Philadelphia abortionist faces 39 charges in connection with death of woman, seven newborns A Philadelphia abortionist has been arrested in connection to the murders of a pregnant woman and seven newborn babies in a case that has garnered international attention. On Jan. 19, Kermit Gosnell, 69, wife Pearl, and eight other employee-accomplices were arrested in connection with the death of 41-year-old refugee, [...]
I thought I knew what pro-choice means. I guess I don’t. In fact I have difficulty with most pro-choice language. Take sex-selective abortion. It’s about expectant couples who prefer sons to daughters and use ultrasound to find out what they’re going to have. If it’s a daughter, they abort her. When I learned that pro-choicers are against sex-selective abortion, I [...]
When the Ontario Court of Appeals ruled that the immemorial definition of marriage as the union between one man and one woman violated the equity provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, social conservatives opposed the short-sighted and egregious activism of the court on many grounds. We argued that, in addition to misunderstanding (and far exceeding) the proper bounds of the [...]
Editor’s Note: Interim editor Paul Tuns interviewed Family Coalition Party leader Phil Lees by email on Dec. 17. The Interim: Tell us a little bit about your background, including your leadership of the Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council? Phil Lees: As an educator for more than 30 years I worked as a teacher, teacher consultant and curriculum designer, at all levels [...]
Rod Bruinooge’s private member’s bill aimed to outlaw coercing an abortion should not have been controversial. Who, after all, could be against keeping women safe from threats that would force them to choose between their own safety and the life of the unborn child inside them? But apparently abortion supporters and defenders of the status quo cannot countenance any limit on abortion, [...]
Here are The Interim's top 10 Canadian stories of 2010. Some of them bring us hope in our battle for Life and Family issues, while others remind us there is still a lot of work to be done. 10. Formation of Parliamentary Caucus. On an April 21 press conference a group of MPs announced the creation of the non-partisan Parliamentary [...]
Let us begin by looking at holidays as they existed in earlier societies, and trying to distinguish between a few main types of holidays as they exist today. In the English language, the word “holiday” is derived from the word “holy day.” In earlier European societies, traditional holidays were usually bound up with the Christian religion – or what could be considered [...]
On Dec. 3, a little more than a month after receiving LifeCanada`s Mother Teresa Award for outstanding pro-life activism, Heather Stilwell, a culture warrior and pro-life heroine, passed away after losing a two-year battle with breast cancer. While not unexpected, the news hit pro-lifers hard. Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told The Interim that her death is the [...]
Ask parents to come up with things that make their children cringe, and you will have enough material to fill an entire 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica set. Such a list would likely include the ever unpopular liver and onions, green vegetables, romantic movies and, without question, big, thick, heavy hardcover books. It doesn’t matter if your child likes to read, or would rather [...]
Paper also promotes Stephen Lewis, abortion, condom advocate Abortionist Henry Morgentaler was featured on Oct. 26 in a Globe and Mail series celebrating Canadians who made a difference. The Report on Business section’s 11-week “25 making a difference” series presented “transformational Canadians” in “the fields of business, science and technology, the environment, education, health care and community.” The series also [...]
Day by day, it is becoming more evident that legalized abortion in Canada threatens both our future economic prosperity and national security. In an attempt to cover up these looming perils to our national well-being, advocates of abortion on demand have taken to obscuring the relevant statistics on abortion rates. Statistics Canada no longer publishes complete, reliable information on the [...]
Was it because his opponent was gay? On Oct. 25, Toronto city councilor Rob Ford won the Toronto mayor’s race, defeating openly homosexual former Ontario cabinet minister George Smitherman, 47.1 per cent to 35.6 per cent. Smitherman, who was an early front-runner, lost decisively trailing Ford by nearly 100,000 votes. Ford ran on a populist and fiscally conservative platform of [...]
Cromwell and communists banned Christmas, too On Oct. 4, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on the ban on “celebratory religious music” upheld by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the South Orange-Maplewood district in New Jersey. The issue was first raised in 2004 when a parent sued the school board after it issued a memo before its [...]
According to the laws of ancient Israel, in addition to the Sabbath observed every seventh year, the people of the Lord were to celebrate a Sabbath of Sabbaths, a Jubilee year: “You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year… It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to [...]
The New York Times reported that “Pope Benedict has said that condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS.” That was the gist of stories that appeared in the Toronto Star, Guardian and Associated Press after L’Osservatore Romano, a Vatican-based newspaper, printed excerpts from Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and [...]