Summer is a great time for professional development! I am thankful to ARPA Canada for not only allowing, but encouraging the staff to set aside some time every year to steep themselves in a period of learning. For the past few days my colleague Colin Postma...
Reactions to the video footage released this week showing the completely vile behaviour of chicken catchers in Chilliwack, BC ranged from, “Sick!” and “Disgusting!” to the more serious, “They should be tortured themselves” and “Someone needs to beat the s*** out of people who treat...
This afternoon we received news that the Ontario Superior Court has sided with us in ruling that Ontario’s law censoring abortion statistics infringes on freedom of expression as outlined in Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We know that censorship is the new...
This week, thousands of pro-life Canadians gather in Ottawa for the annual March for Life. Thousands more do the same at local marches around the country. Canada is known around the world for having a high standard of human rights, yet this march for life remains...
Every once in a while we get a solid clue that the work we are doing is impacting culture – that pro-life Canadians are making a difference. The Conservative Party leadership race is well underway, and candidates are having to consider the desires of pro-life Canadians....
When the horrors of the Holocaust became public in the 1940s, eugenics faded to the background. But once again we are witnessing science being manipulated in an attempt to create a more “perfect” society. New developments in prenatal monitoring certainly can be seen as positive although...
Arguably, from the perspective of a pro-lifer, the United States has a heavy judge-imposed framework against which pro-life laws need to labour, as opposed to a more simple legal reality which exists in Canada. When the Supreme Court in the U.S. legalized abortion in Roe v....
On this, International Women's Day, we do well to consider: what are we as a nation doing to address gender-based violence? Last week Canada committed $20 million to a hastily organized "International Abortion Fund" so that women in developing countries would be able to access abortion...
We live in an age when lawmakers repeatedly appeal to science when making policy decisions. Shortly after Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, he led a large contingent of politicians and bureaucrats to Paris for a conference on climate change. He told reporters, “We’ll demonstrate that...
This past week Maryam Monsef , Canada's Status of Women Minister gave Planned Parenthood Ottawa $285,000 so they can use it to help women who face barriers to abortion. According to the Canadian Press, Minister Monsef believes that any barriers to reproductive choice constitute "gender-based violence"....
