Monthly Archives: December 2020

From the editor’s desk

What is essential Good news for once. The Wall Street Journal reported that churches in America and Europe are pushing back against restrictions on worship services during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that they are not the locus of spreading the coronavirus. In other words, they are arguing that churches are safe as long as certain protocols (namely masking, [...]

2020-12-09T19:23:17-05:00December 9, 2020|Paul Tuns|

How Bill C-7 changes the euthanasia law

Alex Schadenberg Special to The Interim It removes the requirement that a person’s natural death must be reasonably foreseeable to qualify for death by lethal injection. It permits a doctor or nurse practitioner to lethally inject a person who is incapable of consenting, if that person was previously approved. This contravenes the Supreme Court of Canada Carter decision which stated that only [...]

2020-12-08T21:20:05-05:00December 8, 2020|Euthanasia|

Pro-life opinion divided over ethics of new COVID vaccines

By Paul Tuns Two new vaccines aimed to protect people from COVID-19, from Moderna and Pzifer, have been lauded by some U.S. pro-life groups, but still pose ethical problems. In early November, within days of each other, Moderna and Pfizer announced that they were close to getting a vaccine to market as early trials indicated a success rate of protecting 95 per cent [...]

2020-12-08T21:05:09-05:00December 8, 2020|Abortion|

Trump loses, but pro-life victories abound

By Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns Despite contesting the election results due to a number of irregularities in the counting and qualification of votes in several states, President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to the most pro-abortion candidate offered by either major party—Joe Biden. Biden, a former senator and vice president, repudiated his lifelong record of opposing taxpayer funding of [...]

2020-12-08T20:48:02-05:00December 8, 2020|Politics|

New Website Launch

Welcome to the new website for The Interim, Canada’s life and family newspaper. As a newspaper printed on dead tree and mailed to subscribers, we’ve been around since 1983. Our original website was launched in the 1990s and updated in 2008. That is decades ago in internet time and our overhaul is long overdue. Better late than never is not a phrase [...]

2020-12-05T10:07:46-05:00December 3, 2020|Paul Tuns, Soconvivium|
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