CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - For the second time in a decade, the province of P.E.I. is being pressured to protect sexual orientation. A legislative committee considering amendments to the Human Rights Act held hearings from Jan. 21 to March 12. Midway through the hearings, many Islanders were shocked to learn of the existence of a one-year-old letter from Premier Pat Binns that promised [...]
The notion of a completely impartial judiciary took another body blow with Supreme Court Chief Justice Antonio Lamer’s recent admission that public opinion plays a role in important legal decisions. Speaking at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto Feb. 6, Justice Lamer said popular opinion was a factor in his decision 10 years ago to overturn Canada’s former abortion [...]
No one can ever accuse Ken Campbell of being at a loss for words, and he certainly wasn’t when Canada’s abortion elite gathered to congratulate themselves on the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s striking down of Criminal Code provisions against abortion in Canada. As party-goers filed into Toronto’s Enoch Turner School House Jan. 28, they were met by an earnest Campbell, [...]
STELLARTON, N.S. -- Pro-lifer Roseanne Skoke has resurfaced in politics, this time as a Liberal candidate in the up-coming provincial election in Nova Scotia. The Stellarton lawyer was acclaimed Feb. 20 as Liberal candidate for Pictou Centre. This will be her third major political campaign in the past year. The Central Nova MP, known for her strong pro-life views, lost a Liberal [...]
A cursory sweep of the Internet reveals no shortage of sites dealing with one-world government and the Club of Rome, two subjects of special concern to pro-life and pro-family supporters. The concern is based not only on the effort to concentrate political and economic power in the hands of small, wealthy elites, but also on the danger of the emergence of some [...]
The House of Commons has not sat since the last issue of The Interim came out. I want to take this opportunity to discuss some important ideas on how to be even more effective through 1998 in our work on behalf of unborn children and other victims of anti-life forces in this country. The present federal political situation does not look very [...]
Federal Health Minister Allan Rock has reiterated the need for careful federal regulation in the area of new reproductive and genetic technologies. In a December letter to The Interim, Mr. Rock said the voluntary moratorium on certain new reproductive technology applications, such as sex selection for non-medical purposes, cloning of embryos, and embryonic research, remains in effect. The moratorium was enacted by [...]
Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside is the latest on a lengthening list of Canadian municipal officials to suffer harassment from human rights tribunals over refusals to proclaim Gay Pride Day in their communities. Mayor Woodside says he has no intention of proclaiming any sort of pride days, gay or otherwise, despite a New Brunswick Human Rights Commission ruling that he discriminated against gays [...]
A pro-life senator is taking a small but significant step to combat what she claims is a drift toward "judicial activism" on the part of Canada's high court officials. Liberal Senator Anne Cools led the opposition to Bill C-16, a proposed amendment to the Criminal Code which would require police to obtain special arrest warrants when seeking to apprehend some suspects. In [...]
The real facts fit the pro-life message. This is the message given by speaker after speaker at the 1997 annual conference, Life and Family a Community Affair, held in Waterloo, Ontario, October 31 - November 1. Is the world running out of food? Yes say the doomsdayers and the population manipulators. No, says Dr. Glenn Fox, professor of agricultural economics at Guelph [...]
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Bill Clinton October 10 vetoed legislation to ban partial-birth abortions, setting the stage for an attempted override by the Republican-controlled Congress. It was the second time Clinton has vetoed legislation to ban the late-term abortion procedure. He said in his veto message he was vetoing the bill because Congress failed to make an exception to protect women’s health. [...]
Ontario’s provincial Family Coalition Party has a new leader as it marks its 10th anniversary. Giuseppe Gori, a self-employed computer consultant with experience in computer communications and software development, was named to the leadership during the party’s recent annual convention in Hamilton. He takes over from Don Pennell, who has led the party since its inception in 1987. Mr. Gori worked with [...]
Canada’s pro-life community suffered the loss of a strong voice in Parliament with the October 1 resignation of Reform MP Sharon Hayes (Port Moody-Coquitlam). Described by Campaign Life Coalition as “an outstanding defender of life and family in Parliament and in international affairs,” Hayes resigned to spend more time with her husband Douglas, who took ill last spring. Mr. Hayes suffered a [...]
OTTAWA - In the shadow of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill they gathered. Some 60 pro-lifers of all ages, men, women and children from across Ontario assembled in Ottawa September 22 in what has become known as the Show the Truth Tour. The group gathered in silence to show returning Members of Parliament visual signs of the abortion holocaust. Organizers admit [...]
A small group of pro-family trustees up for re-election to the Metro Toronto Separate School Board (MSSB) believe they have been targeted for defeat by the teachers' union. The trustees, who describe themselves as reform-minded, favor a back to basics education and a renewed effort to show the distinction between separate and public education. They suggest that their traditional views on parental [...]