Andrew Lawton: I didn’t coin this bit of wisdom, but it bears repeating: when voters are given the choice between a Liberal and a Liberal-adjacent, they’ll go for the real deal. Such is the most apt way of summing up 2021’s controversial election, which gave the Liberals another mandate with nearly an identical power breakdown in the House of Commons to what they [...]
Paul Tuns, Analysis: After a five-week campaign and $610 million election, the makeup of Parliament returns appearing to resemble the previous one, except in one important respect: there are about a dozen fewer pro-life MPs. When The Interim went to press, the Liberals were elected or leading in 158 seats, up one compared to 2019, while the Conservatives were elected or leading [...]
Rick McGinnis Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Nobody asked for it, but Canadians are voting today in a federal election that only the prime minister wanted. In that spirit I’ve decided to publish a modest list of improvements to our elections, and the whole system of government that seems to intrude ever more closely into our lives these days – [...]
Paul Tuns: The University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine announced that the pro-life Saskatoon Pregnancy Options Centre (SPOC) “will not be included as a placement site option going forward,” after pro-abortion students complained that the Centre discouraged abortion. Initially, the University’s medical school resisted the campaign by Gender Engagement in Medicine to make the Pregnancy Center verboten for medical students seeking work [...]
Josie Luetke Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I’ll begin as Pope Francis did: I am a sinner. I write the following, not from my high horse, but as a Christian desperately needing leadership. The Pride flag already takes a symbol of God’s promise and perverts it into a celebration of the deadly sins of pride and lust. The flying [...]
Paul Tuns Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announced on August 9 that he would not lead the Progressive Conservatives in the next provincial election. Pallister, a former federal MP, was acclaimed leader in 2012. In 2016, the Pallister-led PCs won 40 of 57 provincial seats. In 2019, returning to the polls early, the PCs were re-elected with 36 seats. But following supposedly insensitive [...]
Rick McGinnis: The 9/11 terrorist attacks thrust a lot of questions that were lingering in the background two long decades ago to the forefront. Like what does revenge mean when your attacker isn’t a country? And what do you do when pursuing revenge makes you the caretaker of places and people that war has destabilized and devastated? It has taken us 20 [...]
From the editor’s desk: Before looking at the weird news stories and commentary that come across my desk in any given month, a note or two about the current paper. I was preparing a story about how those who oppose abortion can reach beyond the pro-life bubble as a cover story for this edition of the paper. It has been something I’ve [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: The Center for Medical Progress and Judicial Watch announced on August 3 that they had received “252 pages of new documents” exposing the University of Pittsburgh’s lucrative “quest” to become a “tissue hub” for fetal organs taken from preborn children 6-42 weeks gestation. The documents, acquired as part of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against [...]
Paul Tuns: A medical student expelled by the University of Manitoba over pro-life and pro-gun social media posts has won a court case overturning his expulsion. In February 2019, Rafael Zaki, a Coptic Orthodox student at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine, posted three items on his Facebook page: two supported the U.S. Second Amendment to bear arms and [...]
Andrew Lawton: As I and many others have written previously, the political left has been winning the culture war for years. Whatever little victories have been gained by social conservatives as of late have been dwarfed by a general backslide in society on a number of conscience issues. In my efforts to diagnose this problem, I’ve identified a chief attribute that makes [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Theodore Dalrymple is associated in my mind with a small group of conservative writers whose columns I have been reading in American and British magazines, newspapers, and websites for at least two decades – men such as the historian Victor Davis Hanson and the economist Thomas Sowell. I’m not sure how much this [...]
Paul Tuns: In July, both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland took aim at the New Brunswick government. On July 22, Trudeau re-announced that the federal government would withhold Canada Health Transfer funds from the province, claiming the provincial policy of not funding private abortion facilities limits women’s access to abortion. In the 2021 federal budget, Ottawa announced it [...]
Rory Leishman: What can account for the unprecedented outburst of anti-Christian rage in Canada that has fueled the incineration of 20 Christian churches and the defacing of dozens more with red and orange paint? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blames the Catholic and Protestant churches that operated Indian Residential Schools (IRS) on behalf of the government of Canada. In a statement on July [...]
Paul Tuns - Analysis: On August 15, Justin Trudeau asked for an election with an eye to regaining a majority. Voters will cast their ballots on Sept. 20, following a five-week campaign. Over the last 22 months, the Trudeau government has continued to push a socially liberal agenda, just as it had during its first mandate. Over the first four years, Justin Trudeau’s [...]