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Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:36 in
Announcements, Features, Pro-Life, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka When then 12-year-old Lia Mills posted her speech about abortion on YouTube, she got millions of news.
The pro-life movement has taken advantage of the rising popularity of social media to spread its message and gain supporters. During the U.S. March for Life in January 2013, pro-lifers used these platforms to spread information and report on the event attended by hundreds of thousands of participants, which the mainstream media ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2013 at 16:14 in
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On March 13, a Member of Parliament visited the University of Waterloo to make an address to a group of students. In the middle of his speech, this elected representative was interrupted by a handful of protesters, one of whom was not even a student at the university. But campus police did not intervene during this disruption, so the speech was cancelled and the audience dispersed. The university ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2013 at 10:06 in
Pro-Life, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Oliver Capko
A British Columbia campus pro-life group has won its fight to become a recognized club. Protectores Vitae, formed by students, and led by president Oliver Capko at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in the Greater Vancouver Area, obtained legal representation from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and announced, on Dec. 3, that it would take the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) to court because it was denied club status by the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Dec, 2012 at 9:47 in
Activism, Announcements, Features, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Paul Tuns Carleton pro-life student Ruth Lobo was arrested in 2010.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has released its 2012 Campus Freedom Index which measures and rates the state of free speech at Canadian universities and gives 28 F grades and just three As. The JCCF’s Index, and an accompanying longer report, The State of Campus Free Speech in 2012, examines 35 universities and student unions across Canada to measure both ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Nov, 2012 at 9:48 in
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Interim Staff Genevieve Umeh (right) and Joann Rajanayagam (left) of McMaster Lifeline receive the pro-life club award from Dan Di Rocco, representing The Interim and Niagara Region RTL.
For the past 15 years the National Campus Life Network CLN Symposium has been bringing together university students from across Canada for a weekend featuring speakers to provide information and knowledge to equip them to bring the pro-life message to their university campus. This year’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Nov, 2012 at 9:08 in
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Interim Staff For the past 15 years the National Campus Life Network CLN Symposium has been bringing together university students from across Canada for a weekend featuring speakers to provide information and knowledge to equip them to bring the pro-life message to their university campus. This year’s symposium – the organization’s 15th – was held at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, Sept. 28-30.
Theresa Gilbert, NCLN’s president, told The Interim “The symposiumm, in 1997, was actually the birthplace of the National Campus Life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Jul, 2012 at 11:53 in
Announcements, Features, Youth Activism | Author:
Jessica Lamb Walk. Pray. Eat. Sleep. Yes sleep is the last thing you think about and have time for on Crossroads.
Crossroads is a pro-life group that organizes walks across the U.S., Canada, and Ireland. Its mission is to share the gospel of life in the streets like the first apostles. Crossroads started as a response to John Paul II’s call to the youth to rebuild the culture of life, at the Denver World Youth ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jun, 2012 at 10:16 in
Events, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Paul Tuns Two recent events brought the pro-life message to hundreds of Toronto area high school students, educating students to become conversant on the issue of abortion and inspiring them to become more involved in the issue.
Toronto Right to Life Association joined the University of Toronto Students for Life, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, and Student Life Link to host the Respect for Life Student Leadership Conference for Toronto-area Catholic high school students ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2012 at 8:31 in
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Pauline Kosalka A new report recommending the installation of three “safe-injection sites” in Toronto and two in Ottawa is setting off a public debate. The findings of the four-year study, Toronto and Ottawa Supervised Consumption Assessment, were released on April 11 by researchers Ahmed Bayoumi (at St. Michael’s Hospital’s Centre for Research on Inner City Health) and Carol Strike (at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health).
The theory presented by the report is that drug-injection sites decrease HIV and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Apr, 2012 at 8:04 in
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Pauline Kosalka The Youth Conference occurring in Ottawa the day after the National March for Life promises to be a valuable experience for young people interested in learning about pro-life issues and becoming more involved in the pro-life movement.
According to the Campaign Life Coalition website, the youth conference will take the form of “an intensive workshop for young people, designed to arm youth with expert knowledge and the necessary communications strategies to go back into their communities, tackling the culture of death head on, and transforming it into ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Apr, 2012 at 8:03 in
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Interim Staff At the Youth Banquet during the National March for Life, young people will have the opportunity to listen to keynote speaker Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a prominent member of the American pro-life movement. Rev. Mahoney is the president of the Christian Defense Coalition, a national ministry challenging Christians to live out their faith in the public square. Rev. Mahoney is an ordained minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, as well as a Christian ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2012 at 5:32 in
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Patrick B. Craine Special to The Interim After a Calgary policeman arrested a pro-life activist Feb. 4 over his use of graphic abortion signs, the police service have dropped the charges and issued an apology, returned his signs, and pledged to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Francisco Gomez, a staff member with the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, was leading the group’s regular “Choice” Chain at a busy Calgary intersection when an officer approached and asked them to take the signs down because they were “distracting” and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Mar, 2012 at 6:45 in
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Interim Staff A pro-life sidewalk demonstration that forces passers-by to face the truth about what “choice” means is coming to Toronto.
The Canadian Center for Bioethical Reform (CCBR) uses three feet by four feet signs with graphic images of aborted babies under the question “Choice?” in order to engage the public in a conversation about abortion by showing what the euphemism of choice is really about: the killing of an unborn child.
Campaign Life Coalition ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2012 at 9:33 in
Defund Abortion | Author:
Peter Baklinski Special to The Interim
A provincial cold-snap did not prevent a pro-life youth group from handing out over 20,000 pamphlets on Jan. 14 to homes across the province. The pamphlet called upon taxpayers to unite in demanding that the government cease using tax dollars to fund an elective procedure that kills babies.
“The polls show that people just don’t know about abortion and how much we fork over to cover this medically unnecessary procedure that hurts women ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2011 at 8:14 in
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The National Campus Life Network is dedicated to promoting the pro-life activism on university and college campuses. Recently, NCLN held its annual symposium at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, bringing together 35 representatives from pro-life clubs across the country. Students from existing clubs were present as were students who are working to form new clubs at their universities. This was the 15th annual symposium.
In a brief interview with The Interim, Rebecca ... (Continue reading)
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