Reflecting on the loss of a child to abortion Dear one, still missing you! Those first tears of contrition late in the night so long ago. The deep yearning then and now that can't be assuaged. How my mind grapples with the pain, imagines knowing then what I know now, reconstructs the scenario, and I see myself jumping down off the hospital [...]
Child placed with Jewels for Jesus Agency A slip of a girl in a lilac gown stole the show from the professional performers. Four hundred people sat in hushed silence as Kabelo told how her dream twisted into a nightmare and then floated back into the sunshine. Kabelo gave her moving testimony at a benefit concert March 24, for Jewels for Jesus [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario (EPCO) has launched a petition to counter a pro-Robert Latimer petition being distributed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA). The CCLA petition seeks executive clemency for Latimer from his 10-year sentence for the second-degree murder of his daughter Tracy, and that minimum sentences be abolished to allow judges greater discretion, presumably to allow reduced sentences [...]
Extremists featured and responsible voices ignored With the arrest of shooting suspect James Kopp in France in late March, pro-abortion media personalities have typically exploited the opportunity to accuse the pro-life movement of violence. The Christian Defense Coalition in the United States cautioned the media and pro-abortion organizations not to use the murder of abortionist Barnett Slepian to attack and demonize the [...]
For the first time in what seems like forever, the news coming out of the United Nations is not all bad from a pro-family and pro-life perspective. Two recent conferences, although full of people advocating the expected feminist and pro-"reproductive health" agendas, also included some new advocates in favour of the family and sexual morality. Most notable in this respect has been [...]
Would restrict public access to statistics and force hospitals to offer abortions SEEN AS PLOY TO CREATE ELECTION WEDGE ISSUE TO DIVIDE LIBERALS Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia president John Hof knew something was in the wind while watching B.C Premier Ujjal Dosanjh in a province-wide television address. Dosanjh, desperate for an election issue, promised new initiatives in the fight to increase [...]
Scholars analyze what's behind 'judicial activism' in Canada The Charter Revolution and the Court Party by F.L. Morton and Rainer Knopff (Broadview, $22.95, 227 pages). In recent years the critics of judicial activism have grown tremendously in number - theNational Post, the Canadian Alliance, various academics, pro-family and pro-life groups,The Interim - and with good reason: judicial activism is growing and consequently [...]
Anti-euthanasia leader wants a 'human rights bioethic' Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America by Wesley J. Smith (Encounter Books, $36.75, 285 pages). In Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, Wesley J. Smith, author ofForced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder and an attorney for the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, indicts [...]
In the glorious People's Republic of British Columbia, the S.S. NDP has already hit the iceberg, and is sinking fast. But the Band plays on. Joy MacPhail introduced her 11-point master plan to keep the sinking ship afloat. But it seems to have had the opposite effect. The ship continues to sink. Promising more money for B.C.'s declining abortionists, she fails to [...]
There is so much bad news these days, especially about young people, that it is quite a thrill to experience some good news, and I had such an experience recently. A few weeks ago I was doing some Sunday ministry at St. Mary of the People Parish in Oshawa, Ontario. The pastor, Father Paul Casullo, mentioned to me that there was to [...]
They say that confession is good for the soul. Recently, for the very first time, I found myself actually celebrating an event put on by Big Abortion, Abortion, Inc. Now, before you swamp the hard-working editors at The Interim with indignant letters, let me explain. A number of years ago, an organization called Refuse and Resist started a PR program designed to undo [...]
A "spin doctor" is not to be confused with a public relations person. A PR person always tries to dress up the act - trying to take a non-newsy but "good news" item and blow it up into a gargantuan front-page story. If you are a PR person for a large school board you pray every day that they do not find [...]
There are some issues that rise above the inadequate and increasingly archaic labels of left and right - life and education being two of them. We have looked to various political parties for support and, whilst sometimes receiving encouraging words from some of them when in opposition, have invariably been ignored or even insulted once those organizations achieve power. When it comes [...]
A long time supporter of Campaign Life Coalition and the pro-life cause has died after a brief struggle with cancer. Francis (Frank) Xavier Finn passed away March 4, 2001 at his Gananoque, Ontario home, surrounded by his family. A long-standing member of Knights of Columbus Council 4177, past Grand Knight, bulletin chairman and church activity chairman, he was an extraordinary minister of [...]
If pro-life work is advanced by a quiet but steady resolve in defence of innocent, unborn life, then Toronto's Bill McArthur certainly was an exemplary pro-lifer. Bill died February 19 at the age of 73. He had been in declining health due to lingering problems related to asthma and weakened lungs. A long-time employee of Canadian National Railways, Bill was one-half of [...]