By Tanya M. Granic The Interim Has it really been that long? Twenty-seven years since that pivotal Roe vs. Wade decision wiped out millions of pre-born children in the United States of America. Has it really been that long? Twenty-seven years since that first march where 20,000 assembled to mark the day when legalized slaughter of the innocent began. That's what they [...]
World-wide abortion mortality statistics problem exposed By Isabelle Bégin The Interim To this day, certain members of the world health and political community have accepted or tolerated legal abortion because it was deemed "safe" for women. How was this conclusion drawn? Because very few deaths are ever reported under the category of abortion in cause-of-death publications throughout the world. And why is [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim British Columbia MP Svend Robinson confronted pro-life activist Father Tony Van Hee on Parliament Hill in December, in what many observers feel is an assault on religion and free speech. On Dec. 7, the gay NDPer, who last year introduced a petition that sought to remove references to God from the Constitution, grabbed the Jesuit priest's pro-family [...]
Novelist and painter Michael O'Brien reminds us that, even in our present culture of death, ‘the darkness cannot overcome the light' By Sue Careless The Interim No one, least of all Michael O'Brien, expected his novel Father Elijah to be a publishing success. O'Brien had established himself as a painter and received commissions from churches that enabled him to modestly support his wife [...]
John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe says the question for pro-lifers is: 'Are you fighting abortion with your strong right arm or with your broken heart?' Interview by Sue Careless The Interim Editor: John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, director of Pro-Life Century in Laytonsville, Maryland, has been called the fahter of the rescue movement, and is widely regarded as an authority on the principle of non-violence. A leading speaker [...]
For me, the range of topics covered was very good. I found the pro-life movement has really matured in its scope and how it handles things. The peace and calmness in the face of the horror of the culture of death was what I needed to hear and experience. In the midst of all that is happening, it was good to hear [...]
Babies aren't the only targets of the abortion industry and its supporters. The record shows that pro-aborts in Canada and the U.S. often direct their extremism at pro-life activists, tooBy Tony Gosgnach The Interim Although violence perpetrated against abortion providers and associated personnel has garnered mounds of media coverage in the last few years - reaching a peak with the 1998 murder [...]
By Andrea Procher The Interim Chivalry is dead!" Such is the oft-heard cry of the 1990s non-feminist female. Believe it or not, guys, there are more than a few women who are still honoured when you open a door or pull out a chair for them. But before we go blaming the men for a lack of chivalry, we must consider how [...]
Special to The Interim On Sunday, November 14, 1999, God called Joan Marie (La Marche) Jackson to be with him for all eternity. She was born January 13, 1943 to Charles and Mary (Cross) La Marche, who have both predeceased her. She was educated at St. Vincent Academy, St. Mary's School, Cathedral High School, Notre Dame Convent and graduated from Queen's University [...]
By Tim Bloedow The Interim Three years ago the Liberal government introduced a bill, C-47, to criminalize and regulate various aspects of the reproductive and genetic technologies industry, but the 1997 election was called before the bill could be passed. Despite repeated promises that they would reintroduce legislation governing reproductive technologies, the Liberals have yet to do so, and they have avoided [...]
Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and myself, we have all tried to form empires and our empires have crumbled in the dust, because they were founded on force. One Man alone founded an empire on love and today eighteen hundred years after his death, there are millions of men who are ready to lay down their lives for His Name. Can [...]
Talk about running a bulldozer over an egg carton - that's what the mainline media has been trying to do to Aid To Women. They've blown so much money on ink kicking around the Aid to Women Hallowe'en box project that I'm thinking of taking up a collection in the office to help them out. (I'll start it off with a bent [...]
Every year at this time, I find it an important part of our work to look back at the previous year and take stock of what we have accomplished and where we've been, in hope of improving the work that each of has been called to. Here in the People's Republic of British Columbia, our work is somewhat hindered by the fact [...]
By Alex Schadenberg The Interim In the recent article, "Successor to Alliance for Life Canada in the works" (Dec. 1999), I was quoted as being opposed to a new national educational pro-life organization. This is not entirely accurate. What I am convinced is necessary for the pro-life movement to be successful in the 21st century is that we develop a unified vision [...]
Taxpayers footing the $45,000 bill through Court Challenges Program Commentary by Charles W. Moore The InterimA small, but strident and extremely self-righteous minority of leftist social engineers in this country are bound and determined to criminalize parental corporal punishment - also known as spanking. At issue is Section 43 of the Criminal Code, which provides a defence to parents and teachers charged [...]