Mr. & Mrs. R.M. Abernethy Mary Acommando Denis Adams Evangeline Adams Evelyn Aitchison Helen Albertson Fr. Carl T. Albury Mrs. Isobel A. Allen Gordon Anderson Sister Mary Andre Marguerite Anglin Frank & Mary Arrigo Dialina São Jose Furtado Arruda Herni Arsenault Mary & Alfred Ashfield Raymond Atance Josephine Attard André Audette Carmelo Azzopardi Evelyn Azzopardi Adrienne Bachand Henri Bachand Antoinette & Gus [...]
U.S. politics Pro-abortion and population control proponent billionare George Soros is funding a new political action group, America Coming Together, to oppose President George W. Bush and numerous pro-life senatorial and congressional candidates. The anticipated $75 million fund was set up with a $10 million donation from Soros and will be headed by Ellen Malcolm, president of EMILY's List, a pro-abortion political action committee. [...]
One hot, humid day last summer, Rosemary Connell, who drove two hours from her home north of Toronto to picket at a downtown Toronto abortuary, wondered why she was doing this. So often her efforts seemed futile and today was so hot. At the abortuary, while standing on the warm sidewalk, she noticed a man nearby, pacing nervously and smoking. Quietly, she [...]
Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics By Leon R. Kass M.D. (Encounter Books, 313 pgs $39.50) Two hundred years ago, the poet William Wordsworth assessed the human condition, asking: "Have I not reason to lament/ What man has made of man?" At the dawn of the third millennium, technology has the human condition itself within its power; [...]
The worst thing that can happen to teens in seeing a movie is that they are subjected to the wrong morals. Often times, this is exactly the case as teens are confused by the conflicting messages given by a particular film and their faith. In the teen movie How to Deal, Halley Martin is a confused teen who has decided to give [...]
This past May 30, the Catholic Herald newspaper ran a headline reading: "Killer pill scheme extended in Britain." Apparently, the abortion-inducing "morning-after" pill is to be given to girls as young as 11 without their parents' consent. Norfolk has become the latest British county to permit the secret provision of the pill to schoolgirls through a network of school-based sex clinics. The [...]
A Christian musician's recent CD aimed at ministering to those dealing with post-abortion effects has been somewhat influenced and inspired by the experiences of someone very close to him. Michael John Poirier has released Healing After the Choice on the World Library Publications label. The recording seeks to establish a musical environment of healing and consolation for an estimated 80 million U.S [...]
The outspokenly pro-life John Nunziata, a former Liberal and independent MP, is running for mayor of Toronto. Nunziata is joined by former mayor Barbara Hall, city councillor David Miller, former city councillor Tom Jakobek and former Rogers Cable CEO and Brian Mulroney chief of staff John Tory, in seeking the mayor's job of Canada's largest city. Each of the four other candidates [...]
As the Progressive Conservative's Leadership convention came to a close in June, the Party emerged with a new leader, the social liberal, Peter MacKay. In my analysis of the leadership race, I neglected to commend Craig Chandler, as a pro-life, pro-family social conservative worthy of support. In stating that many pro-lifers "regretted the lack of social conservative ideas among the leadership candidates", [...]
One day after all Winnipeg Catholic parishes heard homilies on the need to protect marriage, as asked for by Archbishop James Weisgerber, a crowd of 3000 rallied at the Manitoba legislature to show their support for traditional marriage. Fifty supporters of homosexual 'marriage' were on hand yesterday to cast aspersions on the gathered crowd. Nuns in habit waved signs reading "Grant, O [...]
The Council of Canadians with Disabilities and the Canadian Bar Association Law for the Future Fund funded a study written by disability lawyer, Orville Endicott, which asks (answers) the question: Can safeguards protect the interests of vulnerable persons if physician-assisted death were legal? Endicott, is a barrister and solicitor, who serves as part-time legal counsel to Community Living Ontario and as a [...]
According to Statistics Canada, women in Canada are having more babies for the first time in a decade. A total of 333,744 babies were born in 2001, up 1.8 per cent from the year before. The fertility rate (the average number of children a woman between the ages of 15 and 49 will have) has risen from 1.49 in 2000 to 1.51. [...]
A series of information sheets obtained by The Interim and related to a Toronto abortuary offer a revealing glimpse into the workings, tactics and mindset of personnel within the abortion industry. They also indicate an attempt by such personnel to guard themselves against possible future legal actions by revealing some of the negative and dangerous aspects of the abortion procedure. The documents, [...]
British pro-life campaigners are critical of a High Court ruling that has awarded compensation to a couple because their daughter was born with Down syndrome. The ruling, handed down by Mr. Justice Morland, suggests that a doctor's strong Catholic faith influenced his treatment of a patient, as well as his failure to send her for an amniocentesis test. Dr. George Tse Sak [...]
On July 4, the Toronto Right to Life Association held street information sessions on abortion. More than 6,000 flyers were distributed, which outlined the facts about abortion and the damage it causes. This information card was accompanied by a bookmark showing a living six-week unborn child held by an adult's hands. Youth distributed this information to the public July 4-15 from 1 [...]