Disabilities rights groups cheer decision, vow to continue fight Robert Latimer, who is serving a life-sentence in the second-degree murder of his daughter Tracy in September 1993, has been denied early parole by a three-member panel of the National Parole Board. He had applied for day parole after serving seven years of the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence that is associated with second-degree [...]
This past Nov. 20 marked the 18th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). As outlined in the November issue of The Interim, many provisions of the convention reflect the anti-family character of the United Nations. To mark the event, UNICEF Canada published a document entitled, “What’s Right for Some.” The report analyzed the impact of the convention [...]
The environment is all the rage these days in politics, the media, the classroom and elsewhere. Everything must be viewed through green-coloured glasses: from Christmas gift-giving (wrapping paper, plastic gifts, etc.) to perversion (hedonists debate whether sex toys and lubricants harm the environment). Nothing escapes the environmentalist’s gaze. So, we were amused by news coming out of Michigan State University, where researchers [...]
As the movie version of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass hit theatres, Canadian Catholic school boards in Calgary and Halton (Ont.) reviewed the books due to their promotion of atheism. Predictably, there were cries of “Censorship!” – and indeed it was. Justifiably so. Pullman’s stated aim is to turn people away from Christianity and the Catholic Church, in particular. Catholic schools are [...]
On Jan. 28, 1988, the Supreme Court threw out existing, limited restrictions on abortion put in place by the 1969 Omnibus bill, which permitted abortions in hospitals that were approved by (rubber stamp) therapeutic abortion committees. Over the past two decades, abortion advocates have simply lied about what the court’s majority said in its decision and politicians have hidden behind these lies. [...]
Illegal abortuaries raided in Spain BARCELONA – Police in Barcelona have discovered bone-crushing machines attached to drains in four abortion facilities run by Peruvian Carlos Morin. The abortuaries, which advertise across Europe, are suspected of committing abortions in the eighth month of pregnancy and police say the bones were crushed and drained into the city’s public drains. In Spain, abortion is legal [...]
Lamer helped strike down abortion law OTTAWA – Former judge and lawyer Antonio Lamer has died at the age of 74. Lamer joined the Supreme Court in 1980 and was appointed chief justice in 1990, retiring from the bench a decade later. The Toronto Star said he was “one of the key architects of how courts interpret the 1982 Constitution and Charter [...]
Canada A Liberal party mailing from leader Stephane Dion to thousands of households in the Vancouver East riding has criticized the Conservatives for “dithering” in their handling of the InSite “safe injection” drug site and claims that “harm reduction saves lives.” Elizabeth Whiting, the party’s communications director, defended the mailing by saying InSite’s funding is a “major issue.” Earlier this year, Health [...]
Bill C-484, Ken Epp’s private member’s bill entitled the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, has passed First Reading and has had its first hour of debate. Thus far, there has been no political maneuvering to try to prevent discussion on it, nor have Department of Justice shenanigans declared the bill unconstitutional because it infringes on a woman’s “right to choose.” It is [...]
20 Years after Morgentaler On Jan. 28, 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada threw out the country’s abortion law. The Interim’s coverage of this sad anniversary includes a reprint of our immediate reaction, an excerpt from David Dooley’s 1992 pamphlet, “Supreme Court and Morgentaler Against Biology” and original contributions from Donald DeMarco (on Morgentaler as a feminist icon), Ian Hunter (on Morgentaler’s [...]