Culture & Society Articles
Major media turn a blind eye to Chinese brutality
Organs are being taken for transplantation from the living bodies of thousands of detainees in China's labour camps - a [...]
Rothstein should make for an excellent addition
Judging from the reputation of Justice Marshall Rothstein, and the answers he gave to the questions put to him in [...]
C’mon, Canada, we can do better
Watching Judge Marshall Rothstein, our newest Supreme Court justice, perform was like watching Wayne Gretzky in his prime dodge, circle, [...]
More and more women going solo, says StatsCan
Years ago, feminist Gloria Steinem opined that “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” adding for [...]
A first step toward the end of judicial activism?
Legalizing abortion and child pornography, overturning the definition of marriage, requiring the funding of sex change operations and granting prisoners [...]
Pro-abortion language deleted from UN document
Special to The Interim As the 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women met for its closing [...]
South Dakota becomes a lightning rod for pro-life, pro-abortion forces
If the courts do not step in to thwart the will of the people on July 1, a far-reaching ban [...]
Replace the Supreme Court’s judicial activists
Following a speech to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 3, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court [...]
A litany of medical malfeasance
In last November’s issue of The Interim, we looked at the general state of Canadian medicine, which we noted is [...]
Media and the 2006 election
Mainstream media coverage of the 2006 federal election campaign was marked by a perhaps-surprising improvement in the fairness of the [...]
For Hollywood, ideology trumps money
Many believe that the entertainment machines of Hollywood are motivated by nothing but crass commercialism, that the people who make [...]
Judges: a law unto themselves?
In a judgement handed down just four days before Christmas, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin declared on behalf of the Supreme [...]
Here’s what Sharia law really would have meant
Mainstream media didn't fully report on what some Muslims wanted “There will be no Sharia law in Ontario. There will [...]
Canadian hockey hero makes a ‘kick save’
It was Thursday night, Jan. 6, 2006. The site: GM Place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada had just won the world [...]
‘Maahtin!’ cry the daycare kids
It was, as we say here, a sight for sore eyes: Prime Minister Paul Martin, story book in hand, sitting [...]