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 Posted: 07/ 01/ 08 8:22 pm Post subject: Freep the Morgue-entaler Poll! |
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Freep the Morgue-entaler Poll:
http://toronto.ctv.ca/
80% down the screen, to the right.
Do it and spread the word!
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| Posted: 07/ 01/ 08 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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DONE!
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| Posted: 07/ 01/ 08 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Connie Fournier Member
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| Posted: 07/ 01/ 08 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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I voted, too. Looks like the ghouls are freeping it, too.
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| shiva Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4416 Gender: Female
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| Posted: 07/ 01/ 08 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Connie Fournier wrote: | | I voted, too. Looks like the ghouls are freeping it, too. |
Here are the results right now:
Do you think Dr. Henry Morgentaler should be named to the Order of Canada?
Yes (34 %) 168
No (66 %) 327
Too bad it doesn't show how many people have voted. |
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| Posted: 07/ 01/ 08 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| shiva Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4416 Gender: Female
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| Posted: 07/ 01/ 08 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting. I was searching for information about the previous attempts to get him the OC, and came across this website which had a link to a Globe and Mail poll back in February.
First, some of the blurb on the website, called "femilicious.com":
http://www.femilicious.com/blog/2008/02/12/nominate-a-hero-for-the-order-of-canada/
Nominate a Hero for the Order of Canada
12. February 2008, 8:53 UhrCandace
Please cast your vote to support the nomination of Henry Morgentaler for the Order of Canada.
Henry Morgentaler is a Holocaust survivor.* He survived Auschwitz, and after the war he accepted a United Nations scholarship that was being offered to Jewish survivors. With this, he went to medical school in Germany. He came to Canada and set up as a general practitioner in Montreal. In 1967 he told the Government of Canada that he believed that any pregnant woman should have the right to a safe abortion.
He was first arrested in 1970 for performing illegal abortions and the process of arrest - appeal - acquittal continued until 1983. Finally, in 1988 the Canadian Supreme Court declared the law he was convicted under to be unconstitutional in the case of Morgentaler et al. v. Her Majesty The Queen 1988 (1 S.C.R. 30). This ruling essentially ended all statutory restrictions on abortion in Canada. In 1993, he challenged provincial abortion regulations and won again before the Supreme Court.
Morgentaler received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario and the 2005 Couchiching Award for Public Policy Leadership for his efforts on behalf of women’s rights and reproductive health issues.
In 2008, in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of this legal decision, a campaign has been launched by a group of pro-choice activists to nominate Henry Morgentaler for the Order of Canada.
Morgentaler has been nominated twice already, and passed over both times. He has recently suffered a stroke and his health is failing. The Order of Canada cannot be awarded posthumously.
The Globe & Mail is conducting a poll on the question of whether Morgentaler should receive this award. So far, the ‘no’ side has received overwhelming support. (SC: 86% no at 2:30 pm)
Please cast your vote.
Anti-choice activists tried to stop the University of Western Ontario from conferring the honorary doctorate but were unsuccessful. Here’s hoping that this anniversary of Canadian women’s right to choose can be celebrated with recognition of the doctor who advocated for us.
And now, the poll results from back in February:
Should Dr. Henry Morgentaler be awarded the Order of Canada?
Yes 8%
26213 votes
No 92%
306914 votes |
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| Posted: 07/ 02/ 08 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| shiva wrote: | | Connie Fournier wrote: | | I voted, too. Looks like the ghouls are freeping it, too. |
Here are the results right now:
Do you think Dr. Henry Morgentaler should be named to the Order of Canada?
Yes (34 %) 168
No (66 %) 327
Too bad it doesn't show how many people have voted. |
DONE, here, too.
When I just voted though, it showed the same per centages as you quote ... 66 -34 ... but I didn't see any references to the total number of actual votes.
Where did you see that?
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| shiva Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4416 Gender: Female
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| Posted: 07/ 02/ 08 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| freenewf wrote: | | shiva wrote: | | Connie Fournier wrote: | | I voted, too. Looks like the ghouls are freeping it, too. |
Here are the results right now:
Do you think Dr. Henry Morgentaler should be named to the Order of Canada?
Yes (34 %) 168
No (66 %) 327
Too bad it doesn't show how many people have voted. |
DONE, here, too.
When I just voted though, it showed the same per centages as you quote ... 66 -34 ... but I didn't see any references to the total number of actual votes.
Where did you see that? |
This current poll doesn't show total number of votes but the one from the Globe and Mail that was done back in February showed numbers of people voting so that's where those numbers are from. |
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| Posted: 07/ 02/ 08 8:41 am Post subject: |
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Do you think Dr. Henry Morgentaler should be named to the Order of Canada?
Yes 34%
No 66%
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| Catholic Canadian Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Total posts: 2303 Location: Toronto aka Third World dump run by raving socialists Gender: Male
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| Posted: 07/ 02/ 08 9:10 am Post subject: |
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Wow, CTVs website sure does suck, almost as bad as CBCs. It's almost laughable.
I even left a comment, although I'm sure it won't get posted. |
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