Once considered one of the best in the world, the Canadian educational system has, over the past 20 years, lost some of its luster. Increasingly, parents are pulling their children from the traditional institutions and educating them at home or in alternative schools. The Interim has asked some of these parents to defend the choices they have made concerning their child’s education. [...]
This is the second installment of Winifride Prestwich’s historical account of world population control The Bucharest Conference on population in 1974 marked a turning point in an international effort by a group of Western nations to impose a long-term plan to control the size of the world population, under the banner of the United Nations. This Conference differed from the two earlier [...]
After years of contraception and abortion, Quebec is said to be trying to raise its birth rate. Are any UN countries having second thoughts about their policies of population control? B.S. Toronto. Singapore is an interesting example, and Japan, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia also come to mind. In 1974, at the Bucharest Conference, the Singapore Minister of Health and Home Affairs said [...]
I am typing this article at a parish in Kimberly, BC, where I have been sitting in for the pastor. During my spare time I have been reading reams about the Cairo conference and it is certainly most discouraging. But then, unexpectedly, good news arrived in the form of Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family newsletter. In it, Dobson severely criticizes [...]
Any pro-lifer who has had to represent the movement in public knows only too well how frustrating it can be. Often a perfectly sound statement has been edited and placed out of context to appear harsh or even ridiculous. There is also a double standard to handle. Pro-life writers or spokespeople are well aware that anything written or said will be scrutinized [...]
It appears pro-life activist Gordon Watson has become a thorn in the side of Everywoman’s Health Centre, East Vancouver’s abortion clinic. At the same time, B.C. Attorney General Colin Gabelmann has sunk so deep in the mud, he seems unable to extricate himself from the sticky situation which has tainted his entire ministry. In April, Gabelmann had submitted a false affidavit which [...]
Twenty-five years after the criminal act of abortion was given a government stamp of legality by then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Justice Minister John Turner, the Liberals met in Ottawa at their biennial Convention. A number of pro-life Liberals became delegates for the mid-May convention in order to remind fellow Liberals of the country’s 25 year legacy of abortion. These same [...]
Going It Alone Unplanned Single Motherhood in Canada Janet Ajzenstat, Elizabeth Cassidy, Elize Carter, Gerald Bierling Human Life Research Institute, 1994 131 pages, $15.00 Order from HLRI (416) 693-7030 Many of the women in Going It Alone say they went on with the pregnancy because they knew they could be good mothers. The researchers observe that, “Their high regard for themselves is [...]
Humanitarian award In Saskatchewan, the Right to Life Committee’s second annual humanitarian award went to Prince Albert’s Holy Family Hospital and the Sisters of Charity who run it. The hospital was also awarded the Kurelek Award, which was presented at the national pro-life convention in Saskatchewan. Holy Family, which for years has had the only maternity ward in the area, has always [...]
I thought I should have a meeting with an NDP member because I had written so many horrible things about them and possibly I didn’t understand their position on killing off the unborn, the handicapped (like Sue Rodriguez) and any old people who golfed over 120. (Their score not their age). I was able to obtain a meeting with “Shamus McGroarty,” a [...]
Is politically correctness on the way out? Have its proponents finally out-done themselves? These were two questions posed to delegates at the traditional banquet concluding the annual pro-life conference, Lifesavers ’94, sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition and Alliance for Life. Well known columnist, editor and publisher, Link Byfield took his audience, step by step, through the political correctness movement, from its beginning [...]
In April, the pro-life movement marked 25 years of legalized abortion by placing signs and placing crosses on church lawns in memory of the millions of lost lives. The gravity of the event was marked with respect and most of the signs and crosses were left untouched. There were, however, some instances of vandalism which were not lost on pro-life leaders. One [...]
“It is not within the competence of the United Nations to re-define this institution, which is hallowed in Christianity and Islam.” Those who oppose the mandate of the United Nations Cairo Conference on Population and Development have gained a powerful ally. Until recently, the Vatican and several South American and Africana countries have stood alone in expressing any criticism of the anti-family [...]
Apart from UNICEF which we know already, which other agencies or departments of the UN will be promoting population control measures at the Cairo conference? As one example, and using information taken directly from UN sources, we note that in 1989-90, the UN, INUCEF, UNFPA, UNESCO, ILO and WHO all cooperated in providing funds and aid for male and female sterilizations in [...]
Analysis In April of this year, the United Nations saw a protracted verbal battle between Canada, the United States, the UN Fund for Population Activities and their allies on one side, and most of Latin America and Africa and their allies (including the Holy See) on the other. Fred Sai, head of International Planned Parenthood, an official at UNFPA and the head [...]