John Carpay: Is racism always wrong? In Canada in 2026, asking this question is not only fair, but necessary. A Rights Recognition Agreement signed in secret between the Musqueam Indian Band and Canada’s federal government recognizes Musqueam Aboriginal title over Vancouver and nearby municipalities and much of the Lower Mainland. Much of this same area is also claimed by the Tsawwassen, Squamish, [...]
Rory Leishman: Over the past decade, physicians have subjected tens of thousands of vulnerable, transsexual teenagers to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and permanently mutilating sex-reassignment surgery. Yet there is no solid evidence that these dangerous and experimental treatments have any lasting benefits. That is the stark conclusion of a definitive, peer-reviewed, scientific paper entitled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence [...]
Josie Luetke: I derive a perverse satisfaction from horrifying Americans with tales of Canada’s death spiral. I asked one, “Did you know we are considering euthanizing babies here? Like ones with severe deformities or disabilities,” when I realized we already do that. Canada doesn’t directly report on the reasons women procure abortions, but we know as we better diagnose congenital conditions in [...]
Are the Olympics the grandest stage of all for elite athletes, or a two-week festival of fornication and debauchery? Sadly, it’s hard to tell and the recent Winter Games in Italy prove it. The Milano Cortina organizers made international headlines when they ran out of free condoms for the athletes. The math is crazy. They started out with a stockpile of about [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: Over the past year, six Canadian hospitals have experienced decreases in maternity care availability. Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock, B.C., has a maternity diversion in place as of this writing: Expectant mothers will have to deliver their babies at other hospitals between March 12 and 18, marking the ward’s eighth temporary closure since December. Also in B.C., Ridge [...]
Our cover story and editorial this month is about artificial intelligence (AI), and as the Marxists say, it is not a coincidence that we are publishing this series of articles and commentary the month after we wrote about the significance of imago dei. AI presents an existential threat to humanity, but even if it does not wipe out mankind, it still represents [...]
Paul Tuns: Artificial intelligence (AI) is celebrated by its boosters as a game-changing innovation that promises not merely greater efficiency and convenience, but solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges and problems. As Marc Andreesson, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, says, “AI will save the world.” AI’s critics warn that it creates new problems from widespread unemployment to an existential risk to the continued [...]
Consider a first-year university student writing a paper at the end of the term. The task is daunting, and a tumult of emotions besets the young writer as he sits down to do his work. He is excited by the swirl of nascent ideas and by a handful of what sound, in his head, like fine phrases. But as the work gets [...]
Editor’s Note: The Interim’s Paul Tuns interviewed Maria Slykerman after she retired as head of CLC Manitoba on Dec. 31, 2025. Paul Tuns: How did you become involved in the pro-life movement and Campaign Life Coalition? Maria Slykerman: My husband Niel and I were always pro-life, but we became involved with the pro-life movement in 1989. At that time someone asked us [...]
Donald DeMarco: Traditionally, the word ‘choice’ was always connected with that which is chosen. It never stood alone. In The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare states, “There’s small choice in rotten apples.” In Titus Andronicus, he states, “Come, and take choice of all my library/ and so beguile thy sorrow.” In the first instance, choice is suspended when confronted with nothing but [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: The United Kingdom is in the midst of an ongoing battle to legalize assisted suicide. In October 2024, Labour party MP Kim Leadbeater introduced the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, a Private Member’s Bill, which proposes to legalize assisted-suicide in England and Wales for terminally ill adults under certain conditions. The bill is now stalled in the [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: Several lobbying groups are pushing the Canadian government to expand its Medical Assistance in Dying laws to include mature minors, citing various European countries as examples of how it could be done. “Sadly, once killing by euthanasia becomes a legal option the law will continue to expand,” said Alex Schadenberg, executive director for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. “There is [...]
Paul Tuns: On March 18, Alberta Minister of Justice Mickey Amery introduced Bill 18, the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act, which, if passed, will restrict euthanasia in the province. Bill 18 would require individuals to have a 12-month terminal prognosis, thus limiting euthanasia in the province to Track 1 approval (those with a reasonably foreseeable death). By banning Track [...]
Paul Tuns: Last fall, the Quebec government tabled a proposed provincial constitution that, if enacted, would enshrine “freedom to have an abortion” as a right in the province. After a backlash from pro-abortion activists who did not want abortion mentioned in the constitution because it would become a lightning rod for pro-life activism, Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette announced on Feb. 20, [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 18, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered Barry Neufeld, a former Chilliwack, British Columbia school trustee, to pay $750,000 to a teacher’s union for his insistence that there are only two genders. The BC HRT decision ruled that Neufeld made discriminatory comments against LGBTQ teachers over a five-year period in his social media posts. The Tribunal’s decision said, [...]