Paul Tuns

Saskatchewan university ends placements at pregnancy centre

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 [...]

admin2021-09-17T10:57:27-04:00September 17, 2021|Paul Tuns, Pro-Life|

Manitoba Premier Pallister announces he won’t seek re-election

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 [...]

admin2021-09-13T10:29:18-04:00September 13, 2021|Election, Paul Tuns|

The human comedy

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 [...]

admin2021-09-09T20:25:19-04:00September 9, 2021|Paul Tuns|

US university harvests organs from living babies

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 [...]

admin2021-09-08T14:37:41-04:00September 8, 2021|Abortion, Bioethics, Paul Tuns|

Pro-life med student reinstated in Manitoba

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 [...]

admin2021-09-07T12:06:51-04:00September 7, 2021|Paul Tuns, Pro-Life|

Feds ramp up pressure on New Brunswick over abortion funding

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 [...]

admin2021-09-01T11:17:03-04:00September 1, 2021|Abortion, Paul Tuns|

The 2021 election and pro-life issues

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 [...]

admin2021-08-24T12:37:46-04:00August 24, 2021|Paul Tuns, Politics, Pro-Life|

Macabre disposal of human bodies

Paul Tuns: Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed House Bill 2574 on June 15 which allows what is euphemistically called “natural organic reduction,” but which is more colloquially known as “human composting” to dispose of the bodies of the deceased. The law goes into effect in July 2022, making the state the third to allow the decomposing of the body of deceased human [...]

admin2021-08-06T13:03:37-04:00August 7, 2021|Paul Tuns|

20 years at the helm of The Interim

From the editor’s desk: Happy anniversary to me! August 8 will mark the 20th anniversary since I became editor of this paper, meaning that I have been at the helm for more than half of The Interim’s life. It has been a remarkable privilege to serve the pro-life community as editor of this paper, and one that I am thankful to Jim [...]

admin2021-07-27T09:15:49-04:00July 27, 2021|Paul Tuns|

American bishops closer to statement on Eucharist and abortion

Paul Tuns On June 17, 73 per cent of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted during their annual spring meeting to draft a position paper on the “meaning of the Eucharist,” with an eye to reiterating the Church’s position that politicians who dissent from key moral teachings such as abortion should not present themselves to receive Holy Communion during Mass. [...]

admin2021-07-22T08:46:09-04:00July 22, 2021|Abortion, Paul Tuns, Religion|

Red China may lift child limits

Paul Tuns The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scrambling to tackle their demographic crisis. On May 31, CCP officials announced at a Politburo meeting that the limit on children would be lifted to three by 2025, a gradual relaxation of the two-child policy implemented in 2016 after ChiComms determined that the one-child policy inaugurated in 1980 and enforced with coercive sterilization and [...]

admin2021-07-19T09:09:58-04:00July 19, 2021|Abortion, Paul Tuns, Population|

Notes on Language and other thoughts

Paul Tuns: From the Editor’s Desk As usual I will utilize this column to bring to your attention some stories that did not quite grow up to be full articles in the paper. Sometimes this is because of space or time limitations, sometimes because there is not much more to say about the topic. But it reminds me of something that Jim [...]

admin2021-06-14T13:37:32-04:00June 14, 2021|Editorials, Paul Tuns|

US fertility rates fall to record low

Paul Tuns: On May 5, the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released data on the country’s fertility rate, revealing that it has fallen to its lowest rate since such figures began being collected in the 1930s. The total fertility rate -- the average number of times a woman will give birth in her lifetime -- fell to 1.64 births per [...]

admin2021-06-11T09:55:37-04:00June 11, 2021|Paul Tuns, Population|

Third Parent ordered onto birth certificate

Paul Tuns British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Sandra Wilkinson ruled on April 26 that the name of a second mother must be included as one of three legal parents on the birth certificate of a two-year-old boy, finding that the provincial legislature “did not contemplate polyamorous families” when it amended the Family Law Act (FLA) in 2011. Wilkinson said all three members [...]

admin2021-06-02T17:42:05-04:00June 2, 2021|Paul Tuns, Society & Culture|

Think tank warns against Trudeau daycare plan

Paul Tuns A new report from the Cardus think tank, “Look Before You Leap,” says the federal government of Justin Trudeau is dramatically underestimating the cost of creating a national daycare plan modeled on Quebec’s $10-a-day plan, leaving provinces on the hook for a much larger share than federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland suggests might be the case. The authors conclude, “the [...]

admin2021-06-01T17:00:53-04:00June 1, 2021|Paul Tuns, Society & Culture|

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