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 [...]
Greater love hath no man than this
By Josie Luetke Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey For days surrounding Derek Sloan’s removal from the Conservative caucus, I wrote lengthy rants [...]
Religious leaders should speak clearly
By Rory Leishman In First Corinthians 14:9, Paul admonished the faithful to speak the truth plainly: “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound,” he [...]
Ontario bubble zones were groundless
By Interim Staff Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run with Life, obtained 287 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information request that [...]
Family in dark times
While the continuing COVID-crisis has been painful and alarming in equal parts, it has been clarifying, too. Never before in the living memory of most [...]
COVID’s paradoxes and contradictions
A year ago, a news story from the “World” section of the newspaper—reports about an outbreak of viral pneumonia in a Chinese city—became the world’s [...]
Biden revokes Mexico City Policy
On Jan. 28, President Joe Biden revoked Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order banning the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to be used to commit or [...]
CLC urges UN to ban sex-selective abortions
By Paul Tuns Campaign Life Coalition has urged the United Nations to call upon all countries to end the practice of sex-selective abortions. CLC submitted [...]
Supreme Court won’t hear Wagner case
The Interim Staff Mary Wagner with her father, Frank Wagner outside B.C. Provincial Court after her September 11 release. The Supreme Court of [...]
It’s beyond me
BY JOE CAMPBELL Interim writer, Joe Campbell, Light is Right I don’t know economics. Although introduced to it at university, I don’t know it, [...]
Time for a digital reset
BY RICK McGINNIS Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements You have to assume that Ronald Diebert was being provocative by calling his book about [...]
Charity and clarity for the laity, please
BY JOSIE LUETKE Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I’m writing this column for precisely the reason I didn’t want to: the information [...]