CLC has a wish list for the government Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford called an election 18 months early with polls indicating that he could grow his majority. On Feb. 27, he was re-elected with virtually the same caucus in which Liberal leader and former Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie failed to even win her own seat. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won 2.15 [...]
By J.M. Glover: ‘The incomparable gift of being born’ Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, gave his personal testimony at the 2025 March for Life in Washington, D.C. His words bear repeating from a man who was conceived by a teenage boy and girl. “I was born in January 1972 … I was the product of an [...]
Donald DeMarco While slavery was being hotly contested in the United States in 1858, three years before his presidential inauguration, Abraham Lincoln made his most succinct statement against slavery: “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is not democracy.” [...]
The 19th-century German statesman, Otto von Bismarck, once observed that “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable—the art of the next best.” As we continue to take stock of the post-Dobbs moment—ushered in the overturning of the infamous decision of the American Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade—it is helpful to bear this remark in mind. Although, in the Canadian context, [...]
Editor’s Note: This question and answer between Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, and Rod Taylor, leader of the Christian Heritage Party, occurred on Jan. 29. The Interim: The federal election is scheduled for October but the Liberal leadership switch and potential loss of confidence in a parliamentary vote could mean a spring election. Is the Christian Heritage Party ready for an [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I came across an Instagram reel of a massive centipede-like creature in the desert and the only reason I thought it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is because I have never—in my over 28 years on this planet—seen anything like it before, which made me wonder if, had I been younger, I would [...]
Paul Tuns: King Baudoin of Belgium was the head of state from 1951-1993 except for a 36-hour period in April 1990 when he briefly deposed from the throne with his consent in order to not sign a law decriminalizing abortion. A devout Catholic who refused to be implicated in allowing abortion in his country, King Baudoin, the fifth king of Belgium, is [...]
Oswald Clark: Operation Rescue issued a report for 2024 in which it notes there were 39 documented medical emergencies at abortion mills in the United States. Anne Reed, senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue, said that those are the emergencies which Operation Rescue knows about, often because of first-hand witnesses due to the fact facilities “go to great lengths to hide and [...]
Paul Tuns: Christian missionary and businessman Michael Clark fell couple dozen nominations short of qualifying for Liberal leadership race. Following Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he would not lead the Liberal Party as leader into the next election and would step down as Prime Minister once his successor was chosen, the national board of the party set up the rules for [...]
Oswald Clark: Operation Rescue issued its annual report on the number of abortion mills operating in the United States, reporting that the total number of facilities held steady in 2024. According to the report, in 2024 there were a total of 667 abortion facilities that either commit surgical or chemical abortions, or both, compared to 670 in 2023. It was the seventh [...]
Paul Tuns: The Department of Government Efficicency headed up by Elon Musk is will recommend shutting down USAID, the agency that distributes foreign aid globally, including sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to groups that commit and promote abortion. President Donald Trump has criticized USAID, referring to it as “run by a bunch of radical lunatics.” Musk said he has the president support to [...]
January 20 – Donald Trump is sworn-in as President of the United States Donald J. Trump is sworn-in as the 47th President of the United States at a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. January 20 – Recognition of just two sexes Calling the eradication of “biological sex” an attack on women and “corrosive … of the entire American system,” Trump issued a memorandum [...]
Oswald Clark: President Donald Trump was busy in his first ten days undoing many of the socially liberal policies on abortion and gender of the Biden administration. President Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office saw a flurry of action from the White House through executive orders covering everything from immigration to celebrating the U.S.’s 250th anniversary in 2027, many [...]
By J.M. Glover: Billboards and the ‘culture of fear’ True North Centre reported that the mega-giant Pattison Outdoor billboard company has “cancelled a contract” with the Manitoba pro-life group, Life Culture, saying that the requested image “creates too much controversy” and that the company received “a lot of back-lash for similar designs in the past.” What is controversial about a picture of [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Quebec “legalized” euthanasia in 2014, even though the federal prohibition wouldn’t be struck down by the Supreme Court until a year later, and the new parameters for the procedure not passed until a year after that. In 2019, a Quebec Superior Court ruling declared unconstitutional the requirement that one’s natural death be [...]