Like many teenagers, Jen Geenen (pictured centre here) found herself pregnant from a high school relationship that had gone too far. Sensing a growing distance between herself and her boyfriend, she faced a difficult choice. Should the teenager drop out of high school and raise the baby as a single mother or should she seek an abortion? “Last year, I placed the [...]
As families of faith prepare their children to return to school this month, parents and grandparents may be worried about what is taught in classrooms. Adults frequently consider the messages kids should receive about sex, guns, drugs and strangers – but do we prepare children for the messages they may be given on abortion? And is the totality of the messages we [...]
Numerous professions have formed specialized groups to address the pro-life struggle within their respective spheres of influence – Physicians for Life perhaps most prominently comes to mind – but one area that still needs to be focused on is the realm of teaching. A Canadian Teachers for Life organization was started in the mid-1980s by Louis Di Rocco, then a volunteer with [...]
Communist authorities jailed three lawyers for a blind Chinese activist in a bumbling attempt to disrupt a fair court hearing for the activist who exposed local officials forcing women to undergo late-term abortions and sterilizations according to the Associated Press. According to the AP, the lawyers represent Chen Guangcheng, 34, who was arrested by local authorities after documenting claims by villagers in [...]
On August 8, I marked an important anniversary – it was five years to the day I was hired as the editor of The Interim. The special day came about a month after another anniversary, my tenth wedding anniversary. Both my wife Christina and I have noted that after ten years it has seemed both a lot longer and a lot shorter [...]
The Tower of Babel, once a localized edifice, apparently has been extended to the point where it now covers the entire world. Language is no longer intelligible anywhere and, as a direct result, people throughout the globe no longer think. In our bizarro world, contradictions abound: good means bad, morality means slavery and inclusive means exclusive. A new “educational” program in Australia, [...]
On August 17th 2006, Madam Justice Nicole Bénard of the Quebec Superior Court ordered the government of Quebec to pay over $13 million to Quebec women who had to pay extra fees for abortions at private centres since May 2, 1999. The Court granted a class action lawsuit by the pro-abortion activist association known as the Association for Access to Abortion. The [...]
Interim Staff Show the Truth, the Ontario-based pro-life organization that uses graphic photographs of aborted babies to witness to the truth of the humanity of the unborn and what happens during an abortion, raised more than its usual ruckus when it went to Fredericton, N.B. in July. Although executive member Rosemary Connell reports a better-than-typical reception among the public in the New [...]
A Statistics Canada report is revealing once again that Canada’s birth rate continues to decline, now to a record low of 10.5 live births per 1,000 population in 2004, down from 10.6 in 2003. It is part of a worrying trend. StatsCan is also reporting that the average age of women giving birth has risen to 29.7 years of age and that [...]
Is government doing enough to protect kids from pedophiles? Interim Staff The recent capture of pedophile Peter Whitmore has prompted Canadians to debate his surprisingly lax treatment at the hands of this country’s justice system over the past decade. Writing in the Toronto Sun, pundit Linda Williamson noted several consistencies about Whitmore’s criminal behaviour: “his predilection for befriending and ‘grooming’ his young [...]
Status of Women, Canada’s federal agency promoting feminism in Parliament for over 30 years, is under scrutiny and fighting back, all at taxpayers’ expense, says REAL Women of Canada, a national pro-marriage, pro-family women’s rights organization. Status of Women, established by the Trudeau Liberals in 1973 to promote “gender equity” in Canadian politics, has engineered a “counter offensive” against current efforts to [...]
Strongly pro-life lawyers have successfully defended the right of a 16-year-old Virginian to pursue an alternative cancer treatment with the support of his parents, who had been adjudicated medically neglectful in a child maltreatment case before the Accomack Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Abraham Cherrix was diagnosed last year with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Beginning in August [...]
Feminist and former Toronto Star columnist Michelle Landsberg was named to the Order of Canada by Governor-General Michaelle Jean in July. Landsberg is just the latest outspoken advocate of abortion to be given Canada’s highest civilian honour. Few pro-life advocates are similarly honoured. It is a shame that this person, who has so often viciously attacked those whom she has criticized – [...]
The redefinition of marriage in Canada has caused so much scandal and confusion that marriage, as a concept, is in danger of becoming bankrupt. As the terms of the debate strain under the weight of politics and punditry, the only sure and irrefutable argument for marriage has become marriage itself. Of course, the beauty of marriage is its own defence. When two [...]
In 2003, same-sex “marriage” was introduced in Ontario. Soon after, attempts were made in many other Western countries to legalize it. These efforts were effective, not because advocates of same-sex “marriage” had suddenly discovered convincing new arguments for their position, but because they realized that no arguments were needed. Indeed, as Anthony Esolen has pointed out, the redefinition of marriage to include [...]