Queen’s Park Ont Bob Rae’s shocked attitude towards his recent electoral defeat had him wringing his hands and asking how could they do this to me after all I’ve done for them? This has been the longest time in between elections that I have ever experienced. It has only been four and half years since David Peterson’s Liberals bit the dust but [...]
In spite of the best efforts of the social engineers, Canada’s A-generation of children, born in the era of legalized abortion, is not turning out as officially expected. Artificial contraception, abortion and other trappings of the “sexual revolution” have seriously undermined the traditional family and destroyed the major source of unconditional love and acceptance necessary for healthy development. Thrust unprepared and defenceless [...]
Why is it that for any demonstration on behalf of a “left wing” cause, the same mob of hoodlums shows up? David Dooley explains. Rent-a-mob is a term used by Peter Simple, the pseudonym of a London (England) Telegraph columnist. For any demonstration on behalf of a “left wing” cause – be it against nuclear power stations or in favour of animal [...]
The election of Mike Harris’ Conservative party in Ontario has serious implications for both family life and the defence of the unborn children. Harris’ platform calls for a fundamental shift of wealth and power in the province. A keystone of his campaign was a promise to cut provincial income taxes by 30 percent, a promise which will put thousands of extra dollars [...]
“A precedent-setting victory for the Canadian unborn,” said Campaign Life Coaltion PEI President Paul Cheverie when the Nova Scotia Supreme Court squashed criminal charges against himself and eight other pro-lifers. The nine included Cheverie and Kenneth Biso of Prince Edward Island, Ann Marie Tomlins of Borden, Ontario, and Ellen Chesel, Paul Morre, Noreen Moser, Pauline Mullen, Sharon Keddy, and Anne Ashford-Hall, al [...]
Seven senators sat in a committee in Ottawa for 15 months, hearing from 150 witnesses, reading over 300 briefs, only to conclude that the law is too harsh on those convicted of killing the terminally ill or disabled. No doubt there are many who will read those words and accuse The Interim of deliberately distorting a sensitive issue, of not showing compassion [...]
To Ontario pro-life voters, the main task of the June 8 provincial election was to get rid of the New Democrats. It seemed this was uppermost in the minds of all voters as Mike Harris and the Progressive Conservatives were swept into Queen’s Park with a strong mandate to clean up the five year mess left by the NDP. Harris’ tough talk [...]
Though not all completely agree with his method, Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition are making important politicians stop and listen. Congressman pondered legislation, he first had to curry favour with one of the huge Washington lobby groups: the National Rifle Association, the Manufacturers Association or the National Organization of Women. Now there’s a new player making waves in political circles. Ralph [...]
Interim readers will recall the attack on pro-lifers at a Mother’s Day shower outside Vancouver General Hospital in 1992. Some of the perpetrators in the attack were members of the BC Coalition for Abortion Clinics. Police recommended charges but Crown counsel refused. Yet the provincial government of Mike Harcourt felt that the BC Coalition should have access to a private investigative firm [...]
In what well may be summed up as a typically Canadian compromise, the Senate Committee on euthanasia has managed to issue a report which pleases neither pro-life and disability-advocate groups, nor the pro-radicals. The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide was sharply split, narrowly voting to recommend that both voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide remain illegal in Canada. It was [...]
Fifty years after the liberation of Europe from the Nazis, the struggle to protect life continues unabated. In the victorious democracies, Judeo-Christian based morality has been subverted by a specious amorality based on reason. Individual responsibility has been expropriated by relentless increase of government control over all aspects of human life: in who will be born, and whether someone’s quality of life [...]
The controversy surrounding the United Nation’s Children’s Fund has deepened with the appointment of a long-time abortion advocate as its new director. Carol Bellamy, a state senator from New York, has been named the new director of UNICEF despite heated criticisms from pro-family circles. The U.S. Catholic newspaper The Wanderer reports that Cong. Chris Smith (R. N.J.), chairman of the House Sub-committee [...]
The Canadian point of view at a recent UN meeting preparing for the Beijing Women’s Conference held that men, in particular, are responsible for all violence, injustices and oppression against women In 1924, The Department of Health for the Dominion of Canada published The Canadian Mother’s Book. Consider the high esteem in which the government used to regard the family: “The greatest [...]
“Seventy-five percent of marriages in North America are blessed by a pastor, priest or rabbi,” Mike McMannue, a nationally syndicated columnist and former Time correspondent, notes in his book. Marriage Savers. Therefore “the church bears a tremendous responsibility in preparing couples not for weddings which last a day, but for marriage which lasts a lifetime.” About fifteen years ago, clergy and counselors [...]
Despite disruption, controversial pro-life group concludes successful convention About 1,500 delegates from around the world attended Human Life International’s 14th annual world conference on life, love and family at the Hotel Radisson in Montreal between April 19-23. The delegates heard from a number of prominent speakers, including Randall Terry, James Sedlak, Jim Hughes and Dr. Donald DeMarco. Although the conference was met [...]