The Star covers the March for Life?

My goodness, the Toronto Star actually did a fair story about yesterday's March for Life.

Susan Delacourt, the Ottawa bureau chief, writes:

OTTAWA—Heartened and emboldened by Canada’s new anti-abortion stand on foreign aid, thousands of pro-life campaigners flooded in unprecedented numbers to Parliament Hill on Thursday, daring to hope that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government will take further steps against abortion at home as well as abroad.

But it's interesting that she misspells Cardinal Ouellet's name, and misses the fact that Carl Anderson is the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.

Around 15,000 pro-life campaigners, clearly buoyed by what they see as last month’s victory on the foreign-aid front, cheered loudly when numerous speakers talked about the next steps in what one called bringing a “culture of life” to Canada.

“We would like some more courage to do something more in Canada in defence of the unborn,” Cardinal Marc Ouellette, of Quebec City, told the crowd.

Ouellette minced no words in explaining later what he would like Harper to do next: “Reopen the discussion in Canada about this judicial void; there is absolutely no protection for the unborn,” Ouellette told reporters. “The next step should be a reopening of discussion about the legal situation of abortion in Canada.”

Some U.S. pro-life advocates were also on hand on Parliament Hill on Thursday, congratulating Canada for putting in place a foreign-aid policy against abortion that has been championed by Republican presidents, but repealed by President Barack Obama.

“These are tangible, visible threads… we are moving toward a culture of life in Canada,” said Carl Anderson, a former adviser to U.S. president Ronald Reagan as well as to the Vatican.

It's also interesting that for the first time in my experience with the March for Life the crowd size is actually inflated! Jim Hughes counted 12,500 marchers, about 500 more than last year's count. This year the march is described as huge! Last year, it was ignored. What a difference 500 people make!

I guess it's because the new meme is the scary Christian right is growing and that's what the mainstream media wants to get out there.