Paul Tuns Liberal party platform vowed to strip pro-life groups of charitable tax status In its 2021 election platform, “Forward. For Everyone,” the Liberals threatened to go after the charitable tax status of pro-life groups, including crisis pregnancy centres, that supposedly provide “misinformation” about prenatal development and abortion. On page four of the 89-page document, in a section about “Building Back Better” [...]
Paul Tuns A study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry confirmed that a child’s personality begins development within the womb. The researchers found that different areas of the babies’ brains were already communicating in way that indicated unique personality traits such as cuddliness, fear, laughter, sadness, soothability, and perceptual sensitivity. University of Virginia (UVA) researchers, led by Tobias Grossmann, a professor [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary Helen Alvaré is a professor of law at George Mason University, and a courageous defender of unborn human life. In her case courage means a willingness to tell the truth when political correctness forbids it. “The government is essentially proclaiming,” she writes, “that there is only one legitimate kind of homicide in the US: killing within the family.” To [...]
Women have had a few tough months. Women could be forgiven for believing that medical science is a trying to erase them. We’ve had hospitals and medical journals refer to mothers as “birthing people” and women as “menstruating people” – both dehumanizing by reducing women to particular bodily functions. Politically correct medicine, including research, treatment, and care that takes exquisite sensitivity to [...]
Janice Glover Commentary In the pages of The Interim over the past three years, we have been highlighting various “family friendly” policies and legislation that Hungary has been passing in its parliament that have stood out as a model for a 21st century country. The country has been criticized by the European Union and others in the West, including personal attacks on [...]
Since the very first Life Chain in 1987 in Yuba City, California, pro-lifers have gathered annually for one hour along roadways and at intersections to pray and hold signs with varying pro-life messages. The 2021 Life Chain took place at around 270 locations in Canada, with the majority of communities participating on Sunday, October 3. Campaign Life Coalition reported that this is [...]
Interim Staff The trial of Bill Whatcott for an alleged hate crime began at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto last month in relation to the distribution of flyers at the 2016 Toronto Pride parade displaying the potential consequences of homosexual activity. The literature described both the physical and spiritual dangers of homosexual activity and the Crown prosecution says that is [...]
Paul Tuns A Nova Scotia man was assaulted during the 40 Days for Life witness in Halifax. The man, whom The Interim is not identifying, were “minding our own business on the side of Spring Garden Road” in Halifax, “praying my rosary” when “suddenly” a “masked woman rushed onto us from our right side,” grabbing one of the signs from the man’s [...]
Paul Tuns The Manitoba Progressive Conservative caucus voted against a private member’s bill that would have created an anti-free speech zone around all facilities that committed abortions in the province. Bill 207, The Abortion Protest Buffer Zone Act, was defeated 30-20 with the NDP and Liberal MLAs voting for the bill, on the last day of the fall legislative session. NDP MLA [...]
Interim Staff A Québec inquest into COVID-related deaths in Quebec long-term care homes heard testimony that residents who died of dehydration, malnourishment and neglect at the Herron nursing home in the Dorval suburb of Montreal were reported as COVID deaths to hide alleged elder abuse. A nurse, whose name was not released, testified that beginning on March 13, 2020, at the outset [...]
Thirty years ago, in the midst of an American election campaign, then-Vice President Dan Quayle made a speech in Los Angeles. His comments took the recent riots in that city as an occasion to reflect more broadly on the connection between law, society, and family values. While the riots themselves were sparked by a controversial court case and were fueled by racial [...]
Paul Tuns In 2019, a Nova Scotia woman sought an injunction to stop all abortions in Canada, the funding of abortions, and $500 million in punitive damages, and legal protection from discrimination for those who take part in pro-life activities. She argues that Canada is illegally killing preborn babies by permitting abortion. Last month, Federal Court of Appeal Justice J.D. Denis Pelletier [...]
Oswald Clark Analysis The Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Dec. 1. The outcome of the case will not only determine the fate of the Mississippi state law outlawing abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but possibly the fate of the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that found within [...]
‘Pregnant’ male mice SHANGHAI -- In what is being called “Frankenscience,” a team at the Naval Medical Academy in Shanghai led by Zhang Rongjia and Liu Yuhan, revealed their research on laboratory rats, in which they transferred the uteruses of female rats into the bodies of male rats and reported “male pregnancy.” The experiments resulted in death the vast majority of the [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary: Author, Carly Manes, who describes herself as “white, queer, and Jewish,” together with illustrator May, who goes by that singular name and identifies herself as a “brown, genderqueer cultural worker,” have produced What’s an Abortion Anyway? in a concerted attempt to propagandize children (ages 8+) into accepting abortion. Since nearly 60 per cent of women who have had abortions [...]