Fetal tissue Deal A research clinic in Santa Barbara, California has signed a deal to obtain fetal tissue from Russia. Though the ban on fetal tissue experimentation has been lifted, researchers note that it will take 3 or 4 years before there is a tissue-bank to draw from in the U.S. This deal will obviously be a big money-maker for both sides. [...]
In 1966 the controversy concerning UNICEF’s collaboration in population control threa-tened to split apart not only that organization but the United Nations itself. As a com-promise solution, the UN created a new fund especially for population-control activities, but one to which nations contributed only if they wished. In 1967 General U Thant an-nounced the creation United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). [...]
A teacher, a mother of eight and pro-life activist – Connell might become a Liberal candidate Rosemary Connell says there are neither saints nor martyrs in her family, just ordinary people. Still, one has to wonder. In the last decade, this energetic 41 year-old wife, mother of eight children (four adopted), who is also a teacher in Port Perry (north of Toronto), [...]
The results of the elections are in and Ontario voters have made it overwhelmingly clear that they want the NDP out. After the dust had cleared from the April 1 provincial by-elections, Liberal lawyer Tim Murphy was the winner in the downtown Toronto riding of St. George-St. David and Conservative Dave Johnson easily took the Toronto-area riding of Don Mills. The Family [...]
Cavilla may not accept board’s decision The Christian Heritage Party has a new leader. Or does it? It depends on who you talk to. In a highly unusual move the national board of Canada’s only pro-life federal party suspended its leader and appointed Heather Stilwell until the 1994 leadership convention in Vancouver. According to the board, Stilwell, a pro-life activist from B.C. [...]
If suicide is not a crime why is there a fuss when a handicapped or ill person wants to kill himself? L.B. Toronto. For centuries suicide was a crime and anyone who survived an attempted suicide faced severe penalties. Today, it is realized that suicide is “a cry for help” and the criminal penalties have been removed out of compassion for the [...]
Parliament has passed a bill which will gag politically active groups such as Campaign Life Coalition. Under the Tories’ election reform bill, only political parties and candidates will have the freedom to do partisan advertising during election campaigns. Other groups or individuals will be allowed to spend no more than $1,000 on advertising which identifies or promotes particular parties or candidates. That [...]
“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you, but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.” Watch out Canada! B.C.’s Kim Campbell is running on her record and “charisma without substance” is becoming a haunting reminder of her past. Described as the “Darling of the media,” and “the Madonna of Canadian politics,” she grabbed headlines as, one by [...]
Earlier this year I took an unprecedented step for me and joined a political party. I chose the Liberal Party for two reasons. First, the party policies generally fit more comfortable with my own views than do those of the two other major parties. Secondly, I know the woman who was seeking nomination in my riding. I knew I could support her [...]
Jim Edwards vows pro-life action if elected Pro-life support is rallying around Jim Edwards as he makes his bid for the leadership of the federal Tories. The Interim caught up with Edwards during his frantic schedule as he travels the country trying to round up delegates and get his message out. He says the economy is dominating the debate among the leadership [...]
Toronto – According to one of the world’s top geneticists, the mass-marketing of the abortion pill in North America has the potential of killing more human beings than the combined efforts of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Speaking at a well-attended, April 13 press conference in Toronto’s downtown Holiday Inn, French-born geneticist Jerome Lejeune warned reporters of a “chemical warfare” which [...]
Injunction would set “unprecedented restriction” The Ontario government wants to make it illegal to counsel women or peacefully protest abortion in cities across the province. Attorney general Marion Boyd plans to seek a court order restricting pro-life activity, the government announced April 19. “I am seeking this injunction to ensure that women have access to legal health care services in this province,” [...]
The painful truth In early February, Saskatoon Alliance for Life printed a tabloid called Unmasking Planned Parenthood to be inserted into the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. The insert was instigated in response to Planned Parenthood’s application for provincial funding. The pro-abortion reaction ranged from hate mail and threatening phone calls to breaking alliance for Life’s windows and persuading the Star-Phoenix not to distribute the [...]
Queen’s Park, Ont. We’ve appealed to people in Ontario to reject abortion on the grounds of its cruelty to the preborn, its unfairness ane its innate wickedness. Maybe we’re going about it all wrong. A group of us decided to go around to Gerber (Canada), the baby food company, and test our suspicions. When we told the CEO’s secretary that we had [...]
Reflecting on her many years as a volunteer, Isabel Graham, a Toronto mother and grandmother, laughingly says, “People used to feel sorry for me because I was a professional social worker without a job, but they didn’t realize I was constantly using my professional skills in the community.” Isabel has used her professional credentials for over twenty years to strengthen family values. [...]