On the evening of Sunday, January 19, 1986, approximately one hundred pro-life supporters gathered outside the Royal Alexander Hospital to hold a candle-light prayer vigil for the victims of abortion, in particular for the babies who have been aborted in this City-owned hospital at which the majority of abortions performed in Edmonton take place. (Figures for abortion in Alberta are around 6,500 [...]
On January 14, at the Senator Motor Hotel in Timmins, Ontario, Premier Petereson was picketed by 50 pro-life protesters as he attended a cabinet meeting. Campaign Life Timmins organized the demonstration which took place in –28 degrees winter weather. Premier Peterson was scheduled to arrive at 6:00 p.m. when the picket began but because of a flight delay didn’t show up until [...]
On Sunday, January 12, 70 pro-lifers gathered in front of the Hilton Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto to picket Ontario Premier David Peterson as he attended a meeting and dinner with Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan. Premier Peterson drove past the picket line an hour earlier than his announced arrival. He did not stop to speak to the protesters. The picket was [...]
On October 17 the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down Metro-Toronto’s bylaw prohibiting all nude “exotic” dancing as unconstitutional. The bylaw had been enacted under a provision of the Provincial Municipal Act. The judges stated that: “In our opinion, the true object and purpose of (the bylaw) is not the regulation of the trade and business of an adult entertainment parlous, but [...]
On Friday January 17, two pro-life picketers were found guilty of assaulting abortionist Robert Scott. Fred Huston, 72, and Godwin Cotter, 27, both pleaded not guilty to the offences. Mr. Huston was fined $250 and Mr. Cotter $150. Both were put on a year’s probation and ordered to stay away from the abortuary. Abortionist Scott who sustained a broken nose in the [...]
for parole for at least 10 years, for the second-degree murder of her newly-born granddaughter. The child was found buried in a garbage bag in a flower bed in the woman’s garden. An autopsy report showed the cause of death was asphyxiation by strangulation. Imogene Souliere, a registered nurse, had helped her 19-year-old daughter deliver the baby. Renee Souliere had kept her [...]
Pro-lifers across Ontario are now able to get up-to-the moment news and information via a new pro-life telephone hotline. The hotline has been set up by Campaign Life Canada, together with its Ontario co-ordinators, as an experiment. If successful, the hotline will be developed into a national news and information service. Inspiration for the telephone hotline came from a similar service established [...]
During the early part of an evening just two days before Christmas, a message was painted on the door of the Morgentaler abortuary by Anthony Canhoto, a long-time protestor of the abortion clinic. Tony had designed a mono print from a piece of foam rubber that said “murderer” and depicted a hand on either side of the word. He dipped this form [...]
RE: the messenger service There used to be tradition about handling messengers: the bearer of bad news was always killed on the spot, the bearer of good news was usually rewarded. Bad news was regarded as a sort of pollution of disease. Several people have told us lately that they find The Interim depressing to read. Why don’t we, they ask, focus [...]
Depo-Provera, the controversial contraceptive-abortifacient drug, has been given the green light for use in Canada by an advisory committee to the Department of Health and Welfare. However, the Minister of Health, Jake Epp, has said that government approval for the drug is not likely “for some months.” Depo-Provera, manufactured by the Upjohn Company, is a progesterone steroid. It is legally used in [...]
Picketing – walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the abortuary with a placard in your hand – is frustrating work. At times it does not appear to accomplish much and sometimes one wonders about its effectiveness. Picketing is in fact tremendously effective. One need only consider the reaction of the pro-abortionists and the numerous efforts they have made to [...]
The Quebec Coalition for Life petition, which has been in circulation for some months, has now been signed by over a quarter of a million people. Plans are to present it to the Quebec Assembly in March. An intensive effort is now under way to collect as many more signatures as possible in the remaining weeks. Some areas have responded magnificently to [...]
Approximately 100 pro-lifers picketed Premier Peterson at the Liberal policy convention in Windsor on January 25. Unusual and even overwhelming support was offered by passers-by in Windsor. The picketers were cheered-on by most people as they were walking or driving by. In response the protesters distributed 1000 flyers which carried a copy of Premier Peterson’s promise to close the abortuary in Toronto [...]
A Stellarton, Nova Scotia, community worker was fired from her government-funded job after exposing the “radical lesbian feminist” policies of the Pictou County Women’s Centre. Judy Davidson, 39, designed a project to inform the public about all aspects of sexual abuse against women and children. Under the sponsorship of the Pictou County Women’s Centre, the project received government approval and a grant [...]