Toronto Two priests and a bus driver say they would rather go to jail than pay a $750 fine for protesting outside the Morgentaler “clinic”. Judge A. E. Carlton described the men as “pillars of the community” but said the “severe” penalty was justified. “If they decided that the law is not to their liking, then they have to stand the consequences,” [...]
On August 25, Joe Bissonnette, a 26-year-old teacher and pro-life activist, told Toronto Provincial Court Judge Sydney Harris that he would not pay “a dime” of the $400 he was fined for “trespassing” at Morgentaler’s abortuary in May. Mr. Bissonnette, wearing a T-shirt which compared slavery to abortion, said outside the courtroom, “If I were to pay the fine, I would be [...]
“Campaign Life Coalition has been working since January 1988 to get a full protection law,” said Jim Hughes, president of pro-life political arm. “Pro-lifers on the grassroots level are asked to intensify their efforts to make their MP aware that we will accept nothing less than full protection.” Hughes was speaking at a Campaign Life Coalition, all-day provincial strategy session at the [...]
On August 23, 1989, a grandmother of 80 years, a 76-year old priest and 11 youths under 18 were among 91 people arrested for peacefully blocking access to the Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary. What made that sweet grandma and others face criminal charges? Criminal charges for a sit-in? Yes! What was trespass has been, since May 5, contempt of an Ontario Supreme Court [...]
After five days of argument, the B.C. Industrial Relations Council decided to exempt two Catholic teachers, Nancy and Justin Wasilifsky, from membership in the North Vancouver Teachers’ Association and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. They objected to union policy statements supporting Planned Parenthood and abortion. The IRE stated: “If the depth of an individual’s religious beliefs has a profound impact on the way [...]
According to a confidential source at the Greater Niagara General Hospital in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in mid-July a 16-to-18-week-old baby girl weighing one-half pound received no care and died two hours after birth. The mother did not want to see her baby. Hospital staff were advised that a death certificate had been issued and that the infant was buried from Henry’s Funeral [...]
Our family goes on holiday the last two weeks in August. We go to a cottage where we have no television, a radio that strangely only plays classical music, and my newspaper addiction is restricted to the Ottawa Citizen. It was a shock to return home on Labour Day weekend to find that friends had been in jail in Toronto for over [...]
Frank Mountain is going back to school this fall to teach history and religion to his grade eight kids at Frank Ryan Senior Elementary School in Ottawa. After 33 years of teaching full-time, he’ll mornings only this year because of his new way of life. He’s in a wheelchair now, the result of a serious car accident on June 5, 1988, when [...]
Introduction One of the reasons why people believe in abortion is that they think that it is necessary to control population growth. In Newsletter No. 25 I sought to show that population growth is not in fact responsible for the problems attributed to it. Policies of population control will not only solve these problems; in many cases they will make them worse. [...]
First of two parts There are three major arguments used to sell sex education: - society is full of Victorian and religious hand-ups about sex. If kids can learn early to accept and enjoy sex, we’ll have a less violent society. – kids will have sex, no matter what we tell them. – now we have AIDS, the need for sex education [...]
In the middle of the Daigle controversy at the end of July, a full-page appeared in Journal de Montreal. It showed a pair of hands cupped around a candle flame and protecting it; the only word of text was a name – “Chantal.” Without actually saying it, the picture asked a question: is the flame going to be kept alive, or is [...]
AT HOME Putting the brakes to sex-ed Trustees on the Academic Affaires Committee of the Metro (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB) voted July 4 to delay implementation of the grades 3 and 4 section of the "Fully Alive" sex-ed program, despite the call from Trustee Fr. Tom Day to push it through sight unseen. Careful killing The Law Reform Commission’s report Crimes [...]
Former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin talks to TheMark.com about abortion and maternal health. He starts off well enough clarifying a matter that many people do not understand: abortions in the developing world are not done in safe conditions because few are performed in hospitals or by doctors. In that sense, it is like any surgery that is performed in unhygienic conditions with few modern technologies and [...]
The official website of The Interim, a highly respected Canadian monthly newspaper. We are committed to providing in-depth analysis of life, family, politics, and culture, publishing news, reports, commentary, and reviews on a variety of interesting topics. While we cover numerous subjects that may interest you, we understand that our readers also value information about leisure activities. That's why we eagerly explore [...]
During the month of July, Canada’s media headlined the Dodd-Daigle injunctions, interviews and court cases, and overwhelmed the country with their pro-abortion slanted articles, editorials and columnists. During the same month pro-lifers had their own injunctions, and court-appearances, which went mostly unreported of, received brief local coverage only. On Monday, June 26, Marc Somerville, Cambridge, Ont. Lawyer for abortion doctors Norman Assad [...]