The man, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty in April to 11 charges — including incest, sexual assault, invitation to sexual touching, sexual interference of a person under 16, importing or distributing child pornography and making or publishing child pornography.
Patrick Dupuis-Gendron, 27, was arrested in March 2009 as part of a nationwide sweep called Project Salvo. More than 70 search warrants were executed and 57 suspects were arrested across Canada in what police then called the country's largest co-ordinated investigation into Internet-facilitated child abuse.
Madam Justice Louise Botham acquitted Robert Katigbak in 2008 after she accepted the 32-year-old’s version that he spent seven years gathering images of children being sexually assaulted.
By Appointing Strict Constructionist Supreme Court Judges
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin is a well respected leader in Canada. Her father Ernest Gietz, was a tremendous Evangelical Lay Preacher in Alberta. We applaud Ms. McLachlin for her strong conviction and authenticity in presenting today’s judicial philosophy but good people can differ and debate. With seven out of nine Supreme Court Justices eligible to retire, it is critical that the process to replace them, be wholly transparent.
Leaders from various family focused groups with over 100,000 active members are calling for Premier Dalton McGuinty to withdraw the new Ontario Sex Education Curriculum, set to be implemented this September. The leaders are organizing Ontario parents to protest the new program by withdrawing their children from school on the Monday after Mother’s Day, May 10th and joining a proposed rally in at 12:00 noon in Toronto. The location will be announced at www.StopCorruptingChildren.ca .
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin decreed on May 5th, 2001: “the lawmaking role of the judge has dramatically expanded. Judicial lawmaking is no longer always confined to small, incremental changes. Increasingly, it is invading the domain of social policy, once perceived as the exclusive right of Parliament and the legislatures.”
"This is a crime that, to me, is one of the most heinous one human being can commit against another," said Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino..."You can't in good conscience call that adequate punishment for such a brutal crime," Fantino said.
"You pose a continuing danger to society and particularly children. Society expects the mother of a toddler would do everything in her power to make sure her child is protected from harm . . . Not only did you not protect your child, you preyed on that child."
She gave him life and was the only parent he ever knew. In the way she snapped photos of him sleeping and playing happily, she was like any other adoring mother. But she also committed unspeakable acts to his little body, turning him into a human sex toy in her pornographic broadcasts.
During the January 2010 World Economic Summit in Davos Switzerland Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the current Chairman of the G-20, presented the upcoming agenda for the G-20 and G-8 meetings to be held in Ontario in June. Many were shocked to hear this Conservative leader declare that “we also know markets need governance. For the new global economy, the G-20 is what we have.” Harper went on to speak as an avowed Keynesian committed to a one world global economy, creating a world “we have been trying to build since 1945”.
As Christmas draws near we all yearn for peace on earth, good will toward men. Polls show that 97% of Canadians celebrate Christmas. The other day I received a Christmas card with scripture versus and all from my friend, a Hindu. The world celebrates Christmas but doesn’t know Christ. Can you imagine if every Christian in Canada shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with five others. The result would surely be revival. But can revival occur by simply explaining Jesus Christ intellectually?
ISPs would be required to report child porn The federal government's plan to slap Internet service providers with stiff fines or jail time if they don't report child porn appears set for an easy ride through the House of Commons.
The Conservative government introduced new legislation Tuesday that will compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to report to law enforcement officials if they find or learn of child pornography on their networks.
A review of Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah Palin (Harper Collins, 2009, 413 pp) “Regardless of the outcome of this election, it just got a whole lot more interesting.” Those words were spoken by an American media commentator in August 2008, just minutes after John McCain announced that his running mate and the potential next Vice-President of the United States was Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska. Truer words were likely not heard since about Sarah Palin.
Freedom is the most valuable right a government can ensure. That sweet fragrance of being free, to set your own path, worship your own way and speak your mind without fear. To raise your children the way you see fit, chose a job, and travel whenever you wish.
For thirty years I have studied revival. I have travelled the world and witnessed revival in Korea, Columbia, Nigeria, Ghana and Jamaica. I am tired of studying and seeing revival in other countries. It is time for revival in Canada.
In 2003 all of us were caught off guard when Roy McMurty, Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeals of Ontario, redefined marriage to include same sex couples.
Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada explicitly bans polygamy and threatens offenders with a five-year prison term. Bigamy is named as a similarly serious crime in Section 290.
These victims aren’t just numbers and statistics. They are wives, mothers, and daughters. They suffer horrific mental, physical and sexual abuse during their captivity.
A 50-year-old man declared a dangerous offender in 1990 after more than a decade of sexually assaulting children has been arrested in Toronto, accused of attacking a friend's 5-year-old son.
Canadians travelling abroad to have sex with children is an abhorrent and shocking offence, punishable under Canada's Criminal Code. But are some Canadians getting away with this crime?
Stephen Harper normally tries to repress public expressions of social or religious conservatism in his party, but some of it escaped this week thanks to a rift among caucus members over a $400,000 government grant to Toronto's Gay Pride Parade.
On June 4th Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a new program setting aside $100 million for “Marquis Tourism Events”. With record speed, on June 15th, the Minister of State, Diane Ablonzy, delivered a $400,000 cheque to fund Pride, a sex parade in Toronto.
VANCOUVER • Canada is a destination spot both for sex tourists and for men, women and children who are brought here by traffickers for sexual exploitation and forced labour, according to the U.S. State Department in its ninth annual State of Trafficking in Persons Report.
If the New Democrats hold the balance of power after the Jan. 23 election, as seems possible, the issue of proportional representation election reform will be thrust front and centre as one of Jack Layton's short list of conditions for supporting a Tory or Liberal minority government.
More than 90 percent of Canadians are concerned about the distribution of child sexual abuse images, and child sexual exploitation is ranked as one of the top three concerns for parents regarding children.
The federal government should wipe the words "child pornography" from the Criminal Code and replace them with a crime that more clearly describes the harm inflicted on society's most vulnerable members, said a new report from Canada's watchdog for crime victims.
OTTAWA – The federal Conservatives used a showy news conference and a dozen ministers across the country to announce proposed changes to the national sex-offender registry that do not go as far as police or victims' advocates have called for.
NEXT FEBRUARY'S Winter Olympics, in British Columbia, have Winnipeg area MP Joy Smith working long hours. The objective of her labours is the passage of her private members' bill calling for mandatory minimum sentences for human trafficking offences
Be sure to watch the television show Word.ca for a full report, this Sunday on CTS at 11:00pm or next Sunday on Miarcle Channel at 10:00pm or Ichannel at 3:00pm.
Today Michael savage is banned from Britain but tomorrow could be you.
In March, 2009, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed Resolution A/HRC/10/L calling for the “creation of laws in member states to prevent criticism of religions (Islam)”. On May 5th, 2009 prominent Jewish radio talk show host, Michael Savage was the first American to be penalized for criticizing Islam....
A group of homosexuals have lodged a complaint against the federal government in an effort to get millions of dollars for their community. The Canada Human Rights Commission has a 100% conviction rate therefore it is more than likely that they will be successful.
In the largest joint investigation of online child sex abuse in Canada, almost 60 people were nabbed across the country, five of them in the Toronto area, police said yesterday.
Although polygamy is illegal in the U.S. and most mosques try to discourage plural marriages, some Muslim men in America have quietly married multiple wives.
Allan Wachowich, the Chief Justice of Alberta is also, fittingly, one of his province's ablest judges. On the bench for more than 30 years - the longest tenure of any federal judge in Alberta - Mr. Justice Wachowich has, since being elevated to associate chief justice in 1993 and Chief Justice in 2001, often assigned himself the court's toughest and most controversial cases.
The Vermont legislature has fast-tracked a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and California may not be far behind. If the legislatures in these states do vote to redefine physician-assisted suicide as a legitimate and legal “medical treatment,” a large part of the blame, strange though it may sound, can be laid at the feet of postmodernism.
By the mid 1970’s radical changes had taken hold in western society, with massive attacks on family and faith. The Roe vs. Wade court decision legalized abortion in the ....
The election in the United States is proving to be historic. On one hand Barak Obama’s run for President shatters the scourge of racism, with polls showing that 94% of Americans...
The official seat of power in Canada is manifest in the office of the Governor General. The GG is Canada’s Head of State, Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces and the...
On behalf of the 41,000 members of Canada Family Action Coalition and the hundreds of thousands of like-minded Canadians, on July 3rd, 2008 CFAC filed a formal request in accordance with the Paragraph 25(c) of the Constitution of the Order of Canada for the Advisory Council to recommend that the Governor General terminate Henry Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada.
Dear William Thorsell: Further to my conversation with your Media Director: Does the Darwin exhibit at the ROM display or make note of his book The Descent of Man? Does the exhibit reference Darwin's racism? Does the exhibit display the original title of Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life?
When the same-sex marriage issue was being debated before parliament and the courts, many of us argued that the entire issue had ceased being about toleration long ago but ...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the most complicated geo-political problem on earth. Since the day God promised the land to Abraham and his descendants, Isaac and Jacob – Israel as recorded in Genesis 13:15, there has been conflict in the land. Unfortunately, the toll of personal tragedy in the region is immense. Over the past 30 years, I have visited Israel 20 times witnessing so much pain and suffering on both sides.
At Christmas we celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is nothing closer to His heart than little children. In fact, Jesus said “whatsoever you do unto the little children you do unto me”. There is no better way to celebrate Christmas than to help children in need.
After nine years of Brian Mulroney as Prime Minister, Canadians rejected his form of Red Tory Conservatism. The Gallup Poll in 1993 recorded just 15% national support for Prime Minister Mulroney, the lowest for any Prime Minister in Canadian history.
The world was horrified to read the reports of a Canadian homosexual school teacher facing charges in Thailand “having sex with boys under 15, which carry prison sentences of up to 20 years”. It is shameful that Thailand, known for child prostitution, has tougher child protection laws than our own country. In Canada it is legal to have sex with 14 year-old children..
Under section 161 of the Criminal Code of Canada, it is a crime to distribute child pornography. “Any person who imports, distributes, sells or possesses, for the purpose of distribution or sale, any child pornography is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years”.
Sometimes I wonder whether Toronto Mayor David Miller actually listens to himself talk. Probably not.
Nothing original ever issues forth from the man's mouth. Instead, he seems only to function as a funnel for every fashionable theory about "root causes" and social engineering advanced in the past quarter century.
If there's anything more bizarre than some of the shows the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation chooses to make on the Christian religion, it's the explanation it often offers for making them.
If there's anything more bizarre than some of the shows the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation chooses to make on the Christian religion, it's the explanation it often offers for making them.
Take, for instance, The Altar Boy Gang.
A 30-minute pilot on this effort was produced by Sienna Films of Toronto with $600,000 provided from the Canadian Television Fund, a cash pool created by the government, to which the cable companies are forced to contribute.
A few weeks ago in a column I wrote about David Suzuki's rudeness and hypocrisy I admitted that similar to that green guru, I too love this planet and try to have as small a negative environmental impact as possible but unlike him, I don't believe that human-made CO2 is the main driver of global warming.
I received hundreds of e-mails -- most recounting often hilarious stories of run-ins people had with Suzuki, finding out for themselves that his TV persona is a lot friendlier than his off-camera one.
The great C.S. Lewis once wrote that "of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
By this time next week, the battle will be under way. As always, Ontario will decide. Barring the unforeseen, the province is about to become embroiled in an epic political fight, one that could change the future, not just of Ontario, but of Canada.
No, I'm not talking about the federal election, or the provincial election. I'm not talking about a contest between the political parties at all, but rather one that pits the parties - the largest ones, at any rate - against the citizens.
"UN Report Proves Canada Must Act Now On Climate Change," trumpeted the headline of a Liberal party press release on Friday, timed to correspond with the release of yet another alarmist UN summary on climate change.
Vancouver’s safe injection site – Insite – is back in the news again, but this time, it’s the United Nations drug control agency that is leading the criticism.
According to Zhu Li-Qin, head of the Convention Evaluation Section of the UN International Narcotics Control Board, Canada is violating international drug control agreements by enabling otherwise illegal drug use at the supervised location in Vancouver. "In a way, [Canada] is encouraging illicit trafficking," Zhu said in a recent interview with the Vancouver Sun. "Traffickers are searching for markets, and a [supervised site] serves as a small market where people go and legally inject drugs."
Vancouver’s safe injection site – Insite – is back in the news again, but this time, it’s the United Nations drug control agency that is leading the criticism.
According to Zhu Li-Qin, head of the Convention Evaluation Section of the UN International Narcotics Control Board, Canada is violating international drug control agreements by enabling otherwise illegal drug use at the supervised location in Vancouver. "In a way, [Canada] is encouraging illicit trafficking," Zhu said in a recent interview with the Vancouver Sun. "Traffickers are searching for markets, and a [supervised site] serves as a small market where people go and legally inject drugs."
In an attack that was hysterical and frenzied even for him, actor Sean Penn made a speech last week in which he demanded to know if the daughters of President George W. Bush support the war in Iraq and shouted they should be in uniform and in the armed forces.
Nobody knows what they think because the Bush girls are, well, the Bush girls. In other words, they're not their father. Not political, not public. They get on with their lives, do what young girls do, and don't ask to be engaged in international affairs by spoilt brats who make movies.
In October, 1993, 18 American special forces troops were killed in Mogadishu, Somalia during a botched raid to capture senior militia commanders loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Two days later, U.S. president Bill Clinton ordered his country's troops to cease all offensive actions against Aidid's forces and to withdraw from Somalia by the following March.
In October, 1993, 18 American special forces troops were killed in Mogadishu, Somalia during a botched raid to capture senior militia commanders loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Two days later, U.S. president Bill Clinton ordered his country's troops to cease all offensive actions against Aidid's forces and to withdraw from Somalia by the following March.
Imagine a history book being read by people in 100 years time. In a chapter entitled, Why We Fought, it would list the crimes of an ideology and a movement, Islamic fundamentalism, that became so powerful and so grotesque in the opening years of the 21st century that the civilized world was obliged to resist.
One of the most disappointing things in this dismaying budget is how, well, dishonest it is. This is a perennial problem, of course: From the Mulroney government's absurdly optimistic economic forecasts to Paul Martin's experiments in fiscal time travel, shuffling spending backwards and forwards between years to make the surplus rise or fall as needed, successive Canadian finance ministers have taken what ought to be a solemn annual reckoning with the taxpaying public and turned it into a game of three-card monte.
One of the most disappointing things in this dismaying budget is how, well, dishonest it is. This is a perennial problem, of course: From the Mulroney government's absurdly optimistic economic forecasts to Paul Martin's experiments in fiscal time travel, shuffling spending backwards and forwards between years to make the surplus rise or fall as needed, successive Canadian finance ministers have taken what ought to be a solemn annual reckoning with the taxpaying public and turned it into a game of three-card monte.
The French have a saying: Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose – the more things change, the more they remain the same.
Ever since their emergence as a political force a little more than two centuries ago, fear-mongering and character assassination have been the tactics of choice of left-wing ideologues when neither the facts, nor common sense, support their arguments or political agenda. The raging debate over climate change, and the tactics being employed, is a good illustration of this. Confronted with the fact-based criticism of an increasing number of scientists who say that cyclical climate change is as natural as the sunrise and sunset - and not due to human activity - the left reverts to type, substituting ugly invective for civil debate.
The Christians, says an Anglican bishop, must correct their "deeply flawed understanding of sex," because "they have been wrong for centuries on the notion that sex exists for the purpose of procreation."
The Vermont legislature has fast-tracked a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and California may not be far behind. If the legislatures in these states do vote to redefine physician-assisted suicide as a legitimate and legal “medical treatment,” a large part of the blame, strange though it may sound, can be laid at the feet of postmodernism.
Mars' ice caps are melting, and Jupiter is developing a second giant red spot, an enormous hurricane-like storm.
p>The existing Great Red Spot is 300 years old and twice the size of Earth. The new storm - Red Spot Jr. - is thought to be the result of a sudden warming on our solar system's largest planet. Dr. Imke de Pater of Berkeley University says some parts of Jupiter are now as much as six degrees Celsius warmer than just a few years ago.
"A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: 'If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you and we will silence you in the most horrible way possible.'"
Many years ago - about 20 - I was a green reporter (in every sense of the word) and was assigned to cover an event for my Vancouver newspaper in the Stein Valley of B.C.'s coast mountains.
The gala in that pristine alpine meadow included performances by the likes of Long John Baldry and John Denver.
In his alarming - but not, I think, alarmist - book America Alone (Regnery, 2006) Mark Steyn highlights the threat posed by falling birthrates worldwide, a phenomenon he calls "the demographic death spiral".
Steyn calls Japan "the most geriatric jurisdiction on the planet", and goes on: "[There] the rising sun has already passed into the next phase of its long sunset: net population loss. 2005 was the first year since records began in which the country had more deaths than births. Japan offers the chance to observe the demographic death spiral in its purest form. It's a country with no immigration, no significant minorities and no desire for any: just the Japanese, aging and dwindling."
If the Canada Revenue Agency is not politically biased, their chance to prove it is now.
Last Friday, David Suzuki launched a partisan political attack against the federal Conservatives in front of a group of Calgary elementary school kids, no less.
The renowned environmentalist savaged Prime Minister Stephen Harper in front of a gymnasium full of kindergarten to Grade 6 students, who raised $835 for Suzuki's self-named charitable foundation.
If the Canada Revenue Agency is not politically biased, their chance to prove it is now.
Last Friday, David Suzuki launched a partisan political attack against the federal Conservatives in front of a group of Calgary elementary school kids, no less.
On July 7, enviro crusader Al Gore will host "Live Earth" concerts in seven cities around the world to raise awareness of global warming.
Over 100 top groups have already pledged to perform, among them Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Keane, Snow Patrol, Snoop Dogg, Bon Jovi, Duran Duran and Kelly Clarkson.
After spending 14 years in office using the courts to make Canada the only country in the world where abortion is legal up to the moment of birth, while at the time enshrining the homosexual lifestyle so thoroughly that any criticism of it is considered a hate crime, Canadian liberals last week declared themselves shocked and appalled. The Tory government, they were horrified to discover, was trying to use the courts to reverse the whole process.
Canadian Catholics, particularly those involved with child adoption, should be keeping a close eye on recent events in Britain.
The Labour government has proposed new human rights legislation (bearing the Orwellian title Sexual Orientation Regulations), to become effective April, 2007; the new regulations make it illegal to discriminate against homosexuals in the provision of any public service. Fines range from $2,000 for a first offence to $50,000 for second or subsequent offences.
The issue is: Where does this leave Catholic adoption agencies? And the answer to date is: up a creek without a paddle.
