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29 Apr 2009 Alberta Government Refuses to Challenge Human Rights Commission

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By Jason Fekete, Calgary Herald April 29, 2009 - The Alberta government introduced amendments Tuesday to the province's human rights code that will enshrine sexual orientation as a grounds of prohibited discrimination and allow parents to remove their children from teachings that conflict with their religious beliefs or sexuality.But the government balked at proposed changes that would strip the Alberta Hu-man Rights Commission of its power to adjudicate cases of free speech--one of the most contentious sections in the code and an area that various groups wanted reformed.[Keep reading this...

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17 Apr 2009 Action Item for Albertans: Urge Your Government to Defund Abortion!

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By ARPA Canada (April 17, 2009): In light of the economic down turn, the Alberta government has recently announced that it is reviewing which medical services will be receiving funding. It's decision to cut funding for sex-change operations drew quick and fierce opposition and caused them to backtrack by holding off on this for a year. Now is the time for residents of Alberta to urge the government to cut funding for abortion - a service that ends life rather than preserving or protecting it.
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25 Mar 2009 Action Item for Albertans – Write to the CPSA

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ARPA Canada Note: The following action item has been prepared by Southern Alberta ARPA. It is in response to the news item located here.  Please take the time to follow-up on this action item and encourage your family and friends to do the same. Kudo's to Southern Alberta ARPA for showing this innitiative. Your immediate attention is needed for the following issue!: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA)is preparing to move from the Medical Profession Act to the Health Professions Act (HPA), and as such has prepared draft Standards of Practice for Alberta’s medical profession. Standards of Practice represent the minimum standard of professional behaviour and good practice Alberta physicians are expected to meet, and they will be used to arbitrate disciplinary cases. The Standards are essentially the rules physicians must follow and they will replace the majority of existing College policies and guidelines. 
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25 Mar 2009 Kudo’s to Brave Youth

Posted at 18:25h in Abortion, Blog, Fundamental Freedoms 0 Comments
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CAMPUS PRO-LIFE BRINGS GENOCIDE AWARENESS PROJECT BACK TO UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY U of C Pro Life club members assert their right to freedom of speechCALGARY, AB, March 24, 2009Despite having been charged with trespassing on their own campus, tomorrow pro-life students are again setting up their controversial display on the University of Calgary campus, as they have been doing since 2006.  Members of Campus Pro life (CPL) are bringing the display, known as the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) to campus at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday March 25, 2009. GAP is a peaceful, educational display which utilizes 4x8-foot signs to show the reality of abortion to the public, drawing comparisons between it and other genocides.
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23 Mar 2009 Alberta Considers Making Parents’ Control over Education a “Human Right”

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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski: EDMONTON, Alberta, March 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Alberta government will consider changes to its human rights law to give parents more control over what their children will be taught in school, according to a Calgary Sun report."Though there is some coverage of this issue under existing rules governing schools, the decision of parents would now be recognized as a fundamental human right," the report explained.
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19 Mar 2009 ECP Events in Alberta in Support of Pastor Boissoin

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Notice from the ECP Centre:We are excited to report that plans are firming up for our ECP Centre/Stephen Boissoin Fundraising Dinners. With feature guest speaker Ezra Levant, we have scheduled 3 back-to-back Fundraising Dinners for Calgary (Apr. 30), Red Deer (May 1) and Edmonton (May 2). We will be sending out an official notice for these dinners in the next few days once we've firmed up our Calgary location. The Red Deer Fundraising Dinner is being held at Living Stones Church, located at 2020 40 Avenue. The Edmonton Dinner is being planned for Providence Canadian Reformed Church, located at 12905-122 Avenue.
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17 Mar 2009 Action Item: Alberta Considers Denying Physician Conscience Rights

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ARPA Note: When Ontario considered something similar to this, many of you sent in submissions to the Ontario College and urged them reconsider. Those letters made a big difference. Now, please consider doing the same in Alberta. Contact information is below. Remember to keep your letter professional and courteous. By Thaddeus M. Baklinski: CALGARY, Alberta, March 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSA) is in the process of revising its Standards of Practice code and may be considering implementing a policy which would force physicians to refer patients for abortion, even if they believe this to be morally wrong.
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12 Feb 2009 Calgary Pro-Life Club Stripped of Club Status after Pro-Life Students Charged with “Trespassing”

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By Kathleen Gilbert CALGARY, Alberta, February 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After a ten-minute hearing Tuesday, the University of Calgary's Students' Union voted to de-sanction the school's pro-life club, thereby barring the club from using campus facilities or receiving SU funding. The hearing followed the refusal of the pro-life group to hide a Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) pro-life display on the campus in November, when ordered to do so by the University's administration.  The club has erected the display, which shows images of abortion victims alongside other genocide victims, without incident several times in the past. 
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05 Feb 2009 U of C Pro-life group facing even more consequences

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CanWest News, Feb 4 2009: CALGARY — An anti-abortion student group already facing trespassing charges over a protest could see its university club status and some funding revoked next week. The University of Calgary Students’ Union will hold a hearing on Tuesday into whether it should take sanctions against Campus Pro-Life after it violated university guidelines surrounding its Genocide Awareness Project. [Keep reading this article here]...

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26 Nov 2008 U of Calgary Pro-Life Sets Up GAP Display and Faces Possible Arrest

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Click on the image to the right to watch a video from CTV News in Calgary about how the day is proceeding at the campus. Also, if you live in Alberta, contact your MLA to show your support for the campus club and to request that the province stands up for free speech at the public university. More action suggestions are here. Update from CBC: U of C gets police involved in anti-abortion display From CTV.ca: The University of Calgary has contacted police about a pro-life group that has...

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