On February 15, the Ontario Police Commission overturned a decision by the Toronto board of Police Commissioner. The latter had upheld the finding of a lower disciplinary tribunal that Constable David Packer had been guilty of insubordination and should resign or be fired for refusing to guard the Morgentaler abortuary in Toronto. Demotion and resignation The OPC did agree that Packer had [...]
In this issue, The Interim’s Dr. David Dooley reviews the much-hailed film “The Handmaid’s Tale” It is closely based on a book by Margeret Atwood – grande dame of the ‘Can Lit’ (Canadian literature) establishment. Like the late Marion Engel and Margaret Laurence and others who make up the elite of Canadian writers, Atwood’s anti-life ideology is self0evident. The Handmaid’s Tale, in [...]
“And now Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life… “Keep them, observe them and they will demonstrate to the peoples your wisdom…” (Deut 4:1, 5) Easter tells us that God who created the world also intervened through Christ, God the on, to save mankind from its own created [...]
Smack in the middle of the avalanche of good news pouring out of Eastern Europe comes the report that Romanian women are having their unborn babies killed by the tens of thousands. The ban on abortions that had been put in place by the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, executed shortly after Christmas 1989, was recently lifted by the new authorities. It’s an [...]
Halifax On February 20, researchers and doctors here announced their intention to implant brain cells from aborted fetuses (babies) into the brains of adults with Parkinson’s Disease. They claim it will greatly reduce the symptoms of this progressive and quite debilitating neural disease. Victoria General Victoria General, the first hospital in Canada to undertake the procedure, will set up a trial program [...]
A pro-life nurse in Terrace B.C. has been accused of unethical and unprofessional behavior and breach of confidentiality, and faces possible disciplinary action from her professional association, the Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia (RNABC). Isobel Brophy will go before a three-member panel of her peers on may 7 to answer to these allegations. If the panel, a quasi-judicial body, rules against [...]
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Macdonell sentenced Laird Swanson, 31, to six months in prison March 2 for blocking access to injunction-protected Everywoman’s Health Centre, Vancouver’s only private abortuary. Justice Macdonell handed down concurrent six-month sentences for two separate incidents of trespassing on the abortuary property. His harsh penalty duplicates the one meted out to James Hanlon, a Langley, B.C. rescuer. Twenty-three pro-lifers [...]
On February 22, as part of his effort to reduce federal spending and he burgeoning debt, Finance Minister Michael Wilson included a few budget cutbacks for women’s centres, programs and publications, amounting to $1.6 million. The Secretary of Stat’s Department, for example, eliminated financing for three feminist magazines – Resources for Feminist Research, Canadian Women’s Studies Journal and Health Sharing. It also [...]
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney continues to appoint to key positions people who believe that government should endorse women’s choice to kill pre-born children. At the end of February, Mr. Mulroney shuffled his Cabinet, naming Vancouver’s Kim Campbell as Minister of Justice. The 42-year-old MP (Vancouver Centre) and lawyer, was elected in 1988 after earlier bolting BC’s Social Credit Party. She replaces Douglas [...]
Chantal Daigle, the woman whose determination to abort her 22-week-old unborn baby despite a court injunction obtained by the child’s father, led to an unprecedented special recall of the Supreme Court of Canada last summer, is back in the news. She has re-emerged at the center of a multi-media publicity campaign to hype a book about her abortion experience. Daigle held a [...]
Halifax. In March, the Status of Women released a report indicating that sex education in Nova Scotia is woefully inadequate. Predictably, the women recommend a great increase in programs of the Planned Parenthood type and in family planning clinics across the province. Nova Scotia’s pro-life groups had already been busily promoting chastity. In late 1989, they assisted in the establishment of Pro-Life [...]
Joanne Dieleman, innkeeper of the new Way Inn, waited alone Friday afternoon, February 16, 1990, in the hope that some of “the old faithful” from Harbord Street (Morgentaler’s abortuary) would drop in. A few had come earlier in the week, but where was everyone today, the last day of “Open House week”? Three weeks before she had mailed out many letters telling [...]
We have seen that starvation is the ‘prescription of choice’ for many Canadian doctors and hospitals; a simple, effective way of easing patients into death. Of course, we oppose it. But what do we do about it? First, as pro-lifers, we have to make sure where we stand. Many “authoritative sources” tell us that our zeal is misplaced; that, instead of protecting [...]
Mr. Justice George Walsh declined February 13 to stop Mississauga, Ontario resident Samantha Allison, 20, from getting an abortion. Allison’s boyfriend, Terrence Banting, was seeking an injunction against the abortion in the Supreme Court of Ontario. Having heard lawyer Angela Costigan argue in Banting’s favour, Justice Walsh curtly dismissed the application for standing, saying Mr. Banting has no right to intervene. “I [...]
Pro-life demonstrators provided a counterweight to a widely-publicized pro-abortion rally held February 10 in the council chamber of Toronto’s City Hall. Questions put to the pro-abortion speakers were answered with cries of ‘fascists,’ ‘male chauvinists’ and gutter language. City alderman Jack Layton had issued a call for supporters of abortion on demand to assemble in the City Hall Council chamber to voice [...]