Joanna Alphonso and Paul Tuns: Mixed reactions erupted across the country as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in a video post on X (formerly Twitter), shared her plan on Jan. 31 to protect women and children from the LGBQT ideology. Smith’s plan includes a ban on gender reassignment surgeries for children ages 17 and under, and a ban on puberty blockers and hormone [...]
Alex Schadenberg, Special to The Interim: Based on euthanasia data from Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta, I predict that there were approximately 16,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2023 and more than 60,000 euthanasia deaths since legalization. There were 13,241 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2022. The Quebec Commission on End-of-Life Care released its Eighth Annual Report which indicated that there were 5211 reported euthanasia deaths [...]
Paul Tuns: The Archdiocese of Montreal is suing the Quebec government because the government is unwilling to provide a euthanasia exemption for St. Raphael Palliative Care Home. In late 2023, the St. Raphael Palliative Care Home and Day Centre signed an agreement with the archdiocese guaranteeing that St Raphael’s would provide palliative end-of-life care but would never commit euthanasia. In June 2023, [...]
Oswald Clark: On Feb. 17, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, embryonic human beings frozen as part of the process of in vitro fertilization are legally “children” deserving of protection. Two “wrongful death” lawsuits were launched by three IVF patients against the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Mobile Infirmary Medical Center fertility clinics in [...]
Oswald Clark: The journal Nature Medicine published a study on Feb. 15 that supposedly shows that telemedicine medical (chemical) abortions pose little health risks to women, but pro-lifers point to flaws in the study that undermine its claim of being safe and effective. The study, “Effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion in the USA,” by Ushma D. Upadhyay, Leah R. Koenig, [...]
Paul Tuns: A Fredericton abortuary is closing after years of pressing for full funding at the private facility. It ended without convincing either Liberal or Progressive Conservative governments to pay for abortions done at the province’s only free-standing abortion mill. Campaign Life Coalition declared it “great news” that Clinic 554 was finally closing its doors for good after repeatedly threatening to shut [...]
Interim Staff: Toronto-area pro-life activist Cyril “Cy” Fleming died at the age of 93 with his family by his side. Fleming was born on Allan’s Island, Newfoundland, and would eventually open Nascopie Travel in Labrador City. Ever the entrepreneur, Fleming helped bring Mary Brown’s Chicken to eastern Canada before moving to Mississauga, west of Toronto, to operate the Sheridan Travel Agency in [...]
Donald DeMarco: In a 1964 football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the San Francisco 49ers, Jim Marshall picked a fumble and ran 66 yards in the wrong direction. When he crossed his own goal line, he threw the ball into the seats in celebration for what he thought was a Viking touchdown. The gaffe has stigmatized Marshall ever since. As a [...]
Rory Leishman: Rampant, out-of-control, drug abuse is a serious problem all across Canada, but nowhere more so than in British Columbia. According to the B.C. Coroners Service, “Unregulated drug toxicity is the leading cause of death in British Columbia for people aged 10 to 59, accounting for more deaths than homicides, suicides, accidents, and natural disease combined.” What is the cause of [...]
Paul Tuns: William Gairdner, author of The War Against the Family and The Trouble with Canada, died Jan. 12th, at the age of 83. Gairdner was born Oct. 19, 1940 in Oakville, Ont., and competed in the men’s 400m hurdles and men’s decathlon at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. He won a silver medal in the decathlon in the 1963 Pan American [...]
As many provinces celebrate Family Day, there is a movement afoot, in both Ontario and Manitoba, to follow the example of British Columbia in providing universal coverage for contraception; in that fact, of course, there is no little irony. Just as the holiday points to the indisputable facts of the family—and every citizen’s origin therein—there is a push for the pharmaceutical suppression [...]
In mid-February, Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan will celebrate Family Day. But what can such a holiday mean in an age when marriage is no longer understood to be the fertile, permanent union of man and a woman; when the very words “mother” and “father” are avoided for being too-sex-specific; and when our culture, mired in Soviet-era levels of [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I remember finding it so ironic seeing a Planned Parenthood poster in Rory Gilmore’s dorm room, given that there would be no Rory Gilmore—and no Gilmore Girls television show for me to watch—had Rory’s mom gone to Planned Parenthood when she got pregnant at 15. There is no story to tell when you’re dead. [...]
Paul Tuns: The left-leaning Canadian magazine The Walrus published a lengthy article on the pro-euthanasia lobby group Dying with Dignity Canada (DWD Canada) illustrating its influence on the government. Written by Miranda Schreiber, “The lobby group that owns the conversation around assisted deaths,” the 3400-word in-depth report provided what Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, called “important information about [...]
Alex Schadenberg, Special to The Interim: On January 8, I published an article titled: Assisted suicide bills must be defeated in at least 10 U.S. states. Now the assisted suicide lobby are stating that they are sponsoring assisted suicide bills in at least 16 states. The current states with a new bill are: Florida, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, [...]