As also mentioned, The Globe and Mail gave the Campaign Life Coalition march some coverage, as did:

The Ottawa Citizen Thousands hit Hill to protest against abortion.

Lifesite News  covers the Campaign for Life march every year and their crowd estimates are usually what are passed on.

Salt and Light Television is busy with coverage of the Pope’s Middle East visit, but made it to Ottawa and blogged they’ll have more later.

The Eye of the Engima is written by a Catholic high school student who, like many Catholic high school kids, get bused in for a field day.

Dies Irae, another Catholic blogger, attended. And there is more below the fold…

Catholic Archbishop Terrence Prendergast also blogged about his day, he’s a bit more chatty since he is responsible for his fellow Archbishops who fly in and for hospitality to various Knights of Columbus leaders. 
Special masses are held in Ottawa cathedrals prior to the crowd hitting Ottawa streets.
Interdenominational prayer services were hosted in Ottawa by the Canadian Reformed Church and St. George, a  schismatic Anglican Church (ANiC).  

Antonia Zervisia  blogged at The Toronto Star, giving background.

Big Blue Wave (Suzanne Fortin, a former Christian Heritage Party candidate) posted some pictures.

Religious Right Alert got mentioned at Equipping Christians for the Public Square. Tim Bloedow, former administrative assistant for the Pro-Life Caucus and former Christian Heritage Party candidate took exception to this post: Finding the Pro-Life Caucus on Parliament Hill , where the question is raised about what Members of Parliament are part of the caucus, saying it was a McCarthyite article.
Given we are discussing  Canadian MPs, a Canadian name might have lent the ECPC question some credibility. 

MP Rod Bruinooge released the annual pr from the March media conference this year suggesting freedom of speech of anti-abortion groups was under threat, saying there was a ”disturbing trend of intolerance towards the pro-life point of view .” Examples are not given other than LifeCanada’s billboard campaign.

Unions, campuses, students and advertisers are named as opponents and the usual ”Polls consistently show that a majority of Canadians do not support Canada’s unrestricted tax-payer funded abortion regime” is again trotted out. That might be Mr. Bruinrooge’s brothers polling firm, hard to say, facts are in short supply in this pr.  

SoCon or Bust  headlined Mr. Bruinrooges press release: Pro-life speech being suppressed by pro-life facists.

The site administrator for Equipping Christians for the Public Square is genuinely upset Canadians want to know what elected MP’s are up to, and responded in an unfortunate tone to the idea that even pro-life Canadians might want to know which elected officials identify with this secret caucus:

 (click on the screenshot on the left to read from orginal source)

Would it not be in the best interest of all Canadian voters to know what secret caucuses their MP’s are participating in?
Just out of curiousity,  how many secret parliament caucuses hand out press releases once a year?

It’s the start of a long weekend in Canada, I didn’t see any other blogs mentioning the march,  did a very quick check of evangelical religious sites and blogs.

As for march attendees, The Ottawa Citizen says Jim Hughes of Campaign Life Coalition estimated about 10 thousand people braved the rain, Lifesite says 12 thousand.  Archbishop Prendergast wrote The Knights of Columbus managed to come out in strength this year.  Ottawa City Police don’t have estimated crowd numbers online.

If “religion” was going to be defined in the broad Gary Goodyear-ian sense, then it wasn’t hard to imagine what sort of trouble could result from this legislation: sexists objecting to women’s equality, atheist parents with kids in Catholic schools, or just “legal and administrative chaos.” In retrospect it’s not surprising that the government decided to cut its losses and get out of the “evolution is religion” game before things got out of control.

Even if evolution was out of the picture, though, “parental rights” – and by implication family authority – is near and dear to the religious right, so it wasn’t surprising to see a swarm of enthusiastic endorsements from that sector. The Canada Family Action Coalition is now in the game, for example. Equipping Christians has also leaped to the government’s defence.

There is, however, a deep irony here. The parental rights law is being introduced via the Human Rights Act, so presumably it would be enforced – if necessary – by the Alberta Human Rights Commission. The Chumir Foundation, to its credit, has opposed the amendment for this reason. However, the Christian right is going to run smack into a wall on this issue.

The Human Rights Commissions first attracted the ire of the religious right on gay rights issues, and many organizations have more recently hitched their wagons to Ezra Levant’s public relations crusade against the Commissions. With the fallout from Shakedown, it actually looked like the anti-HRC battle was beginning to make some gains. The Commissions haven’t been totally discredited yet, but they’re probably closer than ever before. And now the religious right might have to defend the Commissions, after all!

Just this morning, Catholic right-writer Raymond de Souza was expounding on the “abuses” of the Commissions in the National Post. He also points the way to a factless but possibly effective way out of this problem for the religious right: he advances the rather paranoid notion that on the basis of “parental rights” the Alberta Human Rights Commission might be pushed by gay activists or other evil-doers into “radicalizing the curriculum.”

Cross-posted at Birchbark Bible.

• There are signs that the religious right hopes to play a role in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership competition. Frank Klees, Bene Diction wrote weeks ago, is connected to Charles McVety. Randy Hillier also has religious right connections. His campaign is run by Tristan Emmanuel (h/t Buckets at Bouquets of Gray), former director of Equipping Christians for the Public

• Between April 19 and 23, members of the Canadian Parliament and Israeli Knesset joined Christian and Jewish leaders in a cross-country tour, Canada-Israel Together, sponsored by the Watchmen for the Nations, a charismatic Christian Zionist organization based in Vancouver. It is not known which MPs were present at the dinners. (h/t National House of Prayer Blog)

• The government of Alberta is refusing to permit employees to list their same-sex spouses as, well, spouses – they must be registered in the more limited category of “benefit partner.” Treasury Board president Lloyd Snelgrove says his government has “no intention of changing the definition of spouse to include people in same-sex marriages.” (h/t Slap Upside the Head)
  

• Pundit Michael Coren has attracted justifiable attacks from the likes of Dammit Janet! and the Galloping Beaver for a recent column suggesting that women should not be permitted to enlist in the army – they’re too small, too weak, and in general should be “laughing with college friends rather than fighting theocratic madmen.” Not finished with that, he goes on to add that women couldn’t possibly fend off the “Taliban tribesmen” and the “thrust of their long knives.”

• Brampton religious groups are tentatively declaring victory in a campaign to overturn proposed new bylaws that might, they say, threaten the tax-exempt status of large churches

In the (Think) Tanks

• The Focus on the Family-funded Institute of Marriage and Family Canada’s weekly family issues report, prepared by in-house researcher and former Conservative Party official Derek Miedema, says that the growing number of senior citizens will overwhelm Canada’s healthcare and social safety nets unless we shift more responsibility for their welfare away from government and onto their families. (Presumably this is more “sustainable” because it would involve more unpaid work by relatives, especially women.

• Equipping Christians for the Public Square will be holding an Ignite Our Culture convention at Trinity Western University in Vancouver on May 8-9. The theme, and subject of the keynote by anti-Muslim “scholar” Sam Solomon, will be: “A Veiled Threat? Islam in the West: Polygamy and Jihad.” ECP will also soon be holding several fundraising dinners in Alberta, featuring Ezra Levant.

• The Manning Centre for Building Democracy has created a “municipal campaign school” for Saskatchewan electoral candidates. Looks like it’s being run by Richard Ciano, the Conservative Party official previously implicated in previous attempts to boost right-wing voices in student politics

We’re looking for a name for this feature of links and we’re stuck.
A name themed around rocks, stones…any ideas?