On October 31, 1991 (Halowe’en), Dawn Black (NDP, New Westminster-Burnaby, B.C.) introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Commons in favour of funding for birth control. Pro-lifers have been saying for years that the contraceptive mentality increases rather than decreases abortions and the dissolution of the family, but feminists and others won’t listen. Dawn Black’s bill proposed to reinstate a [...]
This story, although not about a Canadian mother, is nevertheless typical of the work being done by those who counsel young women to have their babies. Michelle’s sons best Christmas gift this year was his life! Michelle was determined to get an abortion, but friendly pro-lifers got in her way to the abortion ‘clinic. Phoenix Michelle, a pleasant, quiet girl with a [...]
Question: What have a Lutheran pastor, two Baptists and the Knights of Columbus have in common in Cobourg, Ontario? Answer: A desire to help people with problem pregnancies. Interdenominational Beginnings is a Christian interdenominational counseling and adoption service started in Hamilton, Ontario, ten years ago to aid unmarried parents and families for whom the birth of a child may be a burden. [...]
The Ontario NDP now finds itself on the side of the angels in its support for a common day of rest for all Ontario residents. The villains are both the Liberal and the Tories who have now caved into the wishes of the big retailers who want wide-open Sundays. Quagmire But it is unlikely that the new Bill 115, which was to [...]
What a beautiful chance the Knights of Columbus in Stratford, Ontario had to show Premier Bob Rae recently what they thought of him, and his pro-abortion policies. But they muffed it. The Knights of Columbus, a large international Catholic men’s organization established over a hundred years ago, have recently had an identity crisis. In the United States they [...]
In a follow-up to Toronto Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic’s categorical ‘No’ to condom promotion and information, The Interim contacted several Roman Catholic School Boards in Ontario outside the Toronto area. Peterborough Don Folz, the Assistant Director of Education for the Peterborough Northumberland Victoria & Newcastle RC School Board (23 elementary and three secondary with over 8,000 students), stated that his school [...]
Ontario Citizenship Minister Elaine Ziemba addressed a group of about 50 homosexual and lesbian students January 29, 1991, at the University of Toronto on the occasion of ‘Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week.’ Throughout the hour-long meeting, Ms. Ziemba bent over backwards in her attempt not to appear ‘homophobic’. Myth The first thing she did was to dismiss the idea that homosexuals are [...]
Ontario Premier Bob Rae has responded to a letter from the Ontario Bishops (November 1990) and from the Knights of Columbus (December 1990), both of which objected to the underwriting of free-standing abortion ‘clinics’ in Ontario. Both are reaffirmations of the NDP government’s aggressive pro-abortion policy. Two months It took almost two months for Premier Bob Rae to reply to bishop John [...]
Covenant House in Toronto has abandoned attempts to build a youth hostel on part of a former school yard of St. Michael's Choir School in downtown Toronto. Des Burge, communications officer with the Archdiocesan Center said that at the moment the Canadian financial climate does not allow for much successful fund-raising. Toronto City Hall did not like the original plans and had [...]
"The new abortion law is a minefield for abortionists," claims Bev Daw, executive director of the Canadian Rights Coalition (CRC). "Doctors are not going to get away by hiding behind their lab coats," Mrs. Daw told The Interim Wherever we find evidence of a bungled abortion and somebody who feels angry about it, we're going to urge them to sue." Sloppy Mrs. [...]
City Council in St. John’s, Newfoundland recently overruled an appeal board that had declared the new Morgentaler abortuary suitable for the area it was operating in. Six out of the eight sitting councilors voted to overrule the appeal board, pro-life councilor Dorothy Wyatt told The Interim. Eviction notice Council is resisting a threatening letter from Morgentaler’s lawyers (all the way from Cambridge, [...]
Queen’s Park, Toronto Ontario Premier Bob Rae’s office claimed they had never seen the letter from the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops (OCCB), urging the NDP government to reconsider its new policy of providing easier access to killing of the unborn. The letter from the president of the OCCB, Bishop John O’Mara, was dated November 19, 1990. It was reported in a [...]