Donald DeMarco: Columnist Donald DeMarco imagines a conversation with journeyman baseball player Harry Chiti. Harry Chiti was a major league catcher who played for the Tigers, Cubs, Athletics, Indians, and Mets from 1950-1962. In his final year, he was traded from the Indians to the Mets where he played 15 games and hit a woeful .195. He was then traded [...]
John Carpay: “The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it, subject only to such reasonable limits, prescribed by law, as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” Thus reads Section 1 of the document added to Canada’s constitution in 1982. In R. v. Oakes (1986) the Supreme Court ruled that when [...]
By Joanna Alphonso: The purpose of abortion is to terminate the life of the unborn child. When that fails, and the child is born alive, he or she is simply left to die. This is happening right here, at home, in Canada. Canada is the only country in the Western hemisphere without a law on abortion. As a result, abortions are legally [...]
Paul Tuns: A study of abortions in Quebec between 1989 and 2021 published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that 11.2 per cent of abortions committed in the second trimester end with a live birth. The authors comment that their “findings suggest that second-trimester abortions commonly result in live birth.” Nathalie Augur, Emile Brousseau, Aimina Ayoub, and William D. [...]
Paul Tuns: NDP MP Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) introduced a private member’s bill on Sept. 25, which, if passed, classifies as a hate crime the condoning, denying, justifying, or downplaying the impact Indian Residential Schools (IRSs) had on indigenous people. More than 150,000 indigenous children attended residential schools and an estimated 6000 children died during their stay at such schools. Bill C-413, [...]
Mary Zwicker: The Spanish Ministry of Social Rights proposed a new law to extend human rights to apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas) due to their “genetic closeness” to human beings. A European country has proposed to extend certain human rights to apes while the lives of unborn babies remain unprotected in their society. In Spain, where unborn children can be [...]
Meanwhile Dying with Dignity asks courts to extend law to mentally ill Paul Tuns: On Sept. 26, a coalition of disability rights organizations and two individuals filed a Charter challenge with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice opposing Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not terminally ill. The [...]
Paul Tuns: An Ontario coroner’s committee revealed that one in fifty euthanasia deaths in the province violated so-called safeguards to protect vulnerable patients and that they were not offered medical or social supports that may have encouraged people to eschew choosing Medical Assistance in Dying. The MAiD Death Review Committee is a 16-person committee of medical professionals, social workers, ethicists, lawyers, and [...]
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Oswald Clark: The American Life League released a report, “Beneath the Surface: Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel” that shows that since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the two-pill regimen involving mifepristone and misoprostol — so-called “medication abortions” or “chemical abortions” – have been used to circumvent state pro-life laws that restrict or ban abortion. Since the 2022 Dobbs [...]
The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves Alexandra Hudson (St. Martin’s Press, $39, 416 pages) Alexandra Hudson wrote her book about civility after witnessing first-hand the incivility in Washington D.C. first hand while working for the Department of Education. Her hardship in government is a blessing for readers, for Hudson might not have written about civility had she [...]
Paul Tuns: Barrhead, Alberta, population 4320, will hold a binding plebiscite on a new bylaw that, if passed, would ban rainbow flags and crosswalks following a citizen petition urging the city to take the action. In June, a group of Barrhead residents started a petition to remove all pro-LGBTQ rainbow crosswalks and flag from municipal property. The petition was presented to the [...]
Rabble, Riots, and Ruins: Twelve Ancient Cities and How They Were Evangelized Mike Aquilina (Ignatius, $23.50,206 pages) Mike Aquilina is the best-selling author and president of the St. Pauls’ Center for Biblical Theology. His latest book, Rabble, Riots, and Ruins, is an examination of how a dozen famous ancient pagan cities were Christianized: Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, Alexandria, Ephesus, Edessa (Urfa, Turkey), Lugdunum [...]
The Chicago Manual of Style 18 University of Chicago Staff (University of Chicago Press, $97.50, 1180 pages) The offices of The Interim have used the latest Chicago Manual of Style since its present editor took charge of the paper in 2000. While the paper does not adhere to its stylistic conventions (we follow Canadian Press style), it is a regularly consulted guide. [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Today’s technological advances, intended to benefit humanity, have a significant capability to harm every one of us, especially as long as they remain legally unbridled. Welcome to the world of artificial intelligence (AI). What is AI? AI makes it possible for computers to learn from experience based on inputs of its human users. It has exploded over the last year [...]