Pro-Life
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 8:53 in
Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns Even the media are growing weary of the government
as Canadians prepare to cast their ballots
By Paul Tuns
The Interim
The Liberal Party is adrift in a sea of arrogance which some observers hope will finally lead to a chastisement at the polls.
The mainstream, often times sycophantic media has even criticized Prime Minister Jean Chretien for his last minute manipulations of cabinet, a mini-budget that showered goodies on the electorate, and announcements of spending in electorally important regions. The press corps has dubbed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 8:43 in
Editorials, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Editorial
The Interim, Nov. 2000
The basic principle of pro-life voting is the following: being pro-abortion (or "pro-choice") disqualifies a person for public office. This includes those who claim to be "personally opposed" to abortion, but are unwilling to do anything to stop it.
The right to life is the fundamental human right, on which every other right depends. It follows that ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 8:40 in
Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
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Written on 3 Nov, 2000 at 14:02 in
Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Jean Chretien - Liberal
Mr. Chretien "in his main address to the Liberal Party convention on March 17, told 2,600 delegates that 'Canadians do not want a right-wing party in this country. They do not want a party that does not support women's right to choose.'" (LifeSite News, July 11, 2000)... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:37 in
Columnist, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Fr Ted Colleton
Faith and Life
In an article on the front page of the Toronto Star of August 30, 2000, under the title, "Fiery Chretien hammers Day," the Prime Minister is quoted as accusing Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day of "trying to rob Canadian women of their right to choose an abortion." He continues, "We Liberals support a woman's right to choose, but he wants a divisive national debate on the issue."
Once ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:22 in
Columnist, Marriage and Family, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Tim Bloedow
View from the Hill
Did you see that amazing story several weeks ago about how new Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day refused to join other MPs in standing to applaud as strident homosexual Member of Parliament Svend Robinson was introduced in the House of Commons? He said it had something to do with the New Democrat MP spending his entire parliamentary career advocating values inimical to his own.
What? I have the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:21 in
Activism, Pro-Life, Youth Activism | Author:
Catherine Fournier
By Catherine Fournier
In my last article for The Interim, I mused about how foreign the idea of pilgrimage is to the North American mind. We want to get there, and the sooner the better. Patience just isn't a cultural trait on this continent.
Over the years though, the pro-life movement has learned that their battle will not be won overnight. The hearts, minds and laws of the land need to change - always a slow process.
As I recounted in July, Andrew is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:19 in
Pro-Life, Profiles, Religion | Author:
Margaret Purcell
Fr. Ben Hermann OMI - a big man who cast a giant shadow
By Margaret Purcell
The Interim
Those who keep archives will say that Fr. Bernard Michael Hermann was born on Oct. 21, 1922 in Odessa, Sask. In 1940 he entered the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate novitiate at St. Charles, Man. He professed his first vows on Sept. 15, 1941. After attending St. Charles Scholasticate in Battleford, Sask., he made his perpetual commitment as a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:15 in
Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Mary Ellen Douglas By Mary Ellen Douglas
The Interim
The pro-life movement lost a valiant warrior and a great leader when God called Niel Slykerman of Winnipeg home on Sept. 26, 2000.
We extend our love and prayers to his grieving family; his wife Maria and his children Carol, Cory and Lisa.
Campaign Life Coalition leaders learned of Niel's death during a national conference call and his pro-life family immediately joined in prayer across the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:09 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Pro-Life | Author:
Bill Whatcott By Bill Whatcott
The Interim
Mexican pro-lifers have had quite a fight on their hands these days. The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) has recently lost a national election, and after 70 years of power, patronage and corruption, they have to hand over power to the relatively conservative PAN (National Action Party).
While the PAN leader Vicente Fox looks promising, Mexican pro-lifers are taking a wait-and-see attitude, before passing judgment on his actual commitment to life issues, while he is in power. Mr. Fox ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:56 in
Abortion, Post-abortion and Health Care, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
Media commentary by Paul Tuns
The Interim
The Huang family of the village Caidian in the Chinese province of Hubei already had three children when local family planning officials heard about Mrs. Huang's pregnancy. The officials tried but failed to induce an abortion by injecting Huang with salt water. The baby survived the botched abortion attempt and the officials visited the family in the hospital to order the father to kill his own child. He hid the baby but when the family ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:51 in
Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
By Paul Tuns
The Interim
Pro-life, pro-family groups in four provinces are urging citizens who hold traditional values to get involved in local politics.
Municipal (city council) and school board elections will be held in Nova Scotia Oct. 21, in Saskatchewan Oct. 25 and in Ontario Nov. 14. Municipal elections will be held in Prince Edward Island Nov. 6.
Campaign Life Coalition Nova Scotia president Herm Wills told The Interim local elections may even be more important than federal and provincial contests because of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:45 in
Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
The media, meanwhile wring their hands
over the rise of the 'religious right'
By Paul Tuns
The Interim
The ascendancy of Stockwell Day in Canadian politics has focused attention on the role of pro-life and pro-family organizations and citizens in the political arena, leading the political Left to worry about the rise of a so-called Religious Right in Canada.
Maclean's Sept. 11 cover story, "New Might on the Right: How social conservatives are changing Canada" is a case in point. It used several key constituency ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:43 in
Abortion Law, Activism, Pro-Life | Author:
Charges against Anti-Racist Action members stayed
due to unusual 'institutional delay'
Interim staff
A recent court decision to drop all charges against 11 Anti-Racist Action (ARA) members who violently disrupted a Show the Truth demonstration in Toronto two years ago has left pro-life supporters again wondering about the capricious nature of Ontario's legal system.
Mr. Justice Robert Bigelow of the Ontario court ruled September 14 that the Charter rights of the accused to be tried in a reasonable period of time had been breached ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:41 in
Abortion, Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
London's Bishop Sherlock denounces misrepresentation of his endorsment
The Interim
One of the feared outcomes of the support by Catholic leaders of the pro-abortion World March of Women 2000 has been realized. Abortion advocates are implying in their literature that Canada's Catholic bishops are fully in support of the march without reservations.
The Toronto Organizing Committee of the World March of Women has been distributing a pamphlet on the ... (Continue reading)
