An ambitious project poised to begin in Burlington, Ont., just west of Toronto, is again putting to rest the charge that pro-life advocates care about human beings only before they’re born. Shifra House – named after the midwife in the biblical book of Exodus 1:15, who protected and nurtured life – is about to open in a leafy and picturesque part of [...]
It was Thursday night, Jan. 6, 2006. The site: GM Place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada had just won the world junior hockey championship by vanquishing the Russian finalists by a score of 5-0. The hero of the night, and of the series, was 19-year-old Justin Pogge (sounds like Pogey). He had distinguished himself on this occasion by stopping 35 shots on net. [...]
Why the silence about studies that show a link between oral contraceptives and cancer? What’s the difference between taking hormones for menopause and taking hormones as a contraceptive? If you’re the Canadian Cancer Society, you’ll warn of the cancer risks of one, but not the other. For more than a year, the society has cautioned women that hormone replacement therapy – a [...]
The Liberal Party has moved from attacking Conservatives on gay “marriage” to a full-out attack on pro-life issues. In a platform speech in Toronto during the election campaign, former Prime Minister Paul Martin accused Conservative leader Stephen Harper of planning to take away women’s abortion “rights.” “Members of Mr. Harper’s party have promised right-wing Conservative groups that if they are elected, they [...]
By now, you have probably heard of Katelyn Sills. As my friend John-Henry Weston reported at LifeSite, this vivacious Catholic teen “was expelled from Loretto High School in Sacramento last week, two weeks after the teacher, who was found to be an abortion clinic escort, was dismissed at the behest of the local bishop, William Weigand ... Katelyn informed her mother after [...]
It is your responsibility to elect MPs that will uphold the values that you believe in. No issue could possibly be as important as abortion. Without the basic right to life all else is meaningless. There is no social justice issue that comes even close to the importance of this one. Don’t accept anyone telling you otherwise. If we stand together for [...]
In 1999, we reported that taxpayers had already coughed up $2,611,828 in rent for the operation of the Toronto-based abortuary of Henry Morgentaler, according to Ontario Freedom of Information and Privacy documents obtained by the Toronto Free Press newspaper. Morgentaler is still on the multi-million dollar gravy train. According to information obtained in a new Ontario Freedom of Information and Privacy search [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim A proposal explicitly to deny pharmacists in Ontario a right to refuse to provide services on the basis of religious belief or personal conviction has implications beyond the matters of simply abortifacient medications and birth control. Some pharmacists fear that, under such a stricture, they may eventually be called on to dispense medications for the purposes of euthanasia, [...]
Doreen Beagan The Interim “Jack Layton, Paul Martin, Dalton McGuinty. All had pro-life dads,” Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told a surprised Charlottetown audience during a short visit to Atlantic Canada in mid-November. So why are they doing this to our country? “Because not enough good people are standing up and speaking out,” said Hughes. “When they don’t, all sorts [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim The battle to bring back the traditional definition of marriage in Canada is NOT over. That was the message brought loudly and clearly to hundreds of attendees at the 2005 National Pro-Life Conference in Montreal by Pat O’Brien, the independent – and formerly Liberal – MP for the riding of London-Fanshawe, Ont. He spoke along with other Canadian [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim Polling conducted by Environics Research in October has yet again confirmed that the vast majority of Canadians are opposed to the status quo on abortion. Currently, abortion is legal and easily available for any reason, for all nine months of pregnancy, at taxpayers’ expense. The LifeCanada-sponsored poll found that six in 10 Canadians want at least some legal [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim The Canadian pro-life movement pulled the proverbial rabbit out of a hat when it came time to stage its annual national conference in Montreal this year, Nov. 17-19. Dealing with both the cancellation of its venue a scarce 24 hours before the conference was to begin, as well as ominous threats from leftist anti-life factions, the three-day event [...]
The situation in Parliament is volatile. It is quite possible that an election will be called between the time we put this paper to bed and the time you receive it. So we remind you simply of your obligation to vote pro-life and pro-family on election day. While there are other important issues, none are as important or as urgent as restoring [...]
Interim Staff In front of a classroom full of University of Toronto law students, Rebecca Gomperts, founder and director of a mobile abortuary, declared: “An early, legal abortion is safer than using a tampon.” Seated in the front row, Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s most infamous abortionist, nodded in agreement. In October, Gomperts was in Toronto to speak about her work with Women on [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim The alleged importance of “sexual and reproductive health” and “gender equality” to the alleviation of world poverty was a point constantly hammered home like a mantra when the release of the annual State of the World Population Report by the United Nations Fund for Population was heralded at a press conference in Toronto Oct. 12. Paddy Torsney, parliamentary [...]