A new web search page based in the U.S., but serving the international community, is allowing internet surfers to find the information they are looking for, avoid objectionable advertisements and pornography and contribute to pro-life-related causes without shelling money directly out of their own pockets. ProLifeSearch.com was launched on a voluntary basis during the fall of 2005 as the world's first pro-life [...]
Six years ago, Peter Ryan, his wife Suzie and their seven daughters drove across Canada in the family van from Vancouver (where he gave up an executive pro-life position) to his hometown of Fredericton. Because he had heard that a Morgentaler abortuary was opening in his traditionally pro-life province of New Brunswick, he decided with quiet reserve to do something about it. [...]
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the Father Ted Colleton Scholarship program. More than one hundred students have participated in the program, producing interesting and insightful essays on a variety of topics dealing with life issues. On these pages appear their thoughts, concerns and hopes for the pro-life movement in Canada. We were impressed by their knowledge, commitment, spirituality and activism. [...]
Recent incidents of vandalism to pro-life bus advertisements in Guelph, Ont. are once again pointing out the apparent hypocrisy inherent in the use of the label "pro-choice" to describe those who favour committing abortions. A total of three Guelph Transit buses carrying what are called "supertail" pro-life advertisements - which cover virtually the entire back half of a bus - were [...]
It has long been acknowledged that the spiritual realm must play an important role in the effort to ultimately secure the right to life for all human beings, from conception to natural death. To that end, Catholics across Canada are participating in a concerted prayer effort to ensure that aspect of the pro-life struggle is not neglected. The One Million Rosaries for [...]
The National Silent No More Awareness Campaign will have an even more prominent role in this year's March for Life, as its participants will form one of the groups leading the march with their signs. The women's signs will read, "I regret my abortion," while the men's signs will read, "I regret lost fatherhood." The campaign, in this its third year in [...]
A non-partisan, grassroots organization dedicated to promoting family and traditional marriage in the Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario has already been making big political impacts, despite having been in existence for only a short period of time. Defend Traditional Family and Marriage grew out of a merger between two smaller groups that had been attempting to preserve the traditional definition of marriage before [...]
Joan Appleton, the former head nurse of a Virginia abortuary, recalls that “it was the friendship of one pro-lifer, Debra Braun, and the prayers of many pro-lifers that got me to leave the abortion business.” And to her peers who continue to provide abortions, she says: “I invite you to leave the world of lies, anger and rage and join the rest [...]
Assistant Editor St. Catharines Right to Life in Ontario celebrated its 25th annual dinner in style on Feb. 25, with almost 400 people attending at the city’s sprawling Club Roma banquet hall. In addition to dignitaries including the Roman Catholic bishop of St. Catharines, James Wingle, and St. Catharines MP Rick Dykstra, six of the 10 founding board members were present. They [...]
The second annual Culture of Life Leadership Conference in Ancaster, Ont. on Feb. 17 and 20 allowed almost 100 area Catholic high school student leaders and adult guides to be informed about basic pro-life facts and issues so they could bring that information back to their classmates and spark pro-life initiatives among them. Founded by Halton Pro-Life executive director Joanne Matters and [...]
With a history of pro-life involvement that dates back to picketing outside abortuaries with her parents as a youngster, it’s only natural that Christian musician and Juno Award nominee Janelle Reinhart – who goes by the stage name of simply Janelle - would now be performing at pro-life conferences and events such as the U.S. and Canadian National Marches for Life. The [...]
Some good things have been happening recently to several musicians who were featured in past issues of The Interim. Whitby, Ont. singer George Olliver, who was profiled in the May 2005 issue, was named male vocalist of the year at the Durham Music Awards this fall. He was also nominated, along with his Christian band Caught Away, in the category of best [...]
For independent candidate John Pacheco, putting together signs was a family affair. He ran as a pro-family candidate in Ottawa West Nepean, Ont. His sign assembly crew was made up of himself, his wife Lara and the couple’s three children. “What you see with my assembly crew is what you see on my signs,” said Pacheco. In a riding where the Conservative [...]
It was a gathering of priestly pro-life stalwarts at Campaign Life Coalition’s national headquarters in Toronto recently. Father Tony Van Hee (left) has kept a constant vigil for the unborn on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for years, reminding federal legislators of the gap in legal rights for the unborn. Asked to sum up the situation in Canada (prior to the election) in [...]
While Canadians went to the polls to bring in Stephen Harper’s Conservative minority government, U.S. pro-lifers converged – at least 100,000 strong – on the Washington Mall. More and more, the annual Marches for Life in Ottawa and Washington are being represented by the young, who have survived an entire generation of abortion. The Syracuse Post Standard newspaper reported that the overwhelming [...]