In Great Britain, they say that when a politician loudly claims to the media his opponent is “not playing fair,” it’s a sure sign he’s losing. The latest news is that Cryin’ Brian Mulroney is complaining through his lawyers that the members of the House of Commons ethics committee conducting a probe into his suspicious business dealings were guilty of “glaring violations [...]
"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?” Persecution of Christians by the state has arrived in Canada. I speak of the recent spate of attacks by human [...]
"In the beginning, I was. I was for a long time. Then things began to happen. Inside me, something was beating fast and outside, something was beating slower. For a long time, that was all I knew.” So opens the marvellous first-person story of an ordinary unborn child, as told by Regina Doman in Angel in the Waters. It is a children’s [...]
Every federal and provincial human rights code in Canada prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion, so why do faithful Christians not take advantage of these laws to protect themselves from anti-Christian discrimination? To anyone who is at all familiar with human rights litigation, the answer is, or should be, obvious: Canada’s human rights codes are a two-edged sword that [...]
I am very honoured to serve as the editor of The Interim and I want to thank everyone who has contributed to its success over the years: the staff, contributors, and volunteers, as well as subscribers. I especially want to thank my seven predecessors for leading and building a newspaper like no other: Jim Hughes, the late Carl Scharfe, Sabina McLuhan, Fr. Alphonse [...]
A quarter century ago, Campaign Life Coalition started The Interim because the mainstream media refused to cover several press conferences held in Ontario by Bernard Nathanson. Nathanson is a former abortionist and co-founder of the U.S. National Abortion Rights Action League, but he changed his mind and came to Canada to tell why. Instead of complaining about media bias, CLC did something [...]
Although the central events of the Christian calendar are fraught with theological implications, an understandably neglected, but, at the same time, quite obvious focus can be brought to bear on these sacred mysteries, a focus that seeks to learn only from the unpleasant facts of the unjust execution of an innocent man. Obviously, the religious importance of this story is impossible to [...]
Planned Parenthood statement to UN NEW YORK –The International Planned Parenthood Federation released a statement endorsing the theme of the 41st session of the Commission on Population and Development: “Population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development.” The session is scheduled to take place April 7-11. According to the IPPF, “Urban growth is predominantly fuelled by natural population increase rather than migration. It [...]
Canada Dr. Joseph Roncaiolo, a Newmarket, Ont. gynecologist, says he did not phone 911 when he discovered his wife dead at their home because he wasn’t sure she had stopped breathing and didn’t want her to survive “as a vegetable.” He said he did likewise when his pet was sick: “I did the same thing when my dog died – I didn’t call [...]
Prayer and penance Having worked on the inside of the pro-life movement for a dozen or more years, I have become more and more convinced of the absolute necessity of prayer and penance as a support for the necessary frontline action. So, I would like to take a few examples from the Bible that teach us how dependent we are on God [...]
Jin Yani is seeking damages in a civil suit against Chinese authorities for forcibly aborting her nine-month-old unborn child after the water broke, because she got pregnant before marriage – a crime in Red China. However, technically, so is forced abortion. Ten officials arrived at the couple’s home on Sept. 7, 2000 and took Jin to a nearby abortion facility, despite the [...]
An estimated 225,000 pro-lifers, the majority of them youth, from across America participated in the march for life in Washington D.C., to mark the 30th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in the United States. Some schools sent eight to 20 buses filled with students to participate in the largest annual pro-life demonstration of the year. Leading the March [...]
Darwin Day in America; How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science by John G. West (ISI Books, $26.95, 450 pages) The success of modern science in providing us with all sorts of material goods, medical wonders and solutions for an array of societal problems has granted it well-deserved respect in the minds of the discerning public. [...]
Out From Under: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting by Dawn Stefanowicz (Annotation Press, $14.95, 245 pages) It was while I was reading Dawn Stefanowicz’s new book that I came upon a review in the Toronto Sunby critic Jim Slotek of the recent movie, For theBible Tells Me So that was headlined, “A serious knock at Bible thumpers.” One might expect anything coming from [...]
When I first saw a trailer for the film Juno some months back, a silent alarm was triggered; here was the story of a 16-year-old girl (played by Canadian Ellen Page) who finds herself pregnant at the hands of a schoolmate, stomached with a “doodle that can’t be un-did,” as the witty clerk at the drugstore informs her (The Office’s Rainn Wilson). Although [...]