The latest incident of violence against a member of the B.C. medical profession highlights the sorry state of west coast reporting. In early April, Dr. Michael Roburn, a Vancouver psychiatrist, was stabbed in the chest after confronting an arsonist who was trying to throw a Molotov cocktail into his house. Roburn’s attack follows on the heels of last fall’s shooting of abortionist [...]
Thanks to a concerted U.S. boycott, a movie which depicts five Catholic priests in a scandalous light appears to be heading for a box office and public relations disaster. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the American Life League have co-sponsored a boycott of the Walt Disney Company, which owns Miramax, the studio which released Priest. Catholic groups were [...]
Japan has come up with a series of guidelines regulating euthanasia which does nothing but further confuse an already confusing issue. The International Right to Life’s Weekly Review reports that in late March, the Yokohama District Court determined that euthanasia would be legally permissible “where a patient suffers unbearable physical pain, all measures to eliminate pain have been exhausted, death is inevitable [...]
The American Life League’s newsletter communiqué reports that Alice Ruiz Hanna who owns an abortuary in Orange County, Florida, has been sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for causing the death of Angela Sanchez. Sanchez, a mother of four, was killed along with her baby during the abortion. **** Thomas Tucker, the practitioner who performed more than 7,000 abortions annually [...]
An organization which has saved hundreds of babies from the jaws of death, marks a decade of fighting abortion on the frontlines “In as much as you did unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.” Matt. 25:40 Choose Life Canada was founded by the Reverend Ken Campbell on December 10, 1984, the day criminal abortions were [...]
Gibbons could face second consecutive six-month sentence Ken Campbell calls her “The Corrie Ten Boom Heroine of the Decade.” Linda Gibbons is following the example of Corrie Ten Boom’s response to Hitler’s holocaust, by risking her life and liberty in a courageous, Christian response to Canada’s “Baby Holocaust.” Linda, a grandmother of four, has been incarcerated since early September. On September 2, [...]
I am the Child. You hold in your hand my destiny. You determine, largely, whether I shall succeed or fail. Give me, I pray you, those things that make for happiness. Train me, I beg you, that I may be a blessing to the world. Excerpted from The Child’s Appeal, by Mamie Gene Cole Sister Margaret Laffey Special to The Interim Every [...]
The Toronto Sun’s Sunday Magazine of March 26 carried an article entitled ‘No Girls Allowed.” We have all heard of the custom in China and other Eastern countries of killing baby girls—even after birth—as boys are a financial asset to the family, while girls are the opposite. According to statistics given in the article there are some 38 million more men then [...]
Today’s youth are exposed to so many issues. They get involved in things which sometimes lead to unbearable and uncontrollable problems. Constantly required to make decisions, their choices are not often the best. How do we help teens with the problems they face? If we ignore them, we make the problem worse. One of the biggest issues that teens face is pregnancy. [...]
Providence center’s Dr. Ian Ferguson ensures that depression does not affect an elderly patient’s treatment Looking more like a funky film animator then a psychiatrist, Dr Ian Ferguson appears too boyish, even at 45, to be specializing in geriatrics. With his own lively mind, he treats patient suffering from dementia. Even though many of his clients display some behaviors that are ‘disinhibited,’ [...]
Don Pennell answers the critics on the feasibility of running pro-life candidates in the upcoming Ontario elections Don Pennel Leader of the Family Coalition Party of Ontario is gearing his party up for the upcoming provincial election. (No definite date has been announced by press time.) In this candid and forthright interview, Mr. Pennel gives an overview of the pending Ontario election. [...]
It was August of this year when I finally got around to visiting the Windsor Casino in Windsor, Ontario, in order to bring the readers of The Interim the reason why 14,000 gamblers (called casino customers) blow $419,000 per day to beat actuarially impossible odds. I think they are going to make a film about it called Blind Optimism. Passing the strict [...]
Ontario’s new Consent to Treatment Act could create havoc with the treatment doctors and healthcare workers are able to provide. Already, one doctor has shut down her clinic saying that the legislation has makes it impossible for her to care for her patients. “I’m not going to open my clinic until somebody sorts this around,” said Dr. Lynne Margesson in an April [...]
Mr. Justice George Adams’ decision not to order the Ontario government to pay the legal costs of the pro-life picketers is nothing less than a stroke against democracy. The case is the one in which the Ontario government is seeking an injunction to ban all pro-life activity at 23 locations across the province. Last August, Judge Adams granted an injunction that was [...]
Several dozen demonstrators lined the walkway of the church where hundreds of pro-lifers were gathered to pray for an end to abortion. As I walked the gauntlet, their unison chant, “bring back the lions” hit me and bounced off. Safely inside, the full significance of their refrain sunk in. A little later, I spoke candidly on the radio, admitting that when I [...]