Andrea Mrozek, a great pro-life writer and speaker and leading Canadian thinker on family issues, has been promoted from director of research to executive director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. IMFC is a great organization that does wonderful work, but knowing Andrea I predict it will become even better. Andrea is also proprietor of ProWomanProLife, an essential Canadian pro-life blog. [...]
Last week on the Sun News Network Ezra Levant and Andrea Mrozek discussed the letter three MPs wrote the RCMP asking for an investigation into the 491 babies left to die after surviving an abortion. It is an excellent discussion. Levant brings up the case of abortion survivors at Foothills Hospital, news from 1999, so this has been happening for a while. We [...]
Canadian playwright Judith Thompson has a production on in Toronto this week entitled Rare. It is about people with Down syndrome and the title refers to the sad reality that there are fewer people with Down Syndrome -- sad because they are being exterminated in utero solely due to their genetic flaw (an extra chromosone). I haven't seen the play but I've read the [...]
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and today is the 39th annual March for Life in Washington. I have a story on the decision and its aftermath in the February edition of the paper. It is up on the website today.
You should sign the petition to keep Sun News on the Canadian airwaves. The hosts on Sun News, especially Brian Lilley, Ezra Levant, and Interim columnist Michael Coren regularly cover issues of interest to pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty Canadians. They deserve our support. Sign their petition to have the CRTC move Sun News to must-carry status which will allow the conservative news channel [...]
We will be posting our long article on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade from the forthcoming February edition later today. For now you should check out the National Review Online editorial; this point made by NRO's editors is basically the conclusion of our long feature: Now 40 years have passed since Roe, and nobody pretends that our division is ending. Time just ran a [...]
There is no reason to write an original post on the dangers of four more years of Barack Hussein Obama when it has been well covered in this paper the last few months, most notably the October cover story "Abortion becomes major issues in 2012 election," that same month's editorial "The Party of Death," and the omnibus review of various books on [...]
The New York state senate will consider S438-2013, legislation proposed to expand abortion services in the Empire State, and supported by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will likely run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Cardinal Timothy Dolan has condemned the bill and the Catholic Conference has issued a document with point-by-point criticism of the bill. According to Americans United [...]
I want to thank all our readers of both the dead tree and online versions of The Interim for your support. We hope that you have a merry Christmas and peaceful holiday. We'll be off until the second week of January to recharge our batteries for 2013. Some of the December issue still has to be posted, but that will probably be [...]
Stephen Woodworth. An obvious choice. It is the only second time The Interim has named a Person of the Year since I've become editor in 2001. The first? Ezra Levant in 2008 when he took on the human rights commission industry.
There is so much discussion about the attempt to take Christ out of Christmas. The expunging of the word and the spirit is regrettable of course. I wonder, however, if we’re missing the point. One doesn’t have to be a Christian to be a supporter of life, but it’s impossible to doubt that most in the pro-life community are indeed Christian, and [...]
There were many recent headlines about a study suggesting that homosexuality stems not from genetics, but epigenetics. The original study hasn't been released, except perhaps to io9.com, which has a story seemingly more complete than the abstract or press release of the study on which it is reporting. Sheepcat has an excellent, long post on the issue and what the study says [...]
The Daily Beast reports on the decline of the war on Christmas : Jon Stewart recently introduced his annual skewering of the “war on Christmas” with a montage of Fox News personalities breathlessly reporting the latest outrages against the holiday’s religious origins. “Let’s face facts,” Stewart said. “The annual Fox ‘war on Christmas’ has become a little predictable.” And: How did this [...]
As LifeSiteNews.com reports, a group of students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia are suing their school's student association after it rejected their application to form an officially sanctioned pro-life club. LSN reports: "The student union has adopted an officially pro-abortion stance, an increasingly common occurrence on Canadian campuses. They claim recognizing a pro-life club would violate policy." Sadly, such stories are [...]
You hear about Savita Halappanavar endlessly, who supposedly died due to lack of access to legal abortion. The abortion rights movement and its media allies present the deaths of women in places where abortion is not legal as evidence that it should be permitted in order to save women's lives. However, you never hear about the women who die after procuring legal abortion, [...]