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 [...]
Joanna Alphonso: The largest study of its kind on lifetime cannabis use and brain function was published in JAMA Network Open this past January. The study included 1003 young adult participants ages 22 to 36 of varying cannabis consumption. Heavy users were considered to have used cannabis more than 1000 times. Moderate users were participants who have used it 10 to 999 [...]
Interim Staff: On March 20, the Quebec provincial government of Premier François Legault tabled a bill that, if passed, would expand the current religious symbols ban to include all school staff, including teachers, from wearing any religious symbols including the cross or crucifix. Education Minister Bernard Drainville said, “If we are going to be coherent with this idea that a figure of [...]
Mary Zwicker: A left-wing media outlet in the United States has claimed that pro-life laws are at the root of a so-called “spike” in sepsis cases in hospitalized pregnant women in their state. On Feb. 20, New York-based left-wing news outlet ProPublica published an article claiming that Texas’ 2021 pro-life Heartbeat Act is to blame for a rise in reported cases of [...]
Paul Tuns: Manitoba Justice Minister Matt Wiebe tabled a government bill that, if passed, would enshrine “gender expression” in the province’s Human Rights Code, and “cover anything from behavior or appearance, such as dress, hair, make-up, body language and voice.” The NDP government of Wab Kinew introduced Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, on March 18, adding “gender expression” to [...]
Oswald Clark: Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced it is shutting down its Manhattan abortuary and will sell its SoHo building at 26 Bleeker St., with an asking price of $39 million. The abortion facility was, until 2020, named after Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood and promoter of eugenics. In 2020, during the Black Lives Matter riots that [...]
Interim Staff: Christina Yadram was killed by her partner in 2021 when he tried to kill her preborn child. Wazhir Gafoor, 32, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years following a guilty verdict in the murder of Christina Yadram. Gafoor killed Yadram in October 2021 when he attempted to forcibly kill their preborn [...]
Paul Tuns: Three municipalities that declared December Chirstian Heritage Month in 2024 have reversed themselves and will not do so again. In January, The Interim reported that 56 jurisdictions in Canada, including the province of Saskatchewan, and cities such as Calgary, Mississauga, Regina, and Toronto, officially declared December “Christian Heritage Month” after an advocacy campaign by Molly Banerjei, a realtor from Toronto [...]
Paul Tuns Numerous organizations from Canada submitted concerns about Canada’s euthanasia regime to the United National Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), including worries expressed by the Canadian Human Rights Commission that some people will choose so-called Medical Assistance in Dying because they cannot access adequate medical care, housing, or other supports. Canada ratified the UN Convention on the [...]
Danielle Smith outraged about euthanasia Alberta Premier Danielle Smith appeared on the John Bachman Now Show on Newsmax in January. Toward the end of the interview, Bachman said that the increase in doctor-assisted suicide in Canada was frightening, and asked Smith for her opinion. Smith agreed that “one of the things that the federal government was allowing was a potential for [...]
John Carpay: In reporting on Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) Justices touring the country, the Canadian Press described it as a “roadshow,” defined by Merriam-Webster as “a theatrical performance given by a troupe on tour.” Having met with select groups in Winnipeg in 2019 and Quebec City in 2022, the judges will press the flesh of Canadians in 2025 when visiting Moncton, [...]