Sun News Network correspondent allegedly compared legal abortion to...
A pro-life rally in Ottawa Thursday that drew thousands of people to Parliament Hill got wall-to-wall coverage from Sun News Network, but some of the pro-choice activists who staged a...
View ArticleNew on DVD for May 13: Her, Orange is the New Black and more (with video)
Marquee: Her: Four stars out of five — Pushing the entire concept of social media to absurd dimensions, Spike Jonze writes and directs this beautifully subtle study of an ordinary man (Joaquin Phoenix)...
View ArticleCoyne: Justin Trudeau declares issue ‘settled,’ but abortion deserves debate
Well. That certainly worked out well. Justin Trudeau’s edict on abortion — thou shalt not question a woman’s right to choose if thou wisheth to be a Liberal candidate, or at any rate thou shalt not...
View ArticleCoyne: Why shouldn’t we have free votes in the House of Commons?
Entertaining as it is, let’s leave the question of abortion and Justin Trudeau’s judgment to one side for the moment. Rather than debate whether MPs should be free to vote their conscience on abortion...
View ArticleLiberal MP John McKay secretly taped saying Justin Trudeau had ‘bozo...
TORONTO — Toronto Liberal MP John McKay was heard on a tape recording criticizing party leader Justin Trudeau over his edict that prospective MPs must follow the party’s pro-choice position on...
View ArticlePEI abortion service proponents say politics preventing access
A group of advocates and doctors trying to bring abortion services to women in Prince Edward Island say politicians are putting ideology ahead of women’s health. P.E.I. is the only province that does...
View ArticleDen Tandt: After all the attacks, Justin Trudeau’s star hasn’t budged
It’s strange, isn’t it, that Justin Trudeau’s star has not budged? The gaffes, the attack ads, the near-constant mockery in the Commons, still no policy book to be seen, then the dustup over abortion,...
View ArticleMovie review: Obvious Child over-earnest, but brave (with video)
Obvious Child Three and a half stars out of five Starring: Jenny Slate, Gaby Hoffman, Jake Lacy, Richard Kind, Polly Draper Directed by: Gillian Robespierre Running time: 84 minutes It’s as if the...
View ArticleNew Brunswick pro-choice group raises $100,000 to save Morgentaler Clinic
New Brunswick’s only private abortion clinic has been fighting with the province for 20 years to secure funding, but its an online crowdfunding campaign that may ultimately preserve Maritime women’s...
View ArticleFredericton’s Morgentaler clinic performs last abortion
New Brunswick’s only private abortion clinic will perform its last procedure for the foreseeable future, even as supporters pledge money to keep its doors open. Fredericton’s Morgentaler clinic is...
View ArticlePope makes strong but silent anti-abortion statement with prayer at South...
Nicole Winfield SEOUL, South Korea — Pope Francis has generally avoided hot-button “culture war” issues like abortion, arguing that the church’s doctrine on the sanctity of life is well-known and that...
View ArticleTories’ use of provocateurs to entrap Liberals blasted as unethical
OTTAWA — Federal Conservatives are putting a new twist on an old tactic: spying on political opponents. They’re no longer content to send observers to rival parties’ public events, passively monitoring...
View ArticleNo telling when, or if, New Brunswick will repeal abortion restrictions
New Brunswick’s premier-elect has already begun to address the province’s woefully substandard abortion access, but advocates shouldn’t expect their demands to be met on day one. The New Brunswick...
View ArticleDen Tandt: NDP’s Tom Mulcair gets his opening
After two years of fruitlessly battling the rising tide of Justin Trudeau’s popularity, Tom Mulcair has an opportunity to knock a hole in the Liberal leader’s skiff. The question is whether he will...
View ArticleNew Brunswick to scrap regulation that restricts access to abortion
FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government is scrapping a section of a contentious regulation that restricted access to abortion for decades and set the province apart for its unique policies on the...
View ArticleThe biggest fight for abortion in Canada isn’t in New Brunswick. It’s a tiny...
Women’s rights advocates hailed New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant for striking Wednesday some of the province’s remaining abortion restrictions, but the bigger battle lies in the stark rural-urban...
View ArticleDen Tandt: ‘Big issues’ left on the table as Canada’s major political parties...
The Conservative Party of Canada is not in the business of selling ideology, or of leading the country in a particular direction. Like the Liberal party of yesteryear, it is a vehicle created entirely...
View ArticleHealth Canada urged to approve abortion pill
A major Canadian medical body is urging Health Canada to approve an abortion pill that would allow a woman to end a pregnancy in the privacy of her own home. The Society of Obstetricians and...
View ArticleActivists to open health centre in former Fredericton Morgentaler Clinic
A group of pro-choice activists will soon be opening a health clinic offering abortion services after the closure of Fredericton’s Morgentaler Clinic last summer. On Friday, Reproductive Justice New...
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A second Conservative MP plans to introduce a motion related to abortion, despite this week’s defeat of an attempt by one of his colleagues to prod Parliament into examining when human life begins. It...
View ArticleStephen Harper’s Tories downplay climate knowledge of new Environment Canada...
OTTAWA-Federal Conservatives are downplaying concerns over Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s newly-selected boss for Environment Canada and the bureaucrat’s knowledge about global warming. The...
View ArticleMarch For Life’s gendercide message just a distraction
The annual anti-abortion March For Life rally made its way through Ottawa on Thursday. Religious leaders, anti-abortion MPs and shipped-in Catholic school kids attend the rally each year. Ottawa...
View ArticleLike it or not, the abortion debate is back
This is the irony at the heart of the abortion debate that, despite a prolonged tamping effort by all parties in the House of Commons, is back with a vengeance: Stephen Harper, he of the putative...
View ArticleAnnual anti-abortion march draws thousands to Ottawa
OTTAWA – More than 10,000 people joined the 16th annual anti-abortion March for Life on Parliament Hill Thursday, with several Conservative MPs adding their support to the throng. A small group of...
View ArticleAbortion debate looms for Prime Minister Stephen Harper
OTTAWA — As he grapples with a growing scandal over Senate expenses, Prime Minister Stephen Harper faces another potential flashpoint as the House of Commons resumes sitting: The political debate over...
View ArticleTory MP Mark Warawa’s victims bill wins government support
OTTAWA — The Conservative government appears to be throwing beleaguered rebel backbencher Mark Warawa a bone. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson Tuesday announced government support for the Langley, B.C.,...
View ArticleTimeline of Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s life
1923: Heniek, later Henry, was born in Lodz, Poland, on March 19. 1944: Imprisoned by the Nazis during the war; several family members perish. 1949: Married childhood sweetheart Chava Rosenfarb, a...
View ArticleFederal politicians react to the passing of Henry Morgentaler
OTTAWA – Federal politicians had mixed reactions to the passing of Henry Morgentaler Wednesday. Some ministers in the Conservative government, including Labour Minister Lisa Raitt and Health Minister...
View ArticleBrent Rathgeber says he’s now liberated to ask tough questions in Commons
OTTAWA — Former Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber said he looks forward to being able to hold cabinet ministers to account in a way he never could before he quit the caucus. The now-independent MP told...
View ArticleTexas state senator Wendy Davis defeats anti-abortion bill with 11-hour...
A restrictive anti-abortion law in Texas that would have effectively banned the procedure across the state was defeated Wednesday after Democratic senator Wendy Davis delivered a day-long filibuster in...
View ArticleIreland to legalize abortion for life-saving cases, including suicide risk
Shawn Pogatchnik DUBLIN – Lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Friday to back Ireland’s first bill on abortion, legalizing the practice in exceptional cases where doctors deem the woman’s life at risk from...
View ArticlePope Francis says the Church can’t be ‘obsessed’ with abortion and gays at...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has warned that the Catholic Church’s moral structure might “fall like a house of cards” if it doesn’t balance its divisive rules about abortion, gays and contraception with...
View ArticleRepublicans’ constant refrain of ‘No’ fails to inspire a nation wanting more
WASHINGTON — Across the Washington, D.C., border in the Commonwealth of Virginia there’s a tall, handsome young candidate for governor who stands as a sharp reflection of the problems eating through...
View ArticleConservatives bash unions and oppose sex-selection abortion in shift to right
CALGARY — Canada’s grassroots Conservatives have embraced a hard-core shift to the right — adopting new doctrines Saturday that attack unions and public service workers, condemn gender-selection...
View ArticleStephen Harper’s Conservative party tilts right while he faces slow-burning...
CALGARY — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been given his marching orders from a Conservative party not frightened to embrace social conservatism and a hard-core shift to the right. And in the wake of...
View ArticleMulroney-era cabinet documents reveal struggle with abortion laws
By Stanley Stromp VANCOUVER — Recently declassified federal cabinet documents show Canada could have been a very different place for women seeking abortions and the doctors who provide them if then...
View ArticleConservative MP plans motion on ‘dignity’ of every human being; critics decry...
OTTAWA – The contentious issue of abortion could be headed back to the political forefront for Canada’s parliamentarians thanks to the latest plan by a Conservative MP. The backbencher, Stephen...
View ArticleApprove non-surgical abortion pill, medical association journal urges
OTTAWA — Health Canada should approve a pill that is considered the “gold standard” for inducing safe and early non-surgical abortion, according to an editorial in the most recent Canadian Medical...
View ArticleMovie review: After Tiller examines morality of late-term abortions (with video)
After Tiller Four stars out of five Starring: George Tiller Directed by: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson Running time: 85 minutes Parental Guidance: mature theme, not recommended for young children In the...
View ArticleTory MP Maurice Vellacott seeks to bring abortion debate to House of Commons
OTTAWA — A Conservative backbencher aims to rekindle Canada’s abortion debate, making it the third time this year Prime Minister Stephen Harper has faced a challenge from within his party on the issue....
View ArticleDrawing the line on morals with a sharper pencil
A socially conservative Canadian could be forgiven for asking: What the hell is going on? Once, long ago, the issue was dirty movies and premarital sex. But now? Surely Sodom and Gomorrah are upon us....
View ArticleHalifax organization raising money to counter anti-abortion transit ads
A pro-choice organization in Halifax is planning a counter-campaign after a series of ads appeared on city buses and shelters declaring life starts at conception. The ads first cropped up last year but...
View ArticleStop using ultrasound to determine sex of fetuses, urge doctors, radiologists
Canada’s pregnancy specialists and the nation’s radiologists are calling for a halt on using ultrasound for the sole purpose of determining the sex of a fetus. In a new joint policy statement, the...
View ArticlePro-choice ads to roll out on Halifax buses
Ads carrying a pro-choice message will appear on Halifax buses starting Monday in response to an anti-abortion campaign. The latest campaign from Halifax group Signs4Life appeared in January. The ads,...
View ArticleDo New Brunswick’s abortion restrictions violate women’s rights?
For all intents and purposes, the abortion “debate” in Canada is dead — and has been for 25 years. Women have had the right to unrestricted abortion access since 1988 when the Supreme Court of Canada...
View ArticleHollywood, others respond to sultan of Brunei’s views with Beverly Hills...
By Sandy Cohen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is responding to harsh new laws in the tiny Southeast Asia nation of Brunei by boycotting the Beverly Hills Hotel. The Motion Picture &...
View ArticleTrudeau: Anti-abortion candidates not welcome in Liberal party
If you would vote in favour of anti-abortion legislation, Justin Trudeau doesn’t want you on his team. The Liberal leader said Wednesday that anyone hoping to run for the party in 2015 will have to...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau’s Liberals screening out candidates who won’t take pro-choice...
OTTAWA — Liberal leader Justin Trudeau says the party is screening out prospective candidates who will not commit to being pro-choice, effectively ending the party’s long-standing acceptance of MPs...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau’s pro-choice edict leaves little room for decency or conscience
Let no one think some great matter of principle was at stake in Justin Trudeau’s sudden decree forbidding dissenters from Liberal orthodoxy on abortion from running as candidates for the party. Nothing...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau’s abortion move was no gaffe
“That awful Mr. Trudeau,” my grandmother would say, half-meaning it, half-not. “Look what he’s gone and done now.” It becomes increasingly difficult to argue this one trait of Pierre Trudeau’s, at...
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