Society & Culture

Regulatory bodies squelching dissenting voices

By Angelica Vecchiato: Occupational licensing bodies— originally intended to uphold professional standards by regulating and overseeing work in a particular field— are increasingly being used as self-righteous vessels to quash dissenting, minority opinions. In the name of “holding people accountable,” the tyranny of regulatory bodies such as nursing associations has ramped up, especially over the past couple of months. Canadian academic Jordan [...]

admin2023-04-11T09:34:52-04:00April 11, 2023|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Calgary creates bubble zones to protect drag events

Paul Tuns: Calgary city council voted to clamp down on protests in the wake of public opposition to drag events in the city. The new law, the Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw, was passed 10-5 and prohibits protests within 100 metres of an entrance to a recreation facility or library. The council also amended an existing bylaw to add the word “intimidation” [...]

admin2023-04-06T10:35:30-04:00April 6, 2023|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

All must submit

From the editor's desk: The Interim editor, Paul Tuns In January, something extraordinary happened: a National Hockey League hockey player, Philadelphia Flyer’s defenseman Ivan Provorov, took to the pre-game practice wearing his regular jersey. It launched hundreds of columns in both the sports pages and editorial pages and conversations on radio about the so-called homophobia problem in hockey. Provorov declined [...]

admin2023-04-06T10:57:50-04:00April 6, 2023|Religion, Society & Culture|

Detransitioner sues healthcare professionals

Interim Staff: Michelle Zacchigna is suing her medical team for not considering her mental health issues when they affirmed her self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria and permitting her to transition to become a male. Source: Zacchinga’s Twitter Michelle Zacchigna, 34, of Orillia, Ont., is suing eight health professionals who facilitated a change in her gender from female to male in 2010, [...]

admin2023-04-04T18:53:26-04:00April 4, 2023|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

And then there was this … April 2023

Brain-dead women as ‘baby machines’ We have learned that a German molecular biologist, Hashem Al-Ghaili, is developing Ectolife, transparent artificial wombs where babies will be conceived and “housed” until birth, while their parents can look on as spectators. He said the technology could be used to reverse declining birth rates in countries such as Bulgar, Japan, and South Korea. LifeSiteNews reports that [...]

admin2023-03-31T10:59:04-04:00March 31, 2023|Abortion, Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

World’s end: enjoy the decline

Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements There’s an evergreen appeal to books about the world going to hell. There might be better or worse times to tell a story about civilization falling apart – the ‘30s and ‘70s were ripe for it; the ‘60s and ‘90s not so much. We’re in one of those doomsaying boom times again. I [...]

admin2023-03-30T11:03:38-04:00March 30, 2023|Reviews, Rick McGinnis, Society & Culture|

Marshall McLuhan

Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911-Dec. 31, 1980), as most Canadians may know, was a cornerstone to the study of the media. He was, in many ways, ahead of his field. Therefore, he was both widely misunderstood and widely praised. He was an enigma. He was dubbed the “guru of the electric age” and yet his basic philosophical vision was [...]

admin2023-03-28T22:52:11-04:00March 28, 2023|Society & Culture|

The Transhumanist Threat

Paul Tuns: With the unleashing of the ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) in November 2022, an artificial intelligence program that provides responses to questions based on its comprehensive scouring of the internet – everything that’s been written that is accessible online -- there are new worries about how close the world is coming to the transhuman or posthuman future, whether The Singularity [...]

admin2023-03-16T13:21:43-04:00March 16, 2023|Society & Culture|

Children bore the brunt of Covid restrictions

Mary Zwicker: This month marks the third anniversary of the World Health Organization’s March 11, 2020 declaration of a global pandemic. This announcement kickstarted the emergency pandemic restrictions imposition in Canada and the United States, as well as across the world, the effects of which nations are still recovering from, and will be for a long time to come. Beginning in March [...]

admin2023-03-09T11:09:41-05:00March 9, 2023|Society & Culture|

Ontario teen suspended for opposing gender ideology

Interim Staff: The Renfrew County Catholic District School Board (RCCDSB) in northern Ontario suspended high school student Josh Alexander, 16, for the remainder of the year because he protested the school's policy of permitting gender-confused males to use the girls’ washrooms. James Kitchen, chief litigator for Liberty Coalition Canada (LCC) said St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew suspended Alexander because the [...]

admin2023-03-08T12:13:59-05:00March 8, 2023|Society & Culture|

Francis, Anglican Church muddy waters on homosexuality

Interim Staff In a late-January interview with the Associated Press in January, Pope Francis said that homosexuality should not be criminalized. Meanwhile, on Feb. 9, the governing body of the Church of England voted to bless same-sex couples while leaving unchanged the Church’s definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Pope Francis told AP reporters on Jan. 25, that, [...]

admin2023-03-07T11:07:40-05:00March 7, 2023|Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

The Interim at 40

It should, of course, be cause for celebration: this month, The Interim newspaper will enter its fifth decade of publication. And, to a certain extent, congratulations are due—we need to honor the generosity of donors and advertisers, the efforts of our reporters, columnists, and editorial staff, and, above all, our intelligent, passionate, and longstanding readership, without whom our words would have no [...]

admin2023-03-01T11:10:16-05:00March 1, 2023|Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

40 years ago we started The Interim

Jim Hughes: Although it might seem like yesterday to some, it’s actually been 40 years since the first edition of The Interim rolled off the presses. The paper’s name came courtesy of the late Carl Scharfe, media man for Campaign Life. He’s also the man who suggested that we needed a presence on the Internet (what’s an internet?) which led to the [...]

admin2023-03-01T11:08:01-05:00March 1, 2023|Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Not your typical Super Bowl halftime show

The totally understated pro-life message in the 2023 Super Bowl Angelica Vecchiato: The 2023 Super Bowl-- a close game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles-- went down in history for several reasons: the Kelce brothers clashing against one another other on opposite ends of the field, star player Mahomes’ strained ankle, and Justina Miles, the first female “deaf performer,” signing [...]

admin2023-02-17T10:08:32-05:00February 17, 2023|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

And Then There Was This, February 2023

David Daleiden wins landmark lawsuit David Daleiden, an American pro-life activist who founded the Center for Medical Progress in 2013, produces undercover video recordings to expose Planned Parenthood’s (PP) nefarious activities around the “aborted baby parts trade” (i.e. the selling of aborted fetal tissue and organs for profit). This has resulted in PP being discredited, but has also led to civil and [...]

admin2023-02-16T08:34:24-05:00February 16, 2023|Abortion, Politics, Society & Culture|

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