That's what I think when I read this story. But seriously, Barack Obama's line about Washington giving taxpayer money to abortion giant Planned Parenthood -- "I think that is a bad idea. I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices" -- is baffling. Really, will the daughters of a former U.S. president need taxpayer-subsidized birth control? [...]
As many in the media call for some vague "leadership" from our politicians in the aftermath of the gun violence in Toronto, few are willing to spell out what kind of leadership is needed precisely. I would suggest some honesty about the role of the breakdown of family and growth of fatherlessness among some populations in the city. As our friend Lou Iacobelli [...]
In Greek mythology, Europa was a princess whom Zeus abducted in the form of a bull, and their union produced three sons. Pagan legends are replete with such stories of the violent visitation of the divine: they believed that the gods not only blessed their people with offspring, but would sometimes impose such blessings. The Continent which lays claim to such legends [...]
Confidence is the hallmark of a successful social movement. Groups which possess a conviction in their cause will trust in the power of justice and the appeal of truth, and are, therefore, always eager to articulate their ideals to any willing listener. How interesting, then, that despite their dazzling success, socially liberal groups display no such confidence, and no such desire for [...]
Was I naïve? In the early 1980s, I mounted an argument against abortion that I thought no one could refute. In a brief to government, I asked: if the unborn do not have rights from the first moment of their existence, on the grounds of their being human, how can we be sure that they acquire rights later on, and [...]
With freedom of religion under attack as never before in Canada, what are our church leaders doing to defend the faithful? Precious little. With rare exceptions, they have mounted only the most feeble and ineffectual protests against encroachments by the state on the inalienable right of Canadians to uphold the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality. Consider, for example, the supine reaction [...]
It appears that Gay-Straight Clubs in Ontario may be in their death throes having met strong intellectual opposition to their very existence in Great Britain recently from a Dr. Julia Gasper. Gaspar was selected by the UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) to run for Parliament. UKIP advocates withdrawal from the European Union and is currently tied with the larger Liberal Democrats in [...]
Culture matters. I would carve these words on stone slabs and hand deliver them to every conservative and pro-life organization in the English-speaking world if I thought that it would make a difference, but I’m no longer sure it will. We may, I fear, have absented ourselves from culture and the arts for so long that everything we do now is a [...]
The story of Dalton McGuinty's attempt to bully schools and families into accepting his pro-gay agenda through the clandestine Safer Schools Act which purports to battle bullying but is really about normalizing homosexuality appears in the July issue of our paper. On the law's stated focus, supposedly bullying, the bill comes up short as it focuses on so-called homophobic bullying and does [...]
Kathy Shaidle reviewed Richard Stursberg's The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC in the July issue of The Interim. Shaidle concludes her review: I defy anyone who reads The Tower of Babble to think up a “solution” to the CBC “problem” that doesn’t involve controlled demolition. It would be fitting, however, if the Corpse was miraculously revived by producing a [...]
The pro-life movement in Europe has had some notable successes the previous year with the marches for life held in Italy, Spain, and France. During the weekend of May 12-13, 15,000 showed up for the March for Life in Rome. As reported by LifeSiteNews, the organizers of the march expected the numbers to be three times less and many of the participants [...]
On June 15, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith said that the Criminal Code prohibitions on euthanasia and assisted suicide were unconstitutional, finding that they “unjustifiably infringe the equality rights” of one of plaintiffs in the case, Gloria Taylor, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease and wants assistance to end her own life. Justice Smith also said the prohibitions unjustifiably violate the [...]
Dear Interim reader: The Interim is in its 30th year. For three decades we have been providing pro-life news and information to the pro-life community across Canada. In 2009, we unexpectedly lost a government grant from the Publication Assistance Program and we asked you, our readers and supporters, to help us make up the shortfall. Through your generosity we were able to [...]
The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC by Richard Stursberg (Douglas & McIntyre, $32.95, 288 pages) You don’t even have to read it – the very existence of a book like The Tower of Babble proves the author’s thesis that the CBC is broken. Employees of every enterprise with the word “corporation” in its name sign confidentiality agreements, [...]
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has excerpts from and thoughts on the nationwide examination of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands which was just published in the Lancet on July 11, 2012. Must-read study and a must-read blog post. This phrase from the Lancet article should be frightening to all: "The decreased frequency of ending of life without explicit patient request..." Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide without the [...]