Written on 29 Nov, 2012 at 14:48 in
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Peter Baklinksi Special to The Interim Pro-life heroines Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner received medals from the Governor General of Canada this week in recognition of their “contribution to Canada.” The activists are internationally renowned for having been arrested and jailed numerous times for violating abortion facility “bubble zones” while peacefully seeking to counsel abortion-bound moms to choose life. Wagner is currently in jail following her arrest in August for witnessing at the Woman’s care Clinic in Toronto.
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Written on 26 Mar, 2012 at 5:26 in
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Tony Gosgnach Linda Gibbons was committed to a trial to be held on Thursday, April 26, on a charge of disobeying a court order, during a brief appearance in a Toronto courtroom Feb. 14. The trial, expected to last four hours, will be held beginning at 10 a.m. in room 504 of the College Park courthouse at Yonge and College Streets in downtown Toronto. The charge was laid following her appearance outside the Morgentaler “Clinic” abortion site in Toronto last Dec. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2012 at 10:22 in
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Thaddeus Baklinski and Paul Tuns The Supreme Court of Canada heard submissions Dec. 14 from the lawyer of Linda Gibbons, defending not the pro-life activist’s free speech rights, but rather how civil authorities deal with her for allegedly violating the “temporary” bubble zone injunction issued in 1994.
Gibbons, 63, is a pro-life activist who has spent years in jail for peacefully protesting outside abortion facilities that are protected by the injunction that prohibits pro-life activity within 150 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Dec, 2011 at 12:39 in
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Tony Gosgnach Special to The Interim After three months in prison, Linda Gibbons was found not guilty on a charge of disobeying a court order and released from custody to the hugs of supporters in a downtown Toronto courtroom Nov. 4. Justice Alphonse T. Lacavera determined Sheriff Peter Krause improperly read the text of an outdated injunction when he directed that she be arrested outside the Morgentaler Clinic (known corporately as “Lexogest Inc.”) abortion site this past Aug. 4.
Krause, he said, read the words of an ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Oct, 2011 at 9:39 in
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Tony Gosgnach Special to The Interim
Linda Gibbons will stand trial on Nov. 4 on a charge of disobeying a court order in connection with her latest demonstration outside a Toronto abortion site this past August 4.
According to Gibbons’s lawyer, she will be pleading not guilty. The date was set during a recent appearance before a justice of the peace.
Although Gibbons has been conducting such peaceful demonstrations since 1994, this is the first time she has been arrested ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 8:22 in
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Linda Gibbons Special to The Interim Editor’s Note: This is a letter dated May 7 from Linda Gibbons to Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes after Fr. Ted Colleton died and while Gibbons was still in jail. It is reprinted with permission.
Greetings in the God of All. Comfort. I pray this finds each of you well and blessed in your labours for life.
I’m sorry Father Ted is not joining you at the March for Life dinner this ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Nov, 2008 at 19:41 in
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Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor
Linda Gibbons's legal odyssey has taken a different turn, as she has been charged with disobeying a court order after appearing outside the Scott "Clinic" abortion site in downtown Toronto on Oct. 8.
It has been the local Crown attorney office's practice to charge Gibbons with obstructing a peace officer throughout the 14-year term of a "temporary" court injunction that prohibits pro-life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Sep, 2008 at 10:15 in
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Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor The taste of freedom was a short one for Linda Gibbons.
Just three days after being released from her latest prison term for demonstrating at a Toronto abortion site, the diminutive grandmother was arrested July 31 outside the “Scott Clinic” for allegedly violating terms of a “temporary” court injunction enacted in 1994 that prohibits pro-life activity within certain distances of specified Toronto abortuaries.... (Continue reading)
