Archive for category Health & Safety
Planned Parenthood gets silent treatment from Ottawa
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 14, 2010
By Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Toronto Star, May 13, 2010
One of the world’s biggest health-care providers for vulnerable women appears to have fallen victim to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s zero tolerance policy on abortion.
In London, International Planned Parenthood Federation is waiting for a call from Canada that will preserve life-saving programs that help 31 million women and children. Read on »
Lancet medical journal slams Canada, Stephen Harper on abortion
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 7, 2010
By Mary Vallis, The National Post, May 7, 2010
One of the world’s leading medical journals is slamming Stephen Harper’s Conservative government’s “conscious decision” not to support groups that undertake abortions in developing countries. Read on »
Tory senator drops F-bomb on abortion debate
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 4, 2010
By Tobi Cohen, Canwest News Service, as published in The Ottawa Citizen, May 4, 2010
OTTAWA — The Liberals are seeking an apology from the government after a Conservative senator told international development advocates Monday to “shut the f— up” on the issue of making abortion part of Canada’s foreign maternal-health strategy. Read on »
Contraception motion defeated
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Human Rights, Liberals, Women's Rights on March 23, 2010
CBC News, March 23, 2010
A Liberal motion to include a broader range of family planning programs, including contraception, in a maternal health initiative for developing countries, was defeated 144-138 in the House of Commons Tuesday.
The motion tabled by Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae said Canada’s maternal health proposal to G8 nations must be based on “scientific evidence, which proves that education and family planning can prevent as many as one in every three maternal deaths” and refrain from the “failed right-wing ideologies” of former U.S. president George W. Bush. Read on »
AIDS-vaccine project officially cancelled
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Health & Safety, Health Care, Research & Development, Science & Technology on February 21, 2010
By ELIZABETH CHURCH, The Globe and Mail, Feb. 20, 2010
Three years less a day after Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood beside Bill Gates and pledged $111-million toward the search for an AIDS vaccine, the federal government has officially cancelled the centrepiece project of that partnership, saying a manufacturing plant is no longer needed and Canadian researchers were not up to the job anyway. Read on »
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