Books for Christmas
The Interim invited a number of pro-life leaders and contributors to the paper to suggest a book or two that would make a great Christmas [...]
It’s getting harder to be an artist
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements By Rick McGinnis Artists don’t have a monopoly on bad ideas – there are plenty of those to [...]
Christmas-themed comics to distract from COVID this season
By Michael Taube Family gatherings will undoubtedly be smaller and more intimate this year. We’ll have to regularly wash our hands, and maintain proper amounts [...]
Keep porn out of kid’s gaze
In September, Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne (Independent Senators Group) introduced her private member’s bill, S-203, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit [...]
Euthanasia bill being rushed through Parliament
Doctors, disability groups call for better support for vulnerable people By Paul Tuns Pro-life, religious, and disabilities groups have expressed opposition to the government’s expansion [...]
Considerations on the ethics of vaccines
Interim writer, Rory Leishman, National Affairs By Rory Leishman In a press release on August 25, the World Health Organization (WHO) certified that [...]
Demography and destiny
Low fertility rates, not over-population, present challenge “Demography is destiny,” the French sociologist Auguste Comte reportedly said. Population trends – fertility rates, infant survival, ageing, [...]
The population balm
Paul Tuns, Editor of The Interim Newspaper By Paul Tuns A parable of Saint Matthew’s Gospel describes a master who, before going on [...]
Life Chain 2020
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Developments: Interim and news
We are working to bring more graphics and make the paper more pleasing to read, and that process is underway as you will see in [...]
Looking up — not left, right
Interim writer, Josie Luetke , Talk Turkey By Josie Luetke Being somewhat of a political nomad, I was eager to read James Mumford’s [...]
Instagram, the ignored social media platform
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements By Rick McGinnis The term “social media” wasn’t in widespread use over 10 years ago, when I started [...]
COVID fear takes on religious overtones
Interim writer, John Carpay, Law Matters By John Carpay With a religious fervour, fear of COVID-19 is permeating and shaping our laws, policies, [...]
Alberta NDP push abortion access guarantee
On Sept. 29, members of the Select Special Public Health Act Review Committee of the Alberta legislature debated adding abortion access to the province's Public [...]
Nova Scotia man killed over wife’s objections
On Oct. 3, an 83-year-old Nova Scotian was killed by lethal injection following a legal battle in which his wife of 48 years tried to [...]
Beyond the smorgasbord book review
By Paul Tuns Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton (PublicAffairs, $35, 320 pages). We are told, by pundits and [...]
Not big enough book review
By Paul Tuns One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matthew Yglesias (Portfolio, $37, 267 pages) Matthew Yglesias is a policy wonk and [...]
Amnesty International reasserts pro-abortion position
On Sept. 28, Amnesty International, the international human rights group, announced it was updating its "sexual and reproductive rights" policy, essentially reaffirming its pro-abortion position. [...]
‘No international right to abortion’: coalition
On Oct. 22, a coalition of 32 countries led by the United States and representing 1.6 billion people issued a declaration that there is “no [...]
Trudeau government reintroduces bill expanding euthanasia
Disabilities group condemns C-7, EPC says safeguards are being eroded Justice Minister David Lametti introduced Bill C-7 on Oct. 5, bringing back the federal government’s [...]
The politics of a Supreme Court appointment
Interim writer, Rory Leishman, National Affairs By Rory Leishman Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve on the Supreme Court of [...]
Amy Coney Barrett says Roe is not super-precedent
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who was a darling of feminists and others on the Left, passed away in late September, it [...]
The civil rights quagmire book review
By Paul Tuns The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell (Simon & Schuster, 2020, $37, 342 pages) Christopher Caldwell should not [...]
And then there was this – Oct 2020
Canada According to a survey by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies (conducted Sept. 11-13), 87 per cent of Liberal Party voters and 74 [...]
Peterborough pro-life icon passes
Paul Morgan, a long-time pro-life activist in Peterborough, passed away on Sept. 2 at the age of 85. Jim Hughes, president emeritus of Campaign Life [...]