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 University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine announced that the pro-life Saskatoon Pregnancy Options Centre (SPOC) “will not be included as a placement site option going forward,” after pro-abortion students complained that the Centre discouraged abortion. Initially, the University’s medical school resisted the campaign by Gender Engagement in Medicine to make the Pregnancy Center verboten for medical students seeking work [...]
Sarah Gangl Amid the chaotic COVID-19 pandemic, it has been easy to lose sight of a societal pandemic that attacks our morals, rights, and freedoms as pro-life individuals. This pandemic is none other than the cancel culture, which involves shaming and punishing those whose comments, ideas, or beliefs are contrary to the mainstream narrative and considered offensive. Social media platforms and news [...]
Maeve Roche The French sociologist Émile Durkheim said flags are emblems of social solidarity with transcendent qualities to represent the unifying values of a collective group of individuals. In March of this year, the Pro-Life Flag Project prompted pro-life organizations across the United States to share their opinions on the potential creation and distribution of a unifying, pro-life flag. On May 24, [...]
Paul Tuns: A medical student expelled by the University of Manitoba over pro-life and pro-gun social media posts has won a court case overturning his expulsion. In February 2019, Rafael Zaki, a Coptic Orthodox student at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine, posted three items on his Facebook page: two supported the U.S. Second Amendment to bear arms and [...]
Paul Tuns - Analysis: On August 15, Justin Trudeau asked for an election with an eye to regaining a majority. Voters will cast their ballots on Sept. 20, following a five-week campaign. Over the last 22 months, the Trudeau government has continued to push a socially liberal agenda, just as it had during its first mandate. Over the first four years, Justin Trudeau’s [...]
Joanna Alphonso Michelle Cohen published an article in the April edition of The College of Family Physicians of Canada, “Medical abortion is an essential service during the pandemic,” in which she argued that there has been an increase in calls to the Sexual Health and Rights hotline but that because of “new barriers to contraception and abortion in the wake of the [...]
Rory Leishman In a pastoral letter issued on May 1, the Archbishop of San Francisco, Cardinal Salvatore Cordileone, has spelled out with admirable clarity why no faithful Christian cleric should allow a politician who aids and abets in committing the evils of abortion to take part in Holy Communion. Having earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in [...]
Interim Staff - During the Rose Dinner at the National March for Life, there was a panel discussion on the pro-life movement and cancel culture – the trend that sees attacks not only on the ideas that people hold, but the attempt to cancel the people who hold them from polite society, banishing them by firing them from their job, preventing them [...]
BY INTERIM STAFF Mary Beryl Caves, a long-time leader in the Ontario pro-life community passed away on Jan. 7 at the age of 87. Caves, who went by her middle name Beryl, and her husband, Robert “Robin” Caves, founded Windsor and Area Right to Life (now Windsor-Essex Right to Life) in the early 1970s. When Beryl suffered a debilitating stroke, Robin took [...]
BY INTERIM STAFF A study published in the December 2020 European Journal of Human Genetics reported that the number of babies born with Down Syndrome in Europe fell by half between 2011 and 2015. The study confirms the worries of pro-life activists that have argued that increased prenatal testing and capability would lead more women to kill their preborn children diagnosed with [...]
Michael Haynes Special to The Interim A Christian medical student in Manitoba has been expelled from university for expressing anti-abortion views on Facebook. Rafael Zaki is a Coptic Christian, who left Egypt along with his parents, in order to be able to practise their religion freely. His parents are both successful in medical careers, The Post Millennial (TPM) reports, and as Zaki [...]
By Interim Staff On Oct. 22, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal declared a law that permitted abortion for preborn children diagnosed with “fetal defect or incurable illness” to be unconstitutional. Nearly all abortions committed in the predominantly Catholic eastern European country are carried out for such reasons (1074 or 1100 legal abortions in 2019). The tribunal’s president, Julia Przylebska, wrote in the decision that [...]
Paul Morgan, a long-time pro-life activist in Peterborough, passed away on Sept. 2 at the age of 85. Jim Hughes, president emeritus of Campaign Life Coalition, told The Interim that he met Morgan more than 35 years ago, and that he was involved in everything the pro-life movement was active in. Morgan became a board member for CLC Ontario in the 1980s [...]
CLC national president Jeff Gunnarson said the “pro-life candidates had stunning performances, representing a combined 35 per cent of the total vote on the first ballot.” He told The Interim that having “once again proved that pro-lifers are a large and important part of the Conservative coalition, Erin O’Toole needs to respect their views with more than lip service that social conservatives [...]