Janice Glover and Paul Tuns: The remains of 115 aborted babies were discovered by pro-life activists in a when they intercepted a box labelled from Washington, D.C. abortuary with dismembered babies being sent to a medical waste centre. Members of The Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) group that intercepted the box from Washington Surgi Centre, an abortion mill, said that it contained 110 [...]
Paul Tuns: Pro-life Canadians urged to get membership before June 3 cut-off Leslyn Lewis could be joined by three other Campaign Life Coalition-supported candidates in the federal Conservative Party of Canada leadership campaign, which will crown a new party leader on Sept. 10. Lewis was approved as an eligible candidate in early April, having garnered the requisite 500 signatures from party memberships, [...]
The managerial welfare-state consumes the planet By Mark Wegierski It is the 52nd anniversary of the first Earth Day (1970). Many people in Western societies today are rightly concerned with environmental issues. The locus of resistance to many negative current-day trends is likely to be found in ecology. Ironically, however, it could be argued that the Western managerial welfare-state so beloved by [...]
Paul Tuns: Kerry Lavender, an assistant professor of biochemistry, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine, wrote two articles based on government-funded research she has conducted on “humanized mice” experiments that used fetal tissue procured from aborted preborn babies. The mice are known in the scientific literature as “TKO-BLT mice.” The controversial experiments entail implanting human fetal tissue [...]
Interim Staff: Two Windsor women were charged with murder after they killed a 79-year-old female family member that the accused say was an assisted suicide. Police did not release the names of the victim and the accused in order protect the integrity of the investigation, but the two women were identified as being 23 and 49 years of age, and both were [...]
Interim Staff: An Ontario Superior Court judge dismissed a legal challenge by two southwestern Ontario evangelical churches against the province’s pandemic restrictions that closed and limited capacity of churches. During a three-day hearing that began Jan. 31, lawyers for the Church of God in Aylmer, Ont., and the Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, Ont., argued that restrictions designed to limit the spread [...]
There are two stories in this issue that delve into ways in which the Culture of Death is sustained through deception. We have a story about how the abortion pill is being marketed as “missed period pills.” Of course, the missed period being described is not a medical ailment, but a natural occurrence during pregnancy. The pill does not treat the missed [...]
Oswald Clark: On Feb. 28, the Senate failed to invoke cloture (closure) on a filibuster in order to proceed to a vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act, which passed in the House of Representatives when every Democrat but one voted for it earlier in the month. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer knew he did not have enough votes for victory as [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 was International Women’s Day. It was incumbent on America’s 46th president to salute women throughout the world and to offer them something encouraging and uplifting. He told half the population on the planet that women cannot “live up to their God-given potential” without abortion-on-demand. The inclusion of a reference to God is curious since hardly [...]
Rory Leishman: David French is senior editor of The Dispatch, an excellent, on-line, news magazine. He is also one of the most prominent pro-life lawyers and political commentators in the United States. In a recent address to conservative law students affiliated with The Federalist Society at Yale University, he recalled the hot reception he received upon arrival at The Harvard Law School [...]
Interim Staff: The Globe and Mail reported that data from the four western provinces and Ontario finds that Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have lower per capita prescription rates for the abortion pill than B.C. or Ontario, and in the case of Alberta, significantly lower rates. Data from the 2020-2021 fiscal year shows that the Alberta government’s drug plan paid for 3800 prescriptions [...]
Paul Tuns: Transgender activists regularly tout an “epidemic” of murderous violence against self-identified transgender individuals, but statistics are seldom provided to back up their claims. While there are no official statistics for Canada or the United States, the TransRespect project claims nine Canadian transgender murder victims from 2008 through 2021. But even these statistics raise questions. Gender identity researcher Tish Still examined [...]
John Carpay: A person who is arrested or put in prison because of his or her political beliefs is a political prisoner. This also holds true for peaceful activists who are wrongfully arrested under trumped-up criminal charges. Long-standing readers of The Interim will immediately think about Mary Wagner and Fr. Tony Van Hee as examples of Canadians who were arrested or imprisoned [...]
The mainstream media has parroted a Democrat talking-point in labeling a Florida parental rights law a “don’t say gay” prohibition in the classroom. Florida House Bill 1557, the Parental Rights in Education Act was passed in the state house in February and the state Senate in early March, and was set to be signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis. The move [...]
Interim Staff: On March 1, Ontario Supreme Court Justice M.J. Valente ordered pro-abortion activist Brooke Dietrich and her unnamed allies to cease and desist from activities that harassed a pro-life vigil in Kitchener. Phil Horgan, representing 40 Days for Life, told the court that Dietrich attempted to sabotage the prayerful campaign by “filling vigil spots with no intent to participate, filling shopping [...]