Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I came across an Instagram reel of a massive centipede-like creature in the desert and the only reason I thought it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is because I have never—in my over 28 years on this planet—seen anything like it before, which made me wonder if, had I been younger, I would [...]
Oswald Clark: Operation Rescue issued a report for 2024 in which it notes there were 39 documented medical emergencies at abortion mills in the United States. Anne Reed, senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue, said that those are the emergencies which Operation Rescue knows about, often because of first-hand witnesses due to the fact facilities “go to great lengths to hide and [...]
Oswald Clark: Operation Rescue issued its annual report on the number of abortion mills operating in the United States, reporting that the total number of facilities held steady in 2024. According to the report, in 2024 there were a total of 667 abortion facilities that either commit surgical or chemical abortions, or both, compared to 670 in 2023. It was the seventh [...]
Paul Tuns: The Department of Government Efficicency headed up by Elon Musk is will recommend shutting down USAID, the agency that distributes foreign aid globally, including sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to groups that commit and promote abortion. President Donald Trump has criticized USAID, referring to it as “run by a bunch of radical lunatics.” Musk said he has the president support to [...]
By J.M. Glover: Billboards and the ‘culture of fear’ True North Centre reported that the mega-giant Pattison Outdoor billboard company has “cancelled a contract” with the Manitoba pro-life group, Life Culture, saying that the requested image “creates too much controversy” and that the company received “a lot of back-lash for similar designs in the past.” What is controversial about a picture of [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Quebec “legalized” euthanasia in 2014, even though the federal prohibition wouldn’t be struck down by the Supreme Court until a year later, and the new parameters for the procedure not passed until a year after that. In 2019, a Quebec Superior Court ruling declared unconstitutional the requirement that one’s natural death be [...]
John Carpay: Who would have imagined in the 1960s that Parliament would pass a law to punish Canadians if their speech was deemed to be “hateful” by federal bureaucrats? Who would have imagined, 60 years ago, that a Digital Safety Commission would enforce speech regulations created in secret by the federal cabinet? Would anyone in the 1960s have supported criminalizing advocacy for [...]
Paul Tuns: On Dec. 19, former Liberal MP Paul Szabo died in Mississauga with his family by his side, at the age of 76. Szabo, born in Toronto and raised in Mississauga was a “lifelong parishioner at of St Francis of Assisi Church – he represented Mississauga South from 1993 to 2011. Szabo first ran for the Liberals in 1980 and 1984, [...]
Oswald Clark: Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100 as the oldest ever former American president. Carter was governor of Georgia (1971-1975) before being elected president as an outsider in 1976, barely beating Republican Gerald Ford in the aftermath of Watergate. Carter was defeated four years later by Ronald Reagan amid high inflation, higher unemployment, [...]
Gideon Spivak: Trustee Michael Del Grande is setting his sights on the Supreme Court of Canada to hear his lawsuit challenging the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) after an October dismissal by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. On Oct. 23, at his most recent court appearance, Del Grande sought to overturn sanctions brought against him by the TCDSB in November [...]
Paul Tuns: According to information obtained by pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney, Ontario paid for 19 women to have their preborn babies killed by abortion in the United States at a taxpayer-funded cost of USD $229,995 or $327,608 Canadian. Maloney, who blogs at Run With Life, reported on Dec. 18, that under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, 19 women were sent to the [...]
Paul Tuns: According to Worldometer, an online collector of real-time global data, there was a record 45 million abortions committed in 2024 as of noon on Dec. 31, making the prenatal killing of preborn children the number one cause of death globally. Worldometer, a free online reference, keeps a running tally of major world statistics covering issues such as demographics, health, and [...]
Interim Staff: Linda Gibbons with the sign she witnesses with, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” On Dec. 5, Ontario Court Justice Maria Speyer acquitted Linda Gibbons, a 76-year-old pro-life grandmother, of criminal mischief for witnessing outside a Toronto abortion mill earlier in the year. From May through July 2024, Gibbons was arrested four times for [...]
Oswald Clark: An annual report by Americans United for Life, Life List 2025, analyzed state laws and policies related to abortion, euthanasia, assisted-suicide, end-of-life care, conscience rights for health care workers, and bioethical policies to rank them for “life-affirming policies.” For the fifth year in a row, Arkansas came out on top. Jerry Cox, president of the Arkansas Family Council (AFC), said [...]
Mary Zwicker: Arrests have been made and a criminal case opened following the use of a “suicide pod” to end the life of an American woman deep in the Swiss woods. Swiss authorities are considering the possibility of charging the perpetrator with “intentional homicide.” The October Interim reported on the “Sarco” suicide pod and the death of Kate Connelly, a 64-year-old American [...]