Bill Mullally, Campaign Life Coalition Public Affairs Co-ordinator (Toronto office), told The Interim that the candlelight vigil at this year's March for Life will be a spiritually uplifting event that will allow pro-lifers who cannot make it to Ottawa to be present in a symbolic way. The March, to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Canada, will be held [...]
NDP minister linked B.C. pro-lifer to violence Well known pro-life activist John Hof, president of Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia, announced Feb. 8 he has received an out-of-court settlement of $25,000 from NDP Minister of Labour Joan Smallwood. The agreement stems from remarks made in the media by Ms. Smallwood about Mr. Hof, spuriously linking him to an attack against Vancouver abortionist [...]
Measure would stop Ottawa from using Canada Health Act to bully provinces Pro-life MP Elsie Wayne (PC, Saint John) has committed to introducing a private member's bill that would prevent the Canada Health Act (CHA) from being used to pressure provinces to fund abortions. Wayne is responding to a letter sent by New Brunswick Right to Life President Peter Ryan to the [...]
Canada's Catholic bishops have taken a stand against the expansion of abortion through Ottawa's coercion of provinces to fund private abortuaries. The January 19 Ottawa Citizen reported that Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais said Health Minister Allan Rock's promotion of abortion funding made his "blood boil" and rebuked Catholics Rock and Prime Minister Jean Chretien for their government's support of abortion. "The fact that [...]
An ethical scandal erupted in Hamilton, Ont. recently when it was announced that former United States President Bill Clinton, a staunch supporter of legal abortion, is scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for a Catholic hospital in the city. The Morgan Firestone Foundation, which regularly raises funds for St. Joseph's Catholic hospital, booked Clinton to speak at the fundraiser to take place [...]
Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville Sask.) did not take long to introduce the first piece of pro-life legislation for the current session of Parliament. It was the reintroduction of a motion which he first introduced in the previous session, prior to the recent election, and is designed to pressure the government to redefine "human being" in law to include [...]
DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE STILL 'PROUD' OF ITS PARTICIPATION Nearly a year after LifeSite first broke the story of the $135,000 donation from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) to the pro-abortion World March of Women (WMW), the CCODP has finally disassociated itself from the feminist project. The reason given by CCODP for the move is the CCODP "has learned [...]
Pro-lifers and disability activists applauded the January 18 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that said Robert Latimer had to serve at least 10 years in prison for the 1993 murder of his daughter, Tracy, but some concede the fight is far from over. The unanimous 7-0 decision dismissed Latimer's request for leniency in sentencing as well as his appeal for [...]
Pro-family forces are generally pleased with the recent Robin Sharpe (or kiddie porn) ruling issued by the Supreme Court of Canada. The court upheld most of the law. Where concerns exist is over the two exceptions provided by the court (in a 6-3 split decision). The concern varies, however, depending on who you speak to. The exceptions are for "any written material [...]
Now that we've reached the real beginning of the new millennium, it's time to take a gander at where we've gone in the past year. Canada's abortion industry continues to play a lousy defense when it comes to articulating their reasons for supporting child killing. We need look no further than our recent federal election campaign to gaze upon the rotted corpse [...]
A controversial decision to limit the number of live births at an Ottawa hospital sparked a protest by healthcare workers and criticism by an organization representing obstetricians and gynecologists. The Queensway-Carleton Hospital imposed a cap of 2,100 live births per year as a cost-saving measure. The hospital has demanded obstetricians sign written assurances that they will limit the number of live births [...]
Two agencies disagree on whether growing population is a problem A new report issued by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) contends that population growth has resulted in human misery and environmental ruin throughout the world. UNFPA claims these problems will become calamitous unless women gain access to reproductive services, which includes abortion. UNFPA's annual State of the World Population ("Footprints and [...]
A British Columbia battle over gay and lesbian books has made its way to the Supreme Court of Canada despite the fact that the applicants had missed an already extended six-month deadline to submit their appeal. The unusual decision to still let them have their day in court was granted by a panel of three justices headed by Justice L'Heureux-Dube, a well [...]
Alberta Tory Premier Ralph Klein has closed the door to re-examining public funding of abortion. The Edmonton Journal reported that Alberta's standing policy committee on health was looking at deinsuring various procedures in order to save health care dollars for more serious health concerns and that several MLAs were hoping to have abortion funding on the table for discussion. A provincial pro-life [...]
Lisa Klassen, a Grade 11 student at Central Elgin Collegiate in St Thomas, Ont., was given an "unofficial suspension" for wearing a pro-life shirt that said, "Abortion is mean." Klassen was sent home by principal Ele Gibling, who told the 16-year-old that some people found the shirt offensive. Klassen told The Interim that two days before the Oct. 25 suspension, the vice [...]