Delegates to follow-up women's conference fail to agree on abortion and homosexuality By Tim Bloedow The Interim Last month, from March 3-16, feminists from Western countries took another stab at advancing their pro-abortion and homosexual agenda at the United Nations during the so-called Beijing+5 PrepCom. Once again, however, they were beaten back by aggressive pro-family forces and resisted by developing countries, organized [...]
By Michael Taube and Paul Tuns The Interim On November 5, 1999, the United Nations criticized Ontario's funding of Catholic elementary and high schools, claiming it was discriminatory. It gave the government 90 days to address the issue. Ontario Education Minister Janet Ecker said separate schools would continue to get equal funding. She also dismissed the idea of funding all denominations. Although [...]
But UBC pro-lifers continue free speech fight By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-life students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) are not giving up in their battle to win freedom of expression. As of late February, students with Lifeline, the UBC pro-life organization, hired lawyer Craig Jones of the BC Civil Liberties Association, to represent them in a lawsuit against the [...]
New party to keep Reform's pro-family plank, but ‘consensus' policy on life issues remains Analysis by Paul Tuns The Interim For years the only federal party which could claim the full allegiance of pro-life and pro-family voters has been the Christian Heritage Party. But now a new federal party is being given a serious look by Canadian pro-life and pro-family leaders as [...]
Sweeping federal benefits bill grants full common-law status to homosexual couples By Tim Bloedow The Interim By the time you are reading this article, the Liberal government's same-sex benefits bill may well have already passed through the House of Commons, if not the Senate, and into law. As of this writing, the federal government appears to be expediting the bill through the [...]
The United Nations Population fund has issued its 1997 State of World Population Report. The slick 76-page document, subtitled “The Right to Choose: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health,” lays out a program for action designed to turn Third World women into feminist “wimmin.” They will be educated, plied with contraceptives, and their unborn children aborted. The report’s subtitle gives the game away. [...]
Commission to study faith persecution ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Canadian Christians cannot remain silent while the religious liberties of Christians and other people of faith are increasingly under attack throughout the world. Consequently, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) May 8 announced that it will establish a Religious Liberty Commission to raise awareness in Canada of the persecuted church. The announcement was made [...]
Interim staff A Toronto man risks strained relations with his employer by posting pro-life signs on the walls of his workplace. Emidio Galea of Scarborough is a dedicated pro-lifer and a supporter of the Aid to Women service on Gerrard St. East in Toronto. For nearly ten years, Galea has worked as a stockroom clerk at the Ryerson Polytechinical University bookstore. On [...]
Pro-life groups across the country welcome the February 6 Supreme Court of Canada decision granting a new trial for Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer. While there exists a possibility of a second jury acquitting Latimer of murder charges, pro-lifers hope a new trial will refocus attention on the innocent victims of so-called mercy killings. Convicted of second-degree murder in the November, 1994 death [...]
Two events half a world apart to add some extra chill to the cold November days. In British Columbia the Supreme Court upheld the province’s Bill 48 which severely restricts pro-life witnessing outside abortion clinics and hospitals. The ruling comes on appeal of a January court decision in the Maurice Lewis case, which found Bill 48 to a violation of freedom of [...]
While most of the country sat back and watched the exploits of Canadian athletes competing in the Atlanta Olympic Games, Marie Claire Ross of London, Ontario had training on her mind. The competitive swimmer is one of a host disabled athletes who took part in the Paralympic Games August 15-26 in Atlanta. From modest beginnings, the Paralympics have emerged to provide a [...]
Charles Moore First, bravo to Tom Wappel, Roseanne Skoke, Dan McTeague, Dennis Mills, and several other MPs on the government side who have braved derision and scorn from their caucus colleagues, risked party discipline, and put their political careers on the line to oppose enshrining the gay-rights agenda in law. Boo to the ideological conspiracy hell-bent on ramming not only tolerance, but [...]
Why Bill C-33, which guarantees special rights to homosexuals, was not warranted Opinion Michael Farrell The history of the 20th Century has been marked by a multitude of technical advances which have helped mankind harness nature and control the environment. Medical advances have extended lifespans and new understanding of genetic mechanisms has changed aspects of human biology once considered innate and immutable. [...]
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 [...]
A recent article by a prominent feminist may signal the beginnings of a shift in the feminist attitude toward abortion. Naomi Wolf, in Our Bodies, Our Souls: Re-Thinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric, acknowledges that the pro-choice movement has hurt itself by relinquishing the moral frame around the abortion issue. “The movement’s abandonment of what Americans have always and rightly, demanded of their movements—an ethical [...]