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 [...]
Following a speech to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 3, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada was asked for her opinion on the desirability of having Parliament play a more active role in the appointment of judges. A restrained judge would have refused to answer such a politically charged question. What, though, did McLachlin do? She [...]
It’s not going to be tough to say goodbye to the greatest collection of tiny talented, Liberal-leaning radical feminists in the world. Nor to a similar collection of hedonistic, loyal, lightweight Liberal males also owing their unwarranted rise to our highest court to the slavish worship of Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s faulty musings. (Pierre used to say that the government had no business [...]
As we celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph (March 19), I thought this great saint would be a suitable subject for this month’s spiritual reminder. Who was Joseph? The first time we hear of him is in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 1. We are told that an angel appeared to a virgin who was betrothed to a man named Joseph [...]
The English writer Hilaire Belloc wrote about the Barbarian: a man with a perpetual sneer on his lips, who laughs at the fixed convictions of our inheritance. Paula Adamick, in the January issue of Challenge magazine, quoted Belloc: “We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by [...]
Interim Staff The Winnipeg Free Press reported that convinced that that the morning-after pill or so-called emergency contraceptives can cause an abortion, some Manitoba pharmacists are refusing to sell them. The paper contacted pharmacies to discover if they carried the drug levonorgestrel, better known as Plan B. Somewhat surprisingly, the paper found that while pharmacies near smaller Mennonite communities such as Steinbach [...]
Father Frank Pavone will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Canadian National March for Life, taking place in Ottawa May 10-12. He is the national director of Priests for Life, a U.S.-based movement of Roman Catholic priests seeking to help the rest of the church use its full strength against the most devastating attacks on human life in our day. The [...]
In last November’s issue of The Interim, we looked at the general state of Canadian medicine, which we noted is distinguished by characteristics including the fact that it kills more than 100,000 pre-born Canadians a year through abortion and perhaps as many as 24,000 born ones a year through medical errors, takes up huge chunks of government budgets and is marred by [...]
With a history of pro-life involvement that dates back to picketing outside abortuaries with her parents as a youngster, it’s only natural that Christian musician and Juno Award nominee Janelle Reinhart – who goes by the stage name of simply Janelle - would now be performing at pro-life conferences and events such as the U.S. and Canadian National Marches for Life. The [...]
Just after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, rumors circulated that at least one hospital had euthanized patients during the mayhem. LifeSiteNews.com reported in September 2005 that an unnamed doctor admitted to a U.K. newspaper such activities had taken place at Memorial Medical Centre. In October, another doctor at the hospital confirmed in a CNN interview that he suspected such activities and admitted [...]
It is not surprising that, in his first encyclical, promulgated on Jan. 25, Pope Benedict XVI examines the relationship between church and state, the meaning of human sexuality and the obligations and prerogatives of Christian life. What is surprising is that he does this only through his reflections on love, the overarching theme of his letter. But if it seems odd that [...]