John Carpay: Benjami Franklin wrote 250 years ago that “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” For decades, the trend in Canada has been towards an ever-increasing body of laws and regulations, so many that even the most diligent and conscientious businessman, school principal, manufacturer and manager of a [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements At the core of Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson’s new book Breaking Point: The New Big Shifts Putting Canada at Risk is a simple truth that doesn’t get repeated enough. “Canada is not a love story,” they write. “It is a marriage of convenience, a survival strategy conceived a century and a half [...]
From the editor’s desk We sent our February edition with its cover story on the link between transgenderism and deadly violence to the printer in the last week of January. The edition started hitting mailboxes around Feb. 7. On Feb. 10, a man who identified as a woman, killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., at his family [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 12, Campaign Life Coalition, CitizenGo, Campagne Québec-Vie, and 4 My Canada held a joint press conference at the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery to raise concerns about Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, which opponents say would criminalize quoting certain passages of Scripture. Civil liberties, religious, and socially conservative groups have criticized the bill, introduced last September, for its [...]
Paul Tuns: Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, died at the age of 84 on Feb. 17. Jackson is famous for having marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and in 1971 founded People United to Save Humanity (Operation Push), later renamed People United to Serve Humanity. He was [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 1, Laura Fernández Delgado was elected president of Costa Rica with 1.191 million votes and 48.3 per cent of the vote in a 20-candidate field, to become the second female president of the Central American country. If she had not won 40 per cent of the vote, the two candidates with the most votes would have faced each [...]
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Both literally and figuratively, the Pete Townsend-penned line from The Who’s iconic, politically inspired track Won’t Get Fooled Again rang ever-true as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre retained his leadership with 87.4 per cent support among voting delegates at the party‘s 2026 Calgary Convention. According to a party spokesman who spoke with CBC, a [...]
Josie Luetke: Like a kicked dog coming back for more, I flew to Calgary for the 2026 Conservative Party of Canada convention at the tail end of January. As pro-life candidates have been disqualified by the party and leader Pierre Poilievre has gone over to the dark side—fully embracing abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and even the status quo on euthanasia—many of Campaign Life [...]
Interim Staff: At their recent national convention, the Conservative Party of Canada transformed an opportunity to lead the charge on the protection of Canada’s founding values into an exercise in defending the modern political status quo. Voting delegates from ridings across Canada gathered in Calgary from Jan. 29-31 to network with fellow party members, hear from distinguished speakers, and vote on amendments [...]
Why do right-wing populist governments vote with the left at the EU? This is a question that has perplexed many. Why is it that conservative countries like Hungary, Italy, and Poland almost uniformly stand with the rest of the European Union countries in supporting far-left measures? Are they strong-armed, bullied, afraid of losing friends, afraid of losing trade opportunities, afraid of retaliation [...]
From the editor’s desk: In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords is debating whether to legalize euthanasia. We have a report on it in “And then there was this” on p. 17. I wanted to highlight one part of the on-going debate on that side of the lake, namely Lord Falconer’s comment during the third committee stage debate that the Terminally [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: As Congressional leaders worked on a deal to extend Obamacare subsidies where Democrats insisted on funds for abortion and Republicans resisted, President Donald Trump told the Republican leadership on Jan 6. “you have to be a little flexible on Hyde, you know.” The Hyde Amendment, federal law since 1976, bans federal funds from being used in Medicare, Medicaid, [...]
Tamara Jansen, Special to The Interim: Unless this Parliament chooses a different path, Canada will allow MAiD for people whose only condition is mental illness. That means men and women struggling with depression, trauma or overwhelming psychological pain could be steered toward death by a system that too often cannot offer timely treatment, consistent follow-up or even basic support. This is why I [...]
Paul Tuns: Andrew Lawton stands up to speak in the Chambre during Question Period. © HOC-CDCCredit: Bernard Thibodeau, House of Commons Photo Services On Dec. 5, the House of Commons debated C-218, Tamara Jansen’s private member’s bill that would put an end to the planned March 2027 expansion of euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness. C-218, An Act [...]
Paul Tuns: On Dec. 14, pro-life conservative José Antonio Kast won 58 per cent of the vote in the Chilean presidential election against Jeannette Jara of the Chilean Communist Party, which has ties to Cuba and Nicaragua. Kast will be sworn into office on March 11. Kast is a married Catholic and father of nine children, who had served as a city [...]