Interim Staff: On May 15, the Supreme Court of Canada announced it would not hear the case of Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Mike Delgrande’s challenge to the TCDSB’s censure over his opposition adding gender identity and gender expression to the board’s code of conduct. In November 2019, during debate on amending the code of conduct – in contravention of Church [...]
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, The Wickedest Man in Europe John Callahan (Princeton, $48, 315 pages): Bernard Mandeville was a self-exiled Dutch writer who found his work on the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Banned Books). The libertarian writer is most famous for The Fable of the Bees, a book which stood trial in 1723 in Middlesex [...]
Kesiah Beere: On May 26, Alberta’s Minister of Education and Childcare, Demetrios Nicolaides, announced in a press conference that Alberta intends to establish “clear policies and guidelines for all school divisions to follow,” regarding the inclusion of sexually-explicit books in school libraries. This message was delivered in response to four “coming-of-age” novels found in Calgary and Edmonton school libraries, according to Jack [...]
Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre Mark Bourrie (Bibliosis, $28.95 paperback, 437 pages): Anyone wanting to know why Pierre Poilievre lost the 2025 federal election need go any further than Mark Bourrie’s Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre, which could be more accurately titled Ripper: The Making and Unmaking of Pierre Poilievre. While Bourrie has a clear and admitted anti-Poilievre bias, and [...]
Samara Douma: On May 18, eligible Polish voters headed to polling stations to cast their vote in the Polish presidential election. When votes had been counted, none of the thirteen candidates had the majority needed to win the presidency. The top two candidates, Rafal Trzaskowski, with 31.4 per cent of the vote, and Karol Nawrocki, with 29.5 per cent of the vote, [...]
Paul Tuns: Conservative MP Tamara Jansen (Cloverdale-Langley City) introduced a private member’s bill, Bill C-218, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying). In 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7 broadening Canada’s euthanasia law, with one of the provisions being expanding Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime to patients suffering solely from mental illness. Other so-called safeguards that were lifted [...]
Interim Staff: In March, Manitoba Justice Minister Matt Wiebe introduced Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, to add “gender expression” to the province’s human rights law. The law, if passed, would amend the Manitoba Human Rights Code and Wiebe said it would “cover anything from behavior or appearance, such as dress, hair, makeup, body language and voice,” and that the [...]
John Carpay: In Latin, the word secular simply means “of this world,” and neither affirms nor denies any “religious” doctrine as such. Over time, the word secular has come to mean “non-religious.” After more than four centuries of loyal devotion to Catholicism, Quebecers in the 1960s began the process of ejecting the Church from schools, universities, hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, unions, orphanages, [...]
Josie Luetke: The mistake was in believing Pierre Poilievre was our political saviour. From the sense of crushing disappointment amongst friends and family members in the wake of the 2025 federal election, you’d almost think the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is pro-life. Almost. April 28 was disappointing to me for another reason. At the Waterloo Catholic District School Board [...]
Paul Tuns: Long-time Interim columnist Frank Kennedy has died at the age 97 on May 14. Frank Kennedy, along with his wife, Ileen, was active in their North York, Ont., parish, Blessed Trinity, and the pro-life movement. Frank Kennedy served as a columnist for The Interim from the mid-1980s to 2014 and as the paper’s Queen’s Park correspondent for many years. In [...]
Oswald Clark: Planned Parenthood of America (PP) released its 2024 annual report which revealed the organization committed 402,230 abortions in 2023-24 and received $792.2 million in federal funding. In 2022-2023, PP committed 392,712 abortions and raked in $699 million from taxpayers. The $792.2 million in “government health services reimbursement and grants” funding represented a 13 per cent increase compared to 2023 making [...]
Paul Tuns: After at least two major corporate sponsors dropped their financial backing of Toronto Pride, host of the largest annual LGBQT festivities in Canada each year, the city of Toronto came to the organization’s rescue. The city increased their share of funding to 15 LGBQT festivals in the city by 33 per cent to $2.5 million. The municipal largesse was not [...]
Rod Taylor, Special to The Interim: Editor’s Note: Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor delivered these remarks at the Parliamentary Press Gallery on May 7. Greetings fellow Canadians. I’m Rod Taylor, national leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. In the next few minutes, I want to propose—to our newly elected Prime Minister and the government he will lead . . . [...]
Paul Tuns: After at least two major corporate sponsors dropped their financial backing of Toronto Pride, host of the largest annual LGBQT festivities in Canada each year, the city of Toronto came to the organization’s rescue. The city increased their share of funding to 15 LGBQT festivals in the city by 33 per cent to $2.5 million. The municipal largesse was not [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 7, the day before the National March for Life, Campaign Life Coalition called on the Liberal government to protect life beginning at conception. Pete Baklinski, CLC director of communications, called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to end abortion. “The National March for Life began in 1998—29 years after Canada legalized [...]