The increasing activism of the Canadian courts has led many critics, and even some supporters, to call for reforms in the way new judges are selected. The majority of commentators seem to agree that the exclusive power to pick judges should be weaned from the grip of the prime minister. Even leading Liberal leadership contender Paul Martin has indicated he would be [...]
People often mistakenly assume all members of a family share the same values. Sometimes I do it myself. Like the day in May when my strong-minded daughter and I were rolling along the Trans Canada Highway through New Brunswick, heading for Toronto via Ottawa. As we whizzed along, I asked, "Going to join me in the pro-life walk when we get to [...]
Prime Minister Jean Chretien may think that "we don't have big debates on the rights of abortion" in Canada, but some 3,500 people from across the country converged on Ottawa May 13 and 14 to send a message to him and other federal parliamentarians that the struggle to protect human life at all stages goes on. The Toronto Sun reported May 15 [...]
It is becoming a truism that youth are the future of the pro-life movement. At this year's March for Life in Ottawa, speaker after speaker noted the impressive presence of the youth and their importance to the movement. Of the estimated 3,500 attendees, more than half were high school- and university-aged young people. "I was ecstatic to see the turnout of youth," [...]
While there are certain to be skirmishes yet, the war in Iraq has come to an end with a minimum of casualties. Some may argue that one is too many, while others point to how few casualties there were compared to the carnage of past conflicts. Many readers have wondered why The Interim has not addressed the war head-on. We have addressed [...]
This year is turning out to be one of anniversaries. Our very own Interim newspaper is marking 20 years of publication. Pope John Paul II celebrates 25 years in the papacy this October. And this month, Canada's dynamic political pro-life organization will have been in existence for a quarter-century. It was on May 25, 1978 that representatives from pro-life groups across Canada [...]
Campaign Life Coalition Youth is launching a new project this month. "We're very excited about it," reports Gillian Long, executive director of CLCY. "As far as we know, this particular thing has never been done in the pro-life movement." The Red Triangle Campaign seeks to draw parallels between the defenders of the Jews during the Nazi Holocaust and the defenders of the [...]
When David MacDonald performs on the main stage at the annual March for Life in Ottawa, it is almost more a result of personal experiences than from any theoretical opposition to abortion. The Ottawa-based musician's story is a testimony to the fact that abortion leaves scars not only on the mother, but the father of an aborted baby as well. MacDonald was [...]
Organizers of this year's annual March for Life in Ottawa are optimistic that the 2003 event will remain an important symbolic gesture in defence of the sanctity of human life. At the same time, organizers hope for an increase in numbers over last year's effort. Scheduled for May 13-14 in downtown Ottawa, the National March for Life marks the 34th anniversary of [...]
A unique and groundbreaking fundraising effort by the American Life League is corralling the support of a host of current and former Major League Baseball players and officials in the cause of building a pro-life educational facility in Virginia. Battin' 1000, as the initiative is known, has the backing of about 90 players and officials, including such baseball luminaries as former commissioner [...]
Organizers say at least 200,000 pro-life citizens, including many from Canada, braved the freezing cold weather to take part in the March for Life in Washington D.C., marking the 30th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, on Jan. 22. Despite media guesses of the number of pro-lifers attending the march being anywhere from "a few thousand" to "tens of thousands," [...]
We made sure to say a prayer before we crossed the border. This is always a good idea when you have a car full of pro-life signs and pamphlets. Between divine intervention and judicious flashing of four years worth of orthodontics, we slipped uneventfully into Buffalo. We were three young pro-lifers on our way to our first March for Life in Washington. [...]
In 1991, in his Apostolic Constitution on the Catholic University, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Pope John Paul II declared that it is his "deep conviction that a Catholic University is without any doubt one of the best instruments that the Church offers to our age, which is searching for certainty and wisdom." These are hardly surprising words, considering that universities are one of [...]
LifeSite News Cuban pro-life leader Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet has been released, after the completion of a three-year sentence. Biscet raised the ire of the Communist regime in 1998 by writing to the United Nations condemning the multitude of abortions performed in Cuba. "We honour posthumously the thousands of innocent victims who have been assassinated in this 'concrete pile' (the maternity hospital [...]
A Toronto-area woman is putting into effect a different kind of pro-life work - assisting poor children in Pakistan through the foundation of a home and school. Josephine Lal-Din started Fatima House in Sialkot, north Pakistan in 1983. Initially serving 45 children, the facility has grown to the point where it now assists 562 children, and plans are in place to establish [...]