Paul Tuns: Long-time Interim columnist Frank Kennedy has died at the age 97 on May 14. Frank Kennedy, along with his wife, Ileen, was active in their North York, Ont., parish, Blessed Trinity, and the pro-life movement. Frank Kennedy served as a columnist for The Interim from the mid-1980s to 2014 and as the paper’s Queen’s Park correspondent for many years. In [...]
Oswald Clark: Planned Parenthood of America (PP) released its 2024 annual report which revealed the organization committed 402,230 abortions in 2023-24 and received $792.2 million in federal funding. In 2022-2023, PP committed 392,712 abortions and raked in $699 million from taxpayers. The $792.2 million in “government health services reimbursement and grants” funding represented a 13 per cent increase compared to 2023 making [...]
Paul Tuns: Four journalists with the non-profit ProPublica were given a Pulitzer Prize last month for “Public Service” for their coverage of a pregnant Georgia woman, Amber Thurman, who died after doctors were delayed in providing urgent care for the complications she had following ingestion of the abortion pill, but which the news source blamed on the state’s pro-life laws. The article, [...]
Paul Tuns: After at least two major corporate sponsors dropped their financial backing of Toronto Pride, host of the largest annual LGBQT festivities in Canada each year, the city of Toronto came to the organization’s rescue. The city increased their share of funding to 15 LGBQT festivals in the city by 33 per cent to $2.5 million. The municipal largesse was not [...]
Paul Tuns: After at least two major corporate sponsors dropped their financial backing of Toronto Pride, host of the largest annual LGBQT festivities in Canada each year, the city of Toronto came to the organization’s rescue. The city increased their share of funding to 15 LGBQT festivals in the city by 33 per cent to $2.5 million. The municipal largesse was not [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: Senator Josh Hawley has called for stricter regulation of the abortion pill. A new report, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event,” from the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that the abortion drug mifepristone causes 22 times more serious adverse effects than is claimed [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 7, the day before the National March for Life, Campaign Life Coalition called on the Liberal government to protect life beginning at conception. Pete Baklinski, CLC director of communications, called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to end abortion. “The National March for Life began in 1998—29 years after Canada legalized [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 8, white smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel to indicate that the Conclave had chosen a new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, appeared on the balcony in St. Peter’s Square, have chosen the name Leo XIV. Much was made that Leo XIV is the first “American pope” but he has [...]
Paul Tuns: The Toronto Sun headline “Another combat vet who says he was offered medical suicide comes forward” is the story of David Baltzer, likely the first Canadian Armed Forces soldier offered Medical Assistance in Dying, in December 2019. The April 25 article by Bryan Passiffiume begins, “He came seeking help, but he says he was instead offered death.” Baltzer served two [...]
Paul Tuns Catholic Bishops of Saskatchewan (CBS) released a pastoral letter, “Dying with Hope: Living and Walking Together,” on March 25 calling for a Christian response to so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. In 2017, the CBS released a pastoral letter, “On Living through our Dying,” in response to the legalization of euthanasia the previous year. The bishops said in its latest letter, [...]
Oswald Clark: A pro-abortion woman who attacked a Live Action journalist in New York City has been charged with assault. New York City police have charged Brianna Rivers with second-degree assault after she attacked pro-life journalist Savannah Craven Antao during a man-on-the-street interview in an assault that required hospitalization. The April 3 assault was caught on tape by Craven Antao’s husband who [...]
Paul Tuns: On March 21, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities condemned Canada’s euthanasia regime, urging the repeal of amendments to the country’s so-called Medical Assistance in Dying law that allows the killing of non-terminally ill individuals. In remarks published by the Committee, the UN urged Canada to repeal its 2021 MAiD expansion legislation that allowed those [...]
Oswald Clark: The Trump administration has condemned the United Kingdom for arresting and convicting Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, a pro-life activist who held a sign that said “Here to talk, if you want,” outside a British abortuary. Tossici-Bolt was found guilty by the Poole Magistrates’ Court for violating a Public Spaces Protection Order on two occasions in March 2025. While the grandmother and [...]
Paul Tuns: Long-time Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes, suffered a stroke on March 8 and is now recovering at home after a brief hospitalization. The Interim is respecting Hughes’s privacy and will not report details of his illness or recovery, but because of his outsized role in this paper and the Canadian pro-life movement, we wanted to let readers know [...]
Paul Tuns: According to data released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information on March 25, there were 101,553 abortions committed in Canada in 2023, up from 97,211 in 2022 and 87,485 in 2021. It was the first time since 2015 that the number of abortions in Canada exceeded 100,000, when there were 100,104 abortions. A Campaign Life Coalition Youth tweet put [...]