Canada – Feds denied summer job grants to 26 groups over abortion rights issue

Feds denied summer job grants to 26 groups over abortion rights issue

JOANNA SMITH, OTTAWA
THE CANADIAN PRESS
AUGUST 29, 2019

The Liberal government denied youth summer job grants to about two dozen organizations this year because officials felt they were trying to weaken or limit access to abortion or sexual and reproductive health services.

Employment and Social Development Canada said it received 39,933 for the Canada Summer Jobs program this year, with only 403 of them being deemed ineligible for the funding under new rules that say the money cannot be used to undermine human rights.

Continued: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-feds-denied-summer-job-grants-to-26-groups-over-abortion-rights-issue/

Canada – Pro-choice groups call on Alberta Health Services to stop linking to anti-abortion organizations

Pro-choice groups call on Alberta Health Services to stop linking to anti-abortion organizations

By Kevin Maimann, StarMetro Edmonton
Mon., Nov. 19, 2018

EDMONTON—Pro-choice groups are calling on a government-run website to stop referring Albertans with reproductive health questions to agencies they deem anti-choice, transphobic and homophobic.

InformAlberta, an online directory of publicly funded or non-profit health, community and government organizations and services, links to anti-abortion groups and faith-based crisis pregnancy care centres — alongside legitimate medical resources — when users search terms such as abortion, sexual health education, teen pregnancy, and pregnancy test.

Continued: https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/11/19/pro-choice-groups-call-on-alberta-health-services-to-stop-linking-to-anti-abortion-organizations.html

How university campuses became ground zero for Canada’s abortion debate

How university campuses became ground zero for Canada's abortion debate

WARNING: This story contains graphic images

Brett Bundale · The Canadian Press
Posted: Sep 09, 2018

University campuses have increasingly become a focal point of Canada's anti-abortion movement, prompting a fresh debate over free speech and questions about what critics call misleading tactics.

"On campuses across the country, we have seen a rise in anti-choice groups," said Trina James of the Canadian Federation of Students.

Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/abortion-debate-at-canada-s-universities-critics-1.4816333