Omaha, Nebraska – As a finale to the 25th celebration of Pope Paul VI’s famous encyclical Humane Vitae, a fine concert was held in the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The music was superb but thunderous applause awaited the appearance of a little 16-year-old with a beautiful voice and a stunning message. Her birth mother chose a saline abortion in the [...]
Another shooting of an abortionist in America has prompted calls for tough legislation against pro-lifers on the streets. The media, along with many pro-abortion groups, have used the incident in an effort to step up pressure against pro-life activity. Dr. George Tiller, a late-term abortionist who works at an abortion centre in Wichita, was wounded slightly in both arms by the shooting [...]
The president and vice-president of the United States might have been squirming in the face of the world’s great moral leader, but the hundred of thousands of pilgrims who went to be with Pope John Paul II couldn’t get enough of him. The Holy Father spent four days in Denver for what many young pilgrims say was the event of their lifetimes. [...]
Roy Slater died August 14, naturally and with dignity. His life and his death stand in direct contradiction to those who would terminate the lives of people like him. Slater suffered from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) which was diagnosed in 1981. At the time he was given 15 months to live. He proved the experts wrong, however, living for another 12 years [...]
Reform Party leader Preston Manning has come up with a law-and-order proposal which seems to have pushed the right buttons with some party supporters. As I understand it from media reports, he is proposing to make parents responsible for the damage caused by criminal acts of their adolescent children, where it can be demonstrated that lack of parental control contributed to the [...]
As this issue of The Interim went to press, news came in of the Canadian Medical Association’s annual meeting, where a discussion on euthanasia took place and a new survey on doctors’ attitudes to the practice was released. To pro-life eyes, perhaps the most shocking result of the survey was the way in which the media distorted survey findings. Our report of [...]
Nine people arrested for civil disobedience outside the Morgentaler abortion clinic in Nova Scotia last October hope their case will become pivotal in the abortion debate in this country. Anne Marie Tomlins, one of the rescuers arrested, says the group faces charges of public mischief which could lead to six months in jail or a $2,000 fine. They declined to plead guilty [...]
Heather Stilwell thinks Canadians should decide for themselves who they listen to in political debates. The leader of the Christian Heritage Party says her party’s point of view, which is unique among the established political parties, should be offered to the electorate during a national debate. “What are they afraid of,” Stilwell said in a recent interview. “We’re more of a national [...]
Five pro-lifers in British Columbia faced charges for activities outside a Vancouver abortuary at the end of August. The pro-life trails coincide with the court hearings for the environmental protests in the Clayoquot Sound region of the province. The anti-logging activists received international attention for their attempts to save the old-growth forests in the western part of Vancouver Island. Many pro-lifers are [...]
Victoria, B.C. marks end of cross-Canada walk for Ontario woman On August 6, Therese Weiler put her foot into the Pacific Ocean and hurled the stone she had been carrying for nine months into the sea. The mother of six from Hanover, Ontario had just finished her “Walk for Life” across Canada, from Newfoundland to Victoria. She did it, she says, to [...]
The American Congress has stunned many observers by voting to continue the ban on Medicaid funding of abortion. The vote is regarded as a defeat for President Bill Clinton who is a supporter of abortion on demand, and it came as a surprise because Congress is controlled by Democrats. It will no doubt be seen by many as a pro-life victory. I [...]
B.C. bishop opens pro-life office; Sask. Hospital under fire The Archdiocese of Vancouver has launched a major new strategy to revitalize a dormant Catholic population on pro-life issues. Vancouver Archbishop Adam Exner said the reason the area needs a new push is “because our past efforts have not, as we are painfully aware, been sufficient to halt the murder by abortion of [...]
When the editor of this paper asked me to address this question, I knew it would be presumptuous to expect all pro-lifers to agree with me. Over the last 20 years, the purists and the pragmatists among us have had our differences, and I know that there will be as many sincere, dedicated warriors who disagree with me as there are those [...]
Since the first abortion law passed in this country in 1969, Canada has not had a pro-life federal political leader in politics. A generation of politicians has come and gone, many of whom claimed to be pro-life, and yet we have virtually abortion on demand. And now another election approaches this fall and members of the pro-life movement ask themselves what the [...]
“We now turn away from the checkered spectacle of so much glory and so much shame.” ….Lord Macaulay Fifty one years ago on August 19, 1942, the Battle of Dieppe, the most tragic single day in Canada’s military history, sparked a controversy which has still not been resolved. On that fateful day, the Allied Force, which included approximately 5,000 Canadians, attacked the [...]