Tanis Cortens: Canadian advocates of euthanasia assert that the procedure lives up to its name as a “good death,” providing a serene, elegant, and even humane way of ending suffering. Dying With Dignity Canada explains the process as follows: “The provision of medical assistance in dying (MAID) in most of Canada is by intravenous administration of a series of medications – most [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A Dutch commission has confirmed that the euthanasia death of a two-year-old boy, the first case under the age of 12 in the Netherlands, was handled with “due care.” A commission from the Netherlands has just confirmed that the euthanizing of a child just under 24 months old was handled with “due care,” despite also admitting that other doctors [...]
Interim Staff: Bill C-218, the private member’s bill introduced by Tamara Jansen (Cloverdale-Langley City), that if passed would prevent Medical Assistance in Dying for those whose sole criteria is mental illness, is scheduled to be voted on in the House of Commons on Oct. 7. In March 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, the Help Not Harm Act, liberalizing Canada’s euthanasia law including [...]
A dad fights for his unborn children Fathers are an important part of a woman’s pregnancy. They are the fathers of the unborn children, but they so often retreat from voicing their opinion and providing support to the pregnant mother. Society insists that it is a woman’s “choice” about whether or not to abort the child. Often the father is given no [...]
Donald Demarco: There is nothing higher, for many athletes, than winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Some have said that they would give up ten years of their life if they could accomplish such a feat. This kind of exchange, however, downplays the significance of the gratitude we should have for being alive for an entire decade. Should gratitude bow to [...]
Victor Penney: Summer’s lease on my sports brain hath all too short a date. I shifted into September-mode at the end of July, back when NFL training camps were getting underway. What can I say? The call to fall is strong, but the truth is, I’m still thinking about the other football. There were so many memorable moments from the World Cup, [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements The worst part of living through the era of doomscrolling, AI slop and endless, valueless content is getting to witness the final, pyrrhic triumph of the pundit. News and information overwhelm us with little in the way of filters except for the ever-mutating algorithm and its indifferent, inscrutable need to either enrage us [...]
Josie Luetke: On May 10, 2023, Campaign Life Coalition planned to display abortion victim photography during its National March for Life press conference, but the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) prohibited us from doing so. I was aghast—how could we be allowed to display the same signs on the city sidewalk, but not on Parliament Hill? Of all places to protest in the [...]
Rory Leishman: It is remarkable how progressive leaders of the fast-dwindling Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and United churches of Canada are so determined to wipe out what few sparks of vibrant, theologically orthodox life still remain within their respective denominations. Thus, in June, leaders of the Anglican Church of Canada released a set of Pastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts [...]
From the editor’s desk: Research Connections published a study, supplemented by further study by researchers at the Manhattan Institute, that examined insurance data for minors aged 8-17 between 2016 and 2023 in Oregon, one of the most progressive states in the U.S. They found that one in 240 girls and one in 630 boys received cross-sex hormones to treat gender-confused youth and [...]
Jeff Gunnarson, Special to The Interim: Editor’s Note: These remarks were given by Campaign Life Coalition national president and Interim editorial advisory board member Jeff Gunnarson at an August 13 celebration marking the 25th anniversary of Paul Tuns as editor of The Interim (August 8, 2001). What can one say about a faithful Catholic man, pro-life and otherwise mostly traditional, who loves professional [...]
Paul Tuns: Jeanne Head, who led pro-life efforts at the United Nations for decades, died on July 1 at the age of 94 in Omaha, Nebraska. Born in Selby, South Dakota in 1932, Head earned a nursing degree and went to New York City in 1965 to pursue an acting career. She became a nurse at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Manhattan [...]
Paul Tuns: On July 14, Angela Costigan died at the age of 83. Costigan, originally a high school teacher, left that profession at the age of 33 to attend law school, and after she became a lawyer took on numerous cases in pursuit of obtaining legal rights for the unborn child, leading Jakki Jeffs, director of Alliance for Life Ontario, to call [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: A former Irish Republican Army member and later Irish politician has revealed that she had an abortion in the 1980s while preparing to join a bombing mission in England during the Troubles. Martina Anderson, a former IRA member who spent more than a decade in prison for her involvement in a plot to carry out bombings in England, made [...]
Donald DeMarco: The year was 2003, Oct. 6, to be exact. The Boston Red Sox were playing the Oakland Athletics in the American League Division Series. The Beantowners had come back from an 0-2 deficit and had a chance to win the series with one more victory. Victories in playoff games, however, are seldom easy. The situation was tense. Oakland, trailing by [...]