Interim Staff On July 17, almost 5,000 young people gathered in the nation’s capital for a Christian youth rally, Cry2. CRY stands for Canada’s Revived Youth. The event was organized by the evangelical youth group 4 My Canada (Motivated Young People for a Strong Canada). The throng on the Hill heard speeches on the sanctity of life and the family, prayed for [...]
A music video produced by a Saskatchewan-based musician, speaker and author is promising to offer a new way to get the pro-life message out while giving pro-life organizations a unique fundraising opportunity. Lorraine Hartsook has produced Bring That Child to Me, a video filmed earlier this year in Tennessee, but based on a song she wrote about a decade ago and has [...]
Suzanne Fortin is a 32-year-old mother of two. She and her husband have been married for seven years. When Suzanne is not busy raising her family, she busies herself promoting the right to life among other young French Canadians. “Culturally, I’m a Quebecker,” she shares. “I grew up in Quebec City. I spent the first 25 years of my life there, before [...]
So far, Canada’s new Conservative government has done precious little to promote the sanctity of human life, but pro-lifers should not give up on the Conservative party. There is good reason to hope for major pro-life gains from the Harper Conservatives after the next federal election. Consider what Prime Minister Stephen Harper has already accomplished. Thanks mainly to his leadership, the formerly [...]
Although the situation may often appear bleak, things are actually breaking the pro-life way in the struggle to protect human life from conception to natural death, says one of modern-day Catholicism’s leading authors and commentators. Speaking May 9 at a Campaign Life Coalition clergy luncheon in Toronto, George Weigel acknowledged that it is easy to get depressed when we are surrounded by [...]
Heather Stilwell is a name known to many right to life activists in Canada. “I’ve been in the right to life movement since 1978, just shy of 30 years,” states the public school board trustee from Surrey, BC. “One of the girls at my church got me signed up with the Vancouver Hospital Board. One thing led to another and we ended [...]
Increasing numbers of couples from across the Maritimes visit private sonogram clinics in the United States for three-dimensional ultrasound photos of their unborn babies. They can’t get photos of their unborn babies at home, because most Canadian hospitals refuse to perform non-medical ultrasounds, often because of the cost. Nova Scotians Tracey Gray and John Boulay were especially eager to learn the gender [...]
Abortion is typically presented by its advocates as a women’s issue, but pro-lifers know better. As Vicki Thorn, who founded Project Rachel, has taught: unborn children will only be protected when both men and women come together on their behalf. In this month of Father’s Day, The Interim salutes a few good men who are boldly defending life and family. In the [...]
Country legend Kenny Rogers addresses the sorrow felt by many men after they lose a child to abortion, in the title track of his new album, Water and Bridges. The pain of losing a baby to abortion is rarely acknowledged as an issue for men - abortion is usually considered a woman's affair. But in fact, men are involved more often and [...]
It is hard not to recognize Bill Murphy at Northern Ontario right-to-life functions. Between his black cowboy hat, his grey captain's beard and a generous laugh, the Calgary transplant stands out as Sault Ste. Marie's local leader for Campaign Life Coalition. He and his wife Colleen arrived in this tight-knit northern Ontario community about 20 years ago. The couple now boast four [...]
A new web search page based in the U.S., but serving the international community, is allowing internet surfers to find the information they are looking for, avoid objectionable advertisements and pornography and contribute to pro-life-related causes without shelling money directly out of their own pockets. ProLifeSearch.com was launched on a voluntary basis during the fall of 2005 as the world's first pro-life [...]
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the Father Ted Colleton Scholarship program. More than one hundred students have participated in the program, producing interesting and insightful essays on a variety of topics dealing with life issues. On these pages appear their thoughts, concerns and hopes for the pro-life movement in Canada. We were impressed by their knowledge, commitment, spirituality and activism. [...]
Recent incidents of vandalism to pro-life bus advertisements in Guelph, Ont. are once again pointing out the apparent hypocrisy inherent in the use of the label "pro-choice" to describe those who favour committing abortions. A total of three Guelph Transit buses carrying what are called "supertail" pro-life advertisements - which cover virtually the entire back half of a bus - were [...]
It has long been acknowledged that the spiritual realm must play an important role in the effort to ultimately secure the right to life for all human beings, from conception to natural death. To that end, Catholics across Canada are participating in a concerted prayer effort to ensure that aspect of the pro-life struggle is not neglected. The One Million Rosaries for [...]
It's being called an issue that has few rivals in terms of controversy in Canada and around the world. It's dominated by bloody images, heated rhetoric and impassioned defences on both sides. Few facts go unchallenged. Language becomes a tool, as words become weapons of outrage or instruments of reassurance. Abortion? Nope. The annual Canadian seal hunt. The description above comes from [...]