Interim Staff: On June 29, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) announced “that the Federal Court has struck down a discriminatory federal government decision against Mill Stream Bible Camp, operated by BCM Canada International.” The JCCF represented Mill Stream Bible Camp in court in April, challenging the Trudeau government’s denial of the children’s summer camp’s application for Canada Summer Jobs Program [...]
Johnny Tzoganakis: NDP MPP Sara Singh (Brampton Centre) has proposed a new bill that seeks to make information about Down syndrome publicly available, especially to expectant parents of children prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome. Bill 225 would amend the Regulated Health Professions Act of 1991 to require public availability of accurate, up-to-date medical information concerning Down syndrome: life expectancy, developmental issues (physical [...]
Paul Tuns The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scrambling to tackle their demographic crisis. On May 31, CCP officials announced at a Politburo meeting that the limit on children would be lifted to three by 2025, a gradual relaxation of the two-child policy implemented in 2016 after ChiComms determined that the one-child policy inaugurated in 1980 and enforced with coercive sterilization and [...]
Interim Staff On May 12, NDP MLA Jennifer Bowes (Saskatoon University) introduced a private member’s bill, An Act to Provide Safe Access to Abortion Services, which, if passed, would create anti-free speech bubble zones of up to 150 meters around facilities that commit abortion in the province of Saskatchewan. Bowes said a law is necessary to prevent harassment and intimidation of women [...]
Rory Leishman In a pastoral letter issued on May 1, the Archbishop of San Francisco, Cardinal Salvatore Cordileone, has spelled out with admirable clarity why no faithful Christian cleric should allow a politician who aids and abets in committing the evils of abortion to take part in Holy Communion. Having earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in [...]
Oswald Clark: The U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear Mississippi’s appeal to defend its state law protecting the human right to life beginning at 15 weeks, a case that presents the most direct challenge to the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In 2018, Mississippi’s state House of Representatives passed Bill 1510, the Gestational Stage Act, which outlaws almost all abortions [...]
William Gairdner Special to The Interim It’s deeply ironic that while our predecessors thought the most important use of human will was to escape slavery to our own harmful appetites and judgements, “choice” is now cited as the most important moral authority for whatever is chosen. It’s as if personal choice makes something good, despite the obvious fact we may choose something [...]
By Paul Tuns On March 4, Manitoba MLA Nahanni Fontaine (NDP, St. John’s) introduced for the third time in six years a private member’s bill, No. 207, The Abortion Protest Buffer Zone Act, which, if passed, would make the province the seventh in Canada to restrict the free speech rights of pro-lifers within the vicinity of an abortion facility. Fontaine told the [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary An embarrassing number of “Catholics” have tied themselves in academic knots attempting to convince people that they can both express their religious faith and at the same time negate it while offering a coherent political strategy. John Milloy is a former Liberal Ontario MPP and cabinet minister. He currently serves as the director of the Centre for Public Ethics [...]
Interim Staff The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed abortion drugs to be dispensed by mail, with acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock declaring it safe to allow mifepristone, the first half of the chemical abortion drug RU-486, to be taken at home without medical supervision, in order to reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 by minimizing visits to doctors’ offices. [...]
By Andrew Lawton Saskatchewan Conservative member of parliament Cathay Wagantall’s private member’s bill to criminalize sex-selective abortion is noble, but it should be approached with caution. The bill confronts a horrific reality, but also poses moral challenges to the pro-life movement. “Above all, I’m bringing this bill forward in defense of pre-born Canadian girls and boys who are aborted simply due to [...]
By Paul Tuns Bill C-233, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sex-selective abortion) was introduced to the House of Commons in February and had second reading on April 14. Proponents of C-233 said it is necessary to protect preborn children, especially girls, from being killed by abortion for being the wrong sex. Pro-abortion MPs claimed there was no need for the [...]
Paul Tuns Analysis Richard Decarie’s leadership bid for the Conservative Party of Canada was nixed by their Leadership Election Organizing Committee in February 2020. This spring he tried to run for a position on the party’s National Council, but the party executive claimed it did not receive his nomination form before the deadline, disqualifying him and another pro-lifer from Quebec from running [...]
Interim Staff Chapter 7 of the federal budget is titled, “A more equal Canada,” and within it is a section “Supporting access to sexual and reproductive health care information and services,” in which the government asserts, “All Canadians should have access to a full suite of sexual and reproductive health resources and services, no matter where they live.” To this end, it [...]
Paul Tuns The Trudeau government deducted $140,216 from Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer to New Brunswick over “the province’s lack of coverage under its health insurance plan for abortion services outside the hospital setting.” According to the 2019-2020 Health Act Annual Report, the federal government’s report to Parliament, tabled on Feb. 22, Ottawa reimplemented a cut made to the health transfer that was [...]