Editor: Interim subscriber Brian Austin received a telephone call recently asking if his church would like to subscribe to the newspaper. He said he didn't think so; but he decided afterwards to pay for a group subscription on behalf of his church. Mr. Austin, a Protestant, regretted his initial response. He was afraid that a few members of his church would object [...]
After a nine-month struggle with cancer, Tyrell Dueck died at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon on Wednesday, June 30. He was 13 years of age. His parents, two sisters, family and a host of friends mourn his passing. Last October, Tyrell discovered a lump on his leg after slipping in the shower. Tests revealed that is was cancer, a rare osteosarcoma. According [...]
Mr. Yvon Beaulne, former ambassador from Canada to the Holy See in Rome and a former permanent representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York, died in his home in Hull, Que. early in June, after a long and painful illness. I served under Mr. Beaulne when he was director-general of the Department of External Affairs' bureau for Africa and [...]
There was just the right mix of fun, prayer, recreation and reflection at the recent Catholic Family Weekend July 9-11 at Springwater Catholic Campground, located just northwest of Barrie, Ont. During the weekend, Pharmacists for Life had the opportunity to dedicate a cross to the memory of children whose lives have been taken due to the effects of abortifacient drugs or devices. [...]
Type the words "+gay +youth +help" into an Internet search engine, and you'll be given a list of 200 choices to explore. The vast majority link to gay-positive youth sites which affirm those who are gay or who think they're gay. Some link to explicit pornographic sites. Until recently, none offered any alternatives to simply accepting that one was gay. In 1998, [...]
Much will depend on them if young people, trained in true freedom, are to be able to preserve for themselves and make known to others new, authentic ideals of life. - Pope John Paul II, Evangelium vitae Young people have a unique call in building the culture of life. Their vitality, honesty, and willingness to serve can prove beneficial in a world [...]
After public pressure was applied to police in Toronto, it seems that an investigation into an assault case against a Toronto pro-life activist is finally proceeding. In early June, Bill Whatcott was assaulted and had his pro-life sign stolen from him when he demonstrated across from a downtown Toronto abortuary. As The Interim reported last month, police were slow to respond to Whatcott's [...]
‘ What becomes of the tiny human being, if doctors find in their pre-implantation diagnosis that it possesses a bad gene? Is it a candidate for therapy, or for extermination?' As we all know only too well, the media have seized upon the dying of our present century to engage themselves vigorously in ranking and evaluating the past hundred years' most distinctive [...]
Joins one of only a handful of pro-life groups world-wide enjoying privileged access Campaign Life Coalition scored a major victory at the United Nations when it was accredited for non-government organization (NGO) status by the Economic and Social Committee of the UN (ECOSOC). Anna Halpine, who works for CLC in New York as part of the Coalition for Women, Children and the [...]
READERS PLEASE NOTE:Readers will find parts of the following article upsetting. Parents are advised to use discretion in allowing young people to read it. If there is one person in the battle for life and family who would be hard to define, it would be John McKellar. On the one hand, pro-family activists may have difficulty relating to his methodology, as he [...]
When a businessman talks about living in a country where he is told who he can and cannot sell his products to, such a scenario usually conjures up images of Stalinist Russia or a banana republic. Unfortunately, however, it is not at all alien to Canada. In June, Christian business owner Scott Brockie faced an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal inquisition that originated [...]
Despite the fact that a Toronto man seen malingering outside Henry Morgentaler's former Harbord Street abortuary shortly before it was firebombed in May 1992 was recently charged in connection with the murders of both of his parents, Toronto police investigators say they have no intention of re-questioning him about the bombing. "He was cleared 100 per cent," John Boyce, the lead investigator [...]
As reported briefly in the last issue of The Interim, Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott (Reform, Wanuskewin) gathered the 100 signatures that he needed from members of Parliament to push his "conscience clause" bill forward for debate in the House of Commons. As many pro-lifers already know, Mr. Vellacott has taken up the fight to protect the education and employment of health care workers [...]
Fighting the Ontario injunction, which prohibits pro-life activity from taking place outside the province's abortuaries, should be addressed at the political level rather than the legal one, said Judge H. Porter in the trial of Linda Gibbons, Emidio Galea, and Bernard Crawley. The three pro-life witnesses were tried on July 21 in the provincial court at College Park in Toronto. Gibbons and [...]
On March 15, the federal Health Protection Branch decided to issue a notice of compliance to allow the marketing in Canada of the abortifacient drug Preven. This development will pose a challenge to pharmacists to uphold the honour and dignity that their profession has achieved as a health care service. Preven represents the first time in this country approval has been given [...]