Off the Wire Family Practice News reports that the California Academy of family physicians. Has voted to recommend that all family physicians be trained in abortion techniques and “the importance to access to this medical service.” The group plans to offer a similar resolution at the American Academy of Family Physicians meeting later this year. A California abortionist accused of murdering a [...]
Queen’s Park Ont Bob Rae’s shocked attitude towards his recent electoral defeat had him wringing his hands and asking how could they do this to me after all I’ve done for them? This has been the longest time in between elections that I have ever experienced. It has only been four and half years since David Peterson’s Liberals bit the dust but [...]
The election of Mike Harris’ Conservative party in Ontario has serious implications for both family life and the defence of the unborn children. Harris’ platform calls for a fundamental shift of wealth and power in the province. A keystone of his campaign was a promise to cut provincial income taxes by 30 percent, a promise which will put thousands of extra dollars [...]
“A precedent-setting victory for the Canadian unborn,” said Campaign Life Coaltion PEI President Paul Cheverie when the Nova Scotia Supreme Court squashed criminal charges against himself and eight other pro-lifers. The nine included Cheverie and Kenneth Biso of Prince Edward Island, Ann Marie Tomlins of Borden, Ontario, and Ellen Chesel, Paul Morre, Noreen Moser, Pauline Mullen, Sharon Keddy, and Anne Ashford-Hall, al [...]
To Ontario pro-life voters, the main task of the June 8 provincial election was to get rid of the New Democrats. It seemed this was uppermost in the minds of all voters as Mike Harris and the Progressive Conservatives were swept into Queen’s Park with a strong mandate to clean up the five year mess left by the NDP. Harris’ tough talk [...]
Though not all completely agree with his method, Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition are making important politicians stop and listen. Congressman pondered legislation, he first had to curry favour with one of the huge Washington lobby groups: the National Rifle Association, the Manufacturers Association or the National Organization of Women. Now there’s a new player making waves in political circles. Ralph [...]
Interim readers will recall the attack on pro-lifers at a Mother’s Day shower outside Vancouver General Hospital in 1992. Some of the perpetrators in the attack were members of the BC Coalition for Abortion Clinics. Police recommended charges but Crown counsel refused. Yet the provincial government of Mike Harcourt felt that the BC Coalition should have access to a private investigative firm [...]
The controversy surrounding the United Nation’s Children’s Fund has deepened with the appointment of a long-time abortion advocate as its new director. Carol Bellamy, a state senator from New York, has been named the new director of UNICEF despite heated criticisms from pro-family circles. The U.S. Catholic newspaper The Wanderer reports that Cong. Chris Smith (R. N.J.), chairman of the House Sub-committee [...]
Imagine, you’ve done nothing wrong, nothing illegal. You’re not charged with anything by the police. But the government doesn’t like your opinion. So it seeks an injunction to prevent you from expressing this opinion, from speaking to people and giving out information, or even praying in a quiet and peaceful manner in public places, and it seeks $500,000 in damages against you. [...]
As pro-life people in Ontario go about deciding how they should vote in the up-coming provincial election, there is one name they should bear in mind. That is Tom Wappel. Since being elected to the federal parliament in 1988, Tom has been a tireless advocate for the unborn. A crucial question for pro-life voters in Ontario is why wasn’t there a Tom [...]
Don Pennell answers the critics on the feasibility of running pro-life candidates in the upcoming Ontario elections Don Pennel Leader of the Family Coalition Party of Ontario is gearing his party up for the upcoming provincial election. (No definite date has been announced by press time.) In this candid and forthright interview, Mr. Pennel gives an overview of the pending Ontario election. [...]
It was August of this year when I finally got around to visiting the Windsor Casino in Windsor, Ontario, in order to bring the readers of The Interim the reason why 14,000 gamblers (called casino customers) blow $419,000 per day to beat actuarially impossible odds. I think they are going to make a film about it called Blind Optimism. Passing the strict [...]
Ontario’s new Consent to Treatment Act could create havoc with the treatment doctors and healthcare workers are able to provide. Already, one doctor has shut down her clinic saying that the legislation has makes it impossible for her to care for her patients. “I’m not going to open my clinic until somebody sorts this around,” said Dr. Lynne Margesson in an April [...]
Mr. Justice George Adams’ decision not to order the Ontario government to pay the legal costs of the pro-life picketers is nothing less than a stroke against democracy. The case is the one in which the Ontario government is seeking an injunction to ban all pro-life activity at 23 locations across the province. Last August, Judge Adams granted an injunction that was [...]
Demise of federally funded group means NACSOW now firmly in control of feminist agenda The reign of the tax-payer-supported special interest group in Ottawa is over and feminist organizations are beginning to feel the repercussions. That is how the majority of Canadians viewed the Federal Liberal government’s decision to shut the doors of the Trudeau-inspired Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of [...]