In an exclusive interview while on assignment in Norway in June 1991, I was able to obtain more details about the trial of Pastor Ludvig Nessa, the 41-year-old Lutheran priests (as they are called in Norway), who was recently defrocked for speaking out against the permissive abortion laws of his country. (see The Interim, June 1991) Seeking contact Although I didn’t establish [...]
Once upon a time there was a philosophy with noble ideals. It was called feminism. But something went wrong. A movement seeking peace resorted to violence. A movement fighting discrimination began to discriminate. A movement comprising the most recent immigrants from ‘non-personhood’ slapped that label on another minority group. A darling At the 1989 pro-abortion march in Washington, D.C., children had “I’m [...]
Statistics Canada has revealed that the Conservative government’s tax system introduced under Finance Minister Michael Wilson penalizes married people. Of all married couples, 58 per cent had less disposable income in 1989 than if they had lived together without marrying. The amount going to the government through saved tax credits and extra taxes was a staggering $5.6 billion, or $1,560 a family. [...]
The front page of our May 1991 issue carried the story of a recent U.S. poll on attitudes to abortion. It was meant to be good news and it is good news. But why do the print media never seem to carry the same reports? Because polls are easily manipulated. This was pointed out again in the New Dimensions of July 1990: [...]
Is it a wrong use of words to call an unborn child ‘a child?’ L.M., Cornwall, Ontario In the English language the word ‘child’ is used – as it has been used for centuries – to describe a pre-born human being. The Oxford English Dictionary pre-defines ‘pregnant’ as ‘with child’ and Taber’s Cyclopedia Medical Dictionary has the same definition. Both the King [...]
Frank Kennedy, reporter at large for The Interim kept his eyes and ears open at July’s national pro-life meeting in Winnipeg. He came back with three stories of ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things for their pre-born brothers and sisters. Cross Canada Grandmother “God has asked me to speak to the hearts of people.” This is how Therese Weiler of Cargill, Ontario, describes [...]
Abortuary I July 12 Fredericton, N.B. – Henry Morgentaler announces that he will open a ‘clinic’ in Fredericton within one year “if the McKenna government doesn’t do it first…I think the need is there,” he says. He expects opposition but dismisses it: “There are fanatics everywhere, but most people do not approve of their storm trooper tactics.” George Gilmore, president of the [...]
Moral permissiveness continues to ravage society. It affects religious denominations as well. Nowhere is this phenomenon more visible than in those communities formed in Western Europe of the sixteenth century after separating from the Catholic Church. After undergoing endless schisms and separations themselves (over 26,000 in 400 years), the remaining ‘mainline’ denominations have accommodated themselves to a greater or lesser degree to [...]
This fourth editorial on the anti-life, pro-death philosophy which dominates Canada concerns the law. At the start of the series, in July, we argued that the drive for full protection of the unborn cannot be obtained on a piecemeal basis. In September, we said that it can’t be done either by adopting the language and standards of secularists and feminists who reject [...]
Terrace, B.C. - A 19 year-old native woman, Myrna George, underwent a suction abortion at the Mills Memorial Hospital here on September 11, 1991. She was 16 weeks pregnant. She went into shock shortly after the abortion, probably as a result of a perforated uterus. She died three days later, on September 14. The incident was reported in the Vancouver Sun of [...]
The results of a study on the attitudes of Quebec women toward marriage, family, health, sex, careers and money, suggest the modern Quebecois has little in common with her sisters of past generations. * * * * Chatelaine, a Montreal-based, French-language women’s magazine published by MacLean-hunter, released the results of the poll in its June issue. The poll was conducted by Multi-Reso [...]
Toronto – Private schools in Ontario already receive public money say the leaders of a coalition formed to spearhead the drive for funding. They are now pointing to the University of Toronto Schools and Eden Christian College as precedents of government support to educational institutions other than Roman Catholic. Last spring one Ontario Alliance for Christian Schools joined forces with the Canadian [...]
Vancouver – The Family Coalition Party (FCP) of British Columbia got off to a good start with a fundraising dinner on September 4 with dinner on September 4 with the former B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm as guest speaker. Although the former Premier said he would not abandon the Social Credit Party, he nevertheless endorsed Kathleen Toth, a FCP candidate in the [...]
On August 26, the Metropolitan (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB), easily passed a motion, proposed by Trustee Harold Adams, which supported Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic’s statement banning the promotion of condoms in the Catholic school system. As a result the statement will be distributed to all the MSSB schools. Band-aid solution In his letter to the five school boards in the Archdiocese, Archbishop [...]
In an unprecedented move, Bishop Anthony Tonnos of Hamilton, Ontario, urged diocesan priests to boycott a banquet sponsored by the city’s St. Joseph Hospital Foundation. Fundraising dinner The September 20 fundraising dinner featured Governor Mario Cuomo of New York as guest speaker. In the past Cuomo had legislated state-funded abortions. In a letter to his priests, first publicly revealed in the Hamilton [...]