Paul Tuns Review The Critical Temper: Interventions from The New Criterion at 40 edited by Roger Kimball (Encounter, $39.99, 561 pages) The idea of the culture wars is much derided by pundits, often considered distractions from real issues. I would argue there is nothing more important than to go to (metaphorical) war over than culture. A field general in the war over [...]
From the editor’s desk I read a lot. Not only for my job, but for fun so I thought I’d write about a few non-work books that I enjoyed immensely this year. For years baseball was my favourite sport; it has since been usurped by football and I no longer watch the game that I spent years watching and listening to, but [...]
Paul Tuns A Nova Scotia man was assaulted during the 40 Days for Life witness in Halifax. The man, whom The Interim is not identifying, were “minding our own business on the side of Spring Garden Road” in Halifax, “praying my rosary” when “suddenly” a “masked woman rushed onto us from our right side,” grabbing one of the signs from the man’s [...]
Paul Tuns The Manitoba Progressive Conservative caucus voted against a private member’s bill that would have created an anti-free speech zone around all facilities that committed abortions in the province. Bill 207, The Abortion Protest Buffer Zone Act, was defeated 30-20 with the NDP and Liberal MLAs voting for the bill, on the last day of the fall legislative session. NDP MLA [...]
Paul Tuns On Oct. 13, Calgary ‘street’ pastor Artur Pawlowski and his brother Dawid, were fined, put on probation, and ordered to preach the government’s talking points on the science of COVID-19, following their contempt of court convictions in June for breaking anti-pandemic masking rules. Christopher Scott, owner of the Whistle Stop Cafe in Calgary, was also sentenced for not enforcing mask [...]
Paul Tuns From the editor’s desk: This paper’s editorial advisory board consists of members that have diverse opinions about COVID-related public policy. At times, some members have wanted the paper to address COVID issues head-on. Others, including your editor, are more reticent. This paper opposes vaccinations and other treatments that utilize cell lines derived from aborted babies and, of course, we strongly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]