Pierre Lacroix, a charismatic Roman Catholic Quebec lay evangelist, accused in 1989 of having sexual relations with minors, was exonerated of these charges after two boys admitted perjuring themselves. Lacroix, his wife and children suffered a great deal during this ordeal of false accusations. Some of his supporters thought at the time of his arrest that he was being framed in order [...]
The airwaves may be public property in Canada, but the Christian view is effectively censored in a medium dominated by humanism, argues Canadian Christians Concerned About media (CCCAM), a newly founded Vancouver-based organization. A CCCAM delegation headed by broadcaster Gloria Kieler went before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in the first week of March. She presented a full dossier of [...]
In January of this year the Gay and Lesbian Association of the University of Toronto (GLAUT) filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission alleging discrimination on the part of The Mike, an independent newspaper, for failing to publish its “Homo-Hop” ad. (See April Interim) The Mike had several discussions with a representative of the Commission, and after this discussion, an [...]
In the September 1989 issue, The Interim reported on a program originating from the radio station at Ottawa’s Carleton University. It featured the views of a pederastic group, the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). A spokesman for the U.S. group stated that the rights of children are being abused when they are not allowed to express their “sexuality” and “explore relationships [...]
On March 30,1990, Justice Minister Kim Campbell announced that the government would not entertain any amendments from the House of Commons Abortion Committee. Immediately thereafter, some prominent Quebecors, including the president of Campagne-Vie Quebec, wrote Bishop Lebel, President of the CCCB. They repeated certain objections to the Bill from a natural law and moral point of view. They also pointed out that [...]
Sex discrimination and abortion in South Korea On December 26, the Globe and Mail reprinted an item from the Economist saying that the stork was delivering fewer girls in South Korea. In 1980 there were 79 men in the country for every 100 women. By 2000 there will be 120 men to 100 women. Lee Hee Baik, a professor in the graduate [...]
A month after his wife Ann began breast cancer treatment last fall, head of the Hemlock Society and the best known euthanasia advocate in the U.S.A., left her and thereby shook the confidence of his organization, American Life League (ALL) News for March 6 reports. Humphry was removed from Hemlock’s board in early January, although he continues to hold office as the [...]
How do we reply to the argument that, in a democracy, issues such as abortion and euthanasia should be decided by public opinion? J.S., Toronto, Ontario The democratic legal system aims at justice for all people. Unfortunately, as history shows as in Nazi Germany and the oppression of black people in the U.S.A., public opinion can run counter to democracy. A basic [...]
On Mother’s Day this year, Pat (Patricia) Gerretsen, 49, wife of Peter Gerretsen and co-partner in the firm of Gerretsen Film Productions, will be at home with her husband and children. Last year on Mother’s day she was in hospital recovering from neurosurgery, but afterward she suffered a stroke. Pat spent last summer and fall in hospital recovering from the effects and [...]
About 100 outraged parents demonstrated outside the St. Albert Separate School board office March 14 to protest the installment of condom machines in the system’s two high schools. St. Albert is one of the few places in Western Canada where the separate school is not for Catholics but for Protestants. According to Peter Heaton, a spokesman for PAVE (Parents Advocating Values Education), [...]
On January 30 the Ontario Court of Appeal declared that “mandatory religious education in the province’s public elementary schools [is] unconstitutional.” It struck down the portion of the law that requires religious instruction in the regular curriculum of public elementary schools. This judgment was viewed as a cause for celebration by the Canadian Jewish News and the three principal newspapers. These papers [...]
Late in March, The Interim received a letter from one of the two Canadians jailed in what has been called the first “detention camp” for rescuers in the U.S. We reprint excerpts here. Letter from prison Today [March 21] marks the fourth week of our internment, following our arrest on February 21 at the Women’s Health Centre in Burlington. I say illegal, [...]
In early April King Baudouin of Belgium was forced to abdicate for 48 hours. The government used this time to go through a constitutional signing procedure invented for the occasion to circumvent the need for obtaining a royal signature on the bill legalizing abortion; the King had refused to sign. Thus the world was given another example of how legalizing the killing [...]
“We’re signing up as many people as we can,” said Liberals for Life spokesman Dan McCash in early February. “I think people will be quite shocked by how effective we are.” The powers-that-be kept grinning until the startling news that Liberals for Life in Peterborough, Ontario, had flooded the Liberal riding association with 350 new members. Liberals beware The grinning faded and [...]
Operation Rescue pierced the habitual media blackout of U.S. pro-life action in 1988-89, but things returned to the status quo in 1990. News of the sacrifices of bishops, aborted women and others has been completely suppressed. In January 1990 Bishop Austin Vaughan was jailed in Albany, New York, for two weeks. Although Bp. Vaughan was the first bishop in the history of [...]