House passes conversion therapy ban
Paul Tuns: Senate debates C-6 On June 22, the House of Commons passed the Trudeau government’s Bill C-6, the so-called conversion therapy ban, in a [...]
Government loses Canada Summer Jobs case
Interim Staff: On June 29, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) announced “that the Federal Court has struck down a discriminatory federal government decision [...]
Red China may lift child limits
Paul Tuns The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scrambling to tackle their demographic crisis. On May 31, CCP officials announced at a Politburo meeting that [...]
And then there was this …June 2021
Human 2.0: how to upgrade yourself We are hearing a lot today about transhumanism. What is it and what are its long-term implications? One definition [...]
Saskatchewan NDP introduce bubble zone bill
Interim Staff On May 12, NDP MLA Jennifer Bowes (Saskatoon University) introduced a private member’s bill, An Act to Provide Safe Access to Abortion Services, [...]
Facebook bans LifeSiteNews
Interim Staff: After numerous runs with various Big Tech platforms in the past, Facebook permanently banned LifeSiteNews’ Facebook page on May 4. LifeSiteNews reporter Doug [...]
Parliament examining further expansions of euthanasia law
Alex Schadenberg: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg complains bill's terms are poorly defined. When Canada legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide (MAiD) [...]
US fertility rates fall to record low
Paul Tuns: On May 5, the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released data on the country’s fertility rate, revealing that it has fallen [...]
Medical dictatorship
John Carpay: In recent months I’ve spoken at several peaceful gatherings, urging citizens to exercise their Charter rights and freedoms in the face of unscientific, [...]
North and south
If Canadians pro-lifers want to hear some good news, they need only look south of the border. Our conscientious counterparts in the United States can [...]
US Supreme Court to hear abortion case
Oswald Clark: The U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear Mississippi’s appeal to defend its state law protecting the human right to life beginning at [...]
Dutch euthanasia deaths increase nine per cent
Paul Tuns: DutchNews reports that in 2020 there was a record 6938 officially reported euthanasia deaths in 2020, up from 6361 the year before, an [...]
Catholic boards cave, fly pride flag
Interim Staff After convincing every public school board in Ontario to fly the rainbow pride flag -- the universal emblem of LGBTQ+ rights -- on [...]
Third Parent ordered onto birth certificate
Paul Tuns British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Sandra Wilkinson ruled on April 26 that the name of a second mother must be included as one [...]
Think tank warns against Trudeau daycare plan
Paul Tuns A new report from the Cardus think tank, “Look Before You Leap,” says the federal government of Justin Trudeau is dramatically underestimating the [...]
And then there was this – May 2021
Abortion advocates exploit pandemic There is a saying “don’t let a crisis go to waste,” which in today’s parlance is commonly applied to economic and [...]
Excerpts
Do Girls and Women Know They Don’t Have to Go to Planned Parenthood?” Kathryn Jean Lopez National Review Online (April 13) I’ll be the first [...]
Joe Campbell ‘retires’ from Interim writing
Jim Hughes Editor Paul Tuns received the following email from Joe in the middle of April. Hi Paul This is one of the most difficult [...]
The triumph of human will over human nature
William Gairdner Special to The Interim It’s deeply ironic that while our predecessors thought the most important use of human will was to escape slavery [...]
Manitoba NDP pushes for anti-free speech bubble zones. Again
By Paul Tuns On March 4, Manitoba MLA Nahanni Fontaine (NDP, St. John’s) introduced for the third time in six years a private member’s bill, [...]
Father of transgender child jailed
By Rory Leishman In a tragic case stemming from the gender-identity craze that has engulfed much of North America and Western Europe, the British Columbia [...]
Nothing extreme about pro-life
Donald DeMarco Commentary An embarrassing number of “Catholics” have tied themselves in academic knots attempting to convince people that they can both express their religious [...]
Sex-selective abortion
By Andrew Lawton Saskatchewan Conservative member of parliament Cathay Wagantall’s private member’s bill to criminalize sex-selective abortion is noble, but it should be approached with [...]
Do lockdowns actually save lives?
By John Carpay At an April 8 news conference, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney referenced pro-life convictions as the basis for continuing with, and tightening further, [...]
Think tank outlines policies to support families
Paul Tuns Last month, Cardus, a Hamilton-based think tank, released a Family Policy Brief by Jon Peter Mitchell and Andrea Mrozek that examined “policy options [...]