Population & Demographics
The birth rate debate
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Canada’s fertility rate is now 1.3 children per woman, its [...]
Here we go again
It might have been the first 60 Minutes of 2023, but it was the same old baloney as the Jan. [...]
Trudeau, Joly Trumpet abortion at UN
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 21, in remarks to reporters at the United Nations after addressing the General Assembly, Prime Minister [...]
Population growth is good
Paul Tuns, Review: Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian Tupy [...]
Happy 8 billion!
Paul Tuns: In July, the United Nations’ Population Division predicted that on Nov. 15, global population would hit 8 billion [...]
Population worries
More than five decades ago, the Club of Rome released its report “The Limits of Growth” which predicted a certain [...]
30th anniversary of Save the Planet’s People conference
Interim Staff: In July 1993, Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition hosted a conference that attracted nearly 1300 attendees [...]
World population to reach 8 billion in November: UN
Paul Tuns: As it does every other July 11 – the date is designated by the United Nations as World [...]
Canada birth rate hits all-time low
Paul Tuns: Statistics Canada released data May 31 showing that the average birth rate for women has decreased to a [...]
European divide on contraception
Paul Tuns: A report published by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) is being used to [...]
Dr Ehrlich should stop worrying about the population bomb and love humanity
Special to The Interim: By Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurmak: In a short piece published recently in Nature, Stanford University [...]
Red China may lift child limits
Paul Tuns The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scrambling to tackle their demographic crisis. On May 31, CCP officials announced [...]
US fertility rates fall to record low
Paul Tuns: On May 5, the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released data on the country’s fertility rate, [...]
Demography and destiny
Low fertility rates, not over-population, present challenge “Demography is destiny,” the French sociologist Auguste Comte reportedly said. Population trends – [...]
The population balm
Paul Tuns, Editor of The Interim Newspaper By Paul Tuns A parable of Saint Matthew’s Gospel describes a [...]