During a presentation on “the untold story of women’s health” at the University of Toronto, Dr. Deborah Zeni told students that as a matter of public health, the truth about women’s health after abortion should be widespread. This should be so that this knowledge is available even before conception. About 40 people were assembled, in an impressive turnout during a storm the [...]
In January, 2003, the House of Commons standing committee on justice and human rights took up the emotional issue of marriage and the demand that its definition be expanded so as to include same-sex relationships. Between January and May 2003, the committee visited 12 different cities covering every region of Canada. It heard 475 witnesses, received 250 briefs and literally thousands of [...]
Legalizing abortion and child pornography, overturning the definition of marriage, requiring the funding of sex change operations and granting prisoners the vote are just some of the outrageous decisions forced on Canadians, not by elected legislatures, but by unelected courts. Those courts have been stacked with increasingly activist, liberal judges for the past 40 years. However, that trend may be coming to [...]
With former prime minister Paul Martin formally resigning as Liberal Party leader, party apparatchiks gathered in Ottawa to decide the rules and timelines of the leadership contest to replace him. Although it will not formally announce its decision until April 7, the Liberal Party of Canada has reportedly decided that the leadership vote will be held Dec. 2 and the convention will [...]
Interim Staff According to Statistics Canada figures released March 15, 103,765 unborn babies were killed by surgical abortion in 2003, the most recent year for which numbers are available. The figures are based on “detailed records” of reported abortions in hospitals and free-standing abortion sites, as well as those committed on Canadian women in some American states but paid for by Canadian [...]
Special to The Interim As the 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women met for its closing ceremony March 10, delegates were uncertain whether a set of agreed conclusions would be adopted. Negotiations went down to the wire, as delegates struggled to come to a consensus on the contentious health section of the draft text. The original draft of [...]
The second annual Culture of Life Leadership Conference in Ancaster, Ont. on Feb. 17 and 20 allowed almost 100 area Catholic high school student leaders and adult guides to be informed about basic pro-life facts and issues so they could bring that information back to their classmates and spark pro-life initiatives among them. Founded by Halton Pro-Life executive director Joanne Matters and [...]
On March 3, Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs, head of the Senate committee responsible for palliative care in Canada, gave the Cardinal Ambrozic lecture at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto. In her talk, entitled, “The State of Palliative Care in Canada: End of Life Care,” Carstairs said Canada is not in a favourable position to engage in a debate on [...]
If the courts do not step in to thwart the will of the people on July 1, a far-reaching ban on abortion will take effect in South Dakota. On March 6, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (R) signed into law House bill 1215, which prohibits all surgical abortions except for those committed to save the life of the mother. Starting this summer, [...]
In a Public Health Advisory released March 17, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration alerted consumers to the additional deaths of two women who took the “abortion pill,” mifepristone (also known as Mifeprix or RU-486). The known death toll stemming from the abortion drug in the U.S. is now six women and countless unborn children, since the drug’s legalization in 2000. Beyond [...]
In January, a study prepared for the Justice Department recommended that polygamy be legalized. Months earlier, in 2005, the president of the Canadian Islamic Congress called polygamy a “positive family force.” Now, a new television series on the American cable giant HBO, entitled Big Love, portrays the polygamous marriage of one man and his three wives. HBO says that the show “explores [...]
National Reporter Marriage activists and critics of judicial activism have yet another reason to be alarmed, after a recent series of provincial court decisions overturning the centuries-old definition of marriage. New information has come to light involving a key judge’s apparent conflict of interest in hearing the issue. Homosexual activists made no secret of their legal strategy of trying to have marriage [...]