By Edward Lander and Sarah Grishpul

Disclaimer: This article contains mentions of abortion.

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) leased space to one of Canada’s largest anti-abortion organization for four years, beginning in 2016. Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), a Hamilton-based anti-abortion advocacy and lobby group, was a tenant of TMU-owned 104 Bond St. until September 2020.

TMU acquired the building in October 2016 for $10.25 million, as previously reported by The Eyeopener. CLC was already a tenant in the building at the time of the purchase.

According to their website, CLC is “a national pro-life organization working at all levels of government to secure full legal protection for all human beings, from the time of conception to natural death.”

CLC’s website listed 104 Bond St. as their ‘National Headquarters’ until June 2020. It was then listed as their ‘provincial’ office for Ontario until September 2020.

In an email to The Eye, TMU said “the previous owners required that they continue leasing the building from TMU until 2020, which allowed them to continue to sublease portions of the space to several pre-existing subtenants.”

The email added that TMU never had a direct relationship or contract with CLC or Interim Publishing, which CLC was operating under.

Interim Publishing runs The Interim, a publication which operated within the same office.

According to their website, The Interim publishes articles on “the many offences against human dignity our society has experienced: abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, contraception, sexual promiscuity, the decline of the traditional family, and the rise of radical environmentalism and animal rights agendas that put non-human matters at the centre of public concern.”

In a phone call with The Eye, a CLC representative confirmed they had an office at 104 Bond St. until late 2020.

The Interim’s website listed 104 Bond St. as their address until January 2021 when it changed to 157 Catharine St., Hamilton where CLC’s national headquarters is now located.

CLC are also the organizers of the National March for Life, an annual demonstration on Parliament Hill where anti-abortion advocates protest on the anniversary of the passing of Bill C-150.

The 1969 federal bill made major changes to the criminal code, including decriminalizing contraception, homosexuality and widening access to abortion, according to an article in the British Journal of Criminology. The National March for Life is the largest anti-abortion event in Canada, according to CLC’s website

The organization’s youth wing, CLC Youth, has held protests alongside Toronto Against Abortion, an anti-abortion group that regularly campaigns on TMU campus with signs depicting graphic visual representations of unborn fetuses, as previously reported by The Eye.

The organization is also opposed to homosexuality, same-sex marriage, gender-affirming care and medical assistance in dying.

CLC’s website currently hosts petitions for various issues including banning “child sex-change” and removing pride flags from Canadian schools.

In April 2025, the university wrote to The Eye, “It’s important to note that the presence of a group or protest on City of Toronto property is not an endorsement from the university.”