Stephen Leacock, Canada's most honoured humourist, once proclaimed: "When I state that my lectures were followed almost immediately by the union of South Africa, the banana riots in Trinidad and the Turco-Italian war, I think the reader can form some opinion of their importance." Leacock, of course, was being facetious. But his audience could not have been receptive of his humour if [...]
Officials accused of ignoring attacks on pro-lifers, and going easy on pro-aborts Several recent legal cases in Ontario and Alberta could leave the impression that the capricious nature of the legal system is being used against pro-lifers. This past summer the police and courts have seemingly employed a double standard in dealing with allegations against pro-life activists. The day before police arrested [...]
Despite an inauspicious beginning, the National Post, which began publishing one year ago this month, has been a boon for pro-life and pro-family Canadians desperate for principled journalism from the mainstream media. The Post published its inaugural issue in the days following the murder of abortionist Bernard Slepian. It ran a cartoon which implied the pro-life movement was behind his death and depicted pro-lifers [...]
The impending doom that underlied the news stories when the world's population reached six billion earlier this year is unfounded, and worse, a sign of the devaluation of human life. There is little reason to believe that the earth becomes a worse place to live with each new person. However, Princeton University "ethicist" Peter Singer seems to believe so. He stated in [...]
The 1973 science-fiction film, Soylent Green, horrified audiences when they realized just what went into the manufacture of the food product from which the film gets its name. In the story, food has become so scarce in the year 2022 that the government decided to feed its citizenry re-processed human corpses. The protagonist, played by Charlton Heston, discovered what this curious food was [...]
Memo targeting certain Reform Mps is not an attempt to purge the movement of pro-lifers A well-publicized memo by a top-level Reform Party strategist has some worried that the United Alternative is trying to push out moral conservatives. Rick Anderson, campaign director for the Reform Party of Canada, wrote a memo identifying 20 Reform MPs whom the party should be ready to [...]
A full-length column in a recent edition of the Catholic Register newspaper spells out how far one Catholic hospital has fallen in its enthusiastic adoption of the "gay" agenda. St. Michael's Hospital proudly announced that Toronto's Gay Pride Week, June 20-27, which culminated in an obscene "Gay Pride Parade" was "sponsored in part this year by St. Michael's Hospital." This was the [...]
Police ‘investigation' fails to allay concerns about ‘genetic termination' abortions An "investigation" into eugenic infanticides at a Calgary hospital has failed to exonerate the hospital, and pro-lifers vow to continue searching for the truth. In April, Alberta Report magazine broke a horrifying story about babies born alive and left to die after "genetic terminations" at Calgary Foothills Hospital. A "genetic termination" is [...]
I was sitting in a University Avenue courtroom in Toronto a few years ago at a murder case. The prosecution wanted to introduce another witness. The judge glanced at a clock on the wall, saw that it was 4:00 p.m., and asked, "How long will the witness be?" "Oh, Your Honour, I would say a good half hour." The judge banged his [...]
Before I get around to kicking our judges all over Ottawa and elsewhere for the weird rulings they come up with, I have a gem of a true story to bring you from a trade magazine called Coverings. Clara Null of Oklahoma City, Okla. remembered one of the worst days of her life. She said, "The washing machine had broken down, the [...]
The Book of Ted: Epistles from an Unrepentant Redneck, by Ted Byfield (Keystone Press Inc., $34.95, 269 pages) The American columnist George Will once said that before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, before there was Goldwater there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was William F. Buckley. The point was that political movements have their beginnings in [...]
Letters to Gabriel: The true story of Gabriel Michael Santorum, by Karen Garver Santorum with a foreword by Mother Teresa and an introduction by Dr. Laura Schlessinger ($22.95). Karen Garver Santorum is the wife of a prominent pro-life senator and mother of three who, when she found out she was expecting her fourth child, decided to write "letters" to her yet-to-be-born child. [...]
Population conference says 10-year-olds have right to contraception and ‘safe' abortions Between June 30 and July 2, a special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations reviewed the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development. Planners of Cairo+5, including the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, sought to expand abortion rights and contraception access, as [...]
After public pressure was applied to police in Toronto, it seems that an investigation into an assault case against a Toronto pro-life activist is finally proceeding. In early June, Bill Whatcott was assaulted and had his pro-life sign stolen from him when he demonstrated across from a downtown Toronto abortuary. As The Interim reported last month, police were slow to respond to Whatcott's [...]
Joins one of only a handful of pro-life groups world-wide enjoying privileged access Campaign Life Coalition scored a major victory at the United Nations when it was accredited for non-government organization (NGO) status by the Economic and Social Committee of the UN (ECOSOC). Anna Halpine, who works for CLC in New York as part of the Coalition for Women, Children and the [...]