Society & Culture

Catholic bishops investigate Development and Peace over partnerships

LifeSiteNews.com reports that 12 Canadian Catholic bishops are investigating the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (Development and Peace or D&P) over revelations in early 2017 that it partnered with 40 groups in developing countries that were pro-abortion or pro-LGBT. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) asked for a review after the Catholic Women’s League raised concerns about some of [...]

Paul Tuns2018-11-23T10:33:46-05:00November 23, 2018|Religion, Society & Culture|

New book challenges transgender ideology

When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Momentby Ryan T. Anderson (Encounter Books, $36.99, 264 pages) Ryan T. Anderson, the William E. Simon senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, has written a new book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. Anderson takes a thorough look at the transgender moment, from physical, mental, and psychological challenges the transgendered [...]

Paul Tuns2018-11-23T10:42:04-05:00November 23, 2018|Announcements, Book Review, Features, Sex Education, Society & Culture|

Persistently incorrect population worries

Population Bombed: Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Changeby Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurmak (Global Warming Policy Foundation, $15.99 pb, $7.75 Kindle, 259 pages) Worries about over-population are a seeming constant in debates of world issues, returning regularly to stoke fear about the rising number of people inhabiting the planet. Earlier this year, Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 book The [...]

Paul Tuns2018-11-02T08:46:54-04:00November 2, 2018|Announcements, Book Review, Features, Society & Culture|

How the courts allowed pornography

For the past 30 years, Canadians have been increasingly inundated with the most disgusting exhibitions of pornography on television, in the movies, and on-line. How can that be? Throughout this period, the Criminal Code of Canada has clearly stated that everyone commits an offence punishable by up to two years imprisonment who (a) makes, prints, publishes or circulates any “obscene” thing whatever [...]

Paul Tuns2018-10-19T07:47:01-04:00October 19, 2018|Announcements, Features, Rory Leishman, Society & Culture|

B.C. voters should oppose proportional representation

British Columbians will vote by mail in a referendum on what voting system the province should use for its elections. The referendum is being held by mail from Oct. 22 to Nov. 30. All B.C. residents over the age of 18 can vote in the referendum. This is the third time provincial voters will have their say on electoral reform, having [...]

Paul Tuns2018-10-22T07:08:01-04:00October 15, 2018|Abortion, Abortion Law, Announcements, Conscience Legislation, Features, Politics, Society & Culture|

The Interim at 35

In March 1983, this paper was launched to inform readers of the “day-to-day battle to protect unborn babies.” That first paper announced that “the philosophy of this monthly will always be one of no compromise on abortion,” because “a human life, from the moment of conception represents an individual, precious gift from God.” We have stayed true to that mandate, and since [...]

Paul Tuns2018-10-08T11:11:32-04:00October 8, 2018|Announcements, Editorials, Features, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups, Society & Culture|

Canada’s velvet totalitarianism

Law Matters John Carpay Canada in 2018 is still a relatively safe space for practicing Christians. Especially when compared to Pakistan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, where churches are burned, bombed or banned. Or China, which persecutes believers who attend authentic Christian churches free from government control. Canada’s velvet totalitarianism is such that the British Columbia government did not resort to [...]

Paul Tuns2018-09-19T08:23:51-04:00September 19, 2018|John Carpay, Religious Education, Society & Culture|

A burgeoning industry

George Jefferson from TV show All in the Family. Until I did some research, it hadn’t occurred to me that there might be a cache of racial slurs that target whites. Well, apparently there are plenty of the allegedly offensive epithets. I say “apparently” and “allegedly” because I’ve never heard of most of the entries, and the ones I know [...]

Paul Tuns2018-09-19T08:16:37-04:00September 19, 2018|Announcements, Features, Joe Campbell, Society & Culture|

The problem with pornography

A scourge for individuals and society In February, the New York Times Magazine ran a long cover story, “What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn.” Based on interviews with boys selected to take part in the porn literacy class in a peer-leadership program for Boston teenagers, the article relates in depressing detail the habits of teenage users of pornography and how what they view [...]

Paul Tuns2018-09-07T15:01:24-04:00September 7, 2018|Announcements, Features, Sex Education, Society & Culture|

US-UN showdown expected this autumn

UN ambassador Nikki Haley has followed lead of Trump administration in keeping abortion out of recent statements. A disagreement over abortion between the Trump administration and European governments has set the stage for a showdown in the UN General Assembly this fall. At issue is the inclusion of various phrases used to support abortion in an annual UN resolution on [...]

Paul Tuns2018-08-07T08:05:46-04:00August 7, 2018|Politics, Society & Culture|

Whatcott arrested for pride parade antics

Bill Whatcott and others infiltrated the 2016 Toronto Pride parade to distribute pamphlets describing the dangers of homosexual activity. Christian activist Bill Whatcott, 51, of Leduc, Alberta, surrendered himself to the Calgary policy on June 22, following the Toronto Police Service issuing a Canada-wide arrest warrant for charges related to hate-crime complaints. In 2016, Whatcott is alleged to have distributed [...]

Paul Tuns2018-07-30T08:13:41-04:00July 30, 2018|Human rights, Religion, Sex Education, Society & Culture|

Trinity Western loses Christian law school fight

On June 15, in a 7-2 ruling, the Canadian Supreme Court found that the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario have the power to refuse to accredit law school graduates of Trinity Western University because the Christian school’s community covenant binds students to a code of conduct, that among other things, includes abstaining from sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The Court [...]

Paul Tuns2018-07-30T08:01:50-04:00July 30, 2018|Politics, Religion, Society & Culture|

There is no ‘right’ to abortion

A common strategy employed by “pro-choice” advocates today is to claim that women in Canada have the constitutional right to abortion. For example, Justin Trudeau, speaking in 2014 before he had yet become Prime Minister, said: “Since 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed that a woman’s right to choose in this matter is part of her fundamental rights and freedoms…. [...]

Paul Tuns2018-07-30T08:18:07-04:00July 30, 2018|Abortion, Conscience Legislation, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and thinking about the future

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film widely regarded as one of the best and most important in the history of cinema. I’m not here to dispute this judgment – I’m a big fan of the film, and have been since my brother-in-law took me to see a road show screening [...]

Paul Tuns2018-07-24T19:15:01-04:00July 24, 2018|Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis, Society & Culture|

Eric McLuhan, scholar and pro-lifer, RIP

Eric McLuhan was one of The Interim's first columnists Eric McLuhan, son of the famous Marshall McLuhan, was a renowned scholar of media in his own right, and used his expertise to help the pro-life cause. Eric McLuhan, a former columnist for The Interimand popular pro-life speaker, passed away May 18 in Bogota, Colombia, where he had just delivered the [...]

Paul Tuns2018-07-24T18:59:34-04:00July 24, 2018|Pro-Life, Profiles, Society & Culture|

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