Why I went to the U.S. Walk for Life West Coast
The fourth annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco took place on Jan. 19. I had been to the Washington March for Life seven or eight times and the one in Ottawa several times as well. I figured Washington would get a large turn out (they ended up with 225,000 participants) and one more or less there wouldn’t be noticed. [...]
The Interim celebrates a quarter-century
The Interim and its supporters marked the 25th anniversary of the publication in style with a dinner and silent auction at the Spirale Banquet and Convention Centre in Toronto on April 10. About 300 people filled the hall to hear from several prominent figures associated with the newspaper, as well as featured speaker Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications at the [...]
March for Life in Washington
An estimated 225,000 pro-lifers, the majority of them youth, from across America participated in the march for life in Washington D.C., to mark the 30th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in the United States. Some schools sent eight to 20 buses filled with students to participate in the largest annual pro-life demonstration of the year. Leading the March [...]
Build it and they will come
We had a pro-life guest for dinner from out of town recently. She had been doing pro-life work for ages and was discouraged. She started to list our defeats and setbacks and hers would have filled a phone book if I hadn’t interrupted her. “Wait a minute!” I cried excitedly. “I know a guy who helped organize a LifeChain this year that [...]
LifeChain 2007
With LifeChain demonstrations at 187 locations across Canada, it is estimated that millions of Canadians saw the peaceful, pro-life witness on Sept. 30. Reports from across the country, in B.C. and Newfoundland and points in between, indicate that the number of participants – as well as the number of locations – is growing.Tens of thousands of pro-lifers held signs for one hour [...]
Personal miracle spawns Aid to Women benefit
The Ben Navaee Gallery will be hosting a show in support of Toronto’s Aid to Women from June 1-11. The story at the source of the inspiration behind this show involves the gallery’s curator, Ben Navaee, and his partner, Lenka. Like so many stories involving Aid to Women, Ben and Lenka’s is one of love, understanding, compassion and most of all, serendipity. [...]
Event a pleasant surprise for Students
This is the first time I have attended the March for Life. I was part of a 46-boy contingent from Saint Michael’s College School in Toronto who endured a five-hour bus ride to Ottawa to witness to the injustice of abortion. When we arrived on Parliament Hill at approximately 12:15 p.m., the crowd seemed somewhat lacking in size. I had expected many [...]
One man’s March for Life notebook
“I’d love to go, but two things: am I going to feel like a chaperone? And do I have to conform to a certain protest ethic? I mean, what if I want to bring my own signs like, ‘Stop the savagery’ or ‘That’s life, whether you like it or not.’ Can I get my digs into moral relativism?” The good folks at [...]
Marches for Life draw crowds all across Atlantic Canada
“A phenomenal aspect of this year’s March for Life is that 16 of our 55 members in the Legislative Assembly – including several cabinet ministers – joined us. That’s the equivalent of 80 MPs on Parliament Hill! It was our biggest and best march ever,” reports Peter Ryan, executive director of New Brunswick Right to Life. More than 325 people of all [...]
National March For Life 2007
Just under 7,000 Canadians from coast to coast descended on Ottawa May 9-11 to send a loud and clear message that the “A” word is still very much an issue in this country. The theme of the 10th annual March for Life, held to mark the infamous May 14, 1969 federal Omnibus bill that legalized abortion, was officially “Justice for the Unborn.” [...]
Lift Jesus Higher Ralley
Fr. Benedict Groeschel, director of the office of spiritual development in the Archdiocese of New York, excoriated the moral breakdown of Canada, including abortion and same-sex “marriage,” at the Lift Jesus Higher Rally. At least 7,000 people attended the event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on April 7. Among the speakers were: Groeschel; Ralph Martin, president of Renewal Ministries; Dana Scallon, [...]
Vancouver event marks new beginning
Many of the more than 300 attendees from across Canada, and even the U.S., hailed it as the best conference of any kind they had ever been to, following the completion of Healing the Culture: A New Beginning, the Canadian national pro-life conference in Vancouver Nov. 16-18. The event revolved around the Healing the Culture concept, which seeks to build a pro-life [...]
World euthanasia movement meets in Toronto
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, attended the World Federation of Right to Die Societies biennial conference in Toronto and learned a lot about its strategies to bring about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. This article is a shortened version of the full report that is available directly from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. The World Federation of Right to Die [...]