By Joanna Alphonso: The purpose of abortion is to terminate the life of the unborn child. When that fails, and the child is born alive, he or she is simply left to die. This is happening right here, at home, in Canada. Canada is the only country in the Western hemisphere without a law on abortion. As a result, abortions are legally [...]
Paul Tuns: A study of abortions in Quebec between 1989 and 2021 published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that 11.2 per cent of abortions committed in the second trimester end with a live birth. The authors comment that their “findings suggest that second-trimester abortions commonly result in live birth.” Nathalie Augur, Emile Brousseau, Aimina Ayoub, and William D. [...]
Paul Tuns: NDP MP Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) introduced a private member’s bill on Sept. 25, which, if passed, classifies as a hate crime the condoning, denying, justifying, or downplaying the impact Indian Residential Schools (IRSs) had on indigenous people. More than 150,000 indigenous children attended residential schools and an estimated 6000 children died during their stay at such schools. Bill C-413, [...]
Mary Zwicker: The Spanish Ministry of Social Rights proposed a new law to extend human rights to apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas) due to their “genetic closeness” to human beings. A European country has proposed to extend certain human rights to apes while the lives of unborn babies remain unprotected in their society. In Spain, where unborn children can be [...]
Meanwhile Dying with Dignity asks courts to extend law to mentally ill Paul Tuns: On Sept. 26, a coalition of disability rights organizations and two individuals filed a Charter challenge with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice opposing Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not terminally ill. The [...]
Paul Tuns: An Ontario coroner’s committee revealed that one in fifty euthanasia deaths in the province violated so-called safeguards to protect vulnerable patients and that they were not offered medical or social supports that may have encouraged people to eschew choosing Medical Assistance in Dying. The MAiD Death Review Committee is a 16-person committee of medical professionals, social workers, ethicists, lawyers, and [...]
Oswald Clark: The American Life League released a report, “Beneath the Surface: Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel” that shows that since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the two-pill regimen involving mifepristone and misoprostol — so-called “medication abortions” or “chemical abortions” – have been used to circumvent state pro-life laws that restrict or ban abortion. Since the 2022 Dobbs [...]
Paul Tuns: Barrhead, Alberta, population 4320, will hold a binding plebiscite on a new bylaw that, if passed, would ban rainbow flags and crosswalks following a citizen petition urging the city to take the action. In June, a group of Barrhead residents started a petition to remove all pro-LGBTQ rainbow crosswalks and flag from municipal property. The petition was presented to the [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Today’s technological advances, intended to benefit humanity, have a significant capability to harm every one of us, especially as long as they remain legally unbridled. Welcome to the world of artificial intelligence (AI). What is AI? AI makes it possible for computers to learn from experience based on inputs of its human users. It has exploded over the last year [...]
Interim staff: On Sept. 20, 2024, the second Million Person March for Children, organized by “Hands off Our Kids,” was held in communities across Canada. Although numbers were down in many locations compared to last year according to one-the-ground reports, one organizer said “the message was still clear that parents of all faiths want their children protected from the dangers of LGBTQ [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life (Sutherland Books, $35.95, 212 pages) Former Interim columnist Andrew Lawton has written a biography about Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a book which will help readers understand how an adopted, middle class, politically obsessed kid from Calgary rose to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Lawton’s book is a well-researched, based on newspaper stories [...]
Immigration responsible for nearly all population growth Paul Tuns: Source: Statistics Canada On Sept. 25, Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s fertility rate has been declining for 15 years and reached the new low of 1.26 children per woman in 2023. Demographers consider 2.1 children to be the natural replacement rate. The number of live births in Canada was unchanged at [...]
Click on the images to expand. On October 6, 2024, pro-lifers across the country witnessed to the sanctity of life and the evil of abortion as part of the annual Life Chain. [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life One of the strongest pro-life messages during this U.S. Presidential election hasn’t come from everyone’s “favourite” Republican candidate. In fact, it hasn’t even come from a politician. It’s from someone who made a good living by getting grown men to knock over tackling dummies. So, who is it? It’s none other than [...]
According to the 2024 report by Open Doors, an advocacy group, at least 365 million Christians worldwide suffer persecution and discrimination because they believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. At least 5000 Christians were killed for their beliefs last year. Many Christian congregations designate either Nov. 3 or Nov. 10 as the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted [...]