10. Texas Heartbeat law protects thousands of preborn On May 19, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the Texas Heartbeat Act that bans abortion after the detection of a preborn baby’s heartbeat, typically around the sixth week of pregnancy. The law took effect on Sept. 1. The law allows citizens to sue anyone who commits or facilitates an abortion after a [...]
Paul Tuns Bill C-4, the Trudeau government’s sweeping ban of conversion therapy which was to help same-sex attracted and Canadians confused about their birth gender passed in both the House and Senate in early December without debate or committee hearings when both chambers gave unanimous consent to send the bill to a final vote. An earlier version of the government’s conversion therapy [...]
Interim Staff For Giving Tuesday, the week after the consumer orgy Black Friday sales during which organizations ask for donations, Campaign Life Coalition did something unusual: instead of asking its supporters to donate to their organization, they raised money to help mothers and babies in Canada’s north. CLC partnered with former Nunavut MLA Patterk Netser and his wife, Mona, “to help mothers [...]
Against the COVID jab (I) I am shocked by some of Rory Leishman’s statements in his latest column (“The Pro-Life Case for Vaccines,” November). He claims there is no credible evidence that the available vaccines for COVID-19 pose severe risks to health. However, hundreds of eminent doctors all over the world (including Dr. M. Yeadon, a former vice-president of Pfizer) have been [...]
Millennials astray GLENDALE, Ariz -- An alarming study, “Millennials in America,” by researchers at the Arizona Christian University has found that among millennials (comprising about 78 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 37), 30 per cent identify as LGBTQ, including 39 per cent of those 18-24. Millennials comprise the largest population group in America. The study says that “the generation [...]
Jim Hughes Fr. Paul Casullo died on Oct. 31 at the age of 91. The former Trappist monk, Fr. Casullo immigrated to Canada in 1964 where he served as a parish priest within the Archdiocese of Toronto. A shy and humble man, he struck people as a prayer warrior. As the pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Weston, he could [...]
In one of Kafka’s haunting parables, “An Imperial Message,” we read of an august Emperor who dispatches a daring, trusted messenger with a communication from his deathbed which is specifically for you, the most humble subject in his realm. But although this emissary is full of dignity, authority, and power his errand is hopeless. Layers upon layers of walls and palaces, and [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary In ancient Rome, the father dominated the family. As “paterfamilias” (head of the family), he had absolute rule over his household. If his children angered him, he had the legal right to disown them, sell them into slavery, or even kill them. Sons were preferred. The birth of a female, could be her death warrant. The father came first, [...]
Michael Taube Commentary “You better watch out, you better not cry / You better not pout, I’m telling you why / Santa Claus is coming to town.” Have you heard the news? Santa Claus is nearly here! Santa’s sleigh is always led by eight tiny reindeer, you know - and guided by Rudolph’s shiny red nose, of course. The elves are making [...]
Paul Tuns On Oct. 22, Federal Court Justice Catherine Kane found that the federal government’s Summer Job Program requirement that recipients declare themselves in favour of abortion in order to get funding was constitutionally valid. In December 2017, the Justin Trudeau government released new rules for companies and organizations that received Summer Jobs Program subsidies to hire students that required recipients to [...]
Paul Tuns Editor’s Note: Part I appeared in the November edition of The Interim and is available here. Pro-life leaders generally agree that the movement must do a better job reaching beyond its current scope of organizational supporters, although there is not as much agreement about how to do that. Jakki Jeffs, executive director of Alliance for Life Ontario, told The Interim [...]
Interim Staff The CBC reported on two London, Ont. funeral homes which are making an extra buck by renting out dedicated rooms where customers can have a medically induced death. The CBC reports that Northview Funeral Chapel owner Paul Needham started receiving requests from families looking for “a place to go” for the euthanasia “procedure” at the start of COVID lockdowns. Needham [...]
Josie Luetke Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey “Every woman in Canada has a right to a safe and legal abortion,” according to none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “Access to safe, legal abortion is a fundamental right of women, irrespective of where they live,” according to a 2006 publication from the World Health Organization. One of Campaign Life Coalition’s [...]
Paul Tuns Review The Critical Temper: Interventions from The New Criterion at 40 edited by Roger Kimball (Encounter, $39.99, 561 pages) The idea of the culture wars is much derided by pundits, often considered distractions from real issues. I would argue there is nothing more important than to go to (metaphorical) war over than culture. A field general in the war over [...]
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality Helen Joyce (One World, $34.95, 311 pages) Helen Joyce’s Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality delivers exactly what the subtitle promises, juxtaposing the trans ideology with biological facts. Joyce begins her examination of gender identity in Weimar Germany where the discredited Institute of Sexual Science, founded by the gay Jewish drag queen Magnus Hirschfeld, offered hormones and surgery [...]