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 [...]
Conservatives and pro-lifers: Does the party want us?
Paul Tuns Analysis Richard Decarie’s leadership bid for the Conservative Party of Canada was nixed by their Leadership Election Organizing Committee in February 2020. This [...]
And then there was this, April 2021
Portuguese court nixes euthanasia law LISBON -- Portugal’s Constitutional Court ruled on March 15 that a recently passed assisted suicide law is unconstitutional. In January, [...]
Amazon bans book critical of LGBTQ
The Interim Staff In February, Amazon, the online bookseller responsible for more than half of all books sold in the United States, banned the sale [...]
Trudeau cuts health funding to N.B. over abortion
Paul Tuns The Trudeau government deducted $140,216 from Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer to New Brunswick over “the province’s lack of coverage under its health insurance [...]
Hang in there
Interim writer, Joe Campbell, Light is Right “I got bumped,” he said, stepping out of his car. Although I looked, I could see [...]
Suffer Well
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey By Josie Luetke This past year has been a hard one for me, and, unsurprisingly, for most [...]
Early statistics suggest pandemic baby bust
By Paul Tuns When the pandemic spread from Red China to Europe and then North America, there were news stories predicting either a baby boom [...]
Government expands euthanasia with Bloc help
By Paul Tuns On March 11, the House of Commons voted to permit Canadians suffering from mental illness to be killed by euthanasia and a [...]
Vaccines: Kenney vows choice, bishops sow confusion
By Interim Staff Health Canada has approved four vaccines against COVID-19: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. Moderna and Pfizer COVID injections utilized abortion-derived [...]
Alberta will have to show science in Pastor Coates case
By John Carpay Pastor James Coates spent more than a month in the Edmonton Remand Centre, after being arrested and jailed on Feb. 16, 2021. [...]
And then there was this, March 2021
Pro-gay youth line TORONTO -- Youth Line is a Toronto area on-line resource for young people up to the age of 29, which caters to [...]
After delay, Poland implements pro-life ruling
By Interim Staff On Jan. 27, three months after Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled abortions for malformed preborn babies was unconstitutional because it discriminated on the [...]
Abortion pill complications under-reported: study
By Interim Staff A new study published in Issues in Law & Medicine has found that deaths and adverse events related to the abortion pill [...]
Out of this world
By Joe Campbell “Our reality is given,” he said. “Theirs is chosen.” “But surely, Dingwall,” I replied, “you don’t mean that progressives occupy an alternate [...]