Reform's Jim Pankiw tables bill to keep politicians from hiding behind the Canada Health Act On June 2, Reform MP Jim Pankiw (Saskatoon-Humboldt) introduced a private member's bill in Parliament that could lead to the end of government - or taxpayer - funding of abortion. Bill C-515 calls for a referendum on whether or not the Canada Health Act should be amended [...]
A Toronto man recently charged in connection with the murders of both of his parents was seen - and photographed - outside Henry Morgentaler's former Harbord Street abortuary in the days before it was destroyed by a still-unsolved bomb explosion in May 1992. David Patten, 44, was charged May 14 with two counts of first degree murder after a man beat 80-year-old [...]
A contingent of pro-life parliamentarians proved that life issues are far from dead at the federal level, when they appeared at a press conference to mark the opening of the two-day March for Life event in Ottawa. More than a dozen MPs went before cameras, tape recorders and notebooks in the media room of the Congress Centre to make it clear that [...]
Provincial medical authorities will also investigate ‘genetic termination' abortions at hospitals A police investigation may shed new light on late-term abortions of genetically-flawed babies at two Alberta hospitals. As reported in last month's Interim, nurses at Calgary Foothills Hospital revealed that they had been forced to participate in abortions on babies medical staff had determined to be genetically handicapped. In some cases, [...]
How do you spell chicken? I'm an eternal optimist - that is, when I keep my eyes fixed on eternal things. But there are indeed times when the sun breaks forth through the clouds and reveals the victory before us. This is such a time. A group of British Columbia University students who just happen to be pro-life, carefully planned a "pro-life" [...]
HUMAN RIGHTS CASE ENDS IN SETTLEMENT After a difficult five- year struggle, seven Ontario health care professionals win the right to choose life They did it! After a five-year battle, eight Ontario nurses won the right to refuse to assist in abortions at the Markham-Stouffville Hospital, just outside Toronto. The nurses had taken their fight to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and [...]
Recently, nurses at Calgary Foothills Hospital broke rank to reveal that they are being forced to participate in - and sometimes actually perform - abortions. Joanne Hatton, the president of Alberta Pro-Life, said in an April 12 press release, "We have internal memos from the hospital which say that nurses must administer the drugs which induce labour, and deliver the baby. Nurses [...]
On April 30, Foothills Hospital and the Calgary Regional Health Authority obtained a court order forbidding Alberta Report from repeating information contained in the story the magazine broke about reports of aborted babies born alive and then left to die. They also attempted to force the magazine to reveal its sources. What follows is editor and publisher Link Byfield's response. There's a strange [...]
The Death Peddlers: War on the Unborn, by Rev. Paul Marx, O.S.B. (Human Life International Canada, 1998, 208 pages, $12.45 postpaid.) In 1971 Fr. Marx attended a special pro-abortion symposium in California. Calling himself simply "Doctor," since he had a doctorate in sociology, he applied to attend, and got permission to tape the proceedings. He wrote this book in 1971 based on [...]
In March of 1994, the decades-long legacy of Vancouver Grace Hospital ended. Grace was a proud institution, operated by a proud denomination known as the Salvation Army.My daughter Natalie was born there. But the Army was having difficulty with the brave new world now upon us. Feeling pressured into areas of "medicine" that no Christian would dare contemplate, the Army relinquished control, [...]
This question came from students after the news of Ruby Mercer's death. Ruby Mercer was a well-known opera singer, who sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. When she was semi-retired she devoted her life to opera, and to helping and encouraging young singers. She was well known on radio. Ruby Mercer had been a foundling. The story is that she [...]
Will forgive Third World debts if 'human rights' are respected On March 25, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announced in Winnipeg that Canada is going to offer debt relief to Third World countries, but this relief will be tied to "human rights." Canadian pro-life leaders warn that tying Third World debt relief to "human rights" could force abortion, contraception and sterilization on these [...]
When U.S. Chief Justice Harold Blackmun passed away on March 4, 1999 at the age of 90, modernism lost one of her most infamous sons. Blackmun had brought to fruition what people like Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Frederich Nietchze, Sigmund Freud, and Margaret Sanger could only dream of: the death of God throughout Western civilization. Blackmun, who was appointed to [...]
Are abortion advocates convinced that they have won the public relations battle, or do they fear public confrontations with today's confident pro-life defenders? These were the questions on the minds of students at the University of Western Ontario in London as they went about organizing a March 9 debate on the morality of abortion. Western Life, a pro-life group at the university, [...]
It has been revealed that Health Canada wrote Exelgyn, the French company owning the rights to the abortion pill RU-486, to promise that Canada's drug-testing process will be "fair." In so doing, the federal government has tipped its hand and shown that far from being "fair," it may give RU-486 favoured treatment in the drug-approval process. The Food and Drug Act forbids [...]