Joanna Alphonso: The largest study of its kind on lifetime cannabis use and brain function was published in JAMA Network Open this past January. The study included 1003 young adult participants ages 22 to 36 of varying cannabis consumption. Heavy users were considered to have used cannabis more than 1000 times. Moderate users were participants who have used it 10 to 999 [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements First Nations issues are evergreen in Canadian politics, rising to prominence regularly, like during the battle over the Meech Lake Accord in the late ‘80s, when Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper and his eagle feather helped scuttle any attempted constitutional amendment (and got Harper elected as an MP shortly after). It was a major [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Viability has long been the line in the sand drawn by many abortion apologists so that they can tell themselves they aren’t monsters who are okay with killing – like -- real babies. Before it was overturned, Roe v. Wade, for instance, permitted states to prohibit abortion only after fetal viability, describing [...]
Interim Staff: On March 20, the Quebec provincial government of Premier François Legault tabled a bill that, if passed, would expand the current religious symbols ban to include all school staff, including teachers, from wearing any religious symbols including the cross or crucifix. Education Minister Bernard Drainville said, “If we are going to be coherent with this idea that a figure of [...]
Rory Leishman: Statistics Canada projects that for the first time in the history of Confederation the total population of Canada will decline this year. What accounts for this momentous turnaround from rapid population growth to impending decline? According to Statistics Canada, the immediate cause was the sudden about-face on immigration last year by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Instead [...]
Mary Zwicker: A left-wing media outlet in the United States has claimed that pro-life laws are at the root of a so-called “spike” in sepsis cases in hospitalized pregnant women in their state. On Feb. 20, New York-based left-wing news outlet ProPublica published an article claiming that Texas’ 2021 pro-life Heartbeat Act is to blame for a rise in reported cases of [...]
Paul Tuns: Manitoba Justice Minister Matt Wiebe tabled a government bill that, if passed, would enshrine “gender expression” in the province’s Human Rights Code, and “cover anything from behavior or appearance, such as dress, hair, make-up, body language and voice.” The NDP government of Wab Kinew introduced Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, on March 18, adding “gender expression” to [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life It was the best of tweets, it was the worst of tweets. It was a pearl of wisdom, it was a moment of misguided masculinity. It was a tale of two men that began with a social media post by one of the most controversial influencers on the internet. On Feb. 16, [...]
Oswald Clark: Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced it is shutting down its Manhattan abortuary and will sell its SoHo building at 26 Bleeker St., with an asking price of $39 million. The abortion facility was, until 2020, named after Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood and promoter of eugenics. In 2020, during the Black Lives Matter riots that [...]
Interim Staff: Christina Yadram was killed by her partner in 2021 when he tried to kill her preborn child. Wazhir Gafoor, 32, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years following a guilty verdict in the murder of Christina Yadram. Gafoor killed Yadram in October 2021 when he attempted to forcibly kill their preborn [...]
Oswald Clark: Ben & Jerry’s, an ice cream business well-known for its left-wing political views, posted on its official X account support for abortion on March 10, a day abortion advocates call National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. Ben & Jerry’s tweeted “Today is National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! We stand with abortion providers today and every day.” The tweet included a graphic [...]
Paul Tuns: Three municipalities that declared December Chirstian Heritage Month in 2024 have reversed themselves and will not do so again. In January, The Interim reported that 56 jurisdictions in Canada, including the province of Saskatchewan, and cities such as Calgary, Mississauga, Regina, and Toronto, officially declared December “Christian Heritage Month” after an advocacy campaign by Molly Banerjei, a realtor from Toronto [...]
Jonathan Van Maren: In a truly absurd story that serves as a microcosm of the battle over Canada’s soul, the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) is facing off with the City of Hamilton … over an ad that depicts a smiling young woman, and the dictionary definition: “Woman: An Adult Female.” The ad was submitted by CHP Hamilton in January 2023 to Outfront [...]
The Detransition Diaries Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell (Ignatius Press, $24.95, 246 pages) Documentarian Jennifer Lahl (Trans Mission) and perinatal nurse Kallie Fell have written a short, powerful, timely argument against transgender ideology. There are several short chapters on issues surrounding gender dysphoria such as “The rise of the gender-affirmation movement,” “Lessons not learned from medical abuses,” “Why is the trend higher among [...]
Paul Tuns: Calvin Robinson acknowledges the audience at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington D.C., on Jan. 25. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network, which has a history of targeting pro-life and pro-family organizations as hate groups, published a “smear piece” against black preacher Calvin Robinson, a featured speaker at the youth conference following the National March for Life in Ottawa this [...]