Issues

PEI’s new ‘health’ center to begin abortions by 2018

Facing legal pressure from lawsuits launched by abortion activists and political pressure from Justin Trudeau’s federal government, Prince Edward Island Premier Wade MacLauchlan announced earlier this year that the province would reverse its three-decade policy of not committing abortions on the Island. Last month, the Liberal provincial government provided details about that policy, announcing that the new Women’s Wellness Centre in Summerside [...]

Paul Tuns2016-10-06T14:19:23-04:00October 6, 2016|Abortion, Society & Culture|

Four pro-life women

Abortion advocates often dismiss the pro-life movement as populated by old white men intent on controlling women’s bodies. A simple look around the offices of any pro-life group or demonstration would dispel the slander. Since the beginning, the pro-life movement has been both populated and led by courageous, faithful women. In the last month or so we have celebrated the lives of [...]

Paul Tuns2016-10-06T13:54:48-04:00October 6, 2016|Editorials, Pro-Life|

Abortion pill not covered by provincial drug plans

The day the Globe and Mail reported that the abortion pill Mifegymiso (RU-486) would not be covered by provincial drug plans because it had not passed a bureaucratic approval process, Celopharma Ltd., the Canadian distributor for the drug, said it might seek approval if the costs could be reduced or deferred. Provincial drug plans outside Quebec will not cover pharmaceuticals that have [...]

Paul Tuns2016-10-06T13:51:08-04:00October 5, 2016|Abortion|

Patrick Brown betrays social conservatives

Patrick Brown's double-cross on sex-ed. Social conservative organizations like Campaign Life Coalition endorsed Patrick Brown in the 2015 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race based on his perfect parliamentary voting record during his time as an MP and his promise to scrap the early sex-ed curriculum. When Campaign Life Coalition’s political team met him that spring, Brown explained he would not [...]

Paul Tuns2016-10-03T08:51:12-04:00October 3, 2016|Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family, Politics, Sex Education|

Worries over unintended consequences of opiate addiction strategy

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition's Alex Schadenberg is concerned that Ontario Government's anti-opiate addition strategy could lead to inferior pain-management which could increase demand for euthanasia. Beginning next year, the Ontario government will no longer pay for certain high-strength opiates (pain-killing drugs) under the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB), a move which is leaving many wondering how palliative care patients and those [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T12:42:56-04:00September 30, 2016|Announcements, Euthanasia, Features|

Liberal MP seeks to ban use of abortion victim imagery

Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes is supporting a petition banning the use of graphic abortion images. Whitby’s Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes is sponsoring an e-petition asking the Canadian government to censor and control what images pro-life advocates can use in public. E-petition 485 was launched August 15 by Oshawa resident Katherine Cavanagh, following several Show The Truth Canada (STT) events this [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T08:12:37-04:00September 30, 2016|Abortion, Show the Truth|

There’s a place for abortion victim photography

One of the most controversial aspects of the pro-life movement is its use of abortion victim photography. Some pro-lifers use graphic images in their activism and others accept its use as just another type of pro-life activism, there are those that oppose the use of abortion victim photography, and perhaps surprisingly on both sides of the abortion debate. There are even some [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T08:04:57-04:00September 30, 2016|Abortion|

The deVeber Institute hosts symposium on medical ethics

Jean Echlin (third from right) with Campaign Life Coalition summer students at the deVeber Institute seminar. Just less than a month after the legalization of euthanasia in Canada, the deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research hosted “Medical Ethics in an Age of Medically Assisted Dying and Reproductive Decisions,” their second annual summer symposium. On July 15, over 100 guests [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T07:40:52-04:00September 30, 2016|Bioethics|

REAL Women launches petition to protect freedom of religion

REAL Women of Canada has launched a petition calling on Parliament to counteract the “discrimination currently being experienced by Christians in Canada” and is gathering signatures for its September presentation in the House of Commons. The petition asks the government “to permit Christians to robustly exercise their religious beliefs and conscience rights,” which are protected under the Charter and the Canadian Bill [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T07:48:50-04:00September 29, 2016|Human rights, Real Women, Religion|

Toronto hospital refused selection reduction abortion on twin

When the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruled on July 18th that Mount Sinai Hospital was not discriminating when it refused to abort one of a patient’s two healthy preborn twins, the patient decided to appeal the ruling. The patient, a 45-year-old woman who is referred to in the case as C.V, had filed a human rights complaint to the OHRT on May [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T07:19:52-04:00September 29, 2016|Abortion Law, Human Rights Commissions|

New study undercuts LGBT movement’s key tenets

Psychiatrist Paul McHugh co-authored study questioning claim that sexual orientation and gender orientation are innate. A new report presents biological, psychological, and social science evidence that many commonly held ideas about gender and sexuality lack scientific support. The report, authored by Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer and Dr. Paul R. McHugh and published in the fall 2016 edition of The New [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T07:16:59-04:00September 29, 2016|Society & Culture|

LifeChain and 40 Days for Life offer opportunities to witness, touch lives

2016 LifeChain life-chain locations 2016 - 40 Days for Life Locations across Canada This fall, LifeChain and 40 Days for Life will provide two opportunities for pro-lifers to defend unborn children through prayerful witness. LifeChain will be held Oct. 2 in more than 200 locations across Canada, including nearly 50 in the Greater Toronto Area. The 40 Days for Life vigil [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T13:24:27-04:00September 28, 2016|Announcements, Features, LifeChain, Pro-Life|

Activists want limits lifted on newly legal abortion drug

The president of the company that is the Canadian importer of the abortion drug Mifegymiso (also known as RU-486), filed a supplementary application with Health Canada in August in order to ask the government to lift restrictions on the drug. Celopharma Inc., the Canadian importer of Mifegymiso, is asking to expand the gestational age limits for this chemical abortion as well as [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-29T07:23:03-04:00September 28, 2016|Abortion, Health Risks|

Marriage commissioners must fight for Charter-protected rights

John Carpay Our Charter freedoms are not worth the paper they are printed on, unless they are defended. It’s a lesson that Kevin Kisilowsky has learned first-hand, while fighting an up-hill battle against the Manitoba government, to protect religious freedom in Canada. Kevin was a biker, and abused drugs and alcohol prior to becoming a Christian. After finding God, Kevin [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-26T17:54:40-04:00September 26, 2016|Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family|

Pro-life groups help teachers in the classroom

Teachers face a momentous task, especially with the arrival of the radical sex-ed curriculum: each year, along with juggling all their other commitments, they must try their best to be a strong counterforce to the prevailing culture of death for their students. James McManamy, a religion teacher at Christ the King Catholic Secondary School in Georgetown, Ont. told The Interim, “with the [...]

Paul Tuns2016-09-26T12:41:28-04:00September 26, 2016|Pro-Life|

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