Pro-life youth protest in Toronto, Vancouver By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-life students refused to let insinuations of "anti-abortion violence" prevent them from staging protests against the introduction of the RU-486 abortion chemical. Students in Toronto and Vancouver were out in force July 27 to draw attention to RU-486, which recently gained approval for clinical testing in Toronto and other Canadian cities. [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Leo Patrick Beecher, one of Toronto's quietest, but most inspirational pro-life, pro-family supporters died June 22, 2000 at the age of 80. A familiar sight at Campaign Life Coalition's Toronto offices for many years, Leo Beecher was an unassuming pro-lifer whose gentle resolve in defence of unborn children inspired hundreds of people. A native of southwestern Ontario, [...]
After a frustrating month of shin splints, flu, and mega-blisters, Andrew Fournier carries on By Catherine Fournier The Interim It's been a difficult month for Andrew and for the Pilgrimage for Life. Instead of the smooth sailing Andrew experienced through the Maritimes and Quebec, injury, illness, constantly changing plans, and frustration have been the norm this month. After a good rest at [...]
Calgary pro-lifer says prohibition of words ‘killing' and ‘murder' may lead to courthouse protests By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-life supporters in Alberta have expressed concern that the court system may be turning to libel laws to further restrict right-to-life activity near abortion clinics. In June, Judge Blair Mason of the Alberta court ruled that pro-life signs carried by long-time activist Michael [...]
By Tim Bloedow The Interim Pro-lifers know what it's like to be targeted by government for censorship, particularly when it comes to criminalizing the free speech rights of peaceful protestors around abortuaries. Another attack on free speech for pro-life citizens and many other Canadians was introduced by the Liberals as Bill C-2 at the beginning of the latest session of Parliament. It [...]
"We want to be here to say women do have a choice, and to help them make a choice for life,' says the founder of the Mother and Child Welcome House By Jill Little The Interim After nearly two years in the planning, New Brunswick's new pro-life service centre in Fredericton is becoming a reality. The Mother and Child Welcome House was [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim The charges against two journalists covering the Linda Gibbons arrest last October have finally been dropped. Eight months after their ordeal began, Steve Jalsevac of Toronto and Gord Truscott of Guelph were vindicated of obstruction charges. After reviewing the evidence, the Crown admitted there was "no reasonable probability of conviction." Blaise MacLean, Jalsevac's and Truscott's lawyer, told The [...]
Lobbysists help Third World delegates resist anti-family demands of Western countries and NGO's By Paul Tuns The Interim Despite organized and virulent opposition to their lobbying efforts, pro-life and pro-family groups scored a major victory at the recent intersessional preparatory meetings for Beijing+5. Pro-life and pro-family non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including Canada's Campaign Life Coalition and REAL Women, prevented anti-life, anti-family language from [...]
By Catherine Fournier The Interim On Friday April 28, at 7:30 in the morning, Andrew called his sister Faustina from Parliament Hill in Ottawa. He had walked extraordinary distances in the last three weeks, pushing himself nearly a week ahead of schedule, for this moment. "Andrew, where are you?," she mumbled, still half asleep. As far as she (and the rest of [...]
By Linda Wegner The Interim The recent Queer City Film Festival held in Regina, Saskatchewan, did not go unnoticed or unchallenged by members of the Christian Truth Activists. On opening night, May 8, 2000, eleven protestors stood outside the main branch of the Regina Public Library where the event took place. On Saturday, May 13, 20 people took part in a second [...]
The following letter was printed in The St. Catharines Standard shortly after the March for Life events in Ottawa May 10-11. It is reprinted here with permission. By Mary-Lou Bratko The Interim A week ago today is an anniversary for me - an anniversary of newly acquired knowledge, of newly acquired friends, of a completely new outlook on life. Last week, I [...]
One way to appreciate the force of the argument for "Justice for the Unborn," is to compare and contrast the ways in which Canadian laws and the judicial system treat the cases of (a) a man who has first tortured, and later murdered, a series of victims (often children), having first videotaped the torture scenes, and (b) the deliberate killing, by abortion, [...]
By Michael Trolly The Interim On Tuesday, April 18, Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) held its first major event, a candlelight vigil that united pro-life Canadian youth from coast to coast. The demonstrations took place between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, local time, regardless of weather, in front of a hospital that commits abortions. The National Campus Life Network [...]
By Catherine Fournier The Interim I saw a woman get hit by a car yesterday. Stopped at a red light, I absentmindedly watched a woman in her late sixties cross the road in front of me. With only a little more attention - which became more focused as I realized what was going to happen - I watched the car making a [...]