Paul Tuns: The Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying released in December, and updated and clarified last month, revealed that there were 15,343 reported euthanasia deaths representing 4.7% of all deaths in 2023. The report, which must be released annually by Health Canada, showed a steady increase in the number of euthanasia deaths each year, rising from 2838 in 2017, [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2021, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB), the second largest Catholic school board in Ontario—encompassing Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon, and the surrounding area—voted to fly the Pride flag outside its Catholic Education Centre and a couple of other buildings. Not even four years later, not only did the board re-affirm its [...]
Paul Tuns Review: We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan Peterson (Portfolio, $48, 544 pages) Former University of Toronto psychology professor and international darling of the Right Jordan Peterson’s fourth book, We Who Wrestle with God seems to have landed with a thud after two bestselling self-help books. The massive tome is an exegesis on Genesis, Exodus, and [...]
Paul Tuns: Presenting to the UAE World Governments Summit 2025 by video conference, the world’s richest man and President Donald Trump’s right-hand man Elon Musk envisioned a future in which humanoid robots directed by “deep intelligence” would produce a nearly infinite array of products and services that would render money meaningless. The answer came from a question at the United Arab Emirates [...]
CLC has a wish list for the government Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford called an election 18 months early with polls indicating that he could grow his majority. On Feb. 27, he was re-elected with virtually the same caucus in which Liberal leader and former Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie failed to even win her own seat. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won 2.15 [...]
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By J.M. Glover: ‘The incomparable gift of being born’ Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, gave his personal testimony at the 2025 March for Life in Washington, D.C. His words bear repeating from a man who was conceived by a teenage boy and girl. “I was born in January 1972 … I was the product of an [...]
Donald DeMarco While slavery was being hotly contested in the United States in 1858, three years before his presidential inauguration, Abraham Lincoln made his most succinct statement against slavery: “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is not democracy.” [...]
The 19th-century German statesman, Otto von Bismarck, once observed that “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable—the art of the next best.” As we continue to take stock of the post-Dobbs moment—ushered in the overturning of the infamous decision of the American Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade—it is helpful to bear this remark in mind. Although, in the Canadian context, [...]
Interim Staff: The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) launched a petition to British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne, Conservative Health Critic Anna Kindy, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC demanding a review of Ellen Wiebe’s euthanasia practice. Wiebe, a former abortionist, was recently prevented by court order by euthanizing an Alberta woman after her common-law husband sued, saying that his [...]
Paul Tuns: Following Donald Trump’s executive order recognizing just two sexes, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s responded to a question of whether he would follow suit if the Conservatives formed government. His response was non-committal: ”I’m not aware of any other genders than men and women.” He notably stopped short of committing to a future Conservative government recognizing only two sexes. In [...]
Editor’s Note: This question and answer between Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, and Rod Taylor, leader of the Christian Heritage Party, occurred on Jan. 29. The Interim: The federal election is scheduled for October but the Liberal leadership switch and potential loss of confidence in a parliamentary vote could mean a spring election. Is the Christian Heritage Party ready for an [...]
Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life Are parents sacrificing the souls of their children on the altar of sports? I started thinking about this recently when I came across an article about the high-stakes world of preteen go-kart racing. The Washington Post ran a story about two boys, Julian and Alessandro, who’ve been “fierce competitors since they were 9 and [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I came across an Instagram reel of a massive centipede-like creature in the desert and the only reason I thought it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is because I have never—in my over 28 years on this planet—seen anything like it before, which made me wonder if, had I been younger, I would [...]
Paul Tuns: King Baudoin of Belgium was the head of state from 1951-1993 except for a 36-hour period in April 1990 when he briefly deposed from the throne with his consent in order to not sign a law decriminalizing abortion. A devout Catholic who refused to be implicated in allowing abortion in his country, King Baudoin, the fifth king of Belgium, is [...]