Alexander Tsiaras gave a TED presentation on "Conception to birth -- visualized" which is very good. There is no indication that Tsiaras is pro-life although he is implicitly spiritual when he talks about the "mystery" and "magic" of the process. Yet this visual documentation of what happens pre-birth rebuts the notion that the unborn child is not a human being. Science has long confirmed what pro-lifers have always [...]
We at The Interim remember and thank those who sacrificed many years ago so that we would be free to live, flourish, and fight other battles. The blog Gods of the Copybook Headings has an excellent post on Remembrance Day in which the anonymous author reminds us of the moral underpinnings of the freedom bought with the blood of the brave and that remembering [...]
This Sunday (November 13) is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. You can learn more about Christians who are persecuted around the world for their belief that Jesus Christ is their Lord and Saviour from Voice of the Martyrs. Evangelicals do a great job remembering their persecuted brothers and sisters; Catholics not so much so. But this isn't an evangelical thing so [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports: A well-backed Democrat candidate who ran for a position on the board of a top beltway-area school system has been found guilty of assault for ramming a pro-lifer with her car during this year’s national March for Life on January 24, LifeSiteNews has learned. The assailant was Charisse Espy Glassman, the niece of former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Hate [...]
Lisa Fabrizio's column at The American Spectator is about Herman Cain and sexual harassment, but she makes a parenthetical comment that gets to larger, more serious truth: I and millions of Americans are being harassed nearly every time we open our eyes, with unwanted and unwelcome sexual advances over our publicly owned airwaves and in the schoolrooms we pay for. Fabrizio missed [...]
Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has criticized a local Catholic school for hosting Liberal MP Justin Trudeau and questioned Trudeau's Catholicism. Trudeau is upset on being called out on his personal version of his faith that is not in accordance with the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. Justin Trudeau is pro-abortion and pro-same-sex marriage. In 2001, at an event in preparation for World Youth [...]
Campaign Life Coalition's Southwestern Ontario conference is this Saturday, Nov. 5. Speakers include former MP Pat O'Brien, London Area Right to LIfe president Phil Arnsby, CLC national president Jim Hughes, LifeSiteNews editor John-Henry Westen, and Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg. There is a promotional story in the September issue of The Interim. Key details: The London conference will be held at the Best Western [...]
Interim editor-in-chief Paul Tuns will be a speaker at Campaign Life Coalition's Eastern Ontario Conference in Kingston on Saturday. More info here. He will be talking about the sources of media bias. Sneak peak: it isn't all about ideology, sometimes it is just stupidity and laziness.
We are pre-releasing a pair of stories from our November issue which is being mailed to subscribers right now. Our cover story is on the Defund Abortion Rally at Queen's Park which took place last Saturday and was attended by 2000 people. And here's our coverage of The Interim co-sponsored Abacus pollon defunding abortion in Ontario which found that the majority of Ontarians do [...]
Campaign Life Coalition says that there were more than 2000 people at the CLC Youth Defund Abortion Rally at Queen's Park (Ontario's provincial legislature) on Saturday. We are preparing our report for the dead tree edition of the paper and we'll post it later this week. The speakers made two essential points: 1) abortion is not health care and should not be funded [...]
David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner says that Herman Cain, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has been less than clear about his position on abortion. Cain on John Stossel recently was clear: he is pro-life, women shouldn't be able to get an abortion, women should be able to make their own choice, and the government should not tell people what to do. [...]
National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Edward C. Green, former director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard School of Health and author of Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment Has Betrayed the Developing World. The Q&A is most definitely worth reading. Here's an excerpt which demonstrates a key point: the self-interest and ideology of those who want to condomize [...]
Campaign Life Coalition's Defund Abortion Rally is in ten days at Queen's Park in Toronto.
The Interim is co-sponsoring a poll -- the first time we've done that in our 28-year history -- with LifeSiteNews.com and Campaign Life Coalition to explore public opinion on abortion funding in Ontario. We ask about knowledge of abortion funding, whether the government should release information about abortion funding, and under which circumstances abortion should be paid for by taxpayers. We'll have results next [...]
The Toronto Sun begins its editorial on Canada's human rights commission industry when some good, old, plain truth: Hurt feelings aside, the greatest human rights abusers in Canada are the human rights commissions and tribunals themselves. It's a power thing. It's not that difficult to explain to people that human rights commissions have very little to do with human rights (see Kathy Shaidle/Pete [...]