Paul Tuns: In May, Conservative Party of British Columbia (CPBC) members narrowly elected former MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay as leader on the fourth ballot, besting Caroline Elliott 51-49 per cent. During her leadership campaign, Findlay vowed to scrap the province’s sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) program in schools, ran against the NDP government’s lax drug policies, and promised to restore freedom in [...]
Argentina joins pro-life coalition Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On August 12, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accepted the United States taking on the role as the next rotating Secretariat of the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), a 2020 document affirming support for the right to life around the world. The document was signed by the U.S. and 31 other countries [...]
Interim Staff: On July 28, Superior Court Justice Alain Trudel ruled against former Quebec tourism minister Caroline Proulx, declaring that in pressuring the Quebec City Convention Centre to cancel its contract with Harvest Ministries International to host the Faith, Fire, Freedom Rally in 2023, she had exercised her ministerial authority in “an arbitrary and abusive manner.” Proulx said that Harvest Ministries, [...]
Gianna Baklinski: An Ontario family is grieving their matriarch who was killed through euthanasia, despite having refused it, stating that it was contrary to her Christian beliefs. Her family also opposed her death but found themselves powerless to prevent it. Stegemann’s family has chosen to share the story, and posted it on the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition blog. Brigitte Stegemann, known by her [...]
Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary Jan Jekielek (Skyhorse Publishing, $44.99, 220 pages) This paper’s editorial policy is to refer to Communist China as Red China, a reminder that the global behemoth is still a communist country. But as Jan Jekielek illustrates in Killed to Order about China’s organ harvesting industry, the ‘Red’ [...]
Russell Kirk on America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776: Edited by Michael Lucchese (Creed and Culture, $36.99, 210 pages) The new publishing house Creed and Culture has helped mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by collecting excerpts from the works of American conservative essayist Russell Kirk. The collection, edited by Michael Lucchese, with a foreword by Bradley J. [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition: Volume 1 The Ancient World and Christendom by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins (Golden Thread Academic, $155.99, 1258 pages) The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition: Volume 2 The Modern and Contemporary West by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins (Golden Thread Academic, $155.99, 874 pages) Among the [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: Here & Queer, a CBC talk series celebrating LGBTQ artists, interviewed a “nonbinary drag king” on April 2. Heath V. Salazar is a biological female performer across various artistic disciplines who uses the stage name “Gay Jesus” and is on Instagram as @theirholiness. In early 2020, she wrote a CBC article that touched on the division her transition caused [...]
Gianna Baklinski: In 2023, Rosalie Markezich, a day-care worker from Louisiana, was pregnant and excited about motherhood. Then, she told her boyfriend about her pregnancy. He obtained abortion drugs and coerced Rosalie into taking them. Although she tried to vomit up the pills in an attempt to save her baby, it was too late, and, tragically, her baby died, leaving Rosalie traumatized. [...]
Catholic Register, Special to The Interim: Jim Hughes confessed to us that his life as the godfather of Canada’s pro-life movement began in a state of disbelief. Hughes died May 18 after more than 50 years of fighting the good fight against abortion and its dark shadow twin, medical assistance in dying. But as he told The Catholic Register in a 2024 interview [...]
Mary Ellen Douglas: It is difficult to write, in such a small space, my comforting and almost 48 years of memories of Jim Hughes. It would take a book. I first met Jim in 1978 when I travelled to Toronto at the request of Paul Dodds who was recruiting small pro-life groups, like our VITA group in Kingston, Ont. We were gathered [...]
Gwen Landolt: Jim Hughes possessed a rare combination of qualities seldom found in one individual. Jim understood people and dealt with them with tact, empathy, kindness, and humour, which encouraged them in their pro-life work. He never wavered in his vision for life and in his tenacity to protect it. Jim also had great resilience. No matter the catastrophe, he always came [...]
Josie Luetke: When I was still a high school student, my dad pointed out to me Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes, unassumingly standing at the back of a Halton Pro-Life event. I don’t think he spoke; I think he just attended because he was available, and his heart lay with this cause. He quickly grew fond of me (I believe), [...]
Donald DeMarco: Tulsi Gabbard stated, in her May 22 letter of resignation, that she has quit her post as the Director of National Intelligence. Her husband, Abraham, had been recently diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. “At this time,” she wrote, “I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this [...]
Richard Dur, Special to The Interim: By early afternoon the neighborhood has settled into its familiar rhythm. Children drift toward the park. Parents linger on benches. Traffic comes and goes. Across the street stands the old Grand Trunk School. It still echoes with the ghosts of children who once filled its classrooms. The nearby park rings with the laughter of children alive today. [...]