Joanna Alphonso: Lucy Letby, Elizabeth Wettlaufer, and Charles Edmund Cullen all had something in common: they were all registered nurses who killed their patients. Lucy Letby, Registered Nurse, Chester, U.K. Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old registered nurse in the United Kingdom, was convicted in August for her murder spree of seven babies over the span of two years at the Countess of Chester [...]
Rod Taylor, Special to The Interim Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Rod Taylor’s Sept. 15 press conference. The shedding of innocent blood in abortion clinics has some very observable economic costs. Since 1970, Canada has killed over 4 million pre-born babies. At a current rate generally estimated at about 100,000 per year, that is the equivalent of about 4,000 classrooms of [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 15, Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor held a press conference to elucidate where the party stands on issues other than abortion while committing itself to “the protection of innocent human life from conception until natural death, a position we still hold . . . and on this position we stand alone.” Held in the Ottawa Press Gallery [...]
Paul Tuns: In August, the Commission on End-of-Life Care in Quebec issued a memo to the province’s physicians who provide so-called medical aid in dying (MAiD) urging doctors to ensure that any euthanasia or assisted-suicides they carry out comply with the law. The memo, penned by the Commission’s president, Dr. Michael Bureau, a supporter of Canada’s liberal euthanasia laws, suggested that there [...]
While this current series of editorial confines itself to national parties, it is clearly the case that boutique political entities—like the Green Party—and regional ones—like the Bloc Québécois—should abandon their advocacy of abortion as well. The environmental movement has long been the vehicle for a virulent, radical, and dangerous form of anti-human policy. Implicit in the panic about carbon and emissions is [...]
A Watchman in the Night: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America Cal Thomas (Humanix Books, $29.99, 330 pages) A Watchman in the Night by conservative columnist Cal Thomas is an odd book, less biographical than the recital of a series of events that occurred over the 40 years Thomas has been writing syndicated columns. While there are biographical details [...]
Paul Tuns: Eduardo Verástegui, producer of Bella and Sound of Freedom, declared his candidacy to become president of Mexico. On Sept. 8, he tweeted that he “made the most important decision of my life,” announcing he “just registered with the INE (Instituto Nacional Electoral) my intention as an aspiring independent candidate for the presidency of the Mexican Republic, for the elections on [...]
In the second installment of this series of editorials—a series in which we make the case why each of Canada’s national political parties should be pro-life—we turn our attention to the New Democrats. Last month, readers will recall that the we argued that the Liberal Party should make an about-face and embrace the pro-life position because its long-standing (and endlessly repeated) commitment [...]
Paul Tuns: From Sept. 7-9, Conservative delegates from across the country assembled in Quebec City for the party’s biannual policy convention, where they elected a new National Council and voted on dozens of policies for the platform and constitutional amendments that govern the party. While the policies are not binding – a point leader Pierre Poilievre made to the media before the [...]
Oswald Clark: During a Sept. 17 interview on NBC's Meet the Press with new host Kristen Walker, former president Donald Trump said six-week abortion bans are hurting Republicans and that he would broker a compromise on abortion that would satisfy both pro-life and pro-abortion activists so the country and the Republican Party could move on from the issue. Pro-life activists were quick [...]
Life to the Full: True Stories that Reveal the Dignity of Every Human Life Edited by Abby Johnson and Tyler Rowley (Ignatius Press, $16.95 pb or ebook, 178 pages) Life to the Full is a collection of more than 20 first-person accounts by women and doctors as they confront the reality of abortion. Many of the stories are chilling and this is [...]
Rory Leishman: For 15 years, blameless Christians dedicated to the care and teaching of children within Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRS) have been lumped in with the few perverts in their midst and vilified with the most outrageous smears. Yet no political leaders or clerical leaders within the churches -- Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, and United -- which ran these schools for the [...]
Oswald Clark, Review: Tyranny Inc. by Sohrab Ahmari (Forum Books, $37.99, 252 pages) There is much material to support the promising subtitle of Sohrab Ahmari’s new book, Tyranny Inc: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty and What to Do About It but Ahmari focuses completely on aspect of supposedly tyrannical companies: their treatment of employees. Readers who know Ahmari as a critic of [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 20, hundreds of thousands of parents took part in demonstrations at school boards, in front of provincial legislatures and city halls, on Parliament Hill, and at other public institutions to oppose gender ideology propaganda in schools and reassert the rights of parents in their children's education. In Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Kitchener, Hamilton, Mississauga, Ottawa, and Toronto thousands [...]
The promotion of abortion in Northern Ireland’s schools In 1979, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as a sort of ‘international bill of rights for women,’ to “ensure the elimination of all acts of discrimination against women.” The United Kingdom’s Conservative government has imposed legislation on Northern Ireland which the London-based [...]