Campaign Life Coalition's Southwestern Ontario conference is this Saturday, Nov. 5. Speakers include former MP Pat O'Brien, London Area Right to LIfe president Phil Arnsby, CLC national president Jim Hughes, LifeSiteNews editor John-Henry Westen, and Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg. There is a promotional story in the September issue of The Interim. Key details: The London conference will be held at the Best Western [...]
On Oct. 22, more than 2000 people turned out for the Defund Abortion Rally at Queen’s Park organized by Campaign Life Coalition Youth. Eight speakers made the case against funding abortion insisting that the procedure is not medically necessary and highlighting what real health care is not covered by public funds. Campaign Life Coalition has calculated that the direct costs [...]
A clear majority of Ontarians do not want all abortions subsidized by taxpayers, nearly twice as many want abortion facilities to release more information about abortion numbers and costs than do not want these statistics revealed, and few Ontarians know how much the province spends on funding abortion according to a new Abacus Data poll commissioned by The Interim, Campaign Life Coalition, [...]
Canada Quebec resident Ginette Leblanc, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is challenging the federal Criminal Code prohibition on euthanasia. Her lawyer, Rene Duval, will file an application with the Quebec Superior Court asking that 241b of the Criminal Code outlawing assisted suicide be ruled unconstitutional. According to reports, Duval expects both that court and the Quebec Court of Appeal to uphold [...]
On Aug. 26 Toronto Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic passed away at the age of 81 after a lengthy illness. He was a priest for 56 years and bishop for 35, including serving as the ninth archbishop of Toronto from 1990 to 2006. The pro-life movement lost an ally, albeit a complicated one. While some activists have complained to The Interim over the [...]
Supporters note she puts unborn ahead of herself Pro-life prisoner of conscience Mary Wagner was sentenced in court Sept. 13 for peacefully entering a Toronto abortion facility last December to witness about the value of human life to mothers who were waiting to abort their children. On Sept. 12, Wagner, who provided her own defense, was found guilty by Judge [...]
Linda Gibbons will stand trial on Nov. 4 on a charge of disobeying a court order in connection with her latest demonstration outside a Toronto abortion site this past August 4. According to Gibbons’s lawyer, she will be pleading not guilty. The date was set during a recent appearance before a justice of the peace. Although Gibbons has been conducting [...]
A giant of an unsung pro-life hero, Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic, died recently in his early 80s after a long illness. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion, mayors of the two of the largest cities in Canada, attended the standing room only funeral Mass at St.Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto. Cardinal Ambrozic was a strong moral and financial supporter of LifeSiteNews [...]
A bill completely banning abortions was narrowly rejected by the Polish parliament. Lawmakers voted 191-186 to reject the bill with 5 abstentions. The bill came forward to Parliament as a result of a citizen petition that collected 600,000 signatures in two weeks. It overwhelmingly passed its first vote (254-141) in July and was then delegated to a committee for further work, which [...]
Pro-life leaders have praised the Conservative government for refusing to provide operational funding to International Planned Parenthood by indefinitely delaying a 2010 grant request submitted in 2009, but they have criticized the government over its decision to provide taxpayer money to the world’s largest abortion outfit as part of its 2010 G8 maternal health initiative. Ottawa has not given a cent to [...]
Interim editor-in-chief Paul Tuns will be a speaker at Campaign Life Coalition's Eastern Ontario Conference in Kingston on Saturday. More info here. He will be talking about the sources of media bias. Sneak peak: it isn't all about ideology, sometimes it is just stupidity and laziness.
We are pre-releasing a pair of stories from our November issue which is being mailed to subscribers right now. Our cover story is on the Defund Abortion Rally at Queen's Park which took place last Saturday and was attended by 2000 people. And here's our coverage of The Interim co-sponsored Abacus pollon defunding abortion in Ontario which found that the majority of Ontarians do [...]
In 2010, the Ontario Ministry of Education foisted an equity and inclusivity education policy (EIE) which seeks to eliminate racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry from schools, including so-called homophobia. Religious leaders are concerned that implementation of EIE policies could be a Trojan horse by which gay activists normalize the homosexual lifestyle in the eyes of students, including through Gay-Straight Alliances [...]
On Sept. 9, an Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench judge gave a now 25-year-old perpetrator a suspended sentence after her conviction for a six-year-old murder of a newborn was reduced to an infanticide conviction. Pro-lifers both pointed to the intellectual consistency of the ruling and expressed horror over the message the light punishment sends about the value of human life. In April [...]
An Alberta judge has downgraded a second-degree murder conviction to infanticide, and in doing so justified her decision by comparing the mother’s murder of her newborn to abortion. Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Joanne Veit said Katrina Effert of Wetaskiwin should not be judged too harshly because “while many Canadians undoubtedly view abortion as a less than ideal solution to unprotected [...]