More than 30 students from Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Newfoundland came together in Toronto recently for a pro-life symposium weekend. Students’ primary focus was activating pro-life groups on university campuses across the country. Members of Western Life and Kings College Life (University of Western Ontario), two of the limited number of university pro-life groups, provided information on bringing the pro-life word to [...]
At a stage in life when many people might start looking to wind down, one of the pro-life movement’s more colourful figures is still going strong. Ken Campbell, the 62-year-old Milton, Ontario evangelist and founder of Choose Life Canada, is engrossed in a whirlwind of activity these days –standing in the midst of controversies over the federal government’s pro-homosexual rights legislation, Linda [...]
When Life Decisions International President Douglas Scott was asked to deliver an address on Planned Parenthood in 1981, little did he know it would lead to a significant career shift. The former executive director of Arizona Right to Life and vice-president of the Christian Action Council, Scott found a receptive audience for his speech. The response led him to further research into [...]
The Toronto Public Library has rejected The Interim’s bid to have the newspaper made available to the public through the periodical distribution service. According to an official with the Toronto Public Library, periodicals are ineligible for bulk distribution if they are deemed primarily of political, religious or philosophical advocacy. Other types of publications rejected for distribution include materials that would contravene bylaws [...]
Interim special A new program of international awards will expose the absurdity and injustice of legal decisions that cheapen human life. To be called the Bumble Awards, they are named for the character in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, who said “the law is an ass.” Winners of the Bumble Awards will each receive a scroll or certificate depicting a donkey wearing a [...]
Contrary to the article, Finding some room for theory of evolution (Interim, December 1996) a natural reading of Genesis does not support the authors’ position of theistic evolutionism. The Bible states 10 times in its first chapter that God created all living things after its own kind. Nowhere does the Bible allude to or support the doctrine of evolutionism. In life, compromise [...]
Pro-life leaders on both sides of the border are lukewarm to the use of referenda to determine moral questions, including constitutional protection for unborn children. The question arose late last fall when Reform party leader Preston Manning spoke in favour of a law allowing a national referendum on issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Manning’s stand generated wide debate in pro-life circles. [...]
Don Pennell has been named interim leader of Ontario's Family Coalition Party for at least another year. Delegates at the FCP's recent annual meeting in Hamilton approved the move after St. Catharines, Ont. Resident Tristan Emmanuel, who was slated to take over the party's full-time leadership, withdrew his candidacy. Pennell had resigned as full-time leader earlier this year. Emmanuel had run federally [...]
The (Foundation SOS for protection of the Unborn) in Warsaw, Poland carries out both spiritual and material programs to help people to a better understanding of defending life from conception to death. It also prepares young people to be responsible for family life. Catholic priest Father Ryszard Halwa started the foundation in 1980. He was interviewed by The Interim when he attended [...]
When the popular pro-life writer, Frank Kennedy, was three, the obligatory public health sign went up outside his house: Poliomyelitis. Inside little Frank kept falling down and hitting his head against a table. He had contracted polio and had to learn to walk all over again. It was especially hard on his parents since they had already lost their first child to [...]
The Past year witnessed the usual peaks and valleys for pro-life, pro-family supporters in North America and throughout the world. While there was a measure of success in some areas, number of trouble spots, particularly growing tolerance for assisted-suicide and continuing inroads against the traditional family –continue to present major concerns. Undoubtedly one of the most significant events was a somber one [...]
Pro-life prisoner of conscience Linda Gibbons will again be the subject of a dramatic presentation at 7:30 p.m. Gibbons, who has served several prison terms resulting from a temporary injunction against pro-life demonstrations, was scheduled to be released from her latest incarceration the same afternoon. An Evening with Linda Gibbons and Friends will include reading, music and discussion of trends in the [...]
Interim special The sign outside the building read: Clear Choice Parental Center. Kind of a euphemism, since what went on there and nothing to do with parenting. But “choice” was the buzz word. It told everybody: abortions are performed here. “Hundreds” of them in the two years the clinic operated, according to Dr. John Nwannunu, who runs it, and two others in [...]
The Ontario Students’ for Life (OSFL annual Skate for Life) take place February 21-23, 1997, on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. The theme for this year’s skate is “Time to Take a Stand” and will feature Father Ted Colleton as speaker. Organizers expect this year’s skate to be better than ever. With 250-300 young people expected to turn out, this weekend is [...]
Officials with Second Chance Ministry, a Scarborough, Ontario based service helping women come to terms with abortion, believe more work is needed to increase awareness of the procedure’s harmful aftermath. Since l99l, Second Chance ministry has helped women deal with the grief and trauma brought on by abortion. While pro-choice supporters speak of the lack of risk associated with abortion, Second Chance [...]