ARPA Note: Please pray for the Lord's blessing on this bill. Your efforts will also be needed to defend this legislation with letters to the editor as it is already getting opposition in the media.  [Click here for more mainstream media reports.  Click here for a positive review by the EFC.

Update: According to the Montreal Gazette, the Prime Mininister's Office has stated that the government will not support this bill.

Toronto Star, April 15 2010: OTTAWA — A Conservative backbencher has come forward with a new bill on abortion, despite Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s insistence in recent weeks that the abortion debate wouldn’t be reopened in the Commons. Rod Bruinooge, chair of the all-party pro-life caucus in Parliament, has introduced a bill that would penalize anyone who “coerces” a woman into ending her pregnancy against her will. [Keep reading this article here.]

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Bill C-510

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By Jon Dykstra, www.ReformedPerspective.ca: It doesn’t seem that long ago that ARPA Canada and Reformed Perspective launched the Salt n’ Light YouTube contest. Our aim was to encourage Christians to communicate God’s Truth to the world through the medium of YouTube videos.

Stephen Boissoin, the former pastor from Alberta who fought for 9 years against the charges from the Alberta Human Rights Commission, has just learned that his court victory over the commission is being appealed. Click here to read the context of Boissoin's case and why the December victory (in a real court) over the Alberta HRC ruling was so significant. The appeal means not only a challenge to this important court ruling, it also means a further strain on Boissoin and his family as the previous nine years of huge legal bills and stress have exacted a great toll. Stay tuned for developments.

Attached below is ARPA Canada's submission to the Ontario government in response to the legislation that aims to expand institutionalized early-learning in Ontario. Bill 242 proposes to fund full-day kindergarten and junior kindergarten (for 4 and 5-year olds) at a projected cost of 1.8 billion dollars annually. In this submission, ARPA Canada encourages the Ontario government ot abandon this legislation because it will provide minimal help for children while further eroding the parent-child relationship that is critical for effective education, all at a staggering cost to Ontario taxpayers.

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ARPA Canada Submission - Bill 242

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Power and Rightly Ordered Love  (Part one of two)

Written for www.ARPACanada.ca by James Zekveld: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Few thoughts encapsulate the history of human political action more.  Without the seemingly natural devolvement from power to corruption, old empires might still exist, poverty might have ended long ago and communism might be a legitimate though unnecessary option in the world today.  Power among Christians is hardly an exception to this rule.  Two questions present themselves.  How do we overcome corruption and how do we minimize the potential for corruption?  The second will be left for a later article.  The first is answered through an understanding of the order God has put into this world.  To keep ourselves from corruption we must have a rightly ordered love; love that God has placed into the world from the beginning, when He created the world.