The Canadian Progressive: The Ugly Canadian: Three Male Anti-Women’s Rights Harper Conservative MPs

by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 1, 2013: WHO? My picks for The Ugly Canadian(s) today are these three male, middle-aged, white, anti-women’s rights Harper Conservative MPs: Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskwein); Wladyslaw Lizon (Mississauga East-Cooksville); and Leon Benoit (Vegreville-Wainwright). WHY? Earlier this week, it was revealed that the three had initiated another effort to nuke women’s constitutional

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The Canadian Progressive: Abortion rights group launches website to celebrate historic 1988 Supreme Court “Morgentaler Decision”

by Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada | Jan 15, 2013 In honour of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic 1988 decision to overturn the nation’s criminal abortion law, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada is delighted to dedicate a new website to the anniversary: www.morgentaler25years.ca The day of

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Birth Pangs: Abortion: There’s Nothing to Debate

reposting this in it’s entirety as really there is nothing more to say. http://www.arcc-cdac.ca/press/ARCC-CDAC-release-nov3-11-english.pdf For immediate release November 3, 2011 Abortion: There’s Nothing to Debate. Except how to eliminate remaining barriers to abortion care NATIONAL – Despite repeated calls by Canada’s anti-abortion movement to “reopen the abortion debate,” a national

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