The Interim is sponsoring an essay contest for students under 18. Entries will be judged according to age. There are 5 categories: up to 10 years; 10 to 12 years; 12 to 14 years; 14 to 16 years; 16 to 17 years. There is a first prize of $50, which will be awarded to the winner in each of the five age [...]
On March 1, 1984, about 60 students from the University of Toronto's Campaign Against Abortion marched with signs and placards from the downtown Sr. George campus to the County Court Building on University Avenue, the site of the continuing Morgentaler pre-trial hearing. A statement to the press was issued. The statement began, "We have gathered here today, representing most of the colleges [...]
The passing of Bill C-169 on October 25, 1983, appears to be a concerted attempt, on the part of the three Federal parties, to muzzle free speech during future elections. The substance of the Bill has been examined and explained in previous issues of The Interim, so I presume that readers are aware of its contents. It is couched in the usual [...]
Sometimes I'm very sad inside. People around me smile and laugh, carry on with everyday talk about weather, sports, TV, diets and the job. I often feel like a stranger trapped in fantasyland. People are oblivious, escapist, apathetic, materialist, wounded, scared, frustrated, lost and blind. Even dead. I'm filled with compassion, real pity for men, for women for our human family. We [...]
The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) held its annual general meeting and conference, March 2-4,1984, in Niagara Falls, Ontario. 70 youth delegates gathered from as far as British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec, despite the blizzard that hit the Niagara Peninsula. The theme of the conference was "What is Responsibility." Discussion centered on pro-life strategy - what has worked so far [...]
The Canadian Youth pro-Life Organization is a far-flung group of young people from across Canada who has banded together to fight abortion, euthanasia, infanticide and the pro-death forces active in our society. We are single individual in Penticton, B.C., an established group in Saskatoon, a struggling two or three in Lawn, Nfld., a new group in Lindsay, Ont. We are people just [...]
In many ways we have reached a crossroad in the Right to Life movement. As a latecomer to the movement, I can only deeply admire and respect the people who were involved in the late sixties and early seventies. We, the silent majority stood by and watched as this small vocal for our cause and the cause of God. The saw our [...]
Part two Dolores Curran's Trains of a Health Family (Winston Press, Minneapolis, 1983) discusses the conclusions she reached after over 500 professionals working with families completed her 56-question survey. Mrs. Curran's research began with the premise that many traits would appear time and time again as important to healthy families. Her book focuses on the "top 15" traits. The complete lists, in [...]
House of Commons debate The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) claim a membership of more than 220 women's groups (they do not permit individual membership) across Canada from the Peterborough rape Crisis Centre to the National Chapter of the I.O.D.E. and the Anglican Church of Canada. Many women belong to groups which have affiliated themselves to the NAC [...]
The Pastoral Letter on the Protection of New Human Life Bishop Reding of Hamilton died of Cancer on December 8, 1983.The Following is the last pastoral letter that he wrote. September 25, 1983 The opening of the school year is a time when we easily focus our attention on the children and youth of today. It is our prayer and hope that [...]
The Manitoba Human Rights Commission, following an investigation, dismissed a June, 1983 complaint, alleging that Alliance Against Abortion contravened the Manitoba Human Rights Act, by means of the wording on picket signs at the Corydon Avenue, Morgentaler Abortion Clinic. The signs complained of read "Auschwitz Lest We Forget," "Auschwitz Never Again," "No Death Camps for Winnipeg." The name of the complainant was [...]
B.C. court to clarify the meaning of "health" in Criminal Code Two former board members of the Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, George Carruthers and Michael S. Whelton, have launched a legal action in the Supreme Court of British Columbia against that hospital, claiming that abortions are being performed there for non-medical reasons, contrary to the Criminal Code. By launching this [...]
Chief Justice Bora Laskin, of the Supreme Court of Canada, died at the end of March. It was well-known in legal circles that former Chief Justice Laskin was in favour of his court actively addressing political issues that in an earlier era the Supreme Court of Canada would have considered beyond its authority. Chief Justice Laskin has been criticized for his "Americanization" [...]
The following is my recollection of what events took place during and after the meeting I attended with Deacon Thomas Pillisch. On March 19, 1984, Deacon Thomas Pillisch and I attended a public meeting held by Bob Kaplan our member of parliament. Discussion on whether or not North York should have the Dome stadium took most of the time during the meeting. [...]
Ontario The Crown has finally been given the opportunity to speak in the abortion constitutional hearing that ahs been taking place in Toronto. After 37 long days of pro-abortion arguments by Moregentaler's lawyers, Morris Manning, Federal Crown Counsel Arthur Pennington, Q.C., began his argument on March 20th, in a lucid manner, appealing for recognition of the right of the unborn child to [...]