The International Pro-life Conference, entitled "Building A Global Culture Of Life," is co-sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition and the International Right to Life Federation, and will be held in Ottawa, October 28-30. LifeSiteNews.com has an article on the just-announced lineup of speakers. You can register online here or call CLC at 1-800-730-5358. In the September issue, we have an interview with Catholic novelist Michael O'Brien, who will [...]
"'Research unclear on how daycare affects child development"is a must-read column by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, in today's Montreal Gazette, succinctly explaining a lot of data from a recently released study. Mrozek concludes by making an important point: The childcare research field does not lend itself to unequivocal statements, or easy guilt-free [...]
My interview with lawyer John Carpay, who represents the pro-life students at the University of Calgary, is online. The Q&A will also appear in the forthcoming (September) issue of the The Interim.
Editor’s Note: Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, interviewed John Carpay, former executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation and who continues to represent the students involved with Campus Pro-life at the University of Calgary, about the case and freedom of speech on campus for pro-life groups in general. The Interim: How did you get involved with the Campus Pro-life students [...]
The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart says that conservative lawyer Ted "Olson delivers a succinct and eloquent rebuttal to conservative arguments against same-sex marriage." You can read Olson's words for yourself, but notice that they don't really rebut the conservative argument against SSM, but rather merely repeats standard liberal talking points about allowing gays to marry (it's a matter of equality and it is [...]
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LifeSiteNews.com reports on the Crossroads Walkers who ended their trek from the Pacific Ocean to the nation's capital, bringing the pro-life message to communities in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and western Quebec, before finishing up in Ottawa this past weekend. Their efforts were praised by pro-life veterans: Paul Lauzon of Campaign Life Coalition Ottawa praised the Crossroads initiative for bringing attention [...]
A story from our August issue on the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform's summer training session for students is now online. An excerpt: Ruth Lobo, a 22-year-old student at Carleton University, is one of the summer interns. She says that through “Choice” Chain, “The most impactful thing for me thus far has been sharing my adoption story with strangers and showing them through [...]
On July 2, after four years of negotiation, the United Nations created a new agency for promoting gender equality. The General Assembly voted to combine four UN offices dedicated to women’s issues – United Nations Development Fund for Women, the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Division for the Advancement of Women, and the Office of the Special [...]
Esquire magazine’s motto is “man at his best,” but if you only watched movies and television, the last couple of decades would have made it harder for you to figure out just when, particularly, a man could count on hitting his golden years – that plateau where health, wealth and hard-won wisdom combine at a tolerable average. It certainly isn’t the gormless, [...]
They said “yes” to use the call to spend their summer training as a pro-life activist. They said “yes” to focusing on saving lives in both sunshine and rain. They said “yes” to the two-and-a-half month internship with the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. They are the seven young pro-lifers from across Canada, plus one from the United States, who [...]
Q&A with Craig Carter Editor’s note: Joseph Jalsevac, a summer intern at The Interim, spoke to Dr. Craig Carter, an ordained minister in the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada and a professor of Religious Studies at Tyndale University College in Toronto, about contraception. Carter regularly writes and lectures on Christian sexual ethics in the modern world. The Interim: [...]
In July, the National March for Life committee announced Dan Heffernan as the newly appointed National March for Life coordinator for lay movements, a new position on the committee. Heffernan has had extensive involvement in the pro-life movement over the past few years. Joining the Knights of Columbus in 1988, Heffernan continued to hold various positions within the council, including [...]
Campaign Life Coalition, LifeCanada and the International Right to Life Federation are co-sponsoring the 2010 international pro-life conference, "Building a Culture of Life," in Ottawa. There is a great lineup of speakers including John Smeaton from SPUC, Bill Saunders from AUL, Jack Willke from IRLF, and Emmy-winning pro-life documentarian Brad Mattes. One of our favourites around here is Rev. Johnny Hunter, president of the U.S. group LEARN, who [...]
The weekend paper had stories about how a federal judge reversed a stay on Judge Vaughn Walker's decision over-ruling of the will of the people of California on the issue of same-sex marriage. Now comes news that the extremely liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals motions panel has re-instated the order to stay the decision, effectively ending same-sex marriage until the court can render its decision in a full [...]