Issues

IVF is morally questionable, but a better option exists for infertile couples

Tanis Cortens: The Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank, released a report on March 24 entitled “Treating Infertility: The New Frontier of Reproductive Medicine.” The report contrasts two methods of dealing with infertility: assisted reproductive technology (ART) and restorative reproductive medicine (RRM). “One of the major differences between ART and RRM,” wrote Natalie Dodson in the introduction to the report, “is [...]

admin2025-11-12T13:04:18-05:00November 12, 2025|Bioethics|

Liberal MP claims government has no plans to strip churches of charitable tax status

Paul Tuns: According to the Catholic Register, Karina Gould, chair of the House of Commons Committee on Finance, has denied the Carney government has any plans to follow through with a proposal from the committee in 2024 to rescind the charitable tax status of religious organizations by removing the promotion of religion as a valid charitable end. The Register obtained a copy [...]

admin2025-11-11T15:51:43-05:00November 11, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Religion|

Papal fallibility

Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has been a painful disappointment for pro-lifers. A long-time ally of the since-defrocked abuser, Theodore McCarrick, Cupich has been, at best, a reluctant defender of the unborn. Although he did hail the demise of Roe v. Wade as an opportunity for “a national conversation on protecting human life in the womb,” he criticized a statement made by his brother [...]

admin2025-11-11T15:52:21-05:00November 11, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Religion|

Uruguay legalizes euthanasia

Interim Staff: On Oct. 16, the Uruguay Senate passed a euthanasia law which permits a medical professional to kill an adult patient but does not permit assisted suicide in which a patient self-administers a lethal dose of a deadly medication. The vote was carried 31-20, supported by the governing left-wing coalition government of President Yamandú Orsi. The South American country lower house, [...]

admin2025-11-07T09:51:18-05:00November 7, 2025|Euthanasia|

In 2025, Canada approaches 100,000 deaths

Paul Tuns: Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, estimates that in 2024 there were “about 16,500” euthanasia deaths, bringing the total to 76,800 since Medical Assistance in Dying was legalized in 2016. With numbers steadily increasing each year, Schadenberg estimates that about 90,000 patients have been euthanized when you include this year’s numbers which will not be available until [...]

admin2025-11-07T09:47:57-05:00November 7, 2025|Euthanasia|

Euthanasia instills fear of health care system for people with disabilities

Paul Tuns: Inclusion Canada’s Krista Carr said she hears weekly from people with disabilities who are tentative accessing public health care because of concerns about being pressured into Medical Assistance in Dying. During testimony before the parliamentary Finance Committee, Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, a disabilities group, told MPs that she is aware of Canadians who are concerned about [...]

admin2025-11-07T09:41:49-05:00November 7, 2025|Euthanasia|

Dementia patient euthanized at family’s request

Paul Tuns: The National Post reported that woman in her late 80s was killed by euthanasia after “a family member brought forward a request for an assisted death.” The woman, identified only as Mrs. 6F in a recent coroner’s committee report, was subsequently killed by medical staff after a MAiD provider, the Post reported, “deemed the woman had given her final expressed [...]

admin2025-11-06T09:55:57-05:00November 6, 2025|Euthanasia|

Religious persecution a global phenomenon

Paul Tuns: According to Open Doors, a Christian advocacy group, one in seven Christians worldwide suffer persecution or discrimination due to their religious beliefs. The numbers for 2024 are stark. 380 million Christians suffer persecution or discrimination based on their religious beliefs. 50 countries are rated by Open Doors as having “high,” “very high,” or “extreme” persecution and discrimination – 13 are [...]

admin2025-11-06T09:51:15-05:00November 6, 2025|Religion|

Red November

November is a solemn month, one which is marked by many memorials. On Remembrance Day, we commemorate not only the conclusion of the Great War, but all of the fallen who made the ultimate sacrifice in the course of Canada’s other military conflicts as well. To this annual anniversary, further occasions to reflect in a similarly somber way have been added. The [...]

admin2025-11-06T09:45:22-05:00November 6, 2025|Religion|

Feds give millions to promote abortion to ‘underserved groups’

Paul Tuns Ottawa’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund gave the University of British Columbia faculty of Medicine’s Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) $4.3 million in taxpayer funding to pay for research into expanding abortion to “underserved” groups such as individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, the homeless, and youth. UBC Medicine said in a press release, the funding will “address barriers to [...]

admin2025-11-04T16:48:30-05:00November 4, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Former Interim production manager, Dave Bolton, RIP

Dan Di Rocco: Dave Bolton, long-time production and layout manager for The Interim newspaper, died July 27, stricken by cancer. He was 72. For two decades, from 2000 to 2020, Dave contributed to the monthly publishing of our paper, laying out the articles, ads, and other components of the publication. Often it was a pressure cooker of a job, weeks of slow [...]

admin2025-10-14T17:12:29-04:00October 14, 2025|Abortion|

The hill to die on

Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2023, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) planned to display abortion victim photography during our press conference on Parliament Hill on May 10, the day prior to the National March for Life, but the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) stopped us from doing so. They originally cited an older version of General Rules for [...]

admin2025-10-10T11:05:33-04:00October 10, 2025|Abortion, Josie Luetke|

Open Letter to a politician seeking office

Donald DeMarco: My iPad, that incomprehensible marvel of technology, conveyed a letter from a politician who wanted my vote. He was polite, as was proper, and promised to do many good things if elected, as was expected. He closed his missive, fully confident that I would fully agree with him. “And I will always defend,” he said, “a woman’s right to abortion.” [...]

admin2025-10-10T10:54:29-04:00October 10, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Sexual ethics

Rory Leishman: The book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible describes an era in ancient Israel when, instead of obeying the commandments of God, most men did what was right in their own eyes. The result was chaos, confusion and disaster. The same is true of our own era. Instead of steadfastly upholding the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality, most people have [...]

admin2025-10-10T10:47:15-04:00October 10, 2025|Marriage and Family, Rory Leishman|

Viral social media post sheds light on grief of men bereaved by abortion

Tanis Cortens: A simple comic strip posted on X (formerly Twitter) by pro-life English doctor Calum Miller reveals an often-neglected truth: many fathers mourn their aborted children. The four-panel image, posted on May 18, depicts a boy playing on a swing and building a block tower with his father. Then the child fades, leaving his father distraught. In the final panel, the [...]

admin2025-10-09T12:27:01-04:00October 9, 2025|Abortion|

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