Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition has filed two applications for judicial review in the New Brunswick Court of King’s Bench asking the court to quash a pair of decisions of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission referring complaints to a Board of Enquiry about two of CLC’s political flyers distributed in the 2024 provincial election. CLC’s lawyer, provided by the Justice Centre [...]
Gianna Baklinski An Ontario woman who carried a baby for a same-sex couple is being sued after she refused to abort at their request. The woman was engaged to act as a surrogate by two men. Part-way through the pregnancy, routine ultrasounds indicated that the baby might have a cleft lip and palate, as well as other minor defects. When the intended [...]
Paul Tuns: On July 29, Military Personnel Command issued a new directive expanding restrictions on faith-specific language and practices at official military ceremonies. The new rules require all members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and all employees and contractors of the Department of National Defence (DND) who speak at public events to eschew any talk of God when they offer spiritual [...]
Paul Tuns: On July 5, Canadian Catholic News (CCN) carried a story by Terry O’Neill exposing an internal report that found thousands of errors in reporting British Columbia Medical Assistance in Dying cases and more than 350 cases of that required education of health care professionals about MAiD’s legal requirements. Through a freedom of information request, CCN obtained B.C. Ministry of Health’s [...]
School boards in Toronto and Ontario have recently seen a clear and sustained uptick in “behavioural problems,” a sweeping (if euphemistic) term for a large swathe of anti-social conduct in the classroom ranging from harassment to threats to outright physical violence. It would seem that the kids are not, in fact, alright. What is at the root of this growing phenomenon which, [...]
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 [...]