Interim Staff: On June 16, Linda Gibbons was declared not guilty by Justice Patrice Band regarding obstruction and disobeying a lawful order in relation to an arrest earlier this year. On Feb. 12, Gibbons was arrested after peacefully witnessing outside the Toronto Abortion Clinic at 727 Hillsdale Ave. She was charged with obstruction and disobeying a 30-year-old court injunction tied to the [...]
Kesiah Beere: On Saturday, May 31, Quebec’s March for Life was held in Quebec City, organized by Campagne Québec-Vie (Quebec Life Coalition). The day’s events were set to begin with music at 11 am in front of Quebec’s National Assembly. LifeSiteNews journalist Dorothy Cummings McLean reported that Georges Buscemi, president of Quebec Life Coalition, noticed a [...]
By J.M. Glover: March for Life Ireland 2025 On May 5, thousands of Irish men, women, and children marched in Dublin, Ireland, under the banner “Pro-Woman, Pro-Baby, Pro-Life.” Busloads of pro-lifers from all over Ireland descended on Dublin to join the March. Since the abortion law took effect in 2019, there have been a staggering 51,000 abortions in Ireland. This does not [...]
Interim Staff: In March, Manitoba Justice Minister Matt Wiebe introduced Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, to add “gender expression” to the province’s human rights law. The law, if passed, would amend the Manitoba Human Rights Code and Wiebe said it would “cover anything from behavior or appearance, such as dress, hair, makeup, body language and voice,” and that the [...]
Donald DeMarco: Charles E. Rice, in his book, The Winning Side, offers a cogent case for the connection between abortion and euthanasia. He points out that contraception and abortion have reduced the numbers of taxpayers in the United States who could pay for the elderly and disabled. It is predicted that by the year 2050 one American in 20 will be 85 [...]
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, [...]