By Linda Wegner The Interim The recent Queer City Film Festival held in Regina, Saskatchewan, did not go unnoticed or unchallenged by members of the Christian Truth Activists. On opening night, May 8, 2000, eleven protestors stood outside the main branch of the Regina Public Library where the event took place. On Saturday, May 13, 20 people took part in a second [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim On April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the Stenberg v. Carhart case which will decide whether or not states have the right to ban partial-birth abortion (PBA). The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Nebraska law that prohibited PBA when abortionist Leroy Carhart sued the state saying that such a ban impedes his [...]
Dr. Gregor Wolbring defies the ‘inducements to euthanasia' society presents to the disabled By Sue Careless The Interim Dr. Gregor Wolbring is not a man to mess with. The bushy-bearded professor of biochemistry is an academic with a wickedly sarcastic edge. His forceful presence can be disarming. With a thick German accent and deep booming voice, he is not what you envision [...]
The following letter was printed in The St. Catharines Standard shortly after the March for Life events in Ottawa May 10-11. It is reprinted here with permission. By Mary-Lou Bratko The Interim A week ago today is an anniversary for me - an anniversary of newly acquired knowledge, of newly acquired friends, of a completely new outlook on life. Last week, I [...]
Church leader challenges Prime Miniter Chrétien on upport for abortion In a homily delivered May 31, Ottawa's Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Gervais issued an unprecedented challenge to the Liberal Party of Canada and the government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, for their support of abortion. The homily was given at a Mass for the Feast of the Visitation, in which Catholics commemorate [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim On June 14, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the appeal of Robert Latimer's minimum 10-year sentence for the murder of his disabled daughter. In 1993, Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer, gassed to death his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, who had cerebral palsy. He was originally convicted of second-degree murder but he was re-tried after the verdict [...]
Long leaves key policy questions unanswered Analysis by David Curtin The Interim *Note: this on line version contains a few corrections to the original printed version Campaign Life Coalition's recent survey of the Canadian Alliance leadership candidates affirms what The Interim reported last month: that Preston Manning and Stockwell Day are acceptable or even promising on life and family issues, but that [...]
Private genome research advancing NEW YORK - A Maryland-based research organization has taken the next step in sequencing the human genome, in effect creating a blueprint for the human DNA molecule. The company, Celera Genomics Group, revealed in early April that its have gone to the next level in decoding the human life's basic, but complex molecule. DNA research has generated tremendous [...]
Bureaucrats frequenting Internet porn OTTAWA - An internal survey on Internet use by staff of Ottawa's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) revealed that employees visit pornographic and match-making websites up to 70,000 times each day. The survey, reported in the National Post and elsewhere, suggests that up to 10 per cent of federal employees' time is squandered on dubious internet searches. [...]
I was shocked to learn that a 15-year-old high school student known as `Mafiaboy,' the alleged suburban Montréal-area cyber hacker who was charged recently with jamming CNN web sites, has announced that he is challenging Joe Clark for the federal Tory leadership. Mafiaboy, readers may recall, shut down in February some of the world's most popular Internet sites, costing the operators hundreds [...]
A few weeks ago Planned Parenthood was found on the front page of my daily newspaper crying crocodile tears about the scandalous rate of abortion in Canada, which it seems has increased every year between 1985 and 1997, when it stood at 33.5 abortions for every 100 live births. This is very interesting in light of the fact that one of Planned [...]
One way to appreciate the force of the argument for "Justice for the Unborn," is to compare and contrast the ways in which Canadian laws and the judicial system treat the cases of (a) a man who has first tortured, and later murdered, a series of victims (often children), having first videotaped the torture scenes, and (b) the deliberate killing, by abortion, [...]
It's a rare occasion indeed when the pro-life movement can tip its hat and say thanks to the wonderful boys and girls who make up Abortion Inc. But I'm never one to neglect to say thanks ... and acknowledge the fine strategy handed to the pro-life movement on a silver platter. All of us who battle the culture of death continuously look [...]
Earlier this year a young Montréal couple sued a local photographer. They had decided to pose for him for a group of "erotic photographs" as some perverse sort of gift to themselves, but had expected the pictures to be kept private. While casually browsing in a pornographic magazine store, however, the woman found that she and her husband were actually featured on [...]