Mary Wagner was in court Feb. 29 on a charge of mischief and two counts of failing to comply with probation orders concerning her arrest at the site of the Bloor West Village “Women’s Clinic” Nov. 8, 2011. Justice S. Ford Clements of the Ontario Court of Justice presided over the day-long trial where he heard from three witnesses and listened [...]
Protestors oppose Charles Rice lecture WATERLOO – At least two groups led by professors protested the appearance of Charles Rice as keynote speaker at the Pascal Lectures on Christianity and the University at the University of Waterloo. Rice, a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame Law School and devout Roman Catholic opposed to same-sex “marriage” and abortion, will give a [...]
On the weekend, National Post columnist Andrew Coyne wrote about the need for an abortion debate in Canada. It is worth reading, especially his point that even feminist justice Bertha Wilson -- the only Supreme Court justice to say there is a right to an abortion -- could countenance restrictions on abortion. The obvious, though only implied question in Coyne's column is that if Bertha [...]
Yesterday, Stephen Woodworth's motion (M-312) had it's first hour of debate in the House of Commons. (Coverage from LifeSiteNews, the National Post, Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and CTV, which does a decent enough job providing the main points of view on each side). The pro-abortion side is not making very good arguments, just the same-old, same-old, so dignifying the first hour [...]
Stephen Woodworth's motion (M-312) calling upon Parliament to examine when human life begins and what consequences that finding might have for Canadian law is set for the first hour of debate today. We wrote about M-312 in the April issue of The Interim and editorialized about Woodworth's audacious effort in February. (You can find all our coverage of Stephen Woodworth's motion here.) The opposition has gone [...]
Catholic Missions of Canada is an Interim advertiser. We are a pro-life paper and they are a Catholic charity so while we have slightly have different missions, so to speak, but we are very supportive of one another because in the Grand Scheme of things, we are on the same page. As a Catholic I appreciate the work CMC does bringing the Good News [...]
This editorial appears in the forthcoming edition of the print version of The Interim: The Alberta Tories’ 41-year reign appeared to be coming to an end with the April 24 election (held after we went to press). The upstart and more conservative Wildrose Party was leading in the polls. While Wildrose is not a pro-life party, it did have numerous socially conservative [...]
In February, two Australian professors argued in the Journal of Medical Ethics that because “both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons,” “the fact that both are potential persons,” and that “adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people,” abortion should be permitted after birth. Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth issued a press release [...]
The Conservative Government’s pledge to create an office of religious freedom within the Department of Foreign Affairs is welcome and encouraging news. This proposed office would monitor the status of religious freedom in countries around the world and provide valuable information about the relative restrictions of religion under certain regimes. The research this office would produce could greatly assist diplomatic efforts to [...]
The intrepid pro-life activist, Mary Wagner, has been in and out of jail for more than a decade. Not content to witness from a distance, Wagner often enters the facilities where abortions are committed in the hopes of warning pregnant women about the reality of abortion and the dangers it poses for them and, of course, their unborn children. At Wanger’s trial [...]
Over the past 30 years, freedom of religion in Canada has come under increasing attack by unprincipled judicial activists and authoritarian politicians. Now the Supreme Court of Canada and the Legislature of Quebec have taken this proclivity to a new extreme, by arbitrarily decreeing that Christian parents no longer have an inalienable right to shelter their children from anti-Christian propaganda [...]
White guilt is a terrible thing to waste. Something that became profoundly clear during the trial of Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya, and their son Hamed earlier this year. Although the case was shocking, it was in fact only the most recent of a dozen murders in the last 12 years, most involving Muslim patriarchs killing young girls who [...]
I couldn’t imagine what Pierre Trudeau was thinking when he declared that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation. Oh, the declaration impressed me all right, but not the sense of it, only the sound. The sense puzzled me. I wondered why Mr. Trudeau singled out the bedrooms of the nation. Didn’t he know that the [...]
If I had just arrived from a far-away planet it would be easy to convince me that the people on planet Earth are just crazy about babies. Yes, born and pre-born babies. It has been a big media story about Kate and Prince William expecting their first heir to the throne and not just among royal watchers; the whole world wants to [...]
As a purely anecdotal aside, I’d like to mention that few of the people I know who’ve walked the Camino de Santiago, the ancient pilgrim trail that provides the setting for Emilio Estevez’ film The Way, were actually Catholic, or even appreciably Christian. The Camino has become, in an age of widened horizons but jaded palettes, a kind of extreme tourism destination, [...]