Pro-family, faith groups concerned about broad implications of C-6 By Interim Staff On Oct. 28, the Trudeau government’s C-6, which, if it becomes law, prohibits conversion therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria, passed second reading in a 308-7 vote, with the unanimous support of the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Quebecois, the Greens, and vast majority of the Conservative Party caucus. C-6 [...]
The Interim invited a number of pro-life leaders and contributors to the paper to suggest a book or two that would make a great Christmas gift. Joe Campbell When, as a student, I told an aging priest that I had never read anything by G.K. Chesterton, he declared, “If I had tears, I would cry for you.” I was so impressed by [...]
By Oswald Clark Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, $28, 276 pages) The economist and erstwhile columnist Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. He wrote a regular column for 25 years and wrote more than three dozen books. He is what National Review’s Kevin Williamson calls “that rarest of things among serious academics: plainspoken.” His books have tackled [...]
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements By Rick McGinnis Artists don’t have a monopoly on bad ideas – there are plenty of those to go around, and in any case a bad idea from a politician is far more dangerous than one coming from a painter. But when artists have bad ideas, I can’t help but wonder if they know how [...]
By Michael Taube Family gatherings will undoubtedly be smaller and more intimate this year. We’ll have to regularly wash our hands, and maintain proper amounts of social and physical distancing, for health and safety purposes. This will make it more challenging to eat together at the dining room table, trim the tree, sing carols in the crisp night air, and open beautifully [...]
In September, Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne (Independent Senators Group) introduced her private member’s bill, S-203, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit materials. If passed, the bill would require commercial pornography websites to verify their consumers are adults to access their content. While there is little public appetite to tackle pornography despite its often degrading and dehumanizing depiction of women [...]
Doctors, disability groups call for better support for vulnerable people By Paul Tuns Pro-life, religious, and disabilities groups have expressed opposition to the government’s expansion of euthanasia and assisted-suicide as the Trudeau government rushes C-7 through Parliament. On Oct. 29, C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), was passed at second reading in a 246-78 vote, and [...]
Interim writer, Rory Leishman, National Affairs By Rory Leishman In a press release on August 25, the World Health Organization (WHO) certified that Africa is now free of the wild poliovirus. But, alas, this does not mean that the irreversibly paralyzing and incurable virus has finally been eradicated from the entire African continent. To the contrary, in this same press [...]