Thou the pain of losing their daughter Barbara will never quite go away, Bruce and Betty Catchpole are healing, and helping other bereaved families along the way. When people ask Betty Catchpole how many children she has, she replies, "I have two children and one has died." Betty and Bruce Catchpole lost their daughter Barbara five years ago. She was 29 and [...]
The pro-life community in Winnipeg, and indeed throughout Manitoba, has been saddened by the death of Patricia Soenen. Pat was executive director of the Winnipeg League for Life since 1983, an organization which she helped establish in 1970. Having started her career as a nurse, she once believed that "if people simply realized what we knew about the fetus, the abortion issue [...]
At the beginning of February, I did something I had never done before in my life - I went to school. After spending the first eight-and-a-half grades home schooled, it was, well, different. It also gave me a much clearer insight into the age group I'm part of, the one I am committed to reaching with the pro-life message. Youth are a [...]
The pro-life movement is gearing up for a massive March for Life in May to mark 30 years of legalized abortion in this country. Bill Mullally, public affairs co-ordinator for Campaign Life Coalition, toldThe Interim that CLC has "long held the view that pro-lifers should recognize this date in history," and that the March for Life is an obligation we have to [...]
Will forgive Third World debts if 'human rights' are respected On March 25, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announced in Winnipeg that Canada is going to offer debt relief to Third World countries, but this relief will be tied to "human rights." Canadian pro-life leaders warn that tying Third World debt relief to "human rights" could force abortion, contraception and sterilization on these [...]
When U.S. Chief Justice Harold Blackmun passed away on March 4, 1999 at the age of 90, modernism lost one of her most infamous sons. Blackmun had brought to fruition what people like Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Frederich Nietchze, Sigmund Freud, and Margaret Sanger could only dream of: the death of God throughout Western civilization. Blackmun, who was appointed to [...]
A coalition of New Brunswick Christians wants the human rights legislation used to force Fredericton mayor Brad Woodside to declare a "gay pride weekend" amended or repealed. Led by the Rev. Karl Csaszar, pastor of Fredericton's Skyline Acres Baptist Church, the group met on March 17 with Joan Kingston, the government minister responsible for New Brunswick's Human Rights Act, to request that [...]
Are abortion advocates convinced that they have won the public relations battle, or do they fear public confrontations with today's confident pro-life defenders? These were the questions on the minds of students at the University of Western Ontario in London as they went about organizing a March 9 debate on the morality of abortion. Western Life, a pro-life group at the university, [...]
My husband and I have been living outside Canada for just over three years now, while he works on an expatriate assignment for the Nortel corporation, and so we are sometimes a bit behind on hearing the latest news from our homeland. And we all, of course, know Quebec has wanted to separate from Canada for a very long time now. But [...]
Excessive," "overdone," "tedious," "boring," "endless," "interminable." These are just a few of the adjectives of desperation people have been using to describe the Media's relentless coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. In the face of these incessant protests, however, the coverage rolls on, like a freight train out of control. One popular ploy that members of the Media use in order to maintain [...]
Pro-lifers assist 'G-77' delegates in defying renewed push for pupulation control With the help of Canadian pro-lifers, delegates from developing countries stood up to the population control agenda of the West at a recent United Nations meeting in New York. Moments after getting on the airplane at LaGuardia airport in New York, Campagne Québec-Vie president Gilles Grondin told LifeSite News that the [...]
Chretién goverment quietly accelerates piecemeal re-definition to satisfy activists The gay-rights agenda took a giant step forward in Canada over the last few months, following the announcement of a court challenge to 58 federal statutes and what seemed to be the Liberal government's cave-in to that threat. On Jan. 7, the pro-gay Foundation for Equal Families (FFEF) began its legal challenge to [...]
Asks jur, 'Look at me. Do you see a criminal?' The man critics call "Dr. Death" was found guilty March 26 of second-degree murder by a Pontiac, Mich. jury. Last Sept. 17, Jack Kevorkian injected a lethal concoction into Thomas Youk, 52, a man who had ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The whole sordid event was taped by Kevorkian and [...]
"I will follow that system of regimen which ... I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion ..." Well, there's lots more in [...]
The death of a child seems so unfair. Children should not die before their parents, yet there are more than 3,000 deaths of infants, children and young adults under 29 years of age annually in Ontario alone.The grief a family feels when their child dies is a normal healing process. However, the feelings of disbelief, sorrow, anger and guilt that are a [...]