“Being a pro-lifer in the Northwest Territories is a unique experience,” Linda Wood tells The Interim. “You have easy access to the powers-that-be. For example, I’ve gone for coffee with our previous minister of health and shared some of my concerns as a REAL Woman and pro-life activist.” Wood is REAL Women’s director for the Northwest Territories. “I believe REAL Women and pro-life [...]
For the past year, there has been an increased push by some in the healthcare system, the media and political circles to convince Canadians to sign their organ donor cards. For others, such information campaigns are not enough, so Ontario MPP Peter Kormos (NDP) went so far as to draft a private member’s bill that, if put into effect, would presume consent [...]
Tim Bloedow is an Ottawa-area writer who has worked as a researcher, speechwriter and media co-ordinator for two members of Parliament. He has also worked as a researcher and lobbyist for Campaign Life Coalition and run for office as a member of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. He has a bachelor of theology degree from Tyndale Bible College, is married to [...]
Today, in our world, there is a crisis in the human rights department. Many countries, throughout the world, have legalized abortion and some even force it upon women, depending on the sex of the baby they are carrying. Some people are asking the questions: so what if these embryos are being destroyed? Does it really matter? Does this actually have anything to [...]
The first time I met Paul Johnson was 25 years ago. He eloquently explained how the war on life and culture was being fought on various levels, one of them being in arts and letters. He argued that it was liberals and atheists at the end of the 19th century who solidified the campaign against faith and family and predicted that by [...]
Ontario’s Family Coalition Party has 35 candidates committed to run so far in the upcoming provincial election and hopes to have one in every riding by the time Oct. 10 arrives. Leader Giuseppi Gori, speaking to The Interim after the FCP’s 20th anniversary convention in Mississauga April 14, said many of the party’s candidates tend to emerge at the last-minute, so he [...]
A leading U.S. organization in the field of increasing the number and effectiveness of conservative public policy leaders brought its expertise north of the border recently as part of the annual convention of Ontario’s Family Coalition Party. The Leadership Institute held a Grassroots Campaign School that was co-sponsored by the FCP and the Christian Coalition International Canada in the Toronto suburb of [...]
On a clear day, you can see it 18 kilometres away. “You will probably be able to see it from farther once the new lighting is in place,” Dr. Joseph Lozinsky told The Interim. The pro-life doctor is a trustee of the Knights of Columbus’s Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Council 11775 and the secretary of Millennium Cross Foundation, Inc. In 1999, [...]
An attempt to force a lower age of consent for homosexual sex in Canada has failed at the committee stage, after Canadian MPs rejected two proposed amendments to a bill scheduled to come before the House of Commons in early May. Bill C-22 was introduced by the Conservative government to raise the age of consent for heterosexual sex to 16 from 14, [...]
Growing up Catholic, I knew theologically that my church forbade abortion and contraception. Although the church’s stand on abortion was self-evident in my opinion, I didn’t really understand why she took such a hard line on contraception until I found myself judging annulment cases on a Catholic marriage tribunal. With few exceptions, I could trace every marital breakdown to the couple saying [...]
April 19’s Gonzales v. Carhart decision upholding the federal partial-birth-abortion ban has been well received by pro-lifers. Indeed, the judiciary has been a consistent thorn in the side of the pro-life movement and Supreme Court decisions that uphold pro-life laws should rightfully be applauded. More important, this decision demonstrates that the incremental strategy pursued by the pro-life movement continues to pay some real [...]
From the editor's desk Writing in the Ottawa Sun April 9, Carleton University political science grad Jordan Michael Smith jammed many leaps of logic, cherry-picking of polls and fallacious arguments to make the case that abortion is a settled issue in Canada. Here is an enumerated list of problematic arguments and a rebuttal of them. 1. Smith stated, “Politically, at a national level, [...]
The following are the reactions of the United States presidential contenders to the April 18, 5-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court to uphold the 2003 federal ban on partial-birth abortion. Republicans Rudy Giuliani The Supreme Court reached the correct conclusion in upholding the congressional ban on partial-birth abortion. I agree with it. Sam Brownback I’m delighted that the Supreme Court [...]
Seven years after overturning Nebraska’s partial-birth abortion ban, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, has upheld a federal ban. In the 1990s, then-president Bill Clinton twice vetoed a federal ban on partial-birth abortion, a procedure in which a live child is mostly delivered except for his head, the skull is crushed or cut open and the brains [...]
One day after a LifeSiteNews.com story exposed the fact that a Ukrainian Catholic priest in Toronto had backed the nomination of a pro-abortion federal politician, the local Ukrainian Catholic bishop publicly reprimanded the priest. On April 3, LifeSiteNews.com reported that at a March 26 Liberal party meeting to nominate Michael Ignatieff held at Christ the Good Shepherd Parish St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic [...]