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Planned Parenthood annual report fodder for those seeking to defund abortion giant

Oswald Clark: Planned Parenthood of America (PP) released its 2024 annual report which revealed the organization committed 402,230 abortions in 2023-24 and received $792.2 million in federal funding. In 2022-2023, PP committed 392,712 abortions and raked in $699 million from taxpayers. The $792.2 million in “government health services reimbursement and grants” funding represented a 13 per cent increase compared to 2023 making [...]

admin2025-06-13T11:10:26-04:00June 13, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Gender-affirming interventions not supported by evidence: government review

Oswald Clark: On May 1, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a comprehensive 409-page review, “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” which found gender-affirming interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries are supported only by low- or very low-quality evidence, while the potential for irreversible harm is substantial. A review [...]

admin2025-06-13T11:07:34-04:00June 13, 2025|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

Abortion disinformation wins Pulitzer prize in journalism

Paul Tuns: Four journalists with the non-profit ProPublica were given a Pulitzer Prize last month for “Public Service” for their coverage of a pregnant Georgia woman, Amber Thurman, who died after doctors were delayed in providing urgent care for the complications she had following ingestion of the abortion pill, but which the news source blamed on the state’s pro-life laws. The article, [...]

admin2025-06-13T08:27:07-04:00June 12, 2025|Abortion|

Toronto ponies up for Pride

Paul Tuns: After at least two major corporate sponsors dropped their financial backing of Toronto Pride, host of the largest annual LGBQT festivities in Canada each year, the city of Toronto came to the organization’s rescue. The city increased their share of funding to 15 LGBQT festivals in the city by 33 per cent to $2.5 million. The municipal largesse was not [...]

admin2025-06-13T08:28:09-04:00June 12, 2025|Marriage and Family, Politics|

CHP leader’s advice for the new government, Parliament

Rod Taylor, Special to The Interim: Editor’s Note: Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor delivered these remarks at the Parliamentary Press Gallery on May 7. Greetings fellow Canadians. I’m Rod Taylor, national leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. In the next few minutes, I want to propose—to our newly elected Prime Minister and the government he will lead . . . [...]

admin2025-06-12T13:05:31-04:00June 12, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Religion, Society & Culture|

Toronto pumps money into Pride celebrations as companies drop sponsorships

Paul Tuns: After at least two major corporate sponsors dropped their financial backing of Toronto Pride, host of the largest annual LGBQT festivities in Canada each year, the city of Toronto came to the organization’s rescue. The city increased their share of funding to 15 LGBQT festivals in the city by 33 per cent to $2.5 million. The municipal largesse was not [...]

admin2025-06-09T09:06:05-04:00June 9, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture|

Abortion pill 22 times more dangerous than manufacturer, government claim

Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: Senator Josh Hawley has called for stricter regulation of the abortion pill. A new report, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event,” from the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that the abortion drug mifepristone causes 22 times more serious adverse effects than is claimed [...]

admin2025-06-09T09:00:24-04:00June 9, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics|

CLC calls for legal ‘protection from conception’

Paul Tuns: On May 7, the day before the National March for Life, Campaign Life Coalition called on the Liberal government to protect life beginning at conception. Pete Baklinski, CLC director of communications, called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to end abortion. “The National March for Life began in 1998—29 years after Canada legalized [...]

admin2025-06-06T16:55:18-04:00June 6, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Photos from the National March for Life

admin2025-06-06T16:51:37-04:00June 6, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Society & Culture|

National March for Life 2025

Calls for politicians to end the killing of the preborn Interim Staff: On May 8, pro-life Canadians assembled in the nation’s capital for the 29th annual National March for Life, the highlight of a week of pro-life events in Ottawa organized by Campaign Life Coalition. This year’s them was “Protection at Conception,” calling for legal recognition and protection of human life from [...]

admin2025-06-06T15:28:05-04:00June 6, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

What do we know about Pope Leo XIV’s views on life, family

Paul Tuns: On May 8, white smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel to indicate that the Conclave had chosen a new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, appeared on the balcony in St. Peter’s Square, have chosen the name Leo XIV. Much was made that Leo XIV is the first “American pope” but he has [...]

admin2025-06-05T08:45:17-04:00June 5, 2025|Abortion, Marriage and Family, Religion|

Two-tour Afghanistan veteran offered euthanasia

Paul Tuns: The Toronto Sun headline “Another combat vet who says he was offered medical suicide comes forward” is the story of David Baltzer, likely the first Canadian Armed Forces soldier offered Medical Assistance in Dying, in December 2019. The April 25 article by Bryan Passiffiume begins, “He came seeking help, but he says he was instead offered death.” Baltzer served two [...]

admin2025-06-05T08:42:02-04:00June 5, 2025|Euthanasia|

Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything All Wrong All at Once

Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All at Once: Tristan Hopper (Sutherland House, $22.95, 126 pages) National Post writer Tristan Hopper has written a recent history of Canada that serves as a warning for the rest of the world. Recently, Canadians have enjoyed a splurge of patriotism in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump, but Hopper says we should [...]

admin2025-06-05T08:33:36-04:00June 5, 2025|Euthanasia, Politics, Reviews, Society & Culture|

God on Stage: 15 Plays that Ask the Big Questions

God on Stage: 15 Plays that Ask the Big Questions Peter Kreeft (Word on Fire, $32.50, 216 pages): Peter Kreeft’s God on Stage examines 15 plays, three each on five different themes (life and joy, relationship with God, suffering, death, damnation), one that is pre-Christian, one Christian, and one that is post-Christian. Kreeft says “reading and reflecting on great dramas, great plays, [...]

admin2025-06-12T12:34:20-04:00June 3, 2025|Religion, Reviews|

Unraveling the Mystery of Joy

Paul Tuns, Review: The Mystery of Joy by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius, $18.95, 241 pages) Version 1.0.0 Peter Kreeft’s latest book offers 95 pensées about joy, short, (two to four page) thoughts on what joy is, and isn’t. Joy, says Kreeft, “is to happiness what happiness is to pleasure: the next step up.” According to Kreeft, way up, up to heaven. He [...]

admin2025-06-03T09:56:30-04:00June 3, 2025|Religion, Reviews|