Campaign Life staffer defends violent website imagery with… a Nazi analogy?

Published July 29, 2014

When you find yourself in a hole, most people stop digging. And then there are others who see it as the perfect time to rattle off Nazi analogies. The screengrab above comes to us by way of the comments section on Campaign Life Coalition’s blog, which was roundly criticized after PressProgress reported that Canada’s biggest “pro-life” […]

Why is there a gun aimed at a doctor’s face on the homepage of Canada’s largest “pro life” group?

Published July 25, 2014

Apparently it’s “pro life” to feature pictures of doctors with handguns pointed at their faces on your website’s homepage. The above screen grab comes from the website of the Campaign Life Coalition, Canada’s biggest anti-abortion lobbyist and organizers of the annual “March for Life”. The prominent image that greets visitors features a model dressed as a doctor […]

Conservative MP compares abortion battle to the struggle to end slavery

Published April 9, 2014

Anti-choice Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth is at it again, arguing zygotes are people too. On Thursday, Woodworth will try to a push for a vote in the House of Commons to “affirm that every Canadian law must be interpreted in a manner that recognizes in law the equal worth and dignity of everyone who is […]

What’s with all this rape talk on campuses?

Published March 4, 2014

Need more proof that marking International Women’s Day every March 8 is, you know, still important? News coming out of Canada’s university campuses should settle things. See if you can spot a pattern: UBC business school’s “oral tradition” In September 2013, the organisers of Sauder FROSH, a three-day orientation organized by the Commerce Undergraduate Society […]

Here we go again – not reopening the abortion debate

Published November 5, 2013

Fresh off a victory for social conservatives at the Conservative Party convention, Langley MP Mark Warawa returned to Ottawa on Monday and tabled a petition highlighting the party’s new policy: condemning the discrimination against girls through gender selection. Stephen Harper knows what this is all about – the reopening of the abortion debate. That’s why […]

So much for not reopening the abortion debate

Published November 2, 2013

Chalk this one up as a win for the social conservative wing of the Conservative Party – and a loss for all women concerned about a slippery slope towards reducing choice. The party faithful on Saturday voted – by a large majority – to make it official party policy to condemn the “discrimination against girls through gender selection.” The […]