Oswald Clark: New Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy announced he will investigate the safety of the abortion pill. After being sworn in as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told Fox News that he would study the dangers of the abortion pill. Kennedy, who said he was pro-abortion when he [...]
By any measure, the bygone days of the Biden administration were dark ones for the pro-life movement in America: no position seemed too radical, and no progressive agenda—from gender ideology to the criminalization of public, peaceful pro-life witness—was left behind. In a strange way, however, the very strides that this administration made towards the dystopian nightmare of left-wing ideology were what sealed [...]
Oswald Clark: Nellie Gray, president of the March for Life Fund, at the March for Life rally near the White House in 2004 As part of the celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of American independence on July 4, 2026, President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes which will feature at least 244 significant [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 1, Manitoba’s Safe Access to Abortion Services Act came into effect, prohibiting all forms of pro-life speech near abortion facilities. Passed last spring after the then new NDP government came to power, the new law bans demonstration, picketing, or sidewalk counselling intended to deter women from obtaining an abortion. The bill created a 50-meter buffer zone around stand-alone [...]
The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party Michael Tackett (Simon & Schuster, $44, 397 pages) Michael Tackett’s The Price of Power is a mainstream journalist’s fair-minded account of one of the most important elected figures in U.S. history, a man whose mastering of Senate procedures led him to command and control his party [...]
CLC has a wish list for the government Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford called an election 18 months early with polls indicating that he could grow his majority. On Feb. 27, he was re-elected with virtually the same caucus in which Liberal leader and former Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie failed to even win her own seat. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won 2.15 [...]
By J.M. Glover: ‘The incomparable gift of being born’ Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, gave his personal testimony at the 2025 March for Life in Washington, D.C. His words bear repeating from a man who was conceived by a teenage boy and girl. “I was born in January 1972 … I was the product of an [...]
Interim Staff: Lisa Robinson, a city councilor in Pickering, Ont., posted a video Jan. 2, condemning her city council for banning in-person public meetings as “cowardly” and “an affront to democracy.” The City of Pickering has closed off their meetings to the public because of allegations that “alt-right” groups are becoming involved. The decision, Robinson said, “reveals how the mayor and the [...]
John Carpay: On Dec. 30, the City of Pickering, Ont., released a 13-minute political attack ad against Councilor Lisa Robinson, paid for by Pickering taxpayers. The ad concludes with Mayor Kevin Ashe declaring that council meetings would henceforth be held virtually due to “increasing threats to our safety” and a need to avoid “further harassment” by “external actors.” The video decries the [...]
Rory Leishman: Thanks to the proclamation on Dec. 5 of Bill 26, The Health Statutes Amendment Act, Alberta is the first and only province to protect children under age 16 from the potentially disastrous consequences of administering puberty-blockers as a treatment for a gender identity disorder. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith deserves accolades for initiating such a compassionate and enlightened government policy. Instead, [...]
The 19th-century German statesman, Otto von Bismarck, once observed that “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable—the art of the next best.” As we continue to take stock of the post-Dobbs moment—ushered in the overturning of the infamous decision of the American Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade—it is helpful to bear this remark in mind. Although, in the Canadian context, [...]
Paul Tuns: Following Donald Trump’s executive order recognizing just two sexes, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s responded to a question of whether he would follow suit if the Conservatives formed government. His response was non-committal: ”I’m not aware of any other genders than men and women.” He notably stopped short of committing to a future Conservative government recognizing only two sexes. In [...]
Editor’s Note: This question and answer between Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, and Rod Taylor, leader of the Christian Heritage Party, occurred on Jan. 29. The Interim: The federal election is scheduled for October but the Liberal leadership switch and potential loss of confidence in a parliamentary vote could mean a spring election. Is the Christian Heritage Party ready for an [...]
Paul Tuns: Christian missionary and businessman Michael Clark fell couple dozen nominations short of qualifying for Liberal leadership race. Following Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he would not lead the Liberal Party as leader into the next election and would step down as Prime Minister once his successor was chosen, the national board of the party set up the rules for [...]
Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford called an early election for Feb. 27 under the pretense of needing provincial stability in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs threats against Canada. A provincial election was not scheduled until June 2026. Announcing the early campaign, Ford tweeted, “To protect Ontario, I’m asking the people for a strong mandate – a strong, stable, [...]