On Feb. 18, 2010, the FBI raided the “Women’s Medical Society” in Philadelphia searching for evidence of illicit prescription drugs sales; what they found, instead, were horrors unimagined by the most gruesome Hollywood film: “The search team discovered fetal remains haphazardly stored throughout the clinic—in bags, milk jugs, orange juice cartons, and even in cat-food containers.” Investigators also “found a row of [...]
When then 12-year-old Lia Mills posted her speech about abortion on YouTube, she got millions of news. The pro-life movement has taken advantage of the rising popularity of social media to spread its message and gain supporters. During the U.S. March for Life in January 2013, pro-lifers used these platforms to spread information and report on the event attended by [...]
Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry’s Exploitation of Women by Janet Morana (Saint Benedict Press, $22.37, 211 pages) A new book, by a co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, argues that abortion is a terrible product which should have been recalled long ago. “Abortion is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated against women, and those who profit from abortion are the [...]
Anthony Quinn as Pope Kiril in the film version of Morris West's novel The Shoes of the Fisherman When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires stepped onto the balcony at St. Peter’s Square last month, he helped provide a satisfactory conclusion to a ritual that – as we were told repeatedly in the thicket of media coverage – is [...]
More than 350 people braved the elements to urge the government to stop using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion. Despite wind, sleet, and temperatures of minus six, more than 350 people attended the Defund Abortion Rally organized by Campaign Life Coalition Youth at Queen’s Park on March 19. While the crowd was small at the start of the noon-hour event, [...]
May 2 will mark the second anniversary of the federal Conservatives winning a majority government, which in turn was five years after the Stephen Harper-led party won the first of two minority governments. The seemingly momentous political shift is the subject of several recent political books, analysing what happened in that election and what could/should happen in the future. One should be [...]
National Affairs Rory Leishman With the unanimous ruling in the case of Bill Whatcott on Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Canada has stepped up its attack on freedom of speech and freedom of religion as never before. For faithful Christians, the implications are clear: Like Whatcott, they, too, could end up in jail as a prisoner of conscience for upholding the [...]
Supreme Court ruled against Bill Whatcott. The long legal odyssey of William Whatcott that began with the distribution of four flyers on homosexuality in 2001 and 2002, ended in the Supreme Court on Feb. 27, with the Supreme Court handing a mixed result for advocates of freedom of speech. After Whatcott distributed his flyers more than a decade, four individuals [...]
Editor’s Note: Material in this article might offend some readers. On March 13, pro-life MP Stephen Woodworth was forced to cut short his talk to a group of students at the University of Waterloo when nearly a dozen abortion activists interrupted his speech, took control of the microphone, and started to use vulgar language to make their point. Woodworth was about one [...]
Lena Duham It’s a truism that every generation believes that the ones immediately following it will preside over the dismantling of every social, cultural and economic virtue that they took for granted, a rite of passage for senior generations that begins roughly when they realize that they’ve slipped out of the green vale of youth. There’s no objective way of [...]
Kathleen Wynne - openly gay Premier of Ontario In case nobody has noticed, Ontario has a new premier. The most significant province in Canada found itself with a new leader, and more than 99 per cent of Ontarians hadn’t voted for her; they couldn’t because they weren’t given a chance. Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty resigned, and a couple thousand Liberal [...]
This cartoon was the first editorial cartoon printed in The Interim March 1983. (caption was) The others may be for the Toronto Star, but The Interim's for me. This issue marks the 30th anniversary of The Interim newspaper. Our first issue was published by Campaign Life Coalition in March 1983 to counter the pro-abortion media bias. Specifically at the time, [...]
Maurice Vellacott - Saskatoon-Wanuskewin (left), Wladyslaw Lizon - Mississauga-Cooksville (centre), and Leon Benoit - Vegreville-Wainwright (right). On January 23, three Conservative MPs wrote a letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson calling for a criminal investigation into the deaths of 491 babies born alive after abortions but left to die. The deaths occurred between 2000 and 2009. Last Fall, the Run [...]
Campaign Life Coalition Youth is organizing its second Defund Abortion Rally to Queen’s Park on March 19, to demand an end to using taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions. On Oct. 22, 2011, an estimated 2000 people of all ages attended the first Defund Abortion Rally at the provincial legislature, but CLC’s follow-up last Fall was postponed when Hurricane Sandy forced its [...]
Mark Burnett is one of the biggest names in television, creating and producing such reality television hits as Survivor, Celebrity Apprentice, Shark Tank, and The Voice. His next project, which begins airing on the History Channel on March 3, is The Bible Series, a ten-part, five-week presentation of the Bible from Genesis to Revelations. Burnett and wife Roma Downey, who is also [...]