We are pre-releasing a pair of stories from our November issue which is being mailed to subscribers right now. Our cover story is on the Defund Abortion Rally at Queen's Park which took place last Saturday and was attended by 2000 people. And here's our coverage of The Interim co-sponsored Abacus pollon defunding abortion in Ontario which found that the majority of Ontarians do [...]
Campaign Life Coalition says that there were more than 2000 people at the CLC Youth Defund Abortion Rally at Queen's Park (Ontario's provincial legislature) on Saturday. We are preparing our report for the dead tree edition of the paper and we'll post it later this week. The speakers made two essential points: 1) abortion is not health care and should not be funded [...]
David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner says that Herman Cain, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has been less than clear about his position on abortion. Cain on John Stossel recently was clear: he is pro-life, women shouldn't be able to get an abortion, women should be able to make their own choice, and the government should not tell people what to do. [...]
National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Edward C. Green, former director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard School of Health and author of Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment Has Betrayed the Developing World. The Q&A is most definitely worth reading. Here's an excerpt which demonstrates a key point: the self-interest and ideology of those who want to condomize [...]
Campaign Life Coalition's Defund Abortion Rally is in ten days at Queen's Park in Toronto.
The Interim is co-sponsoring a poll -- the first time we've done that in our 28-year history -- with LifeSiteNews.com and Campaign Life Coalition to explore public opinion on abortion funding in Ontario. We ask about knowledge of abortion funding, whether the government should release information about abortion funding, and under which circumstances abortion should be paid for by taxpayers. We'll have results next [...]
The Toronto Sun begins its editorial on Canada's human rights commission industry when some good, old, plain truth: Hurt feelings aside, the greatest human rights abusers in Canada are the human rights commissions and tribunals themselves. It's a power thing. It's not that difficult to explain to people that human rights commissions have very little to do with human rights (see Kathy Shaidle/Pete [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered the federal government to keepVancouver drug rehab center Insite open. (See Ottawa Citizen and Globe and Mail for coverage.) The controversy is that Insite provides so-called "safe injection" services as part of a harm reduction scheme. Giving drugs to addicts seems absolute folly, but that is only one issue. The larger constitutional issue is whether the federal government has the authority to make [...]
Our September article on the Crossroads Walkers, a number of pro-life students who walked 5,600 kilometers to promote the pro-life message, in now online. The article is by a first-person account by Mark Pinto. Click on the link if for no other reason than to see the beautiful photo of one of them welcoming the morning with the the Rocky Mountains in the background.
Dr. Will Johnston is president of Physicians for Life and in a short essay he concludes: "And still our world asks who to kill next." This reminds me of two important observations about abortion and why, really, Pope John Paul II talked not about the abortion culture but the Culture of Death. As we note in the October issue, American columnist George Will repeatedly noted in the [...]
Five years ago today Peter Naglik passed away. He was a great conservative activist who didn't need to hyphenate his conservatism. His friends have set up a Facebook memorial page; if you knew Peter, share a memory or picture of him there. Here is The Interim's obituary from 2006. As Russ Kuykendall wrote at the time, "while he didn’t wear it on his [...]
The federal Conservative government has admitted to re-funding the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Conservative MP Brad Trost issued this in response: Response to the Federal Government's Decision to Fund IPPF September 28th, 2011 Brad Trost Late in the afternoon of Thursday, September 22nd, I received a phone call from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) about a news story on the [...]
The Ottawa Citizen reports on the Conservative government in Ottawa giving new funding to the International Planned Parenthood Federation. It is a fine story as far as it goes but what struck me is the picture that goes with it. Editors want some sort of illustration to go with stories, both in the paper and on the internet, and as stories about abortion so often do, [...]
Rick McGinnis reviews Ben Shapiro's Primetime Propaganda in which our columnist explains why primetime television has become a tool of the Left. An excerpt: The cornerstone of his analysis, though, is that moment in the late ‘60s when ABC, the also-ran of the Big Three, made a brilliant marketing move that still affects us today. Locked out of the top end of the ratings by essentially [...]
Kathy Shaidle has an article at Taki's Magazine on Canadian Christian activist Bill Whatcott (a former member of The Interim's editorial advisory board in the 1990s). It looks at Whatcott's anti-homosexualist and anti-abortion crusades, warts and all, and most importantly places it within the context of the Unofficial Official War on Christianity: Whatcott’s is the latest case comprising what looks suspiciously like [...]