Pro-life and pro-family advocates in southern Ontario who have been frustrated by the media's inability (or refusal) to report accurately and fairly on life and family issues may find some relief in the recent decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to grant the Burlington, Ont.-based Crossroads Television System a licence for a television station. The decision, released April 9, gives [...]
Ann Shields is one evangelist who walks the talk. She is perhaps best known for her appearances with Ralph Martin on The Choices We Face, a Catholic evangelistic television program that airs weekly in Canada on the Vision network. The program attracts some 700,000 viewers in North America, the Caribbean and the Philippines. But Shields not only talks about the love of [...]
A national television program based out of Whitby, Ont. is serving as a unique and exciting platform for the pro-life message. The Eh JJ Show has for seven years been providing positive and moral programming as an alternative to the trashy, sex-laden and violent fare that dominates most of the television air waves these days. According to producer Jerry Jonkheer, the show [...]
WINNIPEG - Police have denied claims of a concerted effort to obtain the membership lists of pro-life organizations in their investigation into the shootings of Canadian abortionists. In an April 1 interview with The Interim, Sgt. Ron Oliver of Winnipeg Police Services said police have no policy of poring through pro-life group membership lists for potential suspects. Sgt. Oliver was responding to [...]
Pro-lifers are expressing disappointment following the recent federal by-election to replace staunchly pro-life and pro-family MP Sharon Hayes in the riding of Port Moody-Coquitlam, B.C. Hayes, a member of the Reform party, was forced to resign because of her husband’s severely ill health. Liberal Lou Sekora won the riding over seven other candidates in the by-election March 30, winning 39 per cent [...]
A U.S. pro-life organization is set to launch a newspaper promoting right to life and chastity issues among high school and college students throughout North America. Pro-Life America, a California-based organization plans to publish a 24-page, full-color tabloid newspaper which organizers hope will reach millions of students and young people. To date the newspaper is unnamed. The publication will be distributed through [...]
Recently I was visiting my pastor’s house and he was watching a rather apocalyptic video proclaiming that in the year 2000, the world’s computer and information systems would crash. Massive upheaval would follow and the foundations of Western society would be severely shaken. Having heard numerous declarations of impending disaster, I took the video with a grain of salt. However the following [...]
Progressive art forms have long been noted for their affinity with radical, leftist and liberal causes. From music to literature and onwards, arts have played a leading role in helping foment the revolutions (especially the sexual) so inimical to life and family values. One can look at the 1960s and the cultural changes wrought by events such as the 1969 Woodstock rock [...]
Two anniversaries that occurred in late January provided ample cause for pro-lifers to reflect on where we sit in the battle to protect unborn children. The 25th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision in the United States, and the 10th anniversary of the Canadian Supreme Court's overturning of the former abortion law, have produced a tremendous amount of commentary in the [...]
In the Baker Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, hangs a fresco mural by the revolutionary Mexican painter, Jose Clement Orozco, that is, ironically, a mordant social comment on the ineptitude of the bookish world of modern academe. Gods of the Modern World portrays an array of cadaverous and immobile university professors standing off to the side as an academic [...]
Cardinal Thomas Winning, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, revealed in December that the church has "saved" the lives of 40 children since introducing its controversial scheme offering financial help to women considering abortions. The cardinal, who has in the past attacked Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair for his stance on abortion, said in a speech: "This Christmas about 40 babies [...]
Welcome to 1998. Many of us are probably still considering our New Year's resolutions, and how to readjust our lifestyle and priorities. Hopefully, for each of us, that includes a commitment to be at least as involved – if not more so – in the important pro-life and pro-family issues of the day. And there are some important issues to address at [...]
As the year 1998 begins, it's good to look back over the year 1997 to see what was accomplished and what happened in the pro-life, pro-family community in North America and the world. While people are starting to realize what abortion is and are beginning to speak out against it, many are showing support for assisted suicide. A fence-sitting Liberal government was [...]
TORONTO - Campaign Life Coalition is going into the used clothing and merchandise business to help provide additional funding in the ongoing pro-life struggle. In November, Campaign Life introduced Yesterday's Treasures, located in a small booth at the Knob Hill Farms store at Dundas street and Lansdowne avenue in Toronto. The store is situated near a string of small retail operations, including [...]
Parishioners at St. Bonaventure Church in suburban Toronto were treated to a smorgasbord of pro-life literature November 2 at the community's first Celebrate Life Sunday. Born of an urgency to bring greater right to life information to a wider audience, the event was sponsored by the parish's Small Christian Community Group. "We would like to continue the tradition of organizing these Celebrate [...]