In explaining why the federal government will allow embryonic stem cell research, Health Minister Anne McLellan said "These are surplus embryos. You know what happens to them? They go in the garbage." That is hardly true and certainly should never be true. But examine the logic of the health minister's words and you see a callous disregard for human life. The choice [...]
On page 20, we highlight a nine-year-old story; namely The Interim's coverage of then attorney-general Marion Boyd's announcement that Ontario's NDP government would seek a court order restricting pro-life activity (such as the counselling of women or peacefully protesting against abortion) at certain locations in the province. The Ontario Court (General Division) issued a "temporary" injunction - and nine years later, it [...]
Recently, Statistics Canada presented the 2001 Census, in which it was reported that population growth in this country is at a record low and that what meagre growth there has been is only due to increased immigration. To sustain a population, a country must have a fertility rate (the number of children a woman will have in her lifetime) of 2.1; Canada's [...]
On March 20, literally hours before going to press, Stephen Harper, the former MP and president of the National Citizens Coalition, won a decisive first-round victory in the Canadian Alliance leadership race. In the first days of the campaign, Harper began to reach out to social conservatives on a number of fronts: he supported parental rights in discipline, wanted democratic reforms to [...]
The announcement that the Canadian Institutes for Health Research will fund embryonic stem cell research is bad enough, because such experimentation depends upon the destruction of tiny human beings at their earliest stage of development. There can be no forgetting this abomination. But the problem is made worse when an agency of the federal government, run by unelected bureaucrats, makes laws on [...]
This March marks the beginning of the 20th year of publication for The Interim. While you surely have noticed changes in this issue that you have in your hands, rest assured all the changes are cosmetic and that we remain committed to defending life and family. It is important as editors, writers and readers that we recall the unique mission of The [...]
Feb. 14 marks the celebration of Valentine's Day, a day which has become synonymous with love. That word, love, is much over-used in a world that often seems to have an inadequate supply of such a quality. Over-used and misunderstood, or not properly understood because our conception of it is too limited. Love is bandied about in a rather meaningless way for [...]
It probably is unseemly for pro-lifers to tell Canada, "we told you so," but we did. After years of lies and misrepresentations from the abortion lobby and their willing accomplices - pro-abortion politicians, many in the media, some academics - the truth is finally out: abortions are committed for convenience's sake, not because they are medically necessary. On Oct. 31, the Canadian [...]
In recent months, the U.S. House of Representatives has banned all human cloning. So has Russia. France and Germany have called for an international ban on such practices. The United Kingdom, even though it allows the grisly practice of therapeutic cloning, banned reproductive human cloning last year. In fact, 23 countries have fully or partially banned human cloning. Yet Canada's Health Minister, [...]
Created in the wake of World War II, the United Nations has veered far from its intended reason for existence to mediate disputes and foster international co-operation to become a large, overbearing global entity that violates national sovereignty by promoting a radical, socially activist agenda. No longer primarily worried about mediating international disputes, it has engaged in attempts to make policy for [...]
The tragic events of Sept. 11 - four planes downed in three locations, New York City, Washington and rural Pennsylvania; a death toll near 7,000; the loss of innocence to the United States and the West in general - is nothing less than a wicked attack on human life. Despite what the politicians, pundits and public say, it was not America or [...]
As millions of Canadian children return to school this September, 81,000 kids will stay at home with mom or dad or some other adult to be homeschooled. The National Post has reported on several recent polls that show growing support for parental choice in education, in a variety of forms that include the creation of charter schools, school vouchers and tuition tax [...]
My wife has warned me about writing about Stockwell Day when The Interim comes out - feeling Stock may be a footnote in the pages of Canadian history by then. But, Stock, if you're gone by the time this paper comes out think Napoleon and his miraculous return from Elba to victory. Remember Stock, it's 'Napoleon!' 'Napoleon' 'Napoleon!' not 'Diefenbaker'! 'Diefenbaker!' 'Diefenbaker!' [...]
Hugh Owens may well be the first Canadian ever fined for quoting the Bible, but unless Canadian Christians wake up from their apathetic slumbers and mount a counterattack against the persecutorial tyranny of kangaroo court human rights commissions, he won't be the last. The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission has ordered both Owens and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix newspaper to pay $1,500 to three [...]
In the glorious People's Republic of British Columbia, the S.S. NDP has already hit the iceberg, and is sinking fast. But the Band plays on. Joy MacPhail introduced her 11-point master plan to keep the sinking ship afloat. But it seems to have had the opposite effect. The ship continues to sink. Promising more money for B.C.'s declining abortionists, she fails to [...]