Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Parliament Hill has been cleared, but the memory of the Freedom Convoy and the extreme actions government took to crush it will remain. Snapshots of the move by the police against peaceful protesters were splattered across social media with proclamations like, “This is not my Canada.” Except it is. Anyone who was [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements While writing my recent review of Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties: A Book, I couldn’t help but notice some conspicuous omissions from the catalogue of pop culture and political events the writer referenced in the book. I could understand why he might overlook important events that took place outside the United States – Klosterman’s [...]
Jonathon Van Maren Commentary: One of the few issues that Canadian social conservatives have been able to discuss without backlash is that of digital pornography. Several years ago, freshman Conservative MP Arnold Viersen put forward Motion 47 to have a committee research the connections between porn and sexual violence—it passed unanimously.With a number of parliamentary allies and his unlikely partner, Montreal Senator [...]
Old films are charming partly for the windows that they open on to the vanished worlds of the past. We hear cadences and colloquia that we might dimly recall from our own youth—or from the phrases of our fathers or grandfathers. We see antiquated manners and styles of dress that have migrated from thrift stores to antique shops—or sometimes even history books. [...]
Interim Staff: The Jason Kenney government announced that women on Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) or income support will be eligible for a new prenatal benefit beginning in May. On March 10, Premier Kenney, along with Jason Luong, Minister of Community and Social Services, announced eligible women will be able to receive $100 per month starting in the second trimester [...]
Paul Tuns: A report published by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) is being used to pressure countries, described as "laggards" in the media and by left-wing politicians, to increase access to contraception. The EPF's "Contraception Atlas" ranks countries on contraception access, counseling and online information and gives each country a numeric grade. Key to getting an "excellent" [...]
Rory Leishman: Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau promised that the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would enhance the constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. Instead, the opposite is true: Canadians today are demonstrably less free than they were 40 years ago. As evidence, consider the unprecedented, freedom-stifling provisions of Bill C-4, the notorious legislation adopted in December by Parliament with [...]
AndrewLawton: Call them the honks heard ‘round the world. The convoy that rolled across Canada in January before making downtown Ottawa the freest spot in the country sent a message about much more than vaccine mandates. In a country whose pandemic restrictions have been defined by complacency and acceptance rather than resistance, the convoy was the moment at which Canadians decided they’d [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary: Dialogue is a beautiful word, replete with the promise of two opposing sides getting together in peace and harmony. Socrates was a great champion of dialogue. His perpetual frustration, however, was that his opponents were securely entrenched in a monologue – talking to themselves. This has been my problem in trying to engage abortion supporters in a dialogue. One [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Pulling straight from Wikipedia: “Body positivity is a social movement focused on the acceptance of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities, while challenging present-day beauty standards as an undesirable social construct.” It’s dominated by social liberals, which, given the above buzz words, may be unsurprising, but, [...]
Interim Staff: Supporters of Calgary preacher Artur Pawlowski, who is in jail awaiting a bail hearing on a “mischief” charge, are holding daily protests calling for his release. Pawlowski is charged with mischief over $5,000 and interrupting the operation of essential infrastructure under Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act for his role in the Coutts, Alberta, border crossing demonstration. Rebel News reported that [...]
By Mark Wegierski: The Canadian federal election of September 20, 2021, was another failure for the Conservative Party of Canada, despite Conservative leader Erin O’Toole’s attempted “move to the centre.” After five months the Conservative Party put an end to the infighting among pro- and anti-O’Toole factions, with the caucus voting him out as leader. While the political leader is important, the [...]
Carl Hétu Special to The Interim: Editor’s Note: Carl Hétu was the national director of CNEWA Canada (Catholic Near East Welfare Association) from 2004 – 2022. This open letter is reprinted with permission. Eighteen years ago this month, I officially began my journey as a national director for CNEWA, specifically to help establish a Canadian office. Many at the time thought the [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements The ‘90s don’t get a lot of love. The last decade of the 20th century is often seen as a kind of pregnant pause – a political and social interregnum between an event that put an (apparently) full stop on the conflict that had shaped much of the previous century (the Cold War) [...]
Whatever Happened to Tradition: History, Belonging, and the Future of the West by Tim Stanley (Bloomsbury Continuum, $38, 266 pages) Tradition and especially traditionalism has a bad reputation. It is often conflated with the old-fashioned and nostalgia, which barely begin to scratch the surface of the richness of tradition. Tim Stanley, an editorial writer for the Daily Telegraph in London comes to [...]