Paul Tuns: Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, estimates that in 2024 there were “about 16,500” euthanasia deaths, bringing the total to 76,800 since Medical Assistance in Dying was legalized in 2016. With numbers steadily increasing each year, Schadenberg estimates that about 90,000 patients have been euthanized when you include this year’s numbers which will not be available until [...]
Paul Tuns: Inclusion Canada’s Krista Carr said she hears weekly from people with disabilities who are tentative accessing public health care because of concerns about being pressured into Medical Assistance in Dying. During testimony before the parliamentary Finance Committee, Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, a disabilities group, told MPs that she is aware of Canadians who are concerned about [...]
Paul Tuns: The National Post reported that woman in her late 80s was killed by euthanasia after “a family member brought forward a request for an assisted death.” The woman, identified only as Mrs. 6F in a recent coroner’s committee report, was subsequently killed by medical staff after a MAiD provider, the Post reported, “deemed the woman had given her final expressed [...]
Paul Tuns: According to Open Doors, a Christian advocacy group, one in seven Christians worldwide suffer persecution or discrimination due to their religious beliefs. The numbers for 2024 are stark. 380 million Christians suffer persecution or discrimination based on their religious beliefs. 50 countries are rated by Open Doors as having “high,” “very high,” or “extreme” persecution and discrimination – 13 are [...]
November is a solemn month, one which is marked by many memorials. On Remembrance Day, we commemorate not only the conclusion of the Great War, but all of the fallen who made the ultimate sacrifice in the course of Canada’s other military conflicts as well. To this annual anniversary, further occasions to reflect in a similarly somber way have been added. The [...]
Paul Tuns Ottawa’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund gave the University of British Columbia faculty of Medicine’s Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) $4.3 million in taxpayer funding to pay for research into expanding abortion to “underserved” groups such as individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, the homeless, and youth. UBC Medicine said in a press release, the funding will “address barriers to [...]
Dan Di Rocco: Dave Bolton, long-time production and layout manager for The Interim newspaper, died July 27, stricken by cancer. He was 72. For two decades, from 2000 to 2020, Dave contributed to the monthly publishing of our paper, laying out the articles, ads, and other components of the publication. Often it was a pressure cooker of a job, weeks of slow [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2023, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) planned to display abortion victim photography during our press conference on Parliament Hill on May 10, the day prior to the National March for Life, but the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) stopped us from doing so. They originally cited an older version of General Rules for [...]
Donald DeMarco: My iPad, that incomprehensible marvel of technology, conveyed a letter from a politician who wanted my vote. He was polite, as was proper, and promised to do many good things if elected, as was expected. He closed his missive, fully confident that I would fully agree with him. “And I will always defend,” he said, “a woman’s right to abortion.” [...]
Rory Leishman: The book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible describes an era in ancient Israel when, instead of obeying the commandments of God, most men did what was right in their own eyes. The result was chaos, confusion and disaster. The same is true of our own era. Instead of steadfastly upholding the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality, most people have [...]
Tanis Cortens: A simple comic strip posted on X (formerly Twitter) by pro-life English doctor Calum Miller reveals an often-neglected truth: many fathers mourn their aborted children. The four-panel image, posted on May 18, depicts a boy playing on a swing and building a block tower with his father. Then the child fades, leaving his father distraught. In the final panel, the [...]
Paul Tuns: Ontario’s MAID Death Review Committee (MDRC) released its fifth report on August 25 which revealed that a number of euthanasia deaths may not conform to regulations governing the practice of Medical Assistance in Dying, with patients killed due to hand tremors that caused psychological suffering, untreated obesity, and voluntary cessation of eating and drinking. The MDRC is a body of [...]
Paul Tuns: During the Sept. 16 session of the House of Commons, three Conservative MPs rose to submit petitions from Canadians concerned about the All-Party Finance Committee’s 2024 recommendation to strip all religious and pro-life organizations and institutions of charitable status. In December 2024, the All-Party Finance Committee submitted more than 400 budget recommendations, including Recommendation 429 to amend the Income Tax [...]
Paul Tuns: Just 11 days after Charlie Kirk was killed, his widow Erika Kirk addressed the nationally broadcast memorial service with words of grace: “My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life … On the cross, our Savior said: ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That young man—that young [...]
Tanis Cortens: A July study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that women who abort their children are more at risk for mental health issues than those who choose life. Researchers assessed 28,721 women who aborted and 1,228,807 who gave birth in Quebec hospitals between 2006 and 2022. According to the study, mental health-related hospitalization was more common after abortion [...]