Scott Brockie celebrated by friends and supporters Nearly 250 people celebrated the faithful witness of Scott Brockie, a Christian printer persecuted for refusing to violate his Christian conscience when approached by the Gay and Lesbian Archive to do business. On June 26, Equipping Christians for the Public Square Centre (the ECP Centre) held a fundraising dinner for Brockie to help him pay [...]
Monsignor Vincent Foy celebrated by friends and supporters He was honoured not only for a remarkable 65 years of service to the Roman Catholic church and its people, but also for his strong and principled stand against a position taken by Canada's bishops in 1968 that many saw as being at odds with the teachings of the Pope of the time, Paul [...]
On June 14, some heavy news hit both the canon law community - those who oversee the Catholic church's internal legal system - and the American political scene. Marc Balestrieri filed a formal canonical petition before the Archdiocese of Boston, in which he denounced John Forbes Kerry for the ecclesiastical crime of heresy. Balestrieri is a respected lay canon lawyer fed up [...]
Borowski: the paradox of martyrdom Borowski: A Canadian Paradox by Lianne Laurence, (Interim Publishing, 415 pages, $24.95 softcover, $39.95 hardcover) Review by Stephen Tardiff The Interim The true legacy of a movement that defends life is not the victories it enjoys, but the heroes it employs. Joe Borowski, who lived on a farm and worked in a mine, took up the extraordinary [...]
"That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain Which are t'intrinse t'unloose; smooth every passion That in the nature of their lords rebel, Being oil to fire, snow to the colder moods; (Renege,) affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and [...]
There is a revolution happening in Canadian federal politics. It first became apparent in 1997, but gathered momentum with the 2004 election. A new generation of socially conservative politicians are finding their way into the House of Commons. Five years ago, Pierre Pollievre was only part way through his international relations degree at the University of Calgary. An essay he wrote at [...]
In recent weeks, I have talked to dozens of people (many of them pro-life Conservatives) who are gloomy about the election results of June 28. In some ways, I don't blame them. It was a long, uninspiring election campaign. There were politicians and media who used abortion as an ugly wedge issue, attempting to scare and divide Canadians. (Pro-life Liberals were especially [...]
Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie often enough, everyone will believe it. While I won't accuse the Canadian media and political elites of lying, I think they have repeatedly made a mistaken assumption so often that they honestly believe it. It is a truism among many political journalists, backroom strategists and senior party officials that holding socially conservative views [...]
A new technology, 4-D scanning, is changing pre-natal medicine and bolstering the argument against abortion. Years ago, 2-D scanning showed us a flat, black-and-white picture of the baby in the womb. Then, 3-D scanning was developed, revealing a more realistic, but motionless, picture of a baby. Now 4-D, the fourth dimension being time, is showing an unborn child's movements in the womb. [...]
Tony Gosgnach The InterimSchool caretaker, bus driver, factory worker, Santa Claus, Scout leader and Knights of Columbus member. There wasn't too much that Harold Mitchell didn't do in his 75 years. But it was perhaps his pro-life work that was most important. The Cobourg, Ont. resident helped found the local right-to-life group, was active in fundraising and distributed literature at local malls, [...]
Pete Vere The Interim My belongings are safely tucked into boxes that surround me. In a few days, I will pick up the U-Haul, load it up with the boxes and depart for the Great White North. I never thought I would miss the United States, but these past few years have seen me living the American dream as a social and [...]
Paul Jalsevac The InterimDana Rosemary Scallon, the singer-turned-politician and Ireland's most famous champion of the pro-life cause, narrowly lost her seat in the June 14 European parliamentary election. Scallon became famous as a singer, radio and television personality in Ireland in the 1970s and used her talents to spread her faith and beliefs through religious music and singing at several World Youth [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim Administering a punch in the face, fifteen hours of community service and a letter of apology. Not a bad deal for Douglas Chase of Vancouver Island, B.C. Chase, apparently upset by certain pro-life signs, attacked without warning Campaign Life Coalition B.C. president John Hof while the latter was picketing with other pro-life supporters outside a Vancouver abortuary in [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim In the hundreds of hours of broadcast commentary and hundreds of thousands of words written following the death of Ronald Reagan, very little was said about his commitment to protect the unborn. Reagan was remembered as the man who brought down the Evil Empire, who restored America after its Jimmy Carter malaise and rejuvenated an intellectually dead Republican [...]
Re-Elected and Newly Elected MPs Seeking to Spread the Message of Life and Family. Diane Ablonczy (C) Calgary-Nose Hill Dean Allison (C) Niagara West-Clanbrook Rob Anders (C) Calgary West David Anderson (C) Cypris Hills-Grasslands Leon Benoit (C) Vegreville-Wainwright Ray Bonin (L) Nickel Belt Garry Breitkreuz (C) Yorkton-Melville Gord Brown (C) Leeds-Grenville Colin Carrie (C) Oshawa Rick Casson (C) Lethbridge Dave Chatters (C) [...]