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 [...]
Political hypocrisy
BY ANDREW LAWTON Interim writer, Andrew Lawton, Laying Down the Lawton In keeping with the theme of the last four years of politics, [...]
Big tech becomes big brother
Even before the Capitol chaos, tech giants were purging conservatives BY PAUL TUNS Within 48 hours of the chaos at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Facebook [...]
Ignoring lockdown harms?
BY JOHN CARPAY Interim writer, John Carpay, Law Matters What drives some religious leaders to ignore the harm and suffering that lockdowns are [...]
Euthanasia deaths continue to climb in Ontario
Interim Staff On Jan. 18, the Ontario Office of the Chief Coroner released new reported euthanasia and assisted suicide death statistics, showing that there were [...]
Number of U.S. abortion facilities declines
BY PAUL TUNS A study released by Operation Rescue in January shows that 45 abortion facilities closed or halted abortions in the United States in [...]
‘Those were the days’
BY PAUL TUNS Republican President Richard Nixon referred to the “silent majority” in 1969, but it was a liberal Hollywood producer who gave it voice [...]
Fr. Van Hee’s bubble zone challenge proceeds
BY PAUL TUNS In advance of an expected hearing date this year, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) announced that it had six affidavits in [...]
Civil liberties group sues N.B. to pay for all abortions
BY PAUL TUNS On Jan. 6, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) filed a constitutional challenge in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Fredericton. The [...]
No evil means
No good comes from rioting. When groups become crowds, and crowds become mobs, otherwise lawful citizens are prone to confusion, agitation, and manipulation. Acts that [...]
Biden administration should investigate Planned Parenthood
By Rory Leishman Merrick Garland is well qualified to serve as Attorney General of the United States, but will he “oversee an independent department” of justice [...]
Jim Hughes remembers Joe Scheidler
By Jim Hughes “It’s young Jim” would begin any conversation with pro-life hero Joseph M. Scheidler. So, you can imagine how long I’ve known and [...]
Argentina legalizes abortion
Paraguayan and Brazilian politicians criticize move By Interim Staff On Dec. 30, the Argentine Senate voted 38-29 to approve abortion-on-demand up to 14 weeks of [...]
And then there was this – Jan 2021
Canada On Dec. 10, the House of Commons passed C-7, the bill that expands euthanasia to include people who are not terminally ill and those [...]
D&P never stopped funding pro-abortion groups
Lianne Laurence Special to The Interim The Canadian bishops’ international aid organization, Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, has admitted that it never stopped [...]