UNICEF, which supports pro-abortion and other anti-life projects, has once again tried to shoehorn its way into the Toronto Catholic District school board, Canada's largest Catholic school board. In UNICEF'S corner is Catholics for a Free Choice, a minuscule but well-financed organization funded by the Packard Foundation and others to the tune of $600,000. On a vote of five to three at [...]
see also: The good news for life issues U.S. elections marked by stunning results One week after the Republican mid-term victories, Peter White, a former principal secretary to Brian Mulroney, wrote in the Globe and Mail that there are lessons for Canada's Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties in the success of conservatives south of the border. He argued that the strategy [...]
Editor's note: At the Creating a Culture of Life: An International Forum banquet, MP Garry Breitkreuz (CA, Yorkton-Melville) was honoured by Campaign Life Coalition with its prestigious Joseph P. Borowski award. Given annually to a politician who has made a strong stand for life, the award is named after the late Manitoba NDP cabinet minister who took his battle against abortion all [...]
Fr. Ted Colleton reports from Creating a Culture of Life: An International Forum Paul Tuns, the editor of The Interim, has kindly requested me to write an article on the recent pro-life conference. While I feel very grateful, I am also fully aware that I lack the expertise to do full credit to this really wonderful occasion. I have attended many conventions [...]
Interim Staff Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the magazine First Things, was the banquet speaker and held the attention of the nearly 500-strong audience for an hour, leaving them hungry for more. More importantly, his uplifting and hopeful speech motivated veteran and recent activists alike to be a voice for the unborn, the sick, the elderly and the disabled. Fr. Neuhaus, [...]
The National Campus Life Network was created to support life advocacy groups on campus. New NCLN director Elaine Barber promises a busy year assisting campus pro-life groups, and an exciting symposium in November. Barber, originally from Whitby, Ont., is taking a year from studies at the University of Toronto to take the unpaid position at NCLN. In September, she completed a speaking [...]
Despite the good news of saved babies, sidewalk counsellors face many difficulties. But the Aug. 29 incident involving Robert Hinchey, an 18-year-old girl and two representatives of a woman's shelter was extremely unusual, ending with the pro-life counsellor getting attacked by pepper spray in a hospital. An immigrant teen Gail (not her real name) changed her mind about getting an abortion after [...]
Show the Truth, a pro-life organization that uses graphic images of aborted babies to force the public to consider the truth about abortion, held witnesses at major intersections across Toronto, Aug. 12 to 16. Throughout the week at intersections such as Bayview and Eglinton, Yonge and York Mills, Gerrard and Parliament (near the Cabbagetown abortuary), and Gerrard and Jarvis (near the Scott [...]
Pro-life leaders are sounding an alarm over the desire of a Canadian distributor and marketer of the only form of abortifacient "emergency contraceptive pills" (ECPs) officially available in this country to have the drug administered over-the-counter without a prescription. An application by Montreal-based Paladin Labs Inc. to have its product, Plan B, taken off prescription was submitted to Health Canada on March [...]
Filling a gap for pro-life youth in southern Ontario was the goal of the second annual Youth for Life Challenge held at Notre Dame High School in Burlington, Ont. on April 20. Sponsored by Halton Pro-Life, the day-long event attracted high school, college and university students from as far as St. Catharines to hear presenters including bioethics expert Father Tom Lynch, disabled [...]
When hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world descend on Toronto this July for the week-long World Youth Day, the life and family cause will have a strong presence with activities and exhibits planned over several days. World Youth Day has grown into a major, Catholic-based international event held every two years and features a series of events [...]
As part of our continuing look back at the past during this, our 20th year of publication The Interim reprints this article, which originally appeared in the May 1993 issue. The Ontario government wants to make it illegal to counsel women or peacefully protest abortion in cities across the province. Attorney General Marion Boyd plans to seek a court order restricting pro-life [...]
It started out as a typical Saturday morning for persistent pro-life activist Earl Amyotte of Windsor, Ont. Most Saturday mornings, Amyotte takes a trip to Detroit, and hikes from abortuary to abortuary to picket. But later in the day on Saturday, April 6, after a long, tough day of protesting, he was stopped at the Canadian border on his way back to [...]
The National Campus Life Network held its sixth annual national symposium Jan 14-17 at St. Augustine's seminary in Toronto. The event brought together about 50 young people who were pro-life leaders on their respective campuses, with the aim of giving these students a forum to share their experiences in campus pro-life organizing, and to benefit from the expertise of other pro-life leaders. [...]
Father Ted Colleton's impressions of his first U.S. March for Life I thought I had reached the age and stage where I could no longer be excited by the happenings of the day. But I was wrong. Having returned from the 29th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., I cannot remember a more exhilarating and encouraging experience. Perhaps the statements of [...]