Children! Attention, please! How do the federal Liberals know when to call an election? Morgy?” “Whenever they feel like it, sir” “Wrong, Morgy! Sit down! The Liberals call an election when they think they can win. Everybody should know that.” “But usually, children, it’s when the polls are favorable to Liberals – when the Tories don’t have enough members in Parliament to [...]
VANCOUVER – A report in Western Report magazine suggests Catholic bishops are stepping up their efforts against abortion. Despite official pronouncements against the practice, some churches have offered a tepid response to abortion. In Vancouver, a Catholic Organization for Life and Family pledges to make abortion an election issue. Other Catholic leaders in North America are in the midst of similar pro-life [...]
My eldest daughter turns16 this spring. In a rather neat reversal of the fashion dictates which have ruled Canadian society from its very inception, the young males are allowed to promenade in color and elegant plumage while the girls shuffle along in a remarkably innocuous looking, lumpen-proletariat herd. Or maybe they’re taking their cues from the ducks, which populate the river in [...]
The pro-life movement has seen in the Reform party a hope for achieving the legal protection of life from conception to natural death. In fact, some pro-lifers have sought nomination to run for Reform in the election. I was one such aspirant and my experiences expose a flaw in Reform’s appeal to pro-lifers. Attending the meetings of the riding associates, I found [...]
For the last couple of weeks, The Interim has received a number of telephone calls and letters criticizing our decision to allow sitting MPs to write articles describing how their particular party might best represent pro-life, pro-family Canadians. Mississauga MP Albina Guarnieri, whose article appeared in the March issue, has been especially singled out for attack by some readers (see first two [...]
One of the central thrusts of Campaign Life Coalition’s election effort is to evaluate each candidate’s position on right to life issues. It’s a major task, involving the work of staff and volunteers from across the country. The evaluation is based on candidate’s responses to a seven-item Campaign Life Coalition questionnaire. It forces our would-be leaders to declare their views on such [...]
Washington (AP) – U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a bill April 30 banning use of federal money to support physician-assisted suicide – a practice that he said is wrong. “While I have deep sympathy for those who suffer greatly from incurable illness, I believe that to endorse assisted suicide would set us on a disturbing and perhaps dangerous path,” Clinton said in [...]
Interim Special I was personally offended when Planned Parenthood recently announced plans to give its Margaret Sanger Award to the BBC documentary “The Dying Rooms.” Don’t get me wrong: The documentary is a wonderful and courageous piece of work. An undercover camera crew managed to gain entry to China’s state-run orphanages and videotape the mistreatment and murder of the girls there. I [...]
Interim Special Many feel they have done nothing wrong and have refused to quit the targeted groups. For a year, Marilyn Seiker and others like her have continued to receive Holy Communion, despite a bishop’s demand that they quit groups such as Planned Parenthood or face excommunication. “We thought it would be scandalous to our grandchildren to see us being refused Communion,” [...]
Interim Special In her keynote address May 3 at the REAL Women annual conference in North Bay, Ontario, Liberal Senator Anne Cools documented the alarming incidence of neonaticide – the killing of newborns – by mothers in our society. Among other serious concerns connected with this issue, Senator Cools noted, “The perpetrators of domestic violence are not exclusively men.” In his talk, [...]
By Interim Staff Pro-life officials will monitor the establishment of a new association dedicated to raising population, family planning and reproductive choice issues among Canadian MPs and Senators. The Canadian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (CAPPD) met in late April to invite membership and to discuss objectives. A similar organization of Parliamentarians was in force until 1993, but was disbanded [...]
By Interim Staff A coalition of pro-life, pro-family voices has come together to provide a fresh perspective on issues effecting women in Ontario. The impetus for the coalition comes from the mainstream media’s tendency to present the feminist/pro-abortion view as representative of the majority of women. This was especially evident in press reports of a March 26 media conference at which Judy [...]
Interim Special “Euthanasia and assisted suicide are ‘knocking at the door’” says Father Jim Whalen, National Director for Priests for Life, Canada. “And we can’t just ignore the traps of death. Just as 25 years ago when many said we would never kill our unborn, now another attack on the dignity of human life is ready to take hold here in Canada. [...]
Interim Staff Debate over the treatment of private members’ bills continued to divide Members of Parliament as the House broke for the June election. Several members, inkling some pro-life MP’s, have called for changes in the way private members’ bills or motions are selected for further action. Under the existing system, members submit bills or motions, which are then made into a [...]
Interim Staff Campaign Life Coalition Ontario is planning a fund-raising dinner next spring to mark the 20th anniversary of the following of the pro-life organization. This was tone of the items approved April 18-20 at a provincial strategy meeting in Toronto. The dinner is to be the first of annual fund-raisers to help the provincial body continue its work to promote the [...]