What is arguably the most influential medical journal in the world has announced that it will publish more studies on embryonic stem cell research in order to build more public support for such science. New England Journal of Medicine editor Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen was quoted recently in the Boston Globe as saying that, "Nothing is better for a field than true [...]
Derek Humphry, the main founder of the Hemlock Society, was born in Bath, Somerset, southwest of London, England, on April 29, 1930. His childhood was not a happy one. At an early age, after his parents divorced, his mother left him to marry an Australian. He did not see her again until he was 23, but their re-acquaintance was short-lived. She announced, [...]
Just as one taboo - homosexuality - comes crashing down in the form of court-mandated social acceptance of same-sex "marriages," another taboo is being challenged: pedophilia. Cybercast News Service recently reported that an increasing number of websites propagandize for the social acceptance of pedophilia. It is not, advocates of pedophilia say, an iniquity or an infirmity, but a mere sexual preference crying [...]
Two coalitions are doing legal battle against same-sex "marriage" as Ottawa fiddles. An Interfaith Coalition of the Catholic Civil Rights League, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Islamic Society of North America announced it is appealing the June 10 Ontario Appeals Court ruling in Halpern v. Canada, which redefined marriage to include same-sex partners. The coalition is [...]
I was talking to the wife of a long-time Tory friend of the family, who was angry with the treatment her husband "Jimmy" got from the Ernie Eves government. The Citizens for Lifelong Learning program was cancelled abruptly after the spring program this year by the provincially appointed supervisor of the Toronto District School Board, Paul Christie, and David Reid, director of [...]
Twenty-five years ago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn delievered his landmark commencement speech at Harvard, "A World Split Apart." In what was one of the 20th century's most famous and poignant commencement addresses, Solzhenitsyn offers a reminder to conservatives of just what it is that they seek to conserve. Later released as a book and commented upon in numerous newspaper columns and magazine articles, it [...]
According to Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick president Peter Ryan, the June 9 elections in his Atlantic Canadian province offered tremendous hope for pro-lifers across the country. The elections saw Progressive Conservative Premier Bernard Lord's huge majority shrunk from 46 seats to 28, in the 55-seat provincial legislature. Ryan told The Interim that the bare majority should make for a more intriguing [...]
Satire, according to the New Collins Concise English Dictionary, is described as occurring when "topical issues, folly or evil are held up to ridicule." And also "the use of ridicule, irony, etc. to create such an effect." One of the readers of my column (or perhaps my only reader) recently wrote in complaining about me badmouthing Jean Crouton. She implied that I [...]
"Yes, this is an age of moral crisis … Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley and the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality …. but to discover it." Thus spake, not Zarathustra, but Ayn Rand's philosophical mouthpiece, John Galt, the protagonist of [...]
"Hello!! Is President Bush there? It's de Prime Minister of Canada calling! Jean Chretien ... Yes C-h-r-e-t-i-e-n. Yes, dat's right. I've been waiting for three hours." "I'm sorry, but President Bush is having a state dinner with Tony Blair, the prime minister of Great Britain, and he doesn't want to be disturbed. They're celebrating." "Yes, I can hear the noise." "President Bush [...]
It is not often that a lowly Interim columnist gets invited to the swearing-in of a new Canadian Supreme Court Justice at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Prime Minister Jean Crouton and Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson were there, along with a large number of tuxedo-clad middle aged men. I was ill-prepared for the arrival of the new Supreme Court appointee, Madam Lucille Edwards. She [...]
I had a horrible dream recently. Readers know that that is not rare for me. I dreamt that Paul Martin, a willing successor to Jean Crouton, had disappeared on a trip to Bermuda in his private jet, leaving no trace. When the news broke, I was privileged to be standing in Jean Crouton's inner office in the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, totally [...]
Organizers say at least 200,000 pro-life citizens, including many from Canada, braved the freezing cold weather to take part in the March for Life in Washington D.C., marking the 30th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, on Jan. 22. Despite media guesses of the number of pro-lifers attending the march being anywhere from "a few thousand" to "tens of thousands," [...]
I'm going to ask our readers to vote for the stupidest thing done by either a living member of Parliament, senator, politician, bureaucrat, lawyer or judge in 2002. I calculate that we should have some 3,000 submissions, so it is not going to be easy picking the stupidest thing - but it should be a lot of fun. To aid readers, I [...]
The Ontario government is aware of two abortuaries that are run out of doctors' offices in Toronto in violation of a pledge that Mike Harris made to the voters June 2, 1995 when he was running for premier of Ontario the first time. Despite that Harris pledge seven years ago, the Tories have failed to close them down. But first, let's go [...]