Interim Staff: On April 8, the Halton Catholic District School Board rejected a motion to prevent school funds from supporting abortion, contraception, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell experiments in a lopsided 2-5 vote against the motion. Oakville school trustee Helena Karabela tabled the amendment to the HCDSB Fundraising Activities Policy to ensure no school funds are used to support abortion or other [...]
Oswald Clark: A pro-abortion woman who attacked a Live Action journalist in New York City has been charged with assault. New York City police have charged Brianna Rivers with second-degree assault after she attacked pro-life journalist Savannah Craven Antao during a man-on-the-street interview in an assault that required hospitalization. The April 3 assault was caught on tape by Craven Antao’s husband who [...]
Oswald Clark: The Trump administration has condemned the United Kingdom for arresting and convicting Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, a pro-life activist who held a sign that said “Here to talk, if you want,” outside a British abortuary. Tossici-Bolt was found guilty by the Poole Magistrates’ Court for violating a Public Spaces Protection Order on two occasions in March 2025. While the grandmother and [...]
Paul Tuns: On April 9, Campaign Life Coalition youth coordinator Kim Headley provided a defense of the preborn at a meeting of the United Nations’ Commission on Population and Development (CPD), during proceedings dominated by pro-abortion and population control advocates. Last month, the UN held its 58th session of the Commission on Population and Development and Headley made her remarks at a [...]
Paul Tuns: Long-time Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes, suffered a stroke on March 8 and is now recovering at home after a brief hospitalization. The Interim is respecting Hughes’s privacy and will not report details of his illness or recovery, but because of his outsized role in this paper and the Canadian pro-life movement, we wanted to let readers know [...]
Paul Tuns: According to data released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information on March 25, there were 101,553 abortions committed in Canada in 2023, up from 97,211 in 2022 and 87,485 in 2021. It was the first time since 2015 that the number of abortions in Canada exceeded 100,000, when there were 100,104 abortions. A Campaign Life Coalition Youth tweet put [...]
A common carp against the pro-life movement is that “we only care about babies in the womb.” This disingenuous dig is not heard much anymore, in part because the callous practice of euthanasia has expanded so quickly, and in part because the incoherence of the criticism is more than faintly embarrassing. Advocates for automotive safety focus their attention on the reduction of [...]
The Interim went to press days before the April 28 federal election and whatever the results, there does not appear to be much good news for pro-lifers. As we report on page 10, the Conservatives and Liberals are both committed to the abortion and euthanasia status quo which kills more than 100,000 preborn children and 15,000 vulnerable patients annually. It is a [...]
Paul Tuns, Commentary: Pope Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88, after leading the Catholic Church for 12 years as its 266th pope. There were numerous articles and essays exploring his legacy. One cannot help but think of the apocryphal comment by Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Communist revolutionary, in the 1970s, when asked what he thought of the French Revolution: [...]
Richard Dur, Commentary: Every election, like clockwork, the Liberals drag the abortion issue into the spotlight. And every time, Conservatives act surprised — as if this hasn’t happened every other election. They stumble. They mumble. They change the subject. They offer up a vague, unconvincing “we won’t touch the issue” — a line disbelieved by those already against them, and deeply demoralizing to [...]
Comment made after Carney attends Mass featuring pro-life sermon Paul Tuns: The head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has endorsed denying Holy Communion to Catholic pro-abortion politicians like Prime Minister Mark Carney. During an April 11 interview with EWTN, Bishop William McGrattan, president of the CCCB, said pro-abortion politicians should not receive the Eucharist. Days earlier, Prime Minister Mark [...]
Paul Tuns: During an election campaign hyper-focused on Trump, tariffs, and affordability, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier said that he would introduce a late-term abortion ban if elected. While the five largest parties and their leaders – the Liberals under Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP, the Bloc Quebecois and Yves-François Blanchet, and Elizabeth May’s Green [...]
Paul Tuns: During a podcast interview with Olivier Primeau released on April 9, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said a Conservative government would not legislate on abortion or euthanasia. During the French-language interview, Poilievre said of abortion, “We will defend women’s freedom of choice.” He elaborated, “we will never change the law on abortion, we have already adopted … a policy for the [...]
Paul Tuns: In the final week of the campaign before election day on April 28, both the Liberal and Conservative parties released their party platforms and both made commitments to either defend the abortion status quo (the Conservatives) or increase access to abortion and abortifacient contraception (the Liberals). The Liberal platform, titled, “Canada Strong,” vowed “there will always be funding” for abortion [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition gave a green light to 152 pro-life and pro-family candidates across the country in its final Voter’s Guide which rated the party platforms, leaders, and individual candidates. Candidates are given a green light when their voting record, survey information, and public comments on abortion, euthanasia, and LGBQT are collected and that data aligns with the pro-life and [...]