Police in the central Ontario community of Lindsay won’t be laying criminal charges against members of Campaign Life Coalition’s Show the Truth tour. As well, authorities in the town northeast of Toronto, have returned four signs seized last October, after receiving direction from the provincial Attorney-General’s office. The signs in question show aborted babies. They were used last year in a sweep [...]
Well, the MPs are back from their Christmas break, and although there are no left-related bills on the front burner for the government, there are several private members’ initiatives that you need to be aware of when you are speaking with your member of Parliament. By the way, although members try to be in their ridings as much as possible on Fridays, [...]
Pro-life supporters from across Canada are encouraged to attend a march for life in Ottawa commemorating the 29th anniversary of Parliament’s legalizing abortion. Scheduled for May 14th, the event will mark what the pro-life community describes as the most tragic event in Canadian history. Parliament’s action of May 14, 1969 to amend the Criminal Code and allow for abortion has to date [...]
Canadian pro-lifers reflected on the importance of their efforts Dec. 27-28 in masses, prayer services and public demonstrations marking the Feast of the Holy Innocents. For the past several years, the Feast of the Holy Innocents has become the inspiration for masses dedicated to the thousands of unborn children lost to abortion. This year's Holy Innocents feast coincided with the Feast of [...]
ST. THOMAS, Ont. -- Four pro-life activists pleaded not guilty Jan.14 to "exhibiting a disgusting object" during last summer's Show the Truth tour. John Bulsza of London, Rosemary Connell of Peterborough, Ann-Marie Tomlins of Barrie, and Bill Whatcott of Toronto were charged with publicly exhibiting a disgusting object and causing a public disturbance by displaying graphic photos of aborted children. The four [...]
British Columbia pro-life activist Jim Demers will be sentenced this month after a provincial court judge found him guilty of violating the province's Access to Abortion Service Act, commonly known as the "bubble-zone" law. Demers, who bases his protest on international covenants calling for the protection of human life from the moment of conception, was arrested in early December 1997 for a [...]
Two British Columbia pro-life supporters used a novel approach to protest against abortion Dec. 28 outside the Every Woman's Health Clinic in Vancouver. Lane Walker and Jennifer Ziemann, members of the Seamless Garment Network Canada, were arrested for violating the provincial "bubble-zone" law which restricts pro-life demonstrations. But their arrest did not come before the pair had made an effective, 16-hour witness [...]
Two packages recently received by The Hamilton Spectator led to a media frenzy in Steeltown which ended as quickly as it began when police concluded the packages were not related to the shootings of three Canadian abortionists in recent years. The sending and contents of the packages made front-page headlines for days at a time in the Spectator and also received prominent [...]
U.S. pro-lifers fear noted activist Joan Andrews Bell could face a life sentence following her latest court appearance Jan. 16 in Pittsburgh. Bell was sentenced to three to 23 months in county jail stemming from a 1985 trespassing conviction at a Pittsburgh abortuary. However, her refusal to promise to stay away from abortion mills could keep her behind bars indefinitely. "Go ahead, [...]
You can meet many new and interesting people on one of the Campaign Life Coalition's bus trips. The recent Festival of Lights tour to Our Lady of Fatima Shrine was no exception. With two buses full of people, off we went to the Fatima Shrine in Lewiston, New York. November 29 was a clear, sunny day with great blue skies, and only [...]
VANCOUVER - Judge J.J. McGivern of the Provincial Court of British Columbia has dismissed a claim by pro-life activist Jim Demers that unborn children are entitled to protection under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In a December 19 decision, Judge McGivern said that under existing Canadian law, the Charter words "everyone" and "every individual" do not include the unborn child. Nonetheless [...]
Two American pastors who have devoted their lives to showing the graphic nature of abortion, believe that a respect for life attitude is gaining strength in the popular imagination. Pastors Matt Trewhella and Ralph Ovadal of Wisconsin, were in Toronto recently to meet Canadian Show the Truth Tour organizers, and to attend the recent Ontario Students for Life conference. Trewhella, pastor of [...]
Police and justice officials in the town of Lindsay, northeast of Toronto are playing hardball with local pro-lifers. Bowing to a handful of public complaints, Lindsay police October 18 confiscated four large signs showing the remains of aborted children. The signs were part of a protest outside Ross Memorial Hospital, the scene of pro-life protests over the last two years. According to [...]
"Wonderful ... made my day. I feel terrific." Those words from Campaign Life Coalition's Rosemary Connell and Anne Marie Tomlins after the pair organized a highly-visible, pro-life witness outside Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, Ontario. The November 22nd vigil drew about 60 people of all ages to the central Ontario community. Front and centre, the hospital's so-called abortion ‘services' but also freedom [...]
When I was first told about the youth column here at The Interim, I thought this was my chance to pick up my pen and let the creative juices flow. But as I sat there, paper on desk, pen in hand, no inspiration came to me. What could I possibly have to write about? I come from a pretty simple family. I [...]