An anti-euthanasia group says poll results from a survey they commissioned earlier this year illustrate there is no way to provide safeguards to protect those vulnerable to euthanasia and that many Canadians have a eugenic attitude when it comes to people with disabilities. In April, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) collaborated with the Environics Research Group on the Focus Canada Omnibus Survey [...]
Wesley Smith is optimistic about resisting euthanasia, but only if pro-lifers get more active In an exclusive 75-minute interview with The Interim following the day program at the Euthanasia Symposium in London, Ontario, April 28, Wesley Smith outlined what the average person can do to fight euthanasia and bring about a "genuine culture of life." Smith, the author of Culture of Death: [...]
William Gairdner offers a sobering diagnosis of our dangerously corrupt political culture The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out by William Gairdner (Stoddart, $50, 534 pages)William Gairdner, author of The Trouble with Canada and The War Against the Family, now takes aim at the problems with democracy in The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out. According to Gairdner, Canada and [...]
On May 17, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCOC) ruled that the British Columbia College of Teachers cannot discriminate against Trinity Western University because of the school's teaching on homosexuality, a decision which is being viewed as a partial victory for religious freedom in Canada. The BCCT, which accredits teachers in B.C., claimed that TWU's "Community Standards" document which is signed by [...]
When Juergen Severloh came to the Crisis Pregnancy Centre of Winnipeg on the Saturday morning of March 17, he found the words "Anti-Choice F---ers" spray painted in bright yellow letters over the window of the building, and what he estimated to be at least a gallon of blood-red paint splattered on the walls. Severloh, the centre's executive director, told The Interim that [...]
United States evangelist Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Christian Coalition, recently shocked pro-lifers with his support of China's brutal one-child policy. On the April 16 CNN show Wolf Blitzer Reports, Robertson said he doesn't "agree" with forced abortions and forced sterilizations, but he excused them nonetheless: "They've got 1.2 billion people, and they don't know what to do. [...]
Mayor acts only after threat of human rights complaint After months of lobbying and the threat of a human rights complaint, the city of Regina announced it would proclaim June 18 Heterosexual Family Pride Day. After months of stonewalling the request by Christian Truth Activists to proclaim the day, the city acted quickly after CTA executive director Bill Whatcott announced he would [...]
For Catholics and others in the Toronto area who are tired of the secularist world view peddled by the mainstream news and entertainment media, there is now an alternative on the radio. For one hour on Sunday evenings (9-10 p.m.) on 530 AM, listeners can enjoy reviews, news and analysis of current events from a Christian perspective. Fr. Marian Gil, OMI, a [...]
Scholars analyze what's behind 'judicial activism' in Canada The Charter Revolution and the Court Party by F.L. Morton and Rainer Knopff (Broadview, $22.95, 227 pages). In recent years the critics of judicial activism have grown tremendously in number - theNational Post, the Canadian Alliance, various academics, pro-family and pro-life groups,The Interim - and with good reason: judicial activism is growing and consequently [...]
Anti-euthanasia leader wants a 'human rights bioethic' Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America by Wesley J. Smith (Encounter Books, $36.75, 285 pages). In Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, Wesley J. Smith, author ofForced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder and an attorney for the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, indicts [...]
An Alliance for Life Ontario television campaign launched last fall was so successful the organization is planning on doing it again, only this time on a larger scale. The Alliance for Life (AFL) Campaign 2000 featured pro-life television advertisements broadcast on 19 TV stations penetrating all major Ontario markets, including CTV, Global and MuchMusic. The five-week campaign ran from October to December. [...]
Candidate questionnaires help identify social conservatives and pro-lifers in new legislature On March 12, Premier Ralph Klein's Tories streamrolled the NDP and Liberal opposition taking 74 of 83 seats in the Alberta provincial election. While social issues were not a factor in the election pro-life and social conservative groups were involved in the campaign, and active informing voters about the candidates. Campaign [...]
NDP and Liberals compete for pro-abortion vote With media reports of an imminent provincial election in British Columbia - the government must call one by June - the NDP and Liberals are fighting over the pro-abortion vote, a tactic that has limited the options for the province's pro-life voters. The NDP is staking out ground as arguably the most pro-abortion government in [...]
Prominent Montreal bioethicist opposes cloning, but aims for elusive balance on abortion The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit by Margaret Somerville (Toronto: Viking, 2000). 344 pages, $33.99 CAD. Margaret Somerville, founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, says in The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit that it is time for the [...]
American Life League uneasy about how Tommy Thompson will handle fetal experimentation Media reports in the first weeks of the new Bush administration suggest that President Bush is committed to a limited pro-life agenda. This is getting a mixed reaction from American pro-life groups. Bush signed an executive order re-instating the so-called Mexico City Policy, suggested Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy [...]