Paul Tuns Ottawa’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund gave the University of British Columbia faculty of Medicine’s Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) $4.3 million in taxpayer funding to pay for research into expanding abortion to “underserved” groups such as individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, the homeless, and youth. UBC Medicine said in a press release, the funding will “address barriers to [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 25, Statistics Canada reported data that showed the country’s official fertility rate is 1.25 children per woman, the lowest figure Canada has ever recorded, down from its previous low of 1.26 children in 2023. The figures for 2024, the latest year for which data is available, provide data for births and stillbirths. In total numbers, there were 368,928 [...]
Dan Di Rocco: Dave Bolton, long-time production and layout manager for The Interim newspaper, died July 27, stricken by cancer. He was 72. For two decades, from 2000 to 2020, Dave contributed to the monthly publishing of our paper, laying out the articles, ads, and other components of the publication. Often it was a pressure cooker of a job, weeks of slow [...]
Charlie Kirk: ‘I am 100 per cent pro-life.’ In 2021, Charlie had a conversation with Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, and one of America’s pro-life leaders. During the exchange, Charlie expressed that “we are gonna get rid of abortion like we got rid of slavery in this country. It’s going to happen. They (abortion and slavery) are moral equivalents.” [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2023, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) planned to display abortion victim photography during our press conference on Parliament Hill on May 10, the day prior to the National March for Life, but the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) stopped us from doing so. They originally cited an older version of General Rules for [...]
Donald DeMarco: My iPad, that incomprehensible marvel of technology, conveyed a letter from a politician who wanted my vote. He was polite, as was proper, and promised to do many good things if elected, as was expected. He closed his missive, fully confident that I would fully agree with him. “And I will always defend,” he said, “a woman’s right to abortion.” [...]
Rory Leishman: The book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible describes an era in ancient Israel when, instead of obeying the commandments of God, most men did what was right in their own eyes. The result was chaos, confusion and disaster. The same is true of our own era. Instead of steadfastly upholding the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality, most people have [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life Do you know what I love about old books? Passages like this: “The body-coats of naked steel, The woven iron coats of mail, Like water fly before the swing Of Hakon’s sword–the champion-king. About each Gotland war-man’s head Helm splits, like ice beneath the tread, Cloven by the axe or sharp swordblade, [...]
Tanis Cortens: A simple comic strip posted on X (formerly Twitter) by pro-life English doctor Calum Miller reveals an often-neglected truth: many fathers mourn their aborted children. The four-panel image, posted on May 18, depicts a boy playing on a swing and building a block tower with his father. Then the child fades, leaving his father distraught. In the final panel, the [...]
Paul Tuns: Ontario’s MAID Death Review Committee (MDRC) released its fifth report on August 25 which revealed that a number of euthanasia deaths may not conform to regulations governing the practice of Medical Assistance in Dying, with patients killed due to hand tremors that caused psychological suffering, untreated obesity, and voluntary cessation of eating and drinking. The MDRC is a body of [...]
Paul Tuns: During the Sept. 16 session of the House of Commons, three Conservative MPs rose to submit petitions from Canadians concerned about the All-Party Finance Committee’s 2024 recommendation to strip all religious and pro-life organizations and institutions of charitable status. In December 2024, the All-Party Finance Committee submitted more than 400 budget recommendations, including Recommendation 429 to amend the Income Tax [...]
Paul Tuns: Just 11 days after Charlie Kirk was killed, his widow Erika Kirk addressed the nationally broadcast memorial service with words of grace: “My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life … On the cross, our Savior said: ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That young man—that young [...]
Tanis Cortens: A July study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that women who abort their children are more at risk for mental health issues than those who choose life. Researchers assessed 28,721 women who aborted and 1,228,807 who gave birth in Quebec hospitals between 2006 and 2022. According to the study, mental health-related hospitalization was more common after abortion [...]
John Carpay: The new Justice Centre report Post-COVID Canada: The Rise in Unexpected Deaths explains how the latest Statistics Canada death data discredits the government-and-media narrative that Canadians were fed in 2020 and 2021. Politicians and media were wrong about COVID, wrong about lockdowns, and wrong about the COVID vaccines. COVID was much closer to being a bad annual flu than it [...]
Paul Tuns: In July, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a paper by Christine Van Geyn, a lawyer and litigation director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, titled “Anti-free speech ‘bubble laws’ are unconstitutional – and expanding. We need to stop them.” Van Geyn wrote that “From one province in 1995 to thousands of locations across multiple cities by 2025, ‘bubble zone’ laws have significantly [...]