Politics

Canadian bishop endorses denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians

Comment made after Carney attends Mass featuring pro-life sermon Paul Tuns: The head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has endorsed denying Holy Communion to Catholic pro-abortion politicians like Prime Minister Mark Carney. During an April 11 interview with EWTN, Bishop William McGrattan, president of the CCCB, said pro-abortion politicians should not receive the Eucharist. Days earlier, Prime Minister Mark [...]

admin2025-05-02T10:30:27-04:00May 2, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Religion|

Bernier promises to introduce late-term abortion ban

Paul Tuns: During an election campaign hyper-focused on Trump, tariffs, and affordability, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier said that he would introduce a late-term abortion ban if elected. While the five largest parties and their leaders – the Liberals under Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP, the Bloc Quebecois and Yves-François Blanchet, and Elizabeth May’s Green [...]

admin2025-05-02T09:13:20-04:00May 2, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Poilievre vows to maintain status quo on abortion and euthanasia

Paul Tuns: During a podcast interview with Olivier Primeau released on April 9, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said a Conservative government would not legislate on abortion or euthanasia. During the French-language interview, Poilievre said of abortion, “We will defend women’s freedom of choice.” He elaborated, “we will never change the law on abortion, we have already adopted … a policy for the [...]

admin2025-05-01T12:32:06-04:00May 1, 2025|Abortion, Euthanasia, Politics|

Conservative, Liberal platforms commit to abortion

Paul Tuns: In the final week of the campaign before election day on April 28, both the Liberal and Conservative parties released their party platforms and both made commitments to either defend the abortion status quo (the Conservatives) or increase access to abortion and abortifacient contraception (the Liberals). The Liberal platform, titled, “Canada Strong,” vowed “there will always be funding” for abortion [...]

admin2025-05-01T12:17:25-04:00May 1, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

CLC green lights more than 150 candidates

Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition gave a green light to 152 pro-life and pro-family candidates across the country in its final Voter’s Guide which rated the party platforms, leaders, and individual candidates. Candidates are given a green light when their voting record, survey information, and public comments on abortion, euthanasia, and LGBQT are collected and that data aligns with the pro-life and [...]

admin2025-05-01T12:03:44-04:00May 1, 2025|Abortion, Issues, Politics|

New Quebec bill would ban school staff from wearing a cross or crucifix

Interim Staff: On March 20, the Quebec provincial government of Premier François Legault tabled a bill that, if passed, would expand the current religious symbols ban to include all school staff, including teachers, from wearing any religious symbols including the cross or crucifix. Education Minister Bernard Drainville said, “If we are going to be coherent with this idea that a figure of [...]

admin2025-04-11T08:09:43-04:00April 11, 2025|Politics, Religion|

Manitoba to add ‘gender expression’ to human rights law protections

Paul Tuns: Manitoba Justice Minister Matt Wiebe tabled a government bill that, if passed, would enshrine “gender expression” in the province’s Human Rights Code, and “cover anything from behavior or appearance, such as dress, hair, make-up, body language and voice.” The NDP government of Wab Kinew introduced Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, on March 18, adding “gender expression” to [...]

admin2025-04-08T15:31:02-04:00April 8, 2025|Marriage and Family, Politics, Society & Culture|

American Leviathan

American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism Ned Ryun (Encounter, $25.99, 159 pages) Ned Ryun, founder of American Majority and Voter Gravity, has written a stinging overview of the origins and growth of the so-called Deep State, the class of bureaucrats that have come to rule American society. Ryun shows how bureaucratic rule quickly becomes authoritarian rule. The [...]

admin2025-04-07T12:35:05-04:00April 7, 2025|Politics, Reviews|

Three cities drop Christian Heritage Month after atheists complain

Paul Tuns: Three municipalities that declared December Chirstian Heritage Month in 2024 have reversed themselves and will not do so again. In January, The Interim reported that 56 jurisdictions in Canada, including the province of Saskatchewan, and cities such as Calgary, Mississauga, Regina, and Toronto, officially declared December “Christian Heritage Month” after an advocacy campaign by Molly Banerjei, a realtor from Toronto [...]

admin2025-04-07T12:17:33-04:00April 7, 2025|Politics, Religion|

CHP fights for right to advertise

Jonathan Van Maren: In a truly absurd story that serves as a microcosm of the battle over Canada’s soul, the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) is facing off with the City of Hamilton … over an ad that depicts a smiling young woman, and the dictionary definition: “Woman: An Adult Female.” The ad was submitted by CHP Hamilton in January 2023 to Outfront [...]

admin2025-04-07T12:08:34-04:00April 7, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture|

The importance of Montesquieu and his four cardinal goods

Sarah Stilton, Review: Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws: A Critical Edition Edited by W. B. Allen (Anthem Press, $215, 954 pages) There are Marxists and Lockeans, Nietzscheans and Aristotelians but there are no Montesquieuans. The knock against Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu is that he created no system, that he was not a theorizer. Montesquieu is considered a [...]

admin2025-04-02T13:08:19-04:00April 2, 2025|Politics, Reviews|

Carney wins Liberal leadership, calls snap election

CLC, CHP call on pro-lifers to vote conscientiously this election Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition gave Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre (left) an F, People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier (center) a C+, and Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor (right) an A+. Two weeks after winning the Liberal leadership, Prime Minister Mark Carney called an election for April 28. Carney, [...]

admin2025-04-01T12:10:08-04:00April 1, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

And then there was this, March 2025

Danielle Smith outraged about euthanasia Alberta Premier Danielle Smith appeared on the John Bachman Now Show on Newsmax in January. Toward the end of the interview, Bachman said that the increase in doctor-assisted suicide in Canada was frightening, and asked Smith for her opinion. Smith agreed that “one of the things that the federal government was allowing was a potential for [...]

admin2025-03-27T14:12:58-04:00March 27, 2025|Abortion, And then there was this..., Euthanasia, Politics, Religion|

Abortion activist who lobbied feds received funds

Paul Tuns: Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run for Life, revealed that the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (AARC) lobbied the federal government to restrict pro-life activism by stripping pro-life groups of their charitable tax status, a policy that the Trudeau government would later propose. Maloney revealed that according to the Canadian Registry of Lobbyists, AARC director Joyce Arthur had [...]

admin2025-03-25T09:49:55-04:00March 25, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Death to Woke Sports

Victor Penny: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life Donald Trump has driven a stake deep into the heart of the woke agenda. On Feb. 5, the U.S. President signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” The concept is straightforward: male athletes are now banned from participating in athletic competitions that are exclusively for girls and women. [...]

admin2025-03-21T09:05:35-04:00March 21, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture, Victor Penney|

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