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February 15, 2018

Catholic mom Tanya Allen Granic puts sex ed into Ontario PC campaign

"We have to make sure that the protest of parents across this province isn’t falling upon deaf ears. We have to make sure the social conservative voice is being respected," Tanya Granic Allen wrote when she announced her run for the Ontario PC Party leadership.

OTTAWA – A Catholic mother of four has thrust Ontario’s controversial sex-ed curriculum into the campaign to select a new leader of the province’s Progressive Conservative Party.

Published in Canada
February 12, 2018

Ottawa abortion protester arrested under ‘bubble zone’ law

Cyril Winter demonstrating outside the Morgentaler abortion facility in the fall of 2017.
OTTAWA – One of the most well known abortion protesters in the nation’s capital is the first to be charged for violating Ontario’s new bubble zone law.
Published in Canada
February 8, 2018

Abortion clinic ‘bubble zones’ don’t stop pro-life voice

“Free speech ends here” say demonstrators protesting against Ontario’s new bubble zone that keeps anti-abortion protests 50 metres away from abortion facilities.
OTTAWA – The pro-life movement is not going away despite “bubble zones,” advocates vowed on the first day of Ontario’s new law against protests outside abortion clincs.
Published in Canada
February 8, 2018

Speaking Out: Fight for the truth and the unborn

Youth counsellors from St. Benedict parish's SummerDaze program are in danger of losing their Canada Summer Jobs funding because of the new policy.

We live in a country where we are told what to believe, we are pressured to conform, and our religious freedoms are gradually being taken away.

Published in YSN: Speaking Out
January 11, 2018

New Canada Summer Jobs policy infringes on religious freedom, say Canada’s Catholic bishops

Faith communities, including summer camps, non-for-profit organizations and apprenticeships will suffer from the new Summer Job policy, Canadian Bishops say.

Canada’s Catholic bishops say the government’s new Canada Summer Jobs policy infringes on freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.

Published in Canada
January 11, 2018

Pro-lifers go to court over federal summer jobs policy

Blaise Alleyne protests abortion at the Ryerson University Campus with the group Toronto Against Abortion, Jan. 2017.
OTTAWA – Faith-based groups and pro-life organizations are mobilizing to fight a new federal government policy to only give summer job grants to employers who endorse abortion.
Published in Canada
December 9, 2017

U.S. Department of Justice investigates Planned Parenthood for sale of aborted baby parts

Pro-life protesters stand outside a Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions, for their role in the alleged sale of baby body parts.
Published in International
November 29, 2017

Catholic university under fire for cancelling abortion film

The film, Vessel, was scheduled as part of an annual event called “Choice! Birth and Baby Film Festival,” which had been held at the university for six years without controversy. This year’s film, however, chronicled a woman who provides abortions aboard ships anchored off the coast of countries where abortion is illegal.
OTTAWA – Saint Paul University is being accused of stifling free speech on campus after the Catholic university abruptly cancelled a pro-abortion film and accompanying presentation by Planned Parenthood.
Published in Canada
November 24, 2017

Speaking out: Student council steps out of line

Demonstrators hold signs during a May 14 pro-life protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario in 2015.
The censorship began Sept. 28. 

Representatives of the University of Ottawa Students for Life were promoting the club at their table in the university’s student centre when an executive from the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) ordered them to leave. The executive said that she had received many complaints. She then added that she would call Protection Services if the students refused. 
Published in YSN: Speaking Out
October 19, 2017

Pope's pro-life challenge: Respect all life, oppose death penalty

The death chamber table is seen in 2010 at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. Pope Francis' recent statement that the death penalty is incompatible with the Gospel is viewed by some as a development of doctrine and by others as a departure from church teaching.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis' recent statement that the death penalty is incompatible with the Gospel focused less on a government's role in protecting its people and more on the need to defend the sacredness and dignity of every human life.

Published in Vatican
October 16, 2017

Physicians offer support to pro-life undergrads

Pediatrician talks with the mother of a child in the emergency room in 2014 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

For the first time in nearly 20 years of pro-life medical conferences, Canadian Physicians for Life will offer a pre-conference event for students thinking about applying to medical schools.

Published in Canada
October 13, 2017

Bubble zone legislation is 'simply wrong'

Pro-lifers participate in peaceful demonstration in Toronto for the annual Life Chain held across Canada on Oct. 1, 2017.

Bubble zone legislation proposed to keep protesters away from abortion clinics in Ontario is “an unjust denial of freedom of expression and Charter rights,” according to Ontario Civil Liberties Association executive director Joe Hickey.

Published in Canada
October 12, 2017

Province targets pro-life seniors

Richmond Cochrane, 92, is one of 16 aged pro-lifers named in an Ontario injunction seeking to end picketing at abortion clinics.
The Ontario government is trying to reimpose a lapsed, 23-year-old temporary injunction against 16 aging pro-life protesters.
Published in Canada
October 12, 2017

Alberta court rules against university student pro-life group

UAlberta Pro-Life hosted a public demonstration in 2015, which was shut down by a counter-demonstration of pro-choice students.
The University of Alberta Pro-Life student group is planning to appeal after a provincial court ruled in favour of the university’s decision to charge $17,500 in security fees as a condition to host a public event on campus.
Published in Canada
October 4, 2017

Life Chain hits the streets

Men and women formed a Life Chain to protest abortion at Yonge and Steeles in Toronto. The annual event is held in more than 1,600 North American cities.
Thousands of people joined the Life Chain peaceful protest against abortion on Oct. 1 at more than 200 street corners across Canada.
Published in Canada
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