We didn't win the prize," said Saskatchewan Party leader Elwin Hermanson, "but we sure surprised the winners." That statement pretty well sums up the mood of Saskatchewan Party members after the September 16 provincial election. While polls, pundits and the media loudly proclaimed the inevitability of another majority NDP government, the people of this province spoke even louder. Premier Roy Romanow's predicted [...]
The Interim's Sue Careless recently visited L'Arche Stratford, one of the many communities worldwide inspired by Canadian Jean Vanier's love for those most often overlooked.What is most remarkable about Maranatha House at L'Arche Stratford is that at four on a Wednesday afternoon no one is home except two staff members. Gradually, the adults with developmental disabilities arrive, many of whom were institutionalized [...]
Ken and Rita Wolfe of Saskatoon know first hand the pain and joy of parenting terminally ill children. Erin, age 14 years, Kathleen, age 10 years, and eight-year-old Aidan know the sorrow of losing two sisters to a disease known as Niemann-Pick-Type C (NPC). NPC is a rare autosomal recessive disease, an illness in which both parents are unsuspecting carriers of one [...]
Ontario's pro-life community suffered a tremendous loss August 31 with the sudden passing of Tom Brown of Toronto. A long-time pro-life activist, Brown died of heart failure near his Toronto home at age 62. Brown combined a quiet compassion for the unborn and pregnant women in distress with a steely resolve to work against abortion and its consequences. Jim Hughes, national president [...]
Those who think the international behemoth of Planned Parenthood can't be beaten - at least at the local level - should look to the experience of Hamilton. Just three years ago, the Planned Parenthood clinic in the Steel City's downtown core was raking in $359,000 in annual funding (or 51 per cent of the area's budget for "sexual health"), allowing it to [...]
If the recent In Defence of Marriage and Family rally in Hamilton is any indication, Christians and social conservatives in Ontario are mad as heck and they aren't going to take it any more. Stunned by recent court rulings driving toward the decriminalization of the possession of child pornography and the alteration of the traditional definition of the family, about 300 people [...]
Despite an inauspicious beginning, the National Post, which began publishing one year ago this month, has been a boon for pro-life and pro-family Canadians desperate for principled journalism from the mainstream media. The Post published its inaugural issue in the days following the murder of abortionist Bernard Slepian. It ran a cartoon which implied the pro-life movement was behind his death and depicted pro-lifers [...]
An Ounce of Prevention: Preventing the Homosexual Condition in Today's Youth, by Don Schmierer (Nashville: Word, 1998) To some people in our culture, the title of this book is absurd and offensive. How dare anyone suggest that homosexuality is something that should be prevented! From the developmental perspective which its author Don Schmierer takes, however, it makes good sense to help young [...]
The impending doom that underlied the news stories when the world's population reached six billion earlier this year is unfounded, and worse, a sign of the devaluation of human life. There is little reason to believe that the earth becomes a worse place to live with each new person. However, Princeton University "ethicist" Peter Singer seems to believe so. He stated in [...]
A hardy group of pro-life demonstrators didn't let the potentially hostile environment of the University of Toronto intimidate them when Canada's abortion king Henry Morgentaler appeared there on Sept. 15. Morgentaler brought his travelling propaganda show to U of T's Hart House, speaking after what had been billed as a "debate" on abortion, but which actually turned out to be a vehicle [...]
For the past two years, Brant (Ontario) Right to Life has been making a few more presentations to Grade 7 and 8 students than usual. We have also teamed up with the pro-life group at the local high school. With the help of high school students, elementary students are on us like white on rice. Together with some fetal models and a [...]
MP Eric Lowther encourages social conservatives to get involved in the political process Canadian pro-life and pro-family advocates, discouraged by how politicians at the federal level are for the most part ignoring their input, could take some heart following the Reform party's caucus meeting in Toronto on Sept. 17. Apart from a commitment from leader Preston Manning to make the strengthening of [...]
A young Catholic advises: ‘Let's not waste this precious time pining after what we don't have.' A place or state of temporary suffering or misery" - this is actually a definition of Purgatory, not of singleness, though more than a few singles may beg to differ. Why is it that many of us spend our late teens and early 20s completely pre-occupied [...]
The anguish of infertility doesn't go away, but acceptance can lead to new hopes I was talking to a lady in the waiting room at the doctor's office. She told me how she was unable to have children, and I remember feeling very sad for her. I couldn't imagine what it would be like not to have kids. My husband and I [...]
Most of you, I am sure, remember this summer's United Nations pro-abort jamboree, affectionately billed as Cairo+5. I thought some of you may be interested in some of the correspondence that took place between the Reform Party's family critic, Eric Lowther, and Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy. Mr. Lowther's office recently released copies of the letters that went back and [...]