Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements With the recent announcement that government employees must return to their work in office, the physical remnants of the COVID-19 lockdowns are mostly gone. Do you remember where your vaccination documents are? The arrows on the floors of stores telling us which direction to walk are gone, as are the stickers on subway [...]
Tanis Cortens: After 35 years in operation, the Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic, a downtown Vancouver abortuary, closed its doors on June 30. The facility’s board cited changes to the provincial health care system as the cause. Vancouver formerly had four abortion mills: one in the B.C. Women’s Hospital, and three funded by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). VCH’s decision to shift to a new [...]
Tanis Cortens: The two buildings had shared a wall since the Centre’s inception in early 2023, causing some abortion-minded women to walk into the Centre by mistake and thus discover resources for themselves and their babies. In an interview with The Interim, co-founder and president Frank D’Angelo described the Centre as “the last chance to offer positive options.” A mother in distress [...]
UN agencies use AI to spy on youth UN agencies are targeting adolescents around the world—India, Eastern and Southern Africa, the Philippines—by spying on them for their attitudes towards contraception, abortion access, and sexual identity. The agencies target youth with information to change their traditional, family views on these controversial issues. UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) works in more [...]
From the editor’s desk Paul Tuns: From the editor's desk Kevin Yuill writes about the eugenic roots of the euthanasia movement in Spiked: “This campaign of involuntary euthanasia, known as Aktion T4, cost tens of thousands of lives. According to the Nazis’ own record, at least 70,000 disabled people were put to death, although some sources suggest that the figure [...]
John Carpay: If ethnic guilt can be transmitted from generation to generation, Canada would face never-ending conflict and strife, to the exclusion of unity and friendship. While the application of the principle “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none” will not by itself create a perfect society, following this principle will create more trust, more justice and more social cohesion than [...]
Josie Luetke: It is curious that doctors are forsaking the Hippocratic Oath—neither to administer a poison, nor suggest such a course—and patients are being euthanized by the state at record rates at precisely the time in history when pain management is at its best. People used to suffer horrific deaths—from plagues, wounds, starvation, and whatnot. I’m not pretending people don’t die horrific [...]
Few incidents offer a better snapshot of modern discourse than the recent exchanges surrounding ordo amoris. That Latin phrase can be translated as “the order of love,” a concept which has had currency in Christian theology since it was formulated in late antiquity by St. Augustine, and was further refined, almost a millennium later, by St. Thomas Aquinas. In the 20th century, [...]
Victor Penney: Do you ever read T-shirts, hoping to unlock the deepest mysteries of life, faith, and philosophy? Yeah, me neither; but that’s how my life goes sometimes. I once saw a black tee with the phrase “Pro-Good Things” and “Anti-Bad Things” emblazoned on the front, and I’ve embraced the slogan ever since as a lens for analyzing politics. If you want [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Corrupted by Fear: How the Charter was Betrayed, and What Canadians Can Do about It by John Carpay (Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, $24.95, 303 pages) John Carpay will be familiar to our readers as author of the popular Law Matters column in this paper. Many will know him as the founder and president of the Justice Center for Constitutional [...]
Samara Douma: Ultrasound technology has advanced beyond the classic black-and-white 2D (two-dimensional) imaging to offer clearer and higher-quality images. Three-dimensional imaging, as the name suggests, displays a 3D image of the child, making their facial features distinguishable beyond an outline. A 4D ultrasound captures multiple 3D images and combines them to create a video of the child’s movement, possibly capturing a smile [...]
Pete Baklinski Special to The Interim: Auschwitz concentration camp. A memorial to the victims who were killed here. It has long haunted me how Henry Morgentaler, sometimes referred to as Canada’s “father of abortion,” survived Nazi concentration camps only to go on to perpetrate similar horrors against the smallest and most vulnerable members of the human family: preborn children. How [...]
By Joanna Alphonso: For the majority of Canadians, going about their days and doing regular tasks such as going to work, grocery shopping, and visiting family and friends can be done without a second thought about their abilities. However, there are many Canadians who experience barriers accessing everyday services and completing everyday tasks. Statistics Canada (StatCan) reports that four out of five [...]
Interim Staff: John McCash, a co-founder of Students for Life, died at the age of 53 on May 18 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. McCash’s official death notice stated, “John was fearless and unapologetic in his drive to reach unsaved souls for the Kingdom of God, and was often found evangelizing on the streets of Toronto carrying his cross.” It [...]
Paul Tuns: A month short of her 85th birthday, Kathleen Toth passed away on May 23 following hip surgery at Surrey Memorial Hospital in B.C. At the time hailing from Edmonton, Toth was one of 18 pro-lifers who took part in the initial conference in Winnipeg in May 1978 at which Campaign Life was founded, becoming the organization’s first president. Campaign Life [...]