For those who may not have heard, Wednesday, May 3 was World Press Freedom Day. Apart from professional journalists, most people would not classify the event among the more significant commemorations of the year. But we all ought to do so - not least because freedom of the press is being violated in our own fair Dominion. Yes, the right of citizens [...]
It has been with a heavy heart that we have reported in the last two months on the support of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), and other Catholic organizations, for the pro-abortion World March of Women in the Year 2000. The Catholic Church is a crucial ally - indeed, it is truly the world leader - in the fight for [...]
By Tony Gosgnach The Interim The Family Coalition Party of Ontario is concentrating on improving its organizational structure in the wake of a less-than-stellar showing in the last provincial election. Party leader Giuseppe Gori says that, among other changes, the FCP is changing its constitution to increase the number of regional directors to 11 from eight. Each director looks after 10 [...]
By Michael Trolly The Interim On Tuesday, April 18, Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) held its first major event, a candlelight vigil that united pro-life Canadian youth from coast to coast. The demonstrations took place between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, local time, regardless of weather, in front of a hospital that commits abortions. The National Campus Life Network [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim The 14-year fight against a dubious lawsuit has forced a prominent American pro-lifer to put up his own home as bond while the case winds its way through the courts. Joseph Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League of Chicago, is still fighting a lawsuit launched by the National Organization of Women (NOW) in 1986. [...]
By David Curtin The Interim Pro-lifers across North America are mourning the death of John Cardinal O'Connor, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, at 80 years of age May 3. The cardinal was widely considered the most outstanding pro-life religious leader on the continent. He preached in defense of the sacredness of human life fearlessly and frequently, both in his sermons [...]
Measure marks first time ‘notwithstanding clause' is used to override courts on a moral issue By Tim Bloedow The Interim On March 15, the Alberta legislature passed Bill 202, the Marriage Amendment Act, by a vote of 32-15. The bill uses the constitution's "notwithstanding clause" to override any future court decision granting homosexual couples the right to marry. Introduced by Progressive [...]
By Catherine Fournier The Interim I saw a woman get hit by a car yesterday. Stopped at a red light, I absentmindedly watched a woman in her late sixties cross the road in front of me. With only a little more attention - which became more focused as I realized what was going to happen - I watched the car making a [...]
Every news outlet has its ‘bias.' So just what is the difference between the ‘alternative' and the ‘mainstream' press? Regular Interim contributor Sue Careless was invited by the Canadian Association of Journalists to speak on a panel discussion addressing advocacy journalism during the CAJ's annual conference in Halifax, April 7-9. Ms. Careless is a professional member of both the CAJ and [...]
And should we consider them a ‘minority group' as a result? By Donald Hill The Interim The push for legislation that would bar discrimination, and secure spousal benefits, adoption rights, and even marriage privileges for same-sex couples, springs from the assumption that homosexuals are born that way, and are therefore a legitimate minority group. If it can be shown that this hypothesis [...]
Much lower StatsCan figure based on incomplete and misleading data, study shows By Isabelle Being The Interim A recent custom tabulation of Canada's hospitalization statistics shows that, out of 103,244 women who received legally induced abortions in 1992-1993, 3,931 women were hospitalized for an average of two days because of life-threatening complications. This yields a hospitalization rate of 3.8 per cent, or [...]
But no one would know, if Ontario had its way By Paul Tuns The Interim Jakki Jeffs, executive director of Alliance for Life (Ontario) is not the least bit surprised that the National Post had difficulty obtaining Ontario's abortion statistics. The Guelph pro-life leader has met roadblocks repeatedly over the last several years in pursuing basic statistics on abortion from the provincial [...]
By Tim Bloedow The Interim Alberta has now bypassed Ontario in terms of progress on the matter of protecting the job security of health care workers who refuse to participate in abortion procedures. On March 1, Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA, Julius Yankowsky (Edmonton Beverly-Clareview), introduced in the provincial legislature a Private Member's Bill 212 that would protect health care workers who refuse [...]
By Tim Bloedow The Interim As expected, Bill C-23 passed easily at third reading in the House of Commons on April 11. Amendments to improve the bill by having it effectively affirm the importance of (heterosexual) marriage were defeated by the Liberals with help from the Bloc, the New Democrats and the Tories. All Canadian Alliance MPs in the House at the [...]
Analysis by Paul Tuns The Interim The Canadian Alliance leadership race features three candidates - former Reform leader Preston Manning, former Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day and Ontario Tory strategist Tom Long - who all claim to be "pro-life" but who take three distinct approaches to the issue. Also running is British Columbia MP Dr. Keith Martin, who describes himself as "pro-choice". from [...]