Washington – The U.S Food and Drug Administration has approved Depo-Provera for use as a new contraceptive that would block pregnancy for three months after its injection. Presently, officials from Ottawa’s Department of Health are in consultation with the FDA to determine whether the drug should be allowed into Canada. Depo-Provera, like most contraceptives has a number of side effects such as [...]
When Karen and James Hanlon of Langley B.C. were married four years ago, little did they know that after only one year of marriage, they would be abruptly separated and sent to jail. In fact, that’s where James spent Christmas of 1989. Their “crime”? Disobeying a court injunction prohibiting pro-lifers from picketing or rescuing outside the Everywoman’s Health Center, a newly opened [...]
Don Pennel, 55, of Burlington, Ontario, won the leadership of the Family Coalition Party (FCP) of Ontario over Medical Doctor Ted Kryn, 41, of Waterloo, Ontario on Saturday, November 7, 1992. The vote was 69 against 26. It confirmed Pennel in the post he has held since the legal recognition of the party in 1987. The leadership race concluded the annual FCP [...]
On November 8, Toronto Star columnist Slinger launched the second of two vicious attacks against Citizens United for Responsible Education (CURE). This group of parents is trying to get the Toronto Board of Education to reverse its new policy allowing homosexuals to proselytize in the schools, with the aid of a manual heavily slanted in favour of homosexuality and against normal family [...]
This is our fourth article on the Toronto School Board’s decision to promote the homosexual lifestyle. Readers will not be surprised. Abortion, infanticide, abuse of women, euthanasia and homosexual activity are intimately connected to one another. In Canada, abortion and homosexual acts (done in private between adults) were legalized at the same time. The drive for abortion in the sixties was followed [...]
In an October 13, 1992 reply to an enquiry by Oakville south MPP Gary Carr (PC), Health Minister Frances Lankin re-affirmed the NDP’s position on abortion clinics. Lankin re-iterated that the government is committed to ensuring that women have access to abortion “without fear of violence.” In other words, she accepts the lie that it is not the pro-abortionists but the pro-lifers [...]
In many centers across Canada, Henry Morgentaler is attempting to establish abortion “clinics” through which he will be able to realize greater profits from the baby-killing industry. The following are reports of the battles which the pro-lifers are waging against him. Halifax – On October 21, nine pro-life rescuers were arrested on mischief charges after a demonstration at Henry Morgentaler’s new abortuary [...]
Let’s take one last look at why the widely touted “yes” camp lost so badly in the recent referendum. I voted “no” and I have found few pro-lifers who voted “yes”. (Joe Borowski of Winnipeg was the big exception. Sorry, Joe). Actually, I had three hundred and seventy-eight reasons for voting “no” – but I’m sure that you don’t want to hear [...]
Ethics for High Schools By Leonard A. Kennedy Toronto: Life ethics Centre, 50 pages; soft cover; 1992, $2.00 In recent years, there has been an emphasis on students developing their own moral outlook through the analysis of ethical dilemmas, values clarification, and similar methods. In his short and readable booklet, however, Father Kennedy teaches that there is such a thing as objective [...]
Two years ago, York University professor and Olympic athlete William Gairdner surprised the Canadian political establishment with a trenchant and dramatic attack on its collectivist ideology. The Trouble with Canada: A Citizen Speaks Out lambasted the Canadian government, arguing that its emphasis on “top down” socialism and its concern with special interest groups had crippled popular democracy and eroded human rights and [...]
Condom Sense: Questions and Answer Ontario Ministry of Health June 1992, In English and French, illustrated, 32 pp. Reviewed by: David Dooley, The Interim For all I know, Frances Lankin may be as scrupulous in her private life as she is unscrupulous in her public. As we do know, she has no qualms about funding Henry Morgentaler’s unsavoury business; she has no [...]
“Any parent or teacher who does not set boundaries of acceptable behaviour, who does not instill a sense of ethics, who in other words, does not censor the activities of his or her children is doing them and society a considerable disservice, for censorship is an act of love for those who do not have the life skills to make competent choices [...]
Vancouver may have its Polar Bear club’s ocean swim; Toronto its Santa Clause Parade. But in Montreal there is an annual ritual which is probably unknown to people outside its environs. In the coldest of weather, parents (or their paid surrogates) camp outside Royal Vale School over a January weekend in order to secure a place for their children in kindergarten. Royal [...]
Toronto – Pro-life activist Linda Groce was sentenced to six months in jail on Wednesday, November 18 (See November Interim, page 19). Linda remained silent throughout the trial, refusing to speak or offer any defense on her behalf. Because of her refusal to speak with or to cooperate with the court and prison system in any was – including performing prison work [...]
In a major victory for pro-life Liberals a full slate of candidates won Etobicoke Center, gaining a foothold in the federal riding association. For Liberals For Life organizers it was a clinic on how to influence an association at the grass roots level. Strategists are saying that the key to the Liberals For Life win was the careful planning combined with the [...]