London city council seeks to ban abortion images
Paul Tuns: London city council voted 9-6 on March 5 in favour of asking city staff to draft a bylaw to ban images of aborted [...]
Contraception is priority for national pharmacare program
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 29, federal Health Minister Mark Holland introduced Bill C-64, “An Act respecting pharmacare,” fulfilling the 2022 promise from Prime Minister Justin [...]
The fascism behind the Online Harms bill
John Carpay: In his masterful work The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert Paxton surveys fascist movements and parties in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, looking [...]
Can a politician afford to tell the truth?
Donald DeMarco: The typical politician is a strange animal. He wants everyone’s votes and therefore attempts to please everyone. He is not discouraged by the [...]
Government cannot provide evidence supporting policy stripping care centres of charitable status
Paul Tuns: In 2021, the Liberal Party campaign platform included rescinding charitable tax status for all pro-life organizations, including pregnancy care centres that serve pregnant [...]
Albertans support parental notification before teens get abortions: poll
Paul Tuns: A poll by National Public Research Canada (NPRC) found that more than six in ten Albertans expressed support for either “parental consent and/or [...]
NDP MP says children, not parents, have rights
Paul Tuns: New Democratic Party MP Randall Garrison (Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke) was asked by a reporter during a scrum about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s new parental rights [...]
Preliminary data suggests 16,000 euthanasia deaths in 2023
Alex Schadenberg, Special to The Interim: Based on euthanasia data from Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta, I predict that there were approximately 16,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths in [...]
Alabama court rules frozen embryos qualify as ‘children’ under law
Oswald Clark: On Feb. 17, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, embryonic human beings frozen as part [...]
Going the wrong way
Donald DeMarco: In a 1964 football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the San Francisco 49ers, Jim Marshall picked a fumble and ran 66 yards [...]
Courts ignore evidence of serious lockdown harms
John Carpay: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms requires governments to justify any law that violates one or more of our Charter freedoms of [...]
Del Grande allowed to appeal board sanctions
Interim Staff The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Mike Del Grande, granting him leave to appeal [...]
Board decision on Josh Alexander’s suspension shrouded in secrecy
Interim Staff: Renfrew County Catholic District School Board (RCCDSB) has upheld the suspension and expulsion of student activist Josh Alexander, 17, from St. Joseph’s Catholic [...]
U.S. Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case
Oswald Clark: In December, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will review the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the abortion drug mifepristone and [...]
Department of Defence defends menstrual products for men
Interim Staff: The Department of National Defence said it will not tolerate members of the Canadian Armed Forces vandalizing or removing feminine hygiene products in [...]
Pope Francis calls for ban on surrogacy
Paul Tuns: During his annual address to diplomats in January, Pope Francis called surrogacy “a grave violation of the dignity of the women and the [...]
And then there was this, January 2024
Texas abortion law upheld Abortion in Texas is mostly illegal. An abortion can only be carried out when the mother’s life is in such [...]
U.S. pregnancy care centres provided $360M support in 2022
Paul Tuns: A new report reveals that pregnancy resource centres (PRCs) provided nearly $360 million in services and goods in a single year, even as [...]
Influential pro-abortion justice dies
Paul Tuns: Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor died Dec. 1, at the age of 93. O’Connor, whom Ronald Reagan appointed as the [...]
David Hogg, RIP
Interim Staff: David Anthony Hogg, who served as a trustee with the Metropolitan Toronto Separate Catholic School Board, in the 1990s, died Dec. 13 at [...]
Henry Kissinger wrote key memo on population control
Oswald Clark: Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. Secretary of State, died at the age of 100 on Nov. 29. Kissinger was the author of a [...]
Ontario free contraception motion defeated
Paul Tuns A private member’s bill, Motion 36, that called upon the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide universal access to contraception, was defeated by [...]
Nearly half of Pennsylvania abortion mills failed 2023 health inspections
Oswald Clark: According to the Pennsylvania Family Council, nine abortion facilities in the state are putting the safety of women at risk after failing routine [...]
Euthanasia contributing to falling life expectancy
Paul Tuns Statistics Canada released its analysis of death in 2022 and found that for the third consecutive year, life expectancy for Canadians fell with [...]
49 abortion mills closed in 2023, 14th state becomes abortion-free
Paul Tuns According to an annual report by Operation Rescue on the state of the abortion landscape, 49 abortion mills closed and one more state [...]