Paul Tuns On Oct. 22, Federal Court Justice Catherine Kane found that the federal government’s Summer Job Program requirement that recipients declare themselves in favour of abortion in order to get funding was constitutionally valid. In December 2017, the Justin Trudeau government released new rules for companies and organizations that received Summer Jobs Program subsidies to hire students that required recipients to [...]
Paul Tuns Editor’s Note: Part I appeared in the November edition of The Interim and is available here. Pro-life leaders generally agree that the movement must do a better job reaching beyond its current scope of organizational supporters, although there is not as much agreement about how to do that. Jakki Jeffs, executive director of Alliance for Life Ontario, told The Interim [...]
Interim Staff The CBC reported on two London, Ont. funeral homes which are making an extra buck by renting out dedicated rooms where customers can have a medically induced death. The CBC reports that Northview Funeral Chapel owner Paul Needham started receiving requests from families looking for “a place to go” for the euthanasia “procedure” at the start of COVID lockdowns. Needham [...]
Josie Luetke Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey “Every woman in Canada has a right to a safe and legal abortion,” according to none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “Access to safe, legal abortion is a fundamental right of women, irrespective of where they live,” according to a 2006 publication from the World Health Organization. One of Campaign Life Coalition’s [...]
Paul Tuns Review The Critical Temper: Interventions from The New Criterion at 40 edited by Roger Kimball (Encounter, $39.99, 561 pages) The idea of the culture wars is much derided by pundits, often considered distractions from real issues. I would argue there is nothing more important than to go to (metaphorical) war over than culture. A field general in the war over [...]
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality Helen Joyce (One World, $34.95, 311 pages) Helen Joyce’s Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality delivers exactly what the subtitle promises, juxtaposing the trans ideology with biological facts. Joyce begins her examination of gender identity in Weimar Germany where the discredited Institute of Sexual Science, founded by the gay Jewish drag queen Magnus Hirschfeld, offered hormones and surgery [...]
Every new annual provincial or federal report on the euphemistically named Medical Aid in Dying shows that the number of medicalized murders in the form of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide grows by leaps and bounds. In October, Quebec’s euthanasia data revealed a 37 per cent increase (to 2426 euthanasia deaths) from April 2020 to March 31, 2021 compared to the previous year. [...]
Peter Baklinski Pro-life hospice president on why she’ll never surrender to euthanasia activists Angelina Ireland never could have imagined the battle she was about to face, when, two years ago, she became president of a palliative care society that ran a small 10-bed hospice for the sick and elderly in a small Canadian city. Angelina never could have imagined that she and [...]
Rory Leishman As rising numbers of critically ill COVID-19 patients threatened to overwhelm Saskatchewan’s intensive care units (ICU) wards last October, the Saskatchewan government called upon the Canadian military to airlift 19 of the province’s ICU patients to hospitals in Ontario. This was not an isolated incident. Earlier in the pandemic, critically ill COVID patients in some regions of Ontario also had [...]
Interim Staff The Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) and it’s local chapter launched a legal challenge against the city of Hamilton after its transit service rejected one of their advertisements. Hamilton Street Railway (HSR), the city’s transit service, refused to run ads stating ““We’re for women’s rights” with the word “hers” accompanying photos of girls in her 20s, her teens, as [...]
John Carpay This past Remembrance Day, I thought of my grandparents and all the others who fought for freedom against foreign dictatorships: Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, fascist Italy, and communist forces in Korea and Vietnam. While successfully defending freedom abroad, Canadians have now surrendered to living under a medical dictatorship on our own soil. Starting in March of 2020, we were prohibited [...]
Interim Staff On Nov. 2, NDP MPP Terrance Kernaghan (London North Centre) reintroduced a private member’s bill that will, if passed, outlaw the use of abortion victim photography in pro-life activism unless certain conditions are met. Bill 41, an “Act to regulate the mailing of images of fetuses” or the “Viewer Discretion Act” is the same as Bill 259 that Kernaghan introduced [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 10, Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman introduced a bill to ban all non-labour protests within 50 metres of a hospital. Bill 48, “The Public Health (Safe Access to Hospitals) Amendment Act, 2021,” is the Scott Moe government’s response to calls to ban anti-COVID restrictions and vaccination policy demonstrations near so-called frontline workers. Merriman said in a press release, [...]
The Music of Christendom: A History Susan Treacy (Ignatius Press, $16.95, 235 pages) ”It behooves us,” says Susan Treacy, professor of music at Ave Maria University and music columnist for St. Austin Review, “to immerse ourselves in music of the Western classical tradition, which is so imbued with the beauty of Christ. This is our music!” In The Music of Christendom: A [...]
From the editor’s desk I read a lot. Not only for my job, but for fun so I thought I’d write about a few non-work books that I enjoyed immensely this year. For years baseball was my favourite sport; it has since been usurped by football and I no longer watch the game that I spent years watching and listening to, but [...]