It isn't often that a columnist likes to talk about his own turf. Indeed, there is ample material and information on the battle to protect life in other towns, and I often would rather talk about them. Our fair city of Kelowna has managed to keep the evils of abortion out of the local hospital for some time. Back in the days [...]
By Tim Bloedow Pro-life activist and law professor are two descriptions that don't often describe the same person in America today, but they do identify Professor Charles E. Rice, a zealous spokesman for the dignity of human life and professor of law at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He is also one of the two special guests topping the list [...]
As I sit before my computer, my files are thick with news clippings dealing with the media response to the stabbing of abortionist Garson Romalis. It was newsworthy, to be sure, and I was happy to see the same purveyors of information provide accurate info on the reward that Campaign Life Coalition offered. Now, in the middle of all this, is the [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Readers of The Interim have donated more than $900 to a Toronto woman who recently gave birth to a baby girl, after resisting pressure from her former boyfriend to abort the child. Maria (not her real name), whose story was featured in the April, 2000 edition of The Interim, gave birth to six-pound, 10-ounce baby daughter, Jenna Maria, June [...]
Pro-life youth protest in Toronto, Vancouver By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-life students refused to let insinuations of "anti-abortion violence" prevent them from staging protests against the introduction of the RU-486 abortion chemical. Students in Toronto and Vancouver were out in force July 27 to draw attention to RU-486, which recently gained approval for clinical testing in Toronto and other Canadian cities. [...]
Commentary by William Gairdner The Interim If smart people are so stupid, what is there to hope for? In her recent article in the National Post on the Canadian Alliance leadership race ("Manning Looks Like a Leader," July 6), Diane Francis wrote something appalling and disappointing that illustrates precisely why Canada needs an honest and open debate on social issues and a party [...]
The B.C. worker's paradise was treated recently to a visit by Monica J. Casper, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, in Santa Cruz. Casper is known for her book, The Making of the Unborn Patient, and also has been publicly criticized for being less than honest about her pro-abortion views when conducting her research She presented an overview of [...]
The pro-life movement won't change society if it restricts itself to moralizing and politics By Carl Scharfe The Interim HEALTHCARE. Uppercase. Daunting. But is it really? Is not healthcare the destiny of the pro-life movement? Pro-life crisis-pregnancy services, education and political lobbying. What's missing? The human body, its entrance into and exit from this world and what happens to it while it's [...]
Marie Vandenberg The Interim A motion to dissociate the Ontario Catholic Women's League from the World March of Women 2000 was defeated 71 to 43, with 6 abstentions, during the CWL's provincial conference in Waterloo July 9-12. The feminist anti-poverty event, which has received the endorsement of the CWL's national leadership, as well as the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, became the [...]
But as Canada's judges show all too well, without God we cannot always read it By Rory Leishman The Interim By decreeing that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "has established the essentially secular nature of Canadian society," has the Supreme Court of Canada fatally undermined any legal case for reinstating the bans on abortion, euthanasia and suicide in the Criminal [...]
If Glamour readers are glad to be alive and shod by Gucci and made fragrant by Ginvenchy, they should all be pro-life, not only for themselves, but for everyone else By Donald DeMarco The Interim Having daughters around the house can occasion some decidedly unconventional reading for a professional philosopher. A few mornings ago, between the corn flakes and the coffee, sat, [...]
"We want to be here to say women do have a choice, and to help them make a choice for life,' says the founder of the Mother and Child Welcome House By Jill Little The Interim After nearly two years in the planning, New Brunswick's new pro-life service centre in Fredericton is becoming a reality. The Mother and Child Welcome House was [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim On June 28, the United States Supreme Court ruled against Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban, dealing a blow to 30 other states that prohibit or regulate a procedure that is aptly described as infanticide. In the 5-4 Stenberg v. Carhart decision, written by Justice Stephen Breyer, the court faulted the ban for its broad language, which critics claim endangers [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim The charges against two journalists covering the Linda Gibbons arrest last October have finally been dropped. Eight months after their ordeal began, Steve Jalsevac of Toronto and Gord Truscott of Guelph were vindicated of obstruction charges. After reviewing the evidence, the Crown admitted there was "no reasonable probability of conviction." Blaise MacLean, Jalsevac's and Truscott's lawyer, told The [...]
A mere 40 years ago, the Canadian Bill of Rights recognized that ‘men and intitution remain free only when freedom is founded upon respect for moral and spiritual values' By Rory Leishman The Interim How do we know that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are evil? For Christians and Jews who uphold the historic teachings of their faith, the answer is obvious: [...]