The Houston convention of the Republican Party in August gave notice to the American people, however imperfectly, that family values should be treasured and that the pro-abortion pro-homosexuality anti-family syndrome is to be countered. Credit for this achievement must go to Republican presidential contender Pat Buchanan and U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle. They outflanked the opposition of anti-lifers within the Republican ranks. They [...]
Way to go, Peterborough! Peterborough – Civic Hospital’s Board of Governors is having a hard time getting pro-lifers off their backs. Since the news that Toronto abortionist Nikki Colodny was being “united” to Peterborough to help kill preborn Peterborough babies, the pro-lie contingent has been galvanized into action. Very successful action! Following peaceful and prayerful visits to the houses of the three [...]
Ottawa – On May 12, 1992, a sub-group of the House of Commons Justice Committee started public hearings on changes for Canada’s Criminal Code. By the end of the summer the committee hopes to draft some guiding principles. Among the topics to be discussed is the controversial issue of euthanasia. The Committee has before it a proposal from the Law Reform Commission’s [...]
KIDNAPPING Washington. By a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court in Washington in May 1992 declared it legal to kidnap foreigners in their own countries for trial by American courts. Chief Justice Rehnquist applied a longstanding doctrine that courts may try defendants without regard to how they were brought before them. But dissenting justices called the decision “monstrous,” American diplomats were embarrassed by [...]
The weather was great. The accommodations were great. The speakers were great. The security was great. The boat trip in the harbor was great. The people were great. And the cops – Toronto’s finest – were also great. They cleverly kept the pro-aborts, ‘Queer Nation,’ ‘Act Up’ (flaky homosexual groups) and the Rent-A-Mob types boxed up and so far away from us [...]
The Pro-life Convention, under the title “Save the Planet’s People” was held at the Holiday Inn, Toronto from June 25, to June 27, 1992. to say that it was a success would be an understatement. Thanks to the organizing committee under the direction of Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition, and Clare Dodds as Co-ordinator, the Convention was probably the best [...]
Producer: Second Look Community Arts, Toronto, 1990 Funding: Health and Welfare Canada -- $69,000.00, Ontario Ministry of Health, City of Toronto Board of Health, AIDS Prevention Program Classification: Confused Do you know what your 12-year old could hearr in her grad 7 class if she’s shown What’s Wrong with This Picture? “Out there under the full moon, it’s easy to forget your [...]
“Gov’t ‘consistently misled’ Canadians about AIDS” …So the Sault Ste Marie Star headlined a story last August 24, 1991, beginning a series prepared by a news team from the Hamilton Spectator. The report as a whole confirmed what The Interim has been saying for the last five or six years. In itself AIDS is not a disease threatening the general population (though [...]
In a recent article entitled “Goodbye to Catholic Ireland” (Tablet, June 27) a well-known British pro-life writer, Mary Kenny, writes: “the law is shifting to reflect a preference for ‘private choice’ over the more archaic notion of the State as the guardian of public morality.” Please spot the error, one which is common to those who mistake secularism for neutrality, or tolerance, [...]
On May 13, 1992, after six months of waiting, the NDP government of Saskatchewan made its decision not to halt provincial funding of abortion, even though 63 per cent of Saskatchewan voters voted to end abortion funding in the election of October 21, 1991. According to the government, it would be “illegal and unconstitutional” to do so! This statement is totally false [...]
Ninety days for Lianne Laurence Lianne Laurence, 32, was arrested at Morgentaler’s Edmonton abortuary for the ninth time on Monday, 29 June 1992, Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The next day she was sentenced to 90 days in jail. Lianne had gone on the morning to picket on the west side of 150th Street. Morgentaler is located on the East side. [...]
Ottawa: – Liberal party policies have been announced by Chaviva Hosek, a director of Jean Chrétien’s National Liberal Committee, in a June 5, 1992 response to a questionnaire from NAC, the National Action Committee of Canada’s feminists. Hosek, a former Ontario MPP and Housing Minister, is totally committed to the feminist agenda. She herself is a former president of NAC and her [...]
Abuse of Canada Council Ottawa, Ont. – MP Don Boudria (Lib. Glengarry), who helped quash a bill to legalize mercy killing last winter, expressed outrage that Vancouver’s John Hofsess is using Canada Council money to promote his Right to Die Society. In a newsletter obtained by the Ottawa Sun, Hofsess said that he wanted to buy television time to show people “the [...]
Part 1: L’informateur catholique The Bishop’s criticism…introduces elements of ambiguity and even contradiction. On May 3, 1992, Ottawa’s Archbishop Marcel Gervais addressed the Human Life International (HLI) Conference during a closing liturgy. American-based HLI is the world’s largest Catholic pro-life group. Through his homily the Archbishop, who is also the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), hoped to reach [...]
Ottawa-area Guardian Drugstores and local knitters have teamed up to provide sets of clothing for premature babies or ‘preemies,’ the small patients of hospital neonatal intensive care units. Weighing in at between one and four pounds, ‘preemies’ need the high technology and round-the-clock-care of neo-natal intensive care units. But they also need something quite simple: warm clothing tailored to their small size. [...]