Christopher Hitchens has died. He will probably be remembered for two things: as a Man of the Left, he broke with other liberals and supported (to use the euphemism) the War on Terror and he was an annoyingly preachy, intolerant, and adolescent atheist. Yet, he was so much more than that, including an exceptional literary critic and principled liberal who stood with the victims of [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports that Sophia at the Abortion Gang blog suggested readers donate $5 or $10 to a local pro-abortion group every time Tim Tebow scores a touchdown. Considering Tebow's public Christian and pro-life witness, I applaud their sense of humour and ingenuity, but what is it about Tim Tebow that elicits the reaction he does. His team is doing well and depending on the [...]
Campaign Life Coalition is auctioning pairs of tickets for four Toronto Maple Leaf games against the Winnipeg Jets (January 5), Montreal Canadiens (January 21), Edmonton Oilers (February 6), and Canadiens (February 11). During the Feb. 11 Leafs-Canadiens game, former Leaf great Matt Sundin's jersey will be raised to the rafters as his number is officially retired by the team. These would make [...]
Our December cover story offers a Cornucopean take on the world's 7 billion people. There is no such thing as overpopulation -- just more people, and as editor Paul Tuns notes in the article: Whether by abortion or contraception, population control fanatics think the solution to the problem of famine, global warming, or war is fewer people. But why eliminate the babies. [...]
One of the more annoying criticisms of conservatives from the Left is that they are ideological and won't "follow the science" as if "science" should free us from making moral distinctions. What the Left seems to be saying on any issue from supposed climate change to embryonic stem cell research to how to deal with crime is that the state should permit what is possible or [...]
The Globe and Mail interviewed Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Heath Organization, about maternal health. Nowhere was abortion mentioned despite the Opposition's insistence in 2010 that maternal health included abortion, but I found this interesting: Q: Are Canadians using their money in a smart way? A: I think the Canadian government’s investment in overseas development is smart, investing in the areas [...]
Our lead November editorial is on in vitro fertilization. We conclude our editorial addressing a seeming paradox (to some) that IVF is not pro-life -- which is commonly misunderstood because it results in a baby: The pro-life movement’s unflinching opposition to IVF may seem, to some, as backward as certain Christian sects’ prohibition against blood transfusions. But it is not. Rather, we [...]
Alexander Tsiaras gave a TED presentation on "Conception to birth -- visualized" which is very good. There is no indication that Tsiaras is pro-life although he is implicitly spiritual when he talks about the "mystery" and "magic" of the process. Yet this visual documentation of what happens pre-birth rebuts the notion that the unborn child is not a human being. Science has long confirmed what pro-lifers have always [...]
We at The Interim remember and thank those who sacrificed many years ago so that we would be free to live, flourish, and fight other battles. The blog Gods of the Copybook Headings has an excellent post on Remembrance Day in which the anonymous author reminds us of the moral underpinnings of the freedom bought with the blood of the brave and that remembering [...]
This Sunday (November 13) is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. You can learn more about Christians who are persecuted around the world for their belief that Jesus Christ is their Lord and Saviour from Voice of the Martyrs. Evangelicals do a great job remembering their persecuted brothers and sisters; Catholics not so much so. But this isn't an evangelical thing so [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports: A well-backed Democrat candidate who ran for a position on the board of a top beltway-area school system has been found guilty of assault for ramming a pro-lifer with her car during this year’s national March for Life on January 24, LifeSiteNews has learned. The assailant was Charisse Espy Glassman, the niece of former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Hate [...]
Lisa Fabrizio's column at The American Spectator is about Herman Cain and sexual harassment, but she makes a parenthetical comment that gets to larger, more serious truth: I and millions of Americans are being harassed nearly every time we open our eyes, with unwanted and unwelcome sexual advances over our publicly owned airwaves and in the schoolrooms we pay for. Fabrizio missed [...]
Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has criticized a local Catholic school for hosting Liberal MP Justin Trudeau and questioned Trudeau's Catholicism. Trudeau is upset on being called out on his personal version of his faith that is not in accordance with the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. Justin Trudeau is pro-abortion and pro-same-sex marriage. In 2001, at an event in preparation for World Youth [...]
Campaign Life Coalition's Southwestern Ontario conference is this Saturday, Nov. 5. Speakers include former MP Pat O'Brien, London Area Right to LIfe president Phil Arnsby, CLC national president Jim Hughes, LifeSiteNews editor John-Henry Westen, and Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg. There is a promotional story in the September issue of The Interim. Key details: The London conference will be held at the Best Western [...]
Interim editor-in-chief Paul Tuns will be a speaker at Campaign Life Coalition's Eastern Ontario Conference in Kingston on Saturday. More info here. He will be talking about the sources of media bias. Sneak peak: it isn't all about ideology, sometimes it is just stupidity and laziness.