, not even the Pope himself" would stop him from continuing to receive the Holy Communion. Yes I'm talking about one Raymond Gravel. How long did it take for him to finally get his credentials revoked? Five years? Six? Maybe even more, if we count his earlier rebellious statements. That's about 60 or 70 if not 100 times longer than it took to suspect a faithful priest who dared to criticize an intrinsically disordered lifestyle choice of a local politician.

And guess what - not only was the diocese so reluctant to suspend Gravel, they were even ready to make him in charge of the... Catechism class. Yes, a renegade priest is just the right man to teach Catechism to the children, isn't he? But something tells me that we won't see Father Gionet being appointed a Catechism teacher. Faithful priests don't get a second chance nowadays. Comparing these two cases, it's hard not to agree with Fr. Donat Gionet that he is now living “like the first Christians did at the beginning of the Church: they had to hide in the catacombs to pray or celebrate the Eucharist.” Cardinal Ouillet apparently was lucky that he is a Cardinal, not an ordinary priest. Otherwise, I bet, they'd suspend him too...

Social Media Sites Censor Christian Content

2011-09-22T23:46:00.004-03:00

Social media sites allow every concerned individual (let alone - a group ) to reach out to a practically unlimited audience. However, as the new study shows, some groups appear to be less equal than others. Guess which ones:

According to the study, seven of the major social media sites have banned “hate speech,” a term that the study authors point out “is often applied in the culture to stifle Christian communicators.”

The study authors also found that some of the media companies have been responsive to demands by pressure groups calling for censorship of conservative or Christian viewpoints.

The study notes that when Google established new guidelines for its “Google for Non-Profits” in March 2011, it refused to list “churches and other faith groups” that consider “religion or sexual orientation in hiring practices.” Christian churches that have applied for the suite of Google tools geared at non-profits have been rejected.
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Apple has twice removed applications that contained Christian content from its iTunes App Store, the study documented. In both instances, Apple admitted that these apps were denied access because it considered the Christian viewpoints expressed in those applications to be “offensive.”

“Of the 425,000 apps available on Apple’s iPhone, the only ones censored by Apple for expressing otherwise lawful viewpoints have been apps with Christian content,” observes the study.

For its part, Facebook has openly partnered with homosexual activists to “eradicate anti-gay comments on its platform,” the report found. “All of which suggest that Christian content critical of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, or similar practices will be at risk of censorship [by Facebook]” says the study. In fact, in some cases such content already has been removed by the social networking site.
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Considering that one of the Facebook co-founders is involved in a perverse relationship - what else would we expect? And, talking about Facebook - here are few comments from the Shire Network News on some of the changes Facebook is implementing. I rarely use Facebook (and I've disabled e-mail notifications) so I didn't know that Facebook groups now work on an "opt-out" bases, rather than "opt-in".

But what about the alternatives? Sure I've seen social media sites that were supposed to become a Christian or a Catholic alternative to Facebook - those sites have either failed or - will fail eventually due to lack of members. Because you can never succeed by merely trying to copy someone else's idea, to merely catch up to a popular project... Are there any bright ideas of a real alternative? Any serious attempts to build an alternative social network that would be better than the familiar social media sites, not "just like Facebook, but for us"? I wish this wasn't a rhetorical question.

Update: LifeSiteNews translator and pro-family activist Julio Severo cut off by PayPal, following a pressure campaign by homosexual lobby groups.

...A Late, Late-Term Abortion

2011-09-21T23:53:00.002-03:00

An article by Jonathon Van Maren from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform:

On September 9, 2011, CBC reported that Ms. Effert’s conviction for this murder had been ‘downgraded’ by an Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench judge to infanticide, and in lieu of jail time she will merely serve a suspended sentence.

In her argument, the judge stated that “while many Canadians undoubtedly view abortion as a less than ideal solution to unprotected sex and unwanted pregnancy, they generally understand, accept, and sympathize with the onerous demands pregnancy and childbirth exact from mothers, especially mothers without support.”

Translation? Katrina Effert simply engaged in a really, really late-term abortion. Given that we don’t, under Canadian law, value human life a few minutes before birth, why a few minutes after?

Indeed, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, run by the virulently pro-abortion Joyce Arthur, posted the CBC article on their Facebook page with the heading: “A tragic situation, but yes, there are compelling reasons for infanticide being a lesser crime than murder.” In response to my query simply stating “Such as?” ARCC removed the comment and blocked my asking further questions underneath the article.
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That's typical of them, isn't it? They were quite outraged when Ann Coulter referred to Tiller's murder as "203rd trimester termination", but it turns out that the pro-aborts themselves view infanticide as just that - a late, late-term abortion.

Video: The Miracle Of Life

2011-09-20T23:53:00.000-03:00

How can some people deny it?

The only difference between an unborn baby at 10 weeks and a grown-up - is size.

You Can Strangle Your Newborn Child, Just Don't Spank Him

2011-09-19T23:45:00.005-03:00

Check out this video report by Michael Coren. Yes, believe it or not, a devoted parent that took the trouble to discipline his child was treated far more harshly than a woman who strangled her newborn baby and threw the body over the fence. Of course, the fact that the above mentioned parent was a Christian man, played a significant role in his and his family's ordeal.

H/t Blazing Cat Fur

Too bad, there's no name of that feminazi jackboot posing as social worker; the one for whom traditional family relationship means slavery, and who will most likely not bear any personal responsibility for abusing her authority, for striving to destroy a successful family just for adhering to values she didn't agree with, for using parents and children as guinea pigs in her social experiment...

But I can name another person - a politician who's been repeatedly trying to further restrict parental rights. I'm talking about Céline Hervieux-Payette, a Liberal Senator for Quebec, who kept introducing "anti-spanking" bill in the Senate since 2004. Fortunately, she doesn't have much chances during this Parliament and once this Parliament is over, she'll be retiring soon thereafter... But at one point she actually was on the brink of success. Her bill passed the Senate and went to the House of Commons where the Conservative minority (only 125 seats back then) would be powerless to stop it.

In the end, it was the 2008 election that saved Canadian families from even more government intrusion, harassment and persecution. But, as you can see, lack of an official ban doesn't mean lack of persecution for devoted parents.

A Look At The English Defence League

2011-09-18T23:42:00.004-03:00

Michael Coren interviews Tommy Robinson of the EDL - English Defence League:

H/t Blazing Cat Fur

Judge for yourself if they are "promoting hatred" or defending themselves and their nation from islamic extremists.

Argument Over Values: Secularist Anger Versus Christian Common Sense

2011-09-17T23:06:00.002-03:00

When printed in the same paper or posted on the same web page, that's even more visible. Here's an article by Matthew Brown - he compares Christian moral code and moral relativism, analyzes the consequences and leads us to the conclusion that is self-evident:

The prime minister of Britain and the president of United States have both recognized the state of brokenness of their societies. The breakdown of the family and the abandonment of moral code have left many people with no direction or purpose.

I want to invite you, the reader, to consider which society you prefer to live in:

1. A Christian society based on a moral code handed down to us for thousands of years. This society dedicates itself to discerning God’s will and to living in accordance with his teachings. This society takes a lot of work. It includes some self-denial. Priests and church leaders, like all of us, will often fail or get it wrong. Our sins can cause much pain. God only asks that we admit our sins and failings, and ask for forgiveness. We must ask forgiveness from those whom we’ve hurt and make restitution when possible. There can be great healing. With forgiveness and healing, we can know the peace that God wants for us and our society.

2. The alternative is a society based on a ‘flavour of the month’ philosophy. This can include Hollywood’s definition of marriage or even Bountiful’s, for that matter. It can include government-funded destruction of life at the beginning, as with abortion, or at the end, as with euthanasia.

We don’t need forgiveness or even guilt since no one can impose their sense of what is wrong on us. Family breakup and divorce become casual and sacramental marriage becomes irrelevant. This is a lazy society. It doesn’t require much of anyone. It allows movie stars and special interest groups to determine what is morally right or wrong. Leaders can get elected and make policies by simply poling their constituents. Children grow up confused and despondent. As we go down this latter road, we will begin to see the outcome of some of the political decisions made over the past 50 years...
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In response, his critic has nothing but anger:

I cannot begin to express my frustration regarding Matthew Brown’s commentary ‘The ‘flavour of the month’ moral relativism’ (The Guardian, Sept. 9, 2011). In fact, if I tried to express how offended I am honestly and completely, it would most certainly not get printed. Putting aside the fact that this newspaper had the gall to publish such biased borderline-propaganda, the anti-secularism exhibited by Brown is truly appalling in this day and age.

Double-plus ungood! Verging crimethink! How dare you publish that herecy "in this day and age"?!...

And what exactly is so special about "this day and age" that makes it a thought crime to criticize moral relativism and argue in favor of Christian values? Except that it's been about half-a-century since moral relativism became the dominant ideology, its negative consequences are now visible and comparing moral relativism to Christian moral code is by no means advantageous to the former.

Brown simultaneously attempts to call out Jackson Doughart and David Bulger for their ‘moral relativism’ while he peppers his piece with what I consider hypocrisy. He says we can “work to build a society that respects all human life” – how about respecting the rights of all humans to marry whomever they wish? Or should we just respect those people Brown deems worthy?

Yeah, as if there was no difference between not letting someone to be born and not agreeing to redefine timeless institution to suit one's lifestyle choice.

Ms.MacDonald needs to ask herself what a marriage is all about. If it's just about who sleeps with whom then what's so different between a union of two males or two females and a union of three or more individuals, regardless of their gender? Why is it considered to be "progressive" to accept the former, but not the latter? If however we consider the self-evident truth that men and women are not interchangeable (which doesn't make them unequal by any means,) that marriage is about establishing a relationship that is of both unitive and procreative nature, that strong marriages and strong families warrant a strong society - then none of those questions would even arise, because everything is just that - self-evident.

All it takes is to dump the misleading moral-relativist ideology. If Ms.MacDonald prefers to defy common sense and to stick to the illusions of moral relativism - then those qualities she has attributed to herself fit her perfectly - and without sarcasm.

Birth Is An Arbitrary Threshold To Define Life

2011-09-15T23:44:00.003-03:00

If judged by his level of development and degree of dependency, the newborn is still a fetus:

Once again, science has unwittingly provided additional support for the pro-life cause.

The National Geographic channel recently broadcast a program called “Science of Babies”, which is available for viewing on their website here. It’s a really well-done program offering fresh insight into the science behind the development of babies in their first year. It’s also very cute, with lots of delectable footage of newborns goofing around. I recommend that you take 45 minutes of your time to watch it.

I’d like to draw your attention to a section less than 5 minutes long. It starts at 5:25 and ends at 8:55. This segment aims to provide a scientific explanation of why newborn babies are so helpless compared to newborn animals in the wild. Personally, I’ve always wondered why humans take 1 year to stumble through their first steps while some animals are literally running around just hours after birth. Their evidence is very persuasive and supports the pro-life view that the moment of human birth is an arbitrary demarcation for abortion legislation because it doesn’t correspond to any particular change in a baby’s development or state of being. They explain that a newborn is still a fetus, which undermines the pro-abortion argument that a fetus and a newborn deserve different protection under the law.
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And it looks like some judges in this country believe that if the fetus is not protected by law, neither should be the newborn. At least that was the justification cited by an Alberta judge that let a woman convicted of strangling her newborn son walk free. So when does life and personhood begin if in the eyes of "justice" Joanne Veit? When, according to the ~~corrupt~~ "honorable" in"justice" J.Veit, does life of a baby become as valuable as any other human life?

And when is Canada finally going to have impartial common sense judges that are ready to acknowledge the self-evident fact that life begins at conception and that personhood is a right that should not be dependent upon the baby's size, level of development, environment or degree of dependency.

Structured Homeschooling Gets an A+

2011-09-13T23:37:00.003-03:00

Check out this article in Science Daily:

ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2011) — "There's no place like home," an iconic line uttered by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, might apply to learning the ABC's, math and other core subjects. A new study from Concordia University and Mount Allison University has found that homeschooling -- as long as it's structured or follows a curriculum -- can provide kids with an academic edge.

"Structured homeschooling may offer opportunities for academic performance beyond those typically experienced in public schools," says first author Sandra Martin-Chang, a professor in the Concordia Department of Education, noting this is among the first nonpartisan studies to investigate home education versus public schooling.

Published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, the investigation compared 74 children living in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick: 37 who were homeschooled versus 37 who attended public schools. Participants were between 5 and 10 years old and each child was asked to complete standardized tests, under supervision of the research team, to assess their reading, writing, arithmetic skills, etc.

"Although public school children we assessed were performing at or above expected levels for their ages, children who received structured homeschooling had superior test results compared to their peers: From a half-grade advantage in math to 2.2 grade levels in reading," says Martin-Chang. "This advantage may be explained by several factors including smaller class sizes, more individualized instruction, or more academic time spent on core subjects such as reading and writing."
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Makes sense, doesn't it? The government policies however favor public schools, that are much less efficient, to say the least:

In Canada, government schooling operates on the basis of extortion. That's a well-established fact. Parents who choose other options for educating their children still have to pay, through their taxes, to keep the doors of these government schools open. They pay to educate their own children and they pay for the child care and crowd control services for the other children in their community.
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And, talking about the school funding - there is a rather interesting debate going on in Toronto, where some crazed egalitarians believe that even if public schools should still be allowed to raise funds from the community - they shouldn't be allowed to keep all the money they raise - "to ensure fairness".

Well, that's probably one more reason why homeschooling succeeds. After all, those parents who value the opportunity to be in charge of their children's education and who have to work hard to be able to afford independent schooling, don't believe in the kind of "fairness" that involves taking parents' and neighbors' money, directed to help a specific school and redistributing it to completely different schools that either fail or don't even bother to raise funds from the community. They believe in merit and hard work; they teach their children to take full control of their lives and not to rely on the nanny state to solve their problems for them. And that's turns out to be the best way to succeed - academically, socially, professionally and financially...

Anti-White Racist Gathering In Durban - Now And Then

2011-09-12T00:22:00.004-03:00

It took place just days before September 11. A conference with a noble goal of fighting racism that soon became the biggest orgy of anti-white racism of the time, championing antisemitism and anti-US rhetoric, prompting not just Israel, but also the US to withdraw from the conference. (There were rumors that some Arab countries threatened the US with an oil embargo in retaliation...) Now they're looking forward to celebrate 10th anniversary of this anti-white, anti-Western, anti-Israeli gathering - with the "Durban III" conference in New York City:

The U.N. gamesmanship at work here is a form of art. Russia has been suggesting language for the new declaration that would denigrate free speech and place restrictions on the media. The OIC states, keen on denigrating Israel above all, have stepped in to propose a "middle ground" that purports to "give up" anti-free speech provisions in exchange for including cloaked Israel-bashing provisions. Belgium, Ireland, Norway, and Switzerland are seemingly anxious to sign on. And the French are delighted that the U.N.-speak has become convoluted enough for them to sign, too. And all the negotiators are careful simply to refer to the Israel-problem as the "sensitive" issue.
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In other words, don't expect anything positive to come out of it. Nothing except more Israel-bashing, more anti-white, anti-Western, anti-US rant:

Nine member states, including the US, are already boycotting the September 22 conference. It is clear that no nation that treasures freedom of speech and is dedicated to fighting racism like the kind shown by Libyans who are slaughtering black Africans, should sign this excerable document. But many in the west are less devoted to those concepts - especially where their own anti-Semitism can be exposed.

Hence, mutliculturalism will win out and justice and fairness will lose.
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At least this time (unlike 10 years ago,) Canada is boycotting this shameful hatefest.