A teacher, a mother of eight and pro-life activist – Connell might become a Liberal candidate Rosemary Connell says there are neither saints nor martyrs in her family, just ordinary people. Still, one has to wonder. In the last decade, this energetic 41 year-old wife, mother of eight children (four adopted), who is also a teacher in Port Perry (north of Toronto), [...]
Cavilla may not accept board’s decision The Christian Heritage Party has a new leader. Or does it? It depends on who you talk to. In a highly unusual move the national board of Canada’s only pro-life federal party suspended its leader and appointed Heather Stilwell until the 1994 leadership convention in Vancouver. According to the board, Stilwell, a pro-life activist from B.C. [...]
Earlier this year I took an unprecedented step for me and joined a political party. I chose the Liberal Party for two reasons. First, the party policies generally fit more comfortable with my own views than do those of the two other major parties. Secondly, I know the woman who was seeking nomination in my riding. I knew I could support her [...]
Jim Edwards vows pro-life action if elected Pro-life support is rallying around Jim Edwards as he makes his bid for the leadership of the federal Tories. The Interim caught up with Edwards during his frantic schedule as he travels the country trying to round up delegates and get his message out. He says the economy is dominating the debate among the leadership [...]
Reflecting on her many years as a volunteer, Isabel Graham, a Toronto mother and grandmother, laughingly says, “People used to feel sorry for me because I was a professional social worker without a job, but they didn’t realize I was constantly using my professional skills in the community.” Isabel has used her professional credentials for over twenty years to strengthen family values. [...]
The most significant long-term political contradiction facing the feminist elite in North America is that the feminist agenda has never been shown to represent the interests of the majority of women. And women know this. Although 90 per cent of women tell pollsters that achieving equality is important for them, only one-third of women are willing to call themselves “feminists.” Why? Let’s [...]
Women speaking medical help to get pregnant should beware, cautioned Dr. Patricia Baird at a recent Women’s Health Awareness Breakfast held at Royal York Hotel in Toronto. As head of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies (RCNRT), she said their extensive research has “overwhelmingly” shown that “reproductive technologies and treatments are becoming disseminated as services, without good evidence as to whether [...]
Queen Kim The Progressive Conservatives (an oxymoron in he class of “safe sex” and “politically correct”) are killing me. Draft one of this column talked of a June coronation for Defense Minister Avril Phaedra (“B.S.”) Kim Campbell. It seemed ol’ Bare Shoulders would go unchallenged as Michael Wilson, Don Mazankowski, Barbara McDougall and Perin Beatty all dropped like flies, thereby changing Tory [...]
Antigonish, NS – Local resident Andy Gillis is demanding a thorough investigation of the area’s transition houses and the Naomi Society for Victims of Family Violence. He charges that their effect, possibly their main purpose, is to destroy families. Furthermore, he says, they resort to brainwashing, mental abuse, and possibly even physical abuse. He is demanding a moratorium on their funding until [...]
For over two decades, UNICEF officials in Canada have consistently denied that their organization plays any part in disturbing contraceptives (most of which are abortifacient), or in promoting abortion or sterilization. Official records, however, tell a different story, and the history of UNICEF’s changes in policy shows just how far it has departed from its original mandate. To forestall UNICEF being attacked [...]
Is it true that the embryo comes from only a part of the cell after the ovum in fertilized? M.P. Toronto What happens is that soon after fertilization the first cell—the zygote—undergoes a rapid series of cell divisions, and within a few days the cells separate into two groups. One group, the smaller inner portions of the cells, gives rise to the [...]
The ordeal has ended for Linda Gibbons. The pro-life prisoner of conscience met friends and well-wishers in Toronto after her release from jail March 18. She served four moths of a six month sentence which she spent in four different jails. This was her seventh time in jail since 1989 and she served almost continually since September of 1992. “It’s great getting [...]
No betrayal “I cannot vote for a bill that would take human life. To do so, to me, would be a betrayal of all the things I have tried to stand for in my personal and public life.” Liberal MP Maurice, Dionne (Mirimachi), who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, speaking against the Waddell motion in the House of Commons this motion which would [...]
Stan Wilbee, Doug Fee, Fernand Jourdenais, Jesse Flis, Bob Horner, Dennis Mills, Peter McCreath, Maurice Dionne and Don Blenkarn. MPs whose speeches helped them kill the Ian Waddell motion which recommended that the government consider a bill legalizing euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. The Toronto Star. For blatantly irresponsible coverage of the Florida tragedy. Instead of presenting the facts, the paper chose [...]
On Thursday March 11, 1993 a gunshot fired in Pensacola, Florida, struck at the heart of the pro-life movement. Abortionist David Gunn was shot in front of an abortuary by a man who, claiming to be a pro-lifer, immediately gave himself up to police and confessed to the crime. David Gunn died a short time later during surgery. Michael Griffin, aged [...]