Andrew Lawton A comedian with whom I worked on a project a while back once told me that there are no bad experiences in life – just good experiences and material. As a columnist and commentator, I’ve certainly tried to embrace this, and channel life’s unpleasantness into something constructive. That said, I must confess I could live with a bit less material than [...]
Mary Zwicker In a moving tribute to the power of spiritual warfare, a 40 Days for Life group in Winnipeg has recently informed The Interim that their prayers during a 40-day prayer initiative have saved a child from abortion. Maria Slykerman, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Winnipeg, said that despite losing many volunteers over the years to age or sickness, [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 9, a pair of NDP MLAs called upon the Saskatchewan Party government of Scott Moe to guarantee more surgical abortions be committed in the province by introducing a province-wide intake system and opening two abortion centres in Saskatoon and Prince Albert. Official Opposition Status of Women Critic Jennifer Bowes and Democracy and Ethics Critic Meara Conway were leading [...]
Mary Zwicker In an alarming new threat to the sanctity of human life and the integrity of medicine in Canada, a group of medical students at a Canadian university are calling for medical schools across the country to provide comprehensive abortion education to all future doctors as a mandatory part of their programs. On March 10, an organization known as SexMed, founded [...]
Mary Zwicker Despite selling its building due to lack of government funding, an abortion mill in New Brunswick has been given temporary permission by the building’s new owners to continue offering its gruesome services from that location. Clinic 554 in Fredericton, the only privately run abortion mill in New Brunswick, was forced to shut its doors and sell their building in September [...]
Oswald Clark On Nov. 16, during a lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate passed the On Nov. 16, during a lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act – a version of which was passed in the House of Representatives in July– a version of which was passed in the House of Representatives in July -- that repeals [...]
Interim Staff CTV announced and posted a teaser video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appearing on a spinoff of the television show Canada's Drag Race, much to the tittering excitement of Canadian journalists. CTV News said in a statement, "Justin Trudeau is swinging by the 'werkroom' on an upcoming spinoff of 'Canada’s Drag Race'." The statement continued: "Producers of the drag [...]
Paul Tuns The National Post reported that unlike other jurisdictions that have legalized euthanasia, Canadians physicians are introducing the topic before patients broach the topic. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said this might be why "euthanasia deaths have increased so quickly in Canada" compared to countries like Belgium and the Netherlands. According to the 2021 official Medical Assistance [...]
Catholic Civil Rights League vows to challenge bubble zone Paul Tuns On Oct. 28, Crown Attorney Meaghan Cunningham advised the Ontario Court of Justice that the state was dropping the charges against Fr. Anthony Van Hee, 87, for allegedly breaching the anti-free speech bubble zone outside the Morgentaler abortuary in Ottawa, more than four years after he was arrested. While Fr. Van [...]
We are not going to sugarcoat the results of the U.S. midterm elections: it was not a good day for pro-lifers. But neither was it a great day for pro-aborts. This election delivered stunning victories and disappointing defeats for both sides. The pro-life losses were significant, perhaps more so than the wins. Several states enacted constitutional protections for abortion through referenda and [...]
Mobile abortuaries The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the regulation of abortion to the states. Planned Parenthood had to rethink and regroup to ensure that its facilities continued to be available to pregnant moms. That is, it had to ensure that its annual revenue of $1.6 billion was not sacrificed. It’s OK to sacrifice unborn babies and their [...]
Mary Zwicker, Review: A new feminist, left-wing documentary on the topic of birth control has been released … but it’s not what you would expect. The new film, produced by Ricki Lake’s production company and directed by Abby Epstein, is called The Business of Birth Control, and it provides an in-depth analysis of the history of hormonal birth control, concluding that women need [...]
John Carpay: Interim writer, John Carpay, Law Matters Canadians remain divided about the Freedom Convoy truckers’ protest in Ottawa in January and February of 2022. Some Canadians saw the truckers as heroes resisting unjust laws, while government-funded media portrayed thousands of peaceful protesters as a harmful nuisance at best, and as dangerous racists and violent criminals at worst. I know [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 21, in remarks to reporters at the United Nations after addressing the General Assembly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once again declared his support for abortion, with his Foreign Minister, Melanie Joly, reiterating the message six days later at the UN. In response to a journalist's questions about what, if any limits Trudeau supported when it comes to abortion, [...]
Rick McGinnis: Blonde – Andrew Dominik’s “film about, but not a biopic of” Marilyn Monroe – was released on Netflix in September to what you could generously call mixed reviews. The Los Angeles Times called it a “torture porn biopic” while the Guardian called it “a hellish vision.” NPR described it as “an exercise in exploitation, not empathy,” and Esquire’s headline read [...]