Issues
Written on 29 Apr, 2011 at 13:14 in
Activism, Pro-Life | Author:
Interim Staff
More than 120 people participated in the kickoff rally for 40 Days for Life in Kitchener to hear several guest speakers and hear inspirational music as they prepared for the Lenten vigil to pray for an end to abortion.
Retired auxiliary bishop Matthew Ustrzycki of the Hamilton diocese and Debbie Fisher of the Silent No More Awareness campaign spoke and Critical Mass provided musical entertainment.
Bishop Ustrzycki said abortion and other social ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2011 at 13:09 in
Bioethics | Author:
Interim Staff Toronto scientists at Mount Sinai Hospital have discovered problems in using reprogrammed stem cells for personalized organ repair. “It looks like the reprogramming process which creates (embryonic-like) stem cells from skin cells is creating damage or mutations,” said Andras Nagy, one of the lead authors of the study published in the journal Nature. These cells, known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), were found by researchers to have three times as many genetic mutations as embryonic stem cells. In ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2011 at 12:49 in
Activism, Pro-Life | Author:
Tony Gosgnach On Monday, March 7, a downtown Toronto courtroom took a trip back in time to the early 1990s and the days of NDP rule in Ontario, when the government of premier Bob Rae and attorney general Marion Boyd attempted to squelch pro-life activism throughout the province by way of a wide-ranging court injunction. It was part of the first day of a hearing into an abuse of process application within the trial of Linda Gibbons on a charge of disobeying ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2011 at 12:47 in
Activism, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns Linda Gibbons, who has been arrested more than 20 times in connection to activities near a Toronto abortuary, will get her day in court. The Supreme Court of Canada, that is.
Gibbons, who prays outside abortion the Scott abortuary on Gerrard Street in downtown Toronto and counsels women to not kill their babies, has never been charged with violating the 1994 “temporary” injunction that outlaws any pro-life activity within 60 feet of specifically named abortion facilities. Pro-life leaders assume that this ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2011 at 12:43 in
Euthanasia | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
Baby Joseph, son of Moe Maraachli and Sana Nader of Windsor, is one year old and suffering from a undiagnosed neurological disorder that impairs his breathing. He was put under the care of the London Health Sciences Centre and is staying alive with the help of a respirator. LHSC officials said that Joseph is in a vegetative state and will not recover. In light of this, the hospital had opted to take ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 12:38 in
Issues | Author:
After the three opposition parties announced they would vote against the budget an election was inevitable.
Check campaignlifecoalition.com for candidates ratings and questionnaires. Click on “Federal” to find information on party and candidates.
Check LifeSiteNews.com for regular election news coverage.
Check The Interim’s blog Soconvivium for our take on the election throughout the campaign.
We’ll have election coverage in the May issue. (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:56 in
Euthanasia | Author:
Alex Schadenberg Now that baby Joseph Maraachli has gone to the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, it is important to once again consider why this battle occurred and why the Ontario government needs to change the Health Care Consent Act.
The baby Joseph case was not about euthanasia. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition became involved in the baby Joseph case because the way that the decision was made will affect everyone. Many people ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:48 in
Issues | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Tracy Clemenger, the co-author of the article, “Canada’s 30,000 Adoptable Children in a Labyrinth of Policy and Social Issues” in the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s Faith Today magazine, is the parent of an adopted child. She and her husband, Bruce, “saw it as a natural expression of what it means to be a Christian,” she told The Interim. They used the public adoption process to find a child who was not an infant, as they knew that there were many ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:26 in
Abortion, Announcements, Donald DeMarco, Features | Author:
Donald DeMarco Abortion requires obfuscation, cannot survive the Truth
Ten days after Remembrance Day (November 21, 2010), the Toronto Star, Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper, ran a massive four-page “Insight” feature explaining how an abortionist can reconcile his strong support for “women’s rights” with his personal life. One might imagine a future Remembrance Day when the unborn are remembered and memorialized. Major John McCrae’s celebrated poem could equally apply to the unborn as to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Apr, 2011 at 12:59 in
Issues, Soconvivium | Author:
Interim Staff Inspired by two posts by Gerry Nicholls (here and here), on Thursday we'll publish online our list of the top 10 candidates we want to see lose from our pro-life, pro-family perspective. (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Apr, 2011 at 7:13 in
Announcements, Features, Pro-Life | Author:
Editor’s Note: Interim reporter Pauline Kosalka interviewed David Bereit by email. Bereit is founder of 40 Days for Life and the keynote speaker at the Rose Dinner in Ottawa, May 12.
The Interim: How did you first become involved in the pro-life movement?
David Bereit: I first got involved in the pro-life movement after meeting, dating, and then marrying, my amazing wife Margaret who was raised in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Apr, 2011 at 19:20 in
Euthanasia | Author:
Pauline Kosalka An expert witness for the Quebec National Assembly’s Special Commission on the Issue of Dying with Dignity testified on Feb. 17 that legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide will lead to widespread abuse and the killing of the vulnerable.
Dr. François Primeau, a professor of psychiatry at Laval University and Chief of Geranto-Psychiatry at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis Hospital, used the Netherlands as an example of the impossibility of posing restrictions on the practice. “In the face of the experience of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2011 at 7:43 in
Bioethics | Author:
Interim Staff Interim Staff
On Feb. 7, doctors in France announced that the country’s first “saviour sibling” was born. Popularly termed a “bébé-médicament” (medicine baby), a saviour sibling is conceived through in-vitro fertilization and screened to ensure its cells could be used to treat a brother or sister with a genetic disorder.
Umut-Talha (“our hope” in Turkish) was born on Jan. 26 in good health at Antoine Beclere Hospital in Clamart, a Parisian suburb. His embryo was selected so that it was not a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2011 at 7:10 in
Human rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns
Bill C-389, the so-called bathroom bill that would add “gender identity” and gender expression” to Canada’s human rights and hate crimes laws, looks to be stalled in the Senate. As of press time, there was no sponsor to permit the process to consider the bill to move forward.
The homosexualist newspaper Xtra! Reports that the bill’s House sponsor, Bill Siskay (NDP, Burnaby-Douglas) has been privately criticized for not finding a Senate sponsor. When ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2011 at 7:05 in
Abortion, Planned Parenthood | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
A series of undercover videos from the pro-life organization Live Action have uncovered Planned Parenthood (PP) workers abetting sex trafficking. On Feb. 1, Live Action released a video showing a Planned Parenthood manager at a facility in New Jersey giving a man and woman, two actors posing as a pimp and prostitute, advice on how to manage the operation while obtaining abortion, contraception, and STD testing services for underage prostitutes. Days before ... (Continue reading)
