By Linda Wegner The Interim In June, pharmacists from across Canada gathered in Saskatoon for their annual convention. Maria Bezecki and Mike Izzoti, both pharmacists active in the pro-life movement, travelled to the event with serious concerns about the erosion of their professional right to refuse to dispense drugs based on their freedom of conscience and religion. Nothing happened to alleviate those [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-lifers are undecided as to the impact of a Manitoba court decision that allows an elderly man to escape punishment in the assisted suicide of his terminally ill wife. Bert Doerksen, 81, of Winnipeg, admitted to killing his 78-year-old wife Susan in November, 1997, by placing her in the family car and leaving the engine running as [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-life students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) believe that the university has suspended three members of the Alma Mater Society (AMS) for their role in destroying a pro-life display on campus last November. According to information obtained by members of the UBC's Lifeline group, AMS members Erin Kaiser, Jon Chandler and Lesley Washington could be [...]
By Susan Schadenberg The Interim Editor's note: As The Interim went to print, the Catholic Women's League of Canada was about to begin its annual conference, held this year in Charlottetown beginning August 13. It is expected that the CWL national executive's endorsement of the pro-abortion World March of Women 2000 will be the subject of heated debate. A full report will [...]
The cases of three pro-life freelance journalists - Interim contributor Sue Careless, LifeSite managing director Steve Jalsevac, and Linda Gibbons biographer Gord Truscott - arrested last October for covering a pro-life demonstration, appear not to be unique. Recent events indicate that freedom of the press is in peril in this country. At least 10 journalists and photographers have been arrested in Canada since [...]
Interim board member endured nine month ordeal just for doing her job By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Toronto journalist Sue Careless has finally found relief after a nine-month ordeal at the hands of police and Crown prosecutors. Careless, who was arrested October 15, 1999 for covering a pro-life demonstration by long-time activist Linda Gibbons, learned July 28 that charges of obstructing a [...]
Following the stabbing of Vancouver abortionist Garson Romalis, pro-abortionists have tried to link the peaceful pro-life movement to anti-abortion violence. Most prominently, British Columbia Minister of Women's Equality Joan Smallwood told a media scrum on July 12 that Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) B.C. president John Hof had connections with "radical groups" from the United States, implying he advocates violence. She added, "We've [...]
By Paul Tun The Interim A Gallup Poll brief obtained by The Interim indicates that the conventional wisdom on abortion - that there is a "pro-choice" consensus among Canadians - is wrong. Josephine Mazzuca, a research analyst for Gallup Canada Inc., told The Interim that Gallup conducts a poll on attitudes about abortion almost every year because "Canadians are interested in this issue." Pro-lifers [...]
Pro-life youth protest in Toronto, Vancouver By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-life students refused to let insinuations of "anti-abortion violence" prevent them from staging protests against the introduction of the RU-486 abortion chemical. Students in Toronto and Vancouver were out in force July 27 to draw attention to RU-486, which recently gained approval for clinical testing in Toronto and other Canadian cities. [...]
Commentary by William Gairdner The Interim If smart people are so stupid, what is there to hope for? In her recent article in the National Post on the Canadian Alliance leadership race ("Manning Looks Like a Leader," July 6), Diane Francis wrote something appalling and disappointing that illustrates precisely why Canada needs an honest and open debate on social issues and a party [...]
Stabbing incident provides pro-abortion groups with ideal propaganda tool By Paul Tuns The Interim The July 11 stabbing of Vancouver abortionist Garson Romalis was denounced by pro-life groups across the country, but that hasn't stopped the abortion industry from milking the incident for all its propaganda value. In a July 12 press release, Canadian Physicians for Life president Dr. Robert Pankratz condemned [...]