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Planned Parenthood annual report fodder for those seeking to defund abortion giant

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 [...]

admin2025-06-13T11:10:26-04:00June 13, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Toronto ponies up for Pride

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 [...]

admin2025-06-13T08:28:09-04:00June 12, 2025|Marriage and Family, Politics|

CHP leader’s advice for the new government, Parliament

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 . . . [...]

admin2025-06-12T13:05:31-04:00June 12, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Religion, Society & Culture|

Toronto pumps money into Pride celebrations as companies drop sponsorships

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 [...]

admin2025-06-09T09:06:05-04:00June 9, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture|

CLC calls for legal ‘protection from conception’

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 [...]

admin2025-06-06T16:55:18-04:00June 6, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Photos from the National March for Life

admin2025-06-06T16:51:37-04:00June 6, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Society & Culture|

National March for Life 2025

Calls for politicians to end the killing of the preborn Interim Staff: On May 8, pro-life Canadians assembled in the nation’s capital for the 29th annual National March for Life, the highlight of a week of pro-life events in Ottawa organized by Campaign Life Coalition. This year’s them was “Protection at Conception,” calling for legal recognition and protection of human life from [...]

admin2025-06-06T15:28:05-04:00June 6, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything All Wrong All at Once

Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All at Once: Tristan Hopper (Sutherland House, $22.95, 126 pages) National Post writer Tristan Hopper has written a recent history of Canada that serves as a warning for the rest of the world. Recently, Canadians have enjoyed a splurge of patriotism in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump, but Hopper says we should [...]

admin2025-06-05T08:33:36-04:00June 5, 2025|Euthanasia, Politics, Reviews, Society & Culture|

The Canada we deserve: Learning from the election

Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Canada has just undergone an election – endured is a better word; suffered through even better – but before we collectively consign the experience to the memory dump (it’s unlikely we’d have another one if we remember what they’re like) I think we should make this what they call a “teachable moment” and [...]

admin2025-06-04T08:25:40-04:00June 4, 2025|Politics, Rick McGinnis|

Number of pro-life MPs increases after April 28 federal vote

Paul Tuns, Analysis: According to Campaign Life Coalition, there were 42 green-lighted candidates elected MP on April 28, up six from the previous Parliament. CLC gave the green light to more than 150 candidates among four parties – the Conservatives, Christian Heritage Party of Canada, United Party of Canada, and Libertarians – who were pro-life without exceptions based on answers to the organization’s [...]

admin2025-06-04T08:05:44-04:00June 4, 2025|Politics|

Halton Catholic school board rejects pro-life motion to block abortion funding

Interim Staff: On April 8, the Halton Catholic District School Board rejected a motion to prevent school funds from supporting abortion, contraception, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell experiments in a lopsided 2-5 vote against the motion. Oakville school trustee Helena Karabela tabled the amendment to the HCDSB Fundraising Activities Policy to ensure no school funds are used to support abortion or other [...]

admin2025-05-16T11:23:58-04:00May 16, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Politics, Society & Culture|

The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment

The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment Steven Gow Calabresi and Gary Lawson (Encounter, $52, 468 pages) In 1985, Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Edwin Meese III addressed the annual meeting of the American Bar Association when he said that under his leadership the Department of Justice would “resurrect the original meaning of the constitutional provisions and statutes as the only [...]

admin2025-05-13T14:03:43-04:00May 13, 2025|Politics, Reviews|

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn Christoher Cox (Simon & Schuster, $46.00, 615 pages) Former Congressman Christopher Cox has written a critical biography of Woodrow Wilson, who served as president from 1913-1921 and remains, as Cox says in his introduction, “enormously consequential.” Cox outlines Wilson’s energetic presidency which sought to have government’s tentacles reach every corner of the nation but he does not [...]

admin2025-05-05T18:14:39-04:00May 5, 2025|Politics, Reviews|

An agenda for the next Parliament

The Interim went to press days before the April 28 federal election and whatever the results, there does not appear to be much good news for pro-lifers. As we report on page 10, the Conservatives and Liberals are both committed to the abortion and euthanasia status quo which kills more than 100,000 preborn children and 15,000 vulnerable patients annually. It is a [...]

admin2025-05-05T09:13:52-04:00May 5, 2025|Abortion, Euthanasia, Marriage and Family, Politics, Society & Culture|

Why the abortion question still breaks the Right

Richard Dur, Commentary: Every election, like clockwork, the Liberals drag the abortion issue into the spotlight. And every time, Conservatives act surprised — as if this hasn’t happened every other election. They stumble. They mumble. They change the subject. They offer up a vague, unconvincing “we won’t touch the issue” — a line disbelieved by those already against them, and deeply demoralizing to [...]

admin2025-05-02T10:10:01-04:00May 2, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

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