Louis Di Rocco The Interim “This is a conference about ideology.” That’s how a delegate summed up the Habitat II conference in Istanbul. As a transportation expert, he thought he would find practical help for improving conditions in his country. Instead he, and probably many others in the same situation, architects, urban planners, housing experts, etc., found their first UN conference bewildering. [...]
Nearly 300 prolifers from across the country assembled at King’s University College in Edmonton for this year’s National Pro-Life Conference. Operating under the theme “Learn from Yesterday, Prepare for Tomorrow”, delegates heard a variety of presentations outlining strategies and issues of immediate concern to the community. The growing climate of acceptance for euthanasia or assisted suicide was a central issue for the [...]
We all need to strengthen our family ties by taking time to pray, play and stay together. The Springwater pro-life, pro-family campground have planned and welcome everyone to attend six Catholic and six “Christian” Family Weekends this year. The campground’s mission is to provide a place for year-round retreat, reflection, recreation, and unity in a Christian environment. The family weekends feature prayers, [...]
Don’t be tempted to believe that the radical feminists who dream up the Beijing document have retired to their New Age bookstores to sip herbal teal and discuss the “goddess within.” Instead, they are active—planning workshops and lobbying politicians. Pro-family forces hope that a stalled economy drives them back to the bookstores. Seven months have passed since the Forth World Conference on [...]
San Francisco gathering draws all the big names from the world of politics, media, business and entertainment A few months ago in late September 1995 a group of stellar performers from the world stage got together in San Francisco to discuss the future of the planet. The “State of the World Forum” was convened by Mikhail Gorbachev, along with co-chairs President Askar [...]
Workers on strike, students uncertain about the affordability of their education, families feeling the crunch of an increasingly hostile tax system, elderly worrying about their pensions—these are the problems which Canadians wake up to every day. The fact that no one seems to be realistically addressing these problems only adds to the crisis. At last, a window of hope may be opening [...]
Attention all Pro-Life Youth! Have you ever found yourself in a discussion and you couldn’t defend your beliefs? Are you interested in meeting people who know exactly where you’re coming from? Well, Students Against Violation of Life (SAVOL of the Greater Toronto Area understands this growing problem. We also realize that a greater respect for life needs to be established in the [...]
On Saturday may 13 spring was enhanced by Toronto’s first Youth for Life Conference. The conference arose from a need to learn more about how abortion affects our community, and more importantly to network with other young people to give the framework to build support groups within their schools. Over 70 pro-life teens from area high schools congregated in the cafeteria of [...]
The American Life League’s newsletter communiqué reports that Alice Ruiz Hanna who owns an abortuary in Orange County, Florida, has been sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for causing the death of Angela Sanchez. Sanchez, a mother of four, was killed along with her baby during the abortion. **** Thomas Tucker, the practitioner who performed more than 7,000 abortions annually [...]
Realwomen V.P. speaks at feminist dominated law school Had Gwendolyn Landolt been subjected to protests and demonstrations when she spoke at Dalhousie University in Halifax, it wouldn’t have been surprising. This fall Landolt, the national vice=president of Realwomen and a long time pro-life activist, was invited to address the university’s feminist-dominated law school. She spoke from a non-feminist perspective and much of [...]
“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes to bear are those which never come.” James Russell Lowell They didn’t announce it in the front pages of the newspapers. Heck, they didn’t even have the courage to face their victims. In the dead of the night, had we not acted quickly, they hurled a smoke bomb into our home [...]
I don’t know what we were expecting when we walked into the police station at 14 Division to see for the first time the man who blew up the Morgentaler Clinic in Toronto. MetroPolice were finally going to unveil the photo of the man caught in the act in the early hours of that May night in 1992 when the Harbord Street [...]
Two vicious attacks within weeks of each other have left a Vancouver pro-life family reeling but vowing they won’t be “silenced or intimidated.” Paul Nielsen, a popular columnist with The Interim and an active pro-lifer in the Vancouver area, woke at 3:30 a.m. on October 23 to find his home filled with thick toxic smoke. A military-type smoke bomb had been fired [...]
I was invited to be a speaker at the Human Life International Conference in Cork, Ireland. The Conference was held at the Blarney Park Hotel, outside Cork City, October 30 to November 1, and it was a great success. I had intended to stay in Ireland with my family until November 16. But, just before taking off for my native land, I [...]
Life Chain is a non-confrontational way to get across the message that abortion kills children. Whether or not the numbers participating across Canada were down slightly this year, the event got good coverage in the newspapers and definitely helped to keep the abortion issue before the public. A reporter for the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic began her story by saying, “It’s [...]