Campaign Life members and the Renfrew County Right to Life group picketed Premier David Peterson as he attended a Liberal fund-raising dinner at The Place in Pembroke, Ontario on February 5. The 30 pro-life picketers were joined by 50 doctors who set up their own picket line to protest a ban on extra billing. With the arrival of the doctors, the pro-life [...]
Attorney-General Ian Scott and Premier David Peterson use an identical standard form letter in replying to citizens who write to them demanding that the Morgentaler abortuary be closed. The letter is carefully crafted to support the claim “We are doing everything we can do to enforce the law.” In fact, the provincial government is steadfastly refusing to take the one course of [...]
The Winnipeg Free Press of December 30, 1985 reported that the co-administrator of the Morgentaler Clinic in Winnipeg, Suzanne Newman, felt that Henry Morgentaler should take a back seat from now on because her boss generated so much bad publicity and angered so many Manitobans. Abortions have not been done at the Winnipeg abortuary since March 1985. According to Newman, Morgentaler alienated [...]
(Editor’s note: There has been much controversy about the position of the Anglican Church on abortion. The following is an attempt, by means of examining the original documents, to allow everyone to examine the matter and draw the proper conclusions.) The current position on abortion of the Anglican Church stems from 1967. That year, the General Synod (the legislative body of the [...]
A new kind of activism has been evident in the Canadian pro-life movement over the past year. Each month, The Interim has reported on the court cases of picketers, on the efforts of sidewalk counselors, on sit ins (both in the Harbord Street abortuary itself and in the Ontario legislature), and on the constant picketing of premier David Peterson – a persistent [...]
St. Michael’s Choir School has long been renowned as the most famous choir school in Canada. The school was founded in 1937 by Msgr. J.E. Ronan to provide a choir for the liturgical services of St. Michael’s Cathedral. It began with 18 boys and now has over 400 students. The school begins at Grade Three and from that year to the last [...]
On February 3, pro-life picketer, Francisco Ganhao was found guilty of causing a disturbance by shouting at the back of the abortuary, was given a suspended sentence and ordered to stay away from the abortuary for two years. Last August 1, Francisco Ganaho, Father Lawrence Abello and Sonja Holtforster were charged with causing a disturbance. Father Abello was found not guilty in [...]
On February 13, pro-life picketer Padrig Omathuna was given a conditional discharge and ordered to stay away from the abortuary for six months as a result of an assault charge laid by Toronto Police. David Butt, a part-time Morgentaler employee, the man who actually committed the assault, was acquitted of the same charge laid by way of a private information by the [...]
On September 23, 1985, Ontario Provincial Court Judge Arthur Meen stated: And it was not as though those human lives were being taken lawfully, for in fact, the Clinic was operating outside the law, and such was therefore murder. The irony of this entire matter is that, on the one hand we have a clinic performing abortions openly, blatantly and outside the [...]
Out-of-town newspaper reports of the February 10, l986 decision to acquit relied entirely on the Canadian Press. CP apparently issued two reports, one written from the pro-abortionists’ point of view. This led to such headings as “Pro-choice groups protect judge’s bias” (Hamilton Spectator); “Pro-choicers irate over acquittal” (London free Press); “Acquittal of abortion protestors will lead to intimidation: Activist” (Montreal Gazette. The [...]
On February 10, three clergymen, who locked the back gate of the abortuary last October, were acquitted of three separate charges of “Mischief against private property.” Ontario Provincial Court Judge Lorenzo DiCecco accepted the defence of “legal justification” reporting in his decision that: Mr. Paul Dodds, Counsel for the defendants, intimated that his clients acted with legal justification and are protected by [...]
On Wednesday, February 12, at 7:30 a.m., two days after his acquittal of mischief, Father Ted Colleton, 72, tried to lock the gates at Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary. Father Ted, a member of the editorial board of The Interim, was thwarted in his attempt by four burly policemen who prevented him from reaching the gates but did not lay charges. Father Colleton rebuked [...]
The world’s longest skating rink was the scene on the evening of February 4 when Action Life put picketers on skates and sent them after Premier Peterson. This innovative scheme was planned after a large ad in the Citizen invited the residents of Ottawa to go skating with the Premier. Action Life accepted the invitation – picket signs and all. About fifteen [...]