Interim Staff: On July 28, Superior Court Justice Alain Trudel ruled against former Quebec tourism minister Caroline Proulx, declaring that in pressuring the Quebec City Convention Centre to cancel its contract with Harvest Ministries International to host the Faith, Fire, Freedom Rally in 2023, she had exercised her ministerial authority in “an arbitrary and abusive manner.” Proulx said that Harvest Ministries, [...]
Gianna Baklinski: An Ontario family is grieving their matriarch who was killed through euthanasia, despite having refused it, stating that it was contrary to her Christian beliefs. Her family also opposed her death but found themselves powerless to prevent it. Stegemann’s family has chosen to share the story, and posted it on the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition blog. Brigitte Stegemann, known by her [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: Here & Queer, a CBC talk series celebrating LGBTQ artists, interviewed a “nonbinary drag king” on April 2. Heath V. Salazar is a biological female performer across various artistic disciplines who uses the stage name “Gay Jesus” and is on Instagram as @theirholiness. In early 2020, she wrote a CBC article that touched on the division her transition caused [...]
Gianna Baklinski: In 2023, Rosalie Markezich, a day-care worker from Louisiana, was pregnant and excited about motherhood. Then, she told her boyfriend about her pregnancy. He obtained abortion drugs and coerced Rosalie into taking them. Although she tried to vomit up the pills in an attempt to save her baby, it was too late, and, tragically, her baby died, leaving Rosalie traumatized. [...]
Richard Dur, Special to The Interim: By early afternoon the neighborhood has settled into its familiar rhythm. Children drift toward the park. Parents linger on benches. Traffic comes and goes. Across the street stands the old Grand Trunk School. It still echoes with the ghosts of children who once filled its classrooms. The nearby park rings with the laughter of children alive today. [...]
From sandwich bag to healthy 13-year-old Blake is a thriving British 13-year-old, with tousled blondish hair and blue t-shirt, smiling into the camera. The first time his mom, Lauren, saw Blake was as a preemie, delivered 13 weeks early by caesarean, being carried in a sandwich bag immediately after birth to the neonatal intensive care unit. As unlikely as it seems, the [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Republican senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi) and Mike Rounds (South Dakota) introduced legislation banning the dilation and evacuation abortion procedure (D&E abortions), which critics calls dismemberment abortion because it involves cutting the preborn child apart in utero with surgical instruments and extracting the child piece by piece. Hyde-Smith said “the fact that this horrifying procedure is still being done to [...]
Rory Leishman: In the remarkable case of Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia on May 15, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada was subjected to devastating criticism by a significant authoritative source, namely, three dissenting judges on the same court. The case arose out of divorce proceedings initiated by Amrit Pal Singh Ahluwalia in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The trial judge, [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: Same-sex “marriage” is slowly creeping into Poland through recent court decisions which have allowed for the recognition of out-of-country unions, despite the country’s traditional stance on marriage. On May 14, Warsaw officials formally registered the union of two Polish men whose “marriage” took place in Germany, despite the fact that Poland’s constitution strictly adheres to the definition of [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A small European country is temporarily pausing efforts to decriminalize abortion amidst ongoing discussions with the Vatican. The Principality of Andorra, a small, majority Catholic country located in the mountain range between France and Spain, is stalling the implementation of their fully drafted bill on the decriminalization of abortion. “I hope this debate moves forward,” said French President Emmanuel [...]
Kesiah Beere: On June 1, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) held the fourth annual National “Pride” Flag Walk-Out Day. Each year, on the day that schools and school boards raise “Pride” flags in celebration of “pride month,” CLC calls for parents to keep their children home from school in protest of the LGBT agenda that infiltrates the public and Catholic education systems. The [...]
Gianna Baklinski: In British Columbia, midwives will now act as abortionists after a health-policy change allowing them to prescribe the abortion pill. The policy change brings B.C. to join Quebec and Saskatchewan in a growing band of provinces that allows midwives to both assist at births and kill babies. B.C. Health Minister Josie Osbourne announced on May 7 that the role of [...]
Declared alive patient dead, approved MAiD at Tim Horton’s Gianna Baklinski: A 45-year-old man was “assessed” outside a Tim Horton’s franchise, approved for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), and killed by euthanasia. The physician responsible, Dr. James MacLean, is still practicing as a doctor. MacLean is a doctor from London, Ontario. In June of 2023, he met Thomas Dillon at Tim Horton’s where [...]
Interim Staff: A Newfoundland and Labrador email message to residents in the province dated June 19 informed parents that they would not have automatic access to the medical records of their children ages 12-15 unless the child gave express permission to share that information. Days later, Newfoundland Premier Tony Wakeham said the policy would be reversed and blamed previous privacy policy for [...]
Kesiah Beere: Over the past seven years, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) has received roughly $1.1 million from the federal government through Canadian Heritage and Public Safety Canada programs. Funding from those two departments expired at the end of February and March 2026 respectively with no expressed intent of renewal. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is a self-proclaimed “nonpartisan” nonprofit organization that monitors [...]