Linda Gibbons received a sentence of six months in jail, concurrent on two charges, in addition to two years' probation, when she appeared before a provincial court judge in Toronto April 17. The charges, of breaching probation and obstructing a peace officer, had been laid in connection with her picketing and prayer outside the Scott Clinic abortuary on Gerrard Street East in [...]
About 200 pro-life demonstrators from all over southern Ontario joined a diverse collection of others - including Serb, anti-war and tainted blood protesters - outside the Hamilton banquet centre where the man known to the North American pro-life community as "the abortion president" spoke at a fund-raising dinner for a unit of St. Joseph's Catholic hospital on May 2. Extreme security measures, [...]
LifeSite News The British Columbia Pro-Choice Action Network (PCAN), one of Canada's most vociferous pro-abortion groups, has publicly apologized for slandering pro-lifers. In a small retraction published in the Vancouver Sun last September (so tiny it escaped the attention of most pro-lifers at the time) the PCAN apologized to the Genocide Awareness Project and the Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform for having slandered them [...]
Canada's pro-life youth continue to expand their networks and share ideas in defence of the right to life of unborn children. The latest example occurred March 4 at Notre Dame Secondary School in Burlington, Ont. Billed as a pro-life "Youth Explosion," the conference drew more than 50 high school and university students to discuss the latest developments in promoting a culture of [...]
Peaceful pro-life activist Merle Terlesky accused of uttering threats He used to be a militant pro-abortion activist, but Merle Terlesky, who switched to the pro-life side of the abortion conflict a few years ago, has now been arrested for protesting against abortion in Vancouver. The Kamloops Daily News reported that Mr. Terlesky was arrested and jailed Feb. 23 while attending a pro-life meeting. [...]
It's being hailed as a victory for free speech and expression. The latest set of criminal charges have been withdrawn against Show the Truth demonstrators, who were arrested following events in Sturgeon Falls, Ont. in November 1999. The development means that Show the Truth - which tours different parts of Canada each year publicly displaying large, graphic signs of the effects of [...]
Police restrict reporters activity on scene Linda Gibbons is in custody once again after her latest challenge of the Ontario government's "bubble zone" court injunction shielding certain abortion centres from pro-life activities. Gibbons was handcuffed and dragged to a waiting police cruiser by three police officers and a sheriff the morning of Feb. 13 after pacing back and forth with a placard [...]
Mike Harris promised in 1995 his government would not increase abortion services Ontarians dismayed by a provincial government calling itself conservative, when it has demonstrated itself to be anything but, have cause for further grief after discovering that yet another, publicly funded abortuary has been operating in Toronto. This despite Premier Mike Harris's pledge, made prior to his election in 1995, that [...]
Bill Mullally, Campaign Life Coalition Public Affairs Co-ordinator (Toronto office), told The Interim that the candlelight vigil at this year's March for Life will be a spiritually uplifting event that will allow pro-lifers who cannot make it to Ottawa to be present in a symbolic way. The March, to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Canada, will be held [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Officials with the new North American Youth Alliance (NAYA) are optimistic their organization can translate the natural pro-family sentiments of young people onto the international stage. The NAYA, formed in January, 2000, is the most prominent of regional youth organizations formed to combat the abortion-contraception mentality espoused by United Nations-backed youth groups. The group works in support [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Angels for Life are once again set to put a much-needed financial present under the Campaign Life Coalition Christmas tree. For the fourth consecutive year, the small Toronto-area craft-making enterprise will offer its nativity angel figures for sale during the Christmas season. All proceeds from the sales are turned over to Campaign Life Coalition to assist its [...]
Being a student pro-life leader on campus today takes uncommon courage and humility By Karen Stiller The Interim When I told my Gender and Health class at Dalhousie University that I was against abortion, they were shocked. I transformed, right there in the seminar room, from a benign student into a fire-breathing dragon dripping intolerance from under my scales. The late 'eighties [...]
By Margaret Bright The Interim They say the future of the pro-life movement lays in the hands of our young people. One hundred young adults kept this in mind as they attended the eleventh annual Youth Pro-Life Conference held in Surrey, British Columbia last weekend. After a few "break-the-ice" games and prayer led by Fr. Tom Lynch of St. Augustine's Seminary in [...]
Family, colleagues, and fellow Christians rallied when freedom of the press was threatened By Sue Careless The Interim When there is danger for journalists, there is danger for freedom, danger for democracy. UNESCO Secretary-General Frederico Mayor, in awarding the World Press Freedom Award 2000 to Jesus Blancornelas, a Mexican journalist shot by the drug traffickers he was exposing "The Lord hear thee [...]
By Grace Petrasek The Interim Recently, Robert Hinchey, co-counsellor with Joanne Dieleman at Toronto's Aid to Women, was chatting with a couple headed for the abortuary located next door. As they spoke, an abortuary employee darted from within and screamed, "Don't listen to him. He's crazy. They're all crazy up there. He's crazy. Don't listen to him." Later, while reflecting on this [...]