By Linda Wegner The Interim In a first-in-Canada decision, members of the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association recently endorsed the right of pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions they believe are morally inappropriate and which violate their commitment to provide care for all members of the public. Ronald Guse, association registrar for the Manitoba College of Pharmacists, referred to the existing standards which give [...]
But as Canada's judges show all too well, without God we cannot always read it By Rory Leishman The Interim By decreeing that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "has established the essentially secular nature of Canadian society," has the Supreme Court of Canada fatally undermined any legal case for reinstating the bans on abortion, euthanasia and suicide in the Criminal [...]
"We want to be here to say women do have a choice, and to help them make a choice for life,' says the founder of the Mother and Child Welcome House By Jill Little The Interim After nearly two years in the planning, New Brunswick's new pro-life service centre in Fredericton is becoming a reality. The Mother and Child Welcome House was [...]
By Tim Bloedow The Interim Feminists at the University of Quebec recently spent (or at least were given to spend) $98,000 of Canadian taxpayers money to research the apparently dangerous involvement of "right-wing anti-feminist groups" at the United Nations. They have released an initial report, prepared by Anick Druelle, and many pro-lifers aren't sure whether to greet it with humour or outrage; [...]
By Tim Bloedow The Interim Canada is set to become one of the first countries to ratify the highly controversial Rome statute, which will be used to set up a global criminal court. On June 13, the House of Commons passed Bill C-19, the Crimes Against Humanity Act, the purpose of which is to "implement in Canada the Rome Statute of the [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim The charges against two journalists covering the Linda Gibbons arrest last October have finally been dropped. Eight months after their ordeal began, Steve Jalsevac of Toronto and Gord Truscott of Guelph were vindicated of obstruction charges. After reviewing the evidence, the Crown admitted there was "no reasonable probability of conviction." Blaise MacLean, Jalsevac's and Truscott's lawyer, told The [...]
Commentary by Paul Tuns The Interim On July 8, Canadian Alliance (CA) members elected former Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day as their new leader, giving hope to pro-life, pro-family conservatives that a national leader might finally represent their views in Ottawa. Day beat his competitor, party founder Preston Manning, by almost two to one. The four-month campaign was relatively quiet until late May [...]
Lobbysists help Third World delegates resist anti-family demands of Western countries and NGO's By Paul Tuns The Interim Despite organized and virulent opposition to their lobbying efforts, pro-life and pro-family groups scored a major victory at the recent intersessional preparatory meetings for Beijing+5. Pro-life and pro-family non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including Canada's Campaign Life Coalition and REAL Women, prevented anti-life, anti-family language from [...]
This month's editorial cartoon is about scratching the surface - of this newspaper. Recently we've received a handful of letters from readers who feel that The Interim is hateful toward people who are homosexual. The gravity of the charge, and the apparent sincerity of those who have written, merits a response. Even a casual reader will no doubt be aware that we strongly [...]
Do you not know me? There has been a debate of late, dealing with the issue of what does it mean to be truly pro-life. I'm thankful for the input and thoughts of Calgary's new Catholic bishop, Bishop Fred Henry, for his helpful and insightful remarks, made public, delivered to a convention of Alberta Pro-Life last month. I won't repeat those remarks [...]
The preoccupation of pro-life and pro-family people in federal politics these days is the Canadian Alliance leadership race, so much so that pro-life leaders have had to fend off allegations that they are shifting from their traditional non-partisan stance. For the longest time Canada's pro-life movement has endorsed or rejected individual candidates, whatever their party affiliations, based on their track records and [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim On May 30, former Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey died at the age of 68. He was a pro-life Catholic Democrat who criticized his party's position on abortion and was ostracized for it. Long plagued by various health problems, in 1987 Casey underwent quadruple bypass surgery. He also suffered from the genetic condition familial amyloidosis, which required a [...]
Pro-lifers must identify profoundly with every human being who waits in hope of rescue By Donald DeMarco The Interim Experience may be the sharpest teacher. "One thorn of experience," the poet James Russell Lowell tells us, "is worth a whole wilderness of warning." But only the most insulated individual can learn no other way. More often than not, unfortunately, learning through experience [...]
A mere 40 years ago, the Canadian Bill of Rights recognized that ‘men and intitution remain free only when freedom is founded upon respect for moral and spiritual values' By Rory Leishman The Interim How do we know that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are evil? For Christians and Jews who uphold the historic teachings of their faith, the answer is obvious: [...]
Dr. Gregor Wolbring defies the ‘inducements to euthanasia' society presents to the disabled By Sue Careless The Interim Dr. Gregor Wolbring is not a man to mess with. The bushy-bearded professor of biochemistry is an academic with a wickedly sarcastic edge. His forceful presence can be disarming. With a thick German accent and deep booming voice, he is not what you envision [...]