Public sex-health nurses in Catholic schools: are they benefitting the students or doing harm? As a part-time supply teacher at the secondary level, I get to see things from a unique perspective, how schools vary in principals' and teachers' and students' approaches to teaching and learning. I am also the coordinator of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area Right to Life Association. The K-W RTL [...]
Must decide whether to keep a firm campaign promise to pro-life voters LifeSite NewsAs U.S. President George Bush is about to release his decision on the use and funding of the destructive use of human embryos for stem cell experimentation, advocates and opponents are competing to have their voices heard. Pro-life groups have presented a unified front against the killing of this [...]
After the Ontario Conservatives' tax credit proposal for private schools was announced many people might be tempted to say that the government has finally seen the light. However we should consider the following. Health. Spending continues to increase, services levels and doctor shortages continue to increase. The Tories have not developed any strategic plan to deal with the costs of health care [...]
Subjectivists prefer to avoid facing the possibility they may be complicit in wrongdoing Conscience, like most important concepts in the contemporary world, is widely misunderstood. In fact, its more popular usage is the perfect antithesis of what it really means. The world, being skeptical and not believing that one can know what is true, has disconnected conscience from the realm of the [...]
The situation of the Canadian Alliance illustrates the difficulties small-c conservatives face The news since April 24, 2001, is full of stories about the caucus revolt in the Canadian Alliance against Stockwell Day. Although showing initial promise, Day has gotten himself into a cycle of negativity from which it seems impossible for him to escape. Much of the Canadian Alliance's failure in [...]
American Catholic pro-lifers have set in motion a legal appeal to Pope John Paul II with the hope of excommunicating pro-abortion politicians. "A Canonical Petition to Excommunicate Culture of Death 'Catholics'" was originated by Timothy A. Chichester, executive director of Yankee Samizsdat. Other plaintiffs include Judie Brown, president of American Life League; Stephen Brady, president of Roman Catholic Faithful; Christopher A. Ferrara, [...]
July 19, 2001 Your Honour, My friend and co-accused, myself and many others are deeply troubled. We are troubled by the hard truth, that in our country and throughout our world, child after child is being killed before she has left her mother's womb. What is most shameful is that we, who are grown, continue to allow our tiniest sisters and brothers [...]
B.C. law bans prayer, handing out roses On June 25, two British Columbia pro-lifers who were witnessing peacefully outside a Vancouver abortuary were arrested. Mary Wagner and Glenn Reed were arrested outside Everywoman's abortion mill where they were praying and holding roses that they give to incoming abortion clients. Campaign Life Coalition B.C. President John Hof told The Interim that although Wagner [...]
An anti-euthanasia group says poll results from a survey they commissioned earlier this year illustrate there is no way to provide safeguards to protect those vulnerable to euthanasia and that many Canadians have a eugenic attitude when it comes to people with disabilities. In April, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) collaborated with the Environics Research Group on the Focus Canada Omnibus Survey [...]
Wesley Smith is optimistic about resisting euthanasia, but only if pro-lifers get more active In an exclusive 75-minute interview with The Interim following the day program at the Euthanasia Symposium in London, Ontario, April 28, Wesley Smith outlined what the average person can do to fight euthanasia and bring about a "genuine culture of life." Smith, the author of Culture of Death: [...]
Life is a Blessing: A Biography of Jérôme Lejeune by Clara Lejeune (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000), tr. by Michael J. Miller from the original French, La Vie est un bonheur: Jérôme Lejeune, mon père, 156 pp. $12 USD, $18 CAD, ISBN 2-7413-0163-8. The name Jérôme Lejeune is well known to Canadian pro-lifers. The distinguished geneticist crossed the Atlantic several times to [...]
William Gairdner offers a sobering diagnosis of our dangerously corrupt political culture The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out by William Gairdner (Stoddart, $50, 534 pages)William Gairdner, author of The Trouble with Canada and The War Against the Family, now takes aim at the problems with democracy in The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out. According to Gairdner, Canada and [...]
My wife has warned me about writing about Stockwell Day when The Interim comes out - feeling Stock may be a footnote in the pages of Canadian history by then. But, Stock, if you're gone by the time this paper comes out think Napoleon and his miraculous return from Elba to victory. Remember Stock, it's 'Napoleon!' 'Napoleon' 'Napoleon!' not 'Diefenbaker'! 'Diefenbaker!' 'Diefenbaker!' [...]
Beyond the visible horizon line of the United Nations Conferences during the 1990s, a group of internationally-based scientists, high-powered attorneys and government-associated ethicists bid in a high stakes game for access to the human person for research. Their mission, loftily described as the "ethics of life," has been the scientific "transformation of human beings by human beings." This not-so-new-game is conducted within [...]
I think that anybody who attended the March for Life in Ottawa May 11-12 will agree with me that it was the most successful we have held. More than 3,300 people from across Canada were in attendance and there was a very obvious spirit of optimism among the marchers. I think that one thing which inspired me was the obvious fact that [...]