Telus Mobility, the second largest cellphone service provider in Canada, was offering pornography to subscribers with web-surfing capabilities on their phones. This had a lot of customers upset. Vancouver’s Catholic Archbishop Raymond Roussin was even among those speaking out against the furthering of pornographic accessibility. Roussin urged Catholics who were using Telus to take their business elsewhere – and to let the [...]
This month marks the beginning of our 25th year of publishing The Interim. Some might consider that a failure. After all, in the early days of this paper, no less a leading pro-life voice than Joseph Borowski predicted that protection for the unborn would be won within three to five years. But considering the obstacles that the pro-life movement has faced – a [...]
Canada The Globe and Mail reports that the Conservatives are trying to engineer the defeat of their own government to force a mid-Spring election ... Liberal Leader Stephane Dion vows that one-third of the party’s candidates in the next election will be women and various news sources report that the party is trying to attract current and former NDP candidates to run under [...]
Christian marriage commissioner faces rights tribunal REGINA – In response to a complaint made against him before the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal, Orville Nichols, a marriage commissioner in that province, has said his faith “takes first place” in his life and therefore, he cannot in good conscience officiate over the “marriage” for two homosexual men. He added: “I couldn’t sleep or live [...]
Americans mark 34 years of Roe v. Wade The 34th annual March for Life in Washington D.C. attracted at least 100,000 pro-lifers while the third annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco grew to more than 20,000 people this year. Other communities across the country also held local demonstrations marking the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion [...]
Pat Boone is a descendent of the legendary U.S. pioneer Daniel Boone. He has been a top-selling recording artist, the star of his own hit TV series, a movie star, a Broadway headliner and a best-selling author in a career that has spanned half a century. During the classic rock and roll era of the 1950s, he sold more records than any [...]
It was the first time I had been physically attacked for being a pro-life activist or a reporter. “You’re that guy from The Interim,” said the assailant with a snear. His name was Brad Hexum: he was young, muscular and renowned in local professional wrestling circles for his ill temper and even worse attitude. He shoved me to the ground and starting kicking [...]
I may have been one of only a handful of reviewers in the Western world who bought and read the novel The Children of Men before seeing the film of the same title, released in North America on Christmas Day. Given their mutual premise – a near-future world of total human infertility and the rebirth of hope in the person of an unborn [...]
Editor’s note: Due to the author’s overarching desire to re-establish to the postmodern West such qualities as morality, civility and the classical modes of rhetoric, she has replaced in the following all quoted uses of the word under discussion with “eff,” with appropriate grammatical derivations thereof. That “eff,” “effing,” “eff off,” “eff about” and “eff up” have entered the general lexicon through [...]
School enrolment figures in P.E.I. have dropped dramatically in recent years. Some rural schools are down more than 40 per cent and there are almost 25 per cent fewer students in Grades 1-3 than in 2001. “The declines have come quicker and broader than expected. The drop in the younger grades is particularly worrisome,” says district superintendent Sandy MacDonald. This demographic shift [...]
It appears that the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association has decided to move from a position of opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide to a position of temporary neurality. This creates great concern for both opponents of euthanasia and advocates for people with disabilities in relation to the end-of-life care for the most vulnerable members of society. In 2005, the British Medical Association [...]
The late John Muggeridge once told me of the time he met Evelyn Waugh. “I was sitting with my father and celebrating the fact that I’d just received my commission in the army. I was rather proud. He immediately deflated me with some rude comment about the status of my regiment. But I didn’t mind. He was so gifted, so clever and [...]
The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On by Dawn Eden (W Publishing Group, $17.50, 224 pages) Dawn Eden, “a Jewish-born rock journalist turned salty Christian blog queen,” has written “a book for marriage-minded single women who (have) had enough of the Sex and the City lifestyle.” While giving up her promiscuity has been an arduous aspect of her [...]
The deputy minister of health in Alberta has admitted that both the federal and provincial public health agencies are aware some vaccines in use in Canada were produced with the use of cell lines from aborted babies. Furthermore, the Alberta government is set to provide alternative vaccines that are not tainted by abortion. The admission comes in a letter to Canadian Physicians [...]
There’s a great initiative underway that involves students, raising money, the National March For Life and dancing! In December, Kerriann Miller and Robin Mendonca were the head organizers for the second annual Dance for Life in southwestern Ontario. They were helped by their committee of Mitch Gunnarson, Stephanie Hoffbauer, Tracey Mendonca and Karynn Scott. It is estimated that this year’s dance was [...]