Dr. David Gratzer, a senior fellow at the prestigious and influential Manhattan Institute, is well respected in conservative and Republican circles for his opinions of about health care policy. But his acumen on politics is suspect. After Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts he predicted that Obamacare was dead and that either a compromise approach must be undertaken by the Democrats or there will be no health care reform. [...]
Brian Lilley does amazing work covering the Canadian political scene for Examiner.com. His latest post is about the promise by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reduce maternal and infant mortality abroad. Unfortunately, in doing so, Harper has aligned his government with abortion advocates and population control zealots: I asked Minister Oda whether the Harper government was leaning toward the aggressive family planning model or [...]
Everything from the January issue of The Interim that hasn't already been posted is now online: "Family Coalition Party boasts new leader." "U.S.Senate opens door to Obamacare abortion funding." "Legal challenge to Morgentaler Order of Canada rejected." (Background to that story can be found in our November issue.) "CLC sign taken off crèche display." "National Campus Life Network expands" in Atlantic Canada The latest [...]
A recent submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) provides evidence of the potentially fatal consequences of “safe” abortion promoted by UN agencies, and includes a list of 113 studies linking abortion dangerous complications such as pre-term birth in subsequent pregnancies. “The encouragement by (the UN Population Fund) and (the World Health Organization) of the [...]
The National Campus Life Network works with pro-life students to maximize the promotion and effectiveness of the pro-life message on Canadian university and college campuses. Over the summer of 2009, it hired a new director to work with students in the Maritimes. Sara Hall was hired for this part-time position and began serving students for the fall 2009 school term. [...]
A Federal Court ruled that the Governor General’s 2008 induction of Henry Morgentaler into the Order of Canada cannot be legally contested. Frank Chauvin, a retired Windsor police officer and a member of the Order of Canada, challenged the abortionist’s award, objecting to the secretive process by which the Order’s Advisory Council made its selection and taking issue with reports that the [...]
Monsignor Thomas Barrett Armstrong, a Toronto priest, long-time teacher and choir director at St. Michael’s Choir school, and fervent pro-lifer, died Nov. 14, days before his 80th birthday. He is credited by St. Michael’s Choir School with “engender(ing) a love for music in the hearts of hundreds of students who passed through” the school from 1958 to 2004. He was [...]
As 2009 draws to a close, we look back at the various gay pride events that took place in major cities across the country and the government, community and corporate sponsors who helped make them happen. From west to east … In Victoria, Vancity Pride 2009 had as a platinum sponsor Sleeman brewery. Silver sponsors included Mike’s Hard Lemonade and Okanagan Premium [...]
In November, the House of Representatives passed the Stupak-Pitts amendment (240-194) prohibiting direct or indirect federal taxpayer subsidies for abortion through the comprehensive health care reform bill before the House. The battle then moved to the Senate where senators Robert Casey Jr. (D, Penn.) and Ben Nelson (D, Neb.) fought for a similar amendment in the bill brought forward by [...]
Information about the Institute for Marriage & Family Canada event in March can be found here. Two of the speakers are Miriam Grossman, author of You’re Teaching My Child What? and Brian Lee Crowley, author of Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values. Grossman was interviewed for our September cover story on how young people can maintain their values when they head off to [...]
Ontario’s Family Coalition Party is riding a wave of enthusiasm as it prepares to enter 2010 by welcoming its third leader in its 22-year history. Phil Lees, a Hamilton-area educator and municipal family issues activist, was acclaimed to head the party during its leadership convention at the Hamilton Convention Centre on Oct. 24. He succeeds Giuseppi Gori, who took over [...]
On Dec. 2, just days after erecting a nativity scene in front of old city hall in downtown Toronto, Gethsemane Ministries founder Suresh Dominic received calls from a Toronto news website inquiring about the display’s sign mentioning that it was made possible through a donation from Campaign Life Catholic. Since 2006, Gethsemane Ministries has erected the Christmas display featuring an [...]
The Guttmacher Institute (a pro-abortion research outfit) has released a report stating that teen pregnancy rates are rising and they speculate that the reason for this is abstinence education is failing. The Washington Post and Reuters both have stories on the report that also question the focus on abstinence in sex-ed. The GI press release says that in the years following a focus on abstinence-only education, teen pregnancy [...]
The Washington Times has one of the more thorough reports from the mainstream media on Friday's March for Life in Washington DC. Good coverage from OneNewsNow and LifeSiteNews. The Washington Post photo gallery gives equal treatment to the pro-aboriton and pro-life sides despite the pro-life march being at least 3000 times bigger. If the editors at the paper's website read their own news report on the march, [...]
The Interim is getting ready to go to press on Monday so blogging will be light to non-existent until next Tuesday unless something big happens. Until then, you can go to LifeSiteNews, ProLifeBlogs and Jill Stanek for March for Life coverage.