You may have heard that ads produced by Kitchener Right to Life were recently removed from Grand River Transit due to the complaints of Lyndsey Butcher, Executive Director at the SHORE Centre. Butcher claims the ads are not factual. She made the case to have the ads removed by citing a single study from 2009 which found that women's mental health is not affected negatively by abortion. (See The Record coverage here and CTV's coverage here. But research shows that abortion is the source of serious physical and psychological problems for a significant number of women.  CRTL board member, Camilla Gunnarson submitted a letter to The Record in response. The letter was heavily edited by the Editor [...]

Thanks to our the generous support of our members and a grant from the Catholic Community Foundation of Waterloo Region (CCFOWR), we are now in the position to utilize funds towards local advertising that will once again reach motorists, transit patrons and pedestrians alike.  We are grateful to CCFOWR  who provided a grant of $3300 to fund the powerful prolife message, Human Life is Not Determined by Location, on the Digital Sign at Hwy’s 8 & 24 (Delta Intersection). The ad will run for 3 weeks in May and again in late fall. The exterior of 3 local city buses will feature the same powerful message that will run from May to August. Additionaly, some 7 [...]