Question: How can I acquaint my junior high schooler with the need for responsible behaviour throughout his life? He is desperately in need of this understanding. Dr. Dobson: The overall objective during the preadolescent period is to teach the child that his actions have inevitable consequences. One of the most serious casualties in a permissive society is the failure to connect those [...]
By: Frank Kennedy Laying off 387 nurses at the Toronto General Hospital! Heaven’s to Betsy – what were those nurses doing!? Weren’t they doing something? I mean ‘something.’ They couldn’t of all been discussing last night’s horrible dates. I know they all enjoy a bit of chin-wagging at their stations- but surely some of the 387 nurses turned up occasionally to check [...]
By: Charles Moore Every year the debate over displaying Christian symbols in schools and on public property at Christmas heats up a little more. Some members of non-Christian religions, especially the “religion” of secular humanism, believe that items like crèche dioramas somehow represent a violation of their civil rights. There’s something surreal about the assertion that Christ should not be acknowledged in [...]
Not to be a grinch at this festive time of year, but an item in some southern Ontario newspapers in late November was cause for concern. The item referred to police warning to abortion-providers to be extra vigilant against possible attacks, presumably from those opposed to abortion. The occasion for the warning was the first anniversary of the wounding of an abortionist [...]
Pro-life activist Father Ted Colleton has been known to draw on other sources when preparing his regular column for The Interim. Perhaps in this season of giving, it is appropriate that we draw on Father Ted for a reflection on the Christmas season. The following passage about the family is taken from an audio cassette prepared by Gather Ted on the real [...]
Interim Staff Liberal MP Albina Guarnieri is not giving up in her fight to introduce legislation she hopes will eliminate “volume discount” sentencing. Guarnieri (Mississauga East) first presented private member’s bill C-321 (formerly C-274) in May. It calls for Criminal Code changes which would end the practice of concurrent sentencing for serial rapists and multiple murderers. Concurrent sentencing allows these criminals to [...]
Interim Special United Nations - The Vatican mission to the United Nations is withdrawing symbolic contributions to UNICEF, saying the U.N children’s charity supports birth control programs and abortion advocacy. In a November 6 statement, the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family said it has uncovered evidence of UNICEF promoting abortifacients and other contraceptive measures. The Vatican also cited UNICEF’s efforts to [...]
Many directors of crisis pregnancy centres across Canada have wanted an all Canadian organization to support their efforts. Now they have one. On September 24 The Christian Association of Pregnancy Support Services (CAPSS) was launched. A group of 12 leaders met over two days to design the new organization. They created a council composed of representatives from British Columbia to New Brunswick. [...]
Pro-life and pro-family advocates who have long felt they’ve been getting a raw deal from the mainstream news media received ample support for their views from most of a panel of journalists at the recent Ernscliffe College Media Seminar in Toronto. Panelists including McLaughlin Group debater Fred Barnes, Canadian Press general manager James Poling and Canadian Society of Magazine Editors president Alex [...]
SCARBOROUGH- Refining tactics for the next federal election is a top priority for Campaign Life Coalition according to delegates at CLC’s national strategy meeting in November 15-17 in Scarborough. Nearly 70 delegates from across the country gathered to discuss priorities and concerns during the three-day meeting. With talk of a federal election in the wind, delegates shared ideas on making protection of [...]
Interim Staff Pro-Life organizations give qualified support to a call by Reform leader Preston Manning that the Canadian Constitution be amended to protect the unborn children from abortion. Speaking in British Columbia in late October, Manning said he favors a law allowing a national referendum on abortion, euthanasia and other moral issues. He added, however, that he was expressing his own views [...]
Charlottetown, PEI – Planned Parenthood wants to re-open here after an abrupt departure 13 years ago. “If ever there was a place that needed Planned Parenthood, it’s PEI,” declared a fund raising letter circulated nationally this summer by Bonnie Johnson, the Federation’s Executive Director. An astute BC recipient promptly faxed the letter the REAL Women’s national leaders, who alerted the PER chapter. [...]
A Walkerton, Ontario woman’s decision 22 years ago to carry an unplanned pregnancy to term is today paying tremendous dividends in terms of happiness and personal fulfillment. The story of Jeannie Hedley and her biological son Greg Tremblay is a valuable reminder of the role of adoption as a life-affirming alternative to abortion. In the late summer of 1973, 17 year-old Jeannie [...]
The pro-life Christian Heritage Party is rebounding after several years of declining membership as it prepares for a federal election campaign expected next year, says its leader. “We are growing rapidly overall, most rapidly in Quebec, which is a very encouraging development,” says Ron Gray. “We’re attracting disaffected Reformers who are fed up with the political correctness beginning to seep in since [...]
U.S. clerics are keeping up the heat on President Bill Clinton for his spring veto of a Congressional ban on partial-birth abortion. During a July 11 Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Cardinal John O’Connor called on the Congress to override the Clinton veto. He also described partial-birth abortion as “infanticide.” The Mass was celebrated as part of the [...]