Well-known pro-life activist Linda Gibbons has spent a large portion of the last seven years in prison for numerous challenges of court-imposed bubble-zone injunctions around certain Toronto abortuaries. The injunctions prohibit pro-life activity of any sort within specified areas around the abortuaries. Gibbons was in southern Ontario recently for a visit away from her current residence in small town Alberta, where she [...]
Bill Whatcott once again faces the prospect of spending time in jail. The Regina pro-life activist was found guilty of distributing graphic anti-abortion leaflets on the campus of that city's university last May. University of Regina security officers ticketed Whatcott under the university's traffic and parking bylaw. When asked to remove the flyers, Whatcott refused and charges were laid. Justice of the [...]
Toronto sidewalk counselor Alex Vernon went before a judge Oct. 11 to enter into a common-law peace bond, whereby the Crown withdrew charges on the condition that Vernon refrain from communicating with a Scott abortuary staff member, and not be found within 100 feet of that abortuary, located at 157 Gerrard St. East. Defense counsel Blaise MacLean considered the peace bond an [...]
Several dozen demonstrators turned up outside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre Oct. 18 to draw attention to former prime minister John Turner's chairmanship of a major fundraising dinner there. The event was the 21st annual Cardinal's Dinner, which attracted about 1,800 people at $175 per plate. Recipients of proceeds from last year's dinner included the Birthright pregnancy service and the Rosalie Hall [...]
Once again, tens of thousands of Canadian pro-lifers gathered in communities from coast to coast to provide a peaceful, prayerful pro-life witness on Sept. 30. Some locations reported attendance was up, some found their numbers down, but overall pro-lifers reported the mood was good as they brought the truth about abortion - that it kills an unborn baby - to hundreds of [...]
Show the Truth evangelizes: the truth of abortion From August 5-10, Show the Truth Canada forced Quebecers to face the reality of abortion. Led by an Ontario team directed by coordinator Rose Mary Connell from Burnt River in Ontario, the number of participants this year almost doubled from 28 last year in Montreal to 45 this time around - with nearly a [...]
If there is one thing that Bill Whatcott doesn't do, it's miss an opportunity to proclaim what he believes. A big part of what he believes is that freedom of speech, justice and Christian activism are in short supply. To Whatcott, freedom of speech includes the right to denounce those things he considers morally wrong and destructive as well as the option [...]
Edmonton is not gaining a new abortuary - the city's Henry Morgentaler abortion mill is merely changing locations. But the secretive way it is doing so is causing nearly as much furor. The Morgentaler abortuary is leaving the Canora location it has occupied for ten years and moving to Westmount, at 12409 - 109A Avenue, at an unknown date. Renovations have been [...]
Police dismiss journalist's complaints of alleged police misconduct Linda Gibbons was released from prison July 7, after serving her latest term for violating a "bubble zone" court injunction at the Scott Clinic abortuary in Toronto last Feb. 13. Gibbons had received a six-month sentence (including time served) and two years' probation upon her conviction in provincial court on April 13. She had [...]
Mrs. Notten's 'prayer quilts' Little did Harriet Notten realize that when she lovingly crafted one of her colourful "prayer quilts," it would help change a mother's mind about having an abortion. Mrs. Notten, a Hamilton grandmother with health problems, hand sews dozens of beautiful quilts decorated with lively nursery rhyme characters and themes and donates them to Toronto's Aid to Women. She [...]
B.C. law bans prayer, handing out roses On June 25, two British Columbia pro-lifers who were witnessing peacefully outside a Vancouver abortuary were arrested. Mary Wagner and Glenn Reed were arrested outside Everywoman's abortion mill where they were praying and holding roses that they give to incoming abortion clients. Campaign Life Coalition B.C. President John Hof told The Interim that although Wagner [...]
I think that anybody who attended the March for Life in Ottawa May 11-12 will agree with me that it was the most successful we have held. More than 3,300 people from across Canada were in attendance and there was a very obvious spirit of optimism among the marchers. I think that one thing which inspired me was the obvious fact that [...]
As the pro-life movement stares into the new millennium, it begins the process of soul searching and contemplation. It's no secret that society has tired of the abortion battle. Preferring to lose themselves in ignorance, the public remain strikingly schizophrenic on the issue of life before birth. Indeed, U.S. pro-life leader Mark Crutcher went further and warned the movement in 1992, that [...]
GAP director Gregg Cunningham warns conference participants that Canada is in denial As the Canadian pro-life movement marks its 32nd year protecting human life from conception to natural death, 145 Albertans gathered May 4 at King's University College, Edmonton, for the Life 2001 Conference to consider a new way of doing things. Keynote speaker Gregg Cunningham, of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform [...]
Andrew Fournier is continuing his Pilgrimage for Life across Canada, bringing his message and example of hope and commitment to communities and chance-met strangers, "from sea to shining sea." Begun on March 1, 2000 on Cape Breton Island, the then 19-year-old Fournier walked through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and as far as Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario by September 20, a [...]