AndrewLawton: A silly old cartoon came across my social media feeds the other day for the bajillionth time. In it, two people stand at opposite sides of a number drawn on the ground. One thinks it’s a ‘6’ while the other thinks it’s a ‘9’. The moral is supposed to be that perspective matters (though some variations take the relativist view that [...]
Paul Tuns: On Mach 27, the 50th anniversary of the Rockefeller Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, more than 30 pro-life leaders condemned the report and the mentality behind it, and urged Washington lawmakers to respect human life from the moment of conception. The Commission was created by Congress after being requested by President Richard Nixon in the aftermath of [...]
Oswald Clark: The Biden administration’s proposed 2023 budget, released March 28, did not include the Hyde Amendment which prohibits federal taxpayer dollars from being used through Medicaid or government-employee benefits programs to pay for abortions except to save the life of the woman or in cases of rape or incest. The proposed 2023 budget also included a funding increase for the United [...]
Interim Staff : Under the “Better Regulations for British Columbia” initiative, provincial bureaucrats in B.C. are obligated to take an annual inventory of government regulations to excise any instances of “gendered language.” After removing more than 600 such terms in 2021, it excised 741 more “instances of outdated gendered language” in 138 regulations this year. The changes took effect on March 30. [...]
Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed a deal with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to become the last province to join the federal government’s plan for $10-a-day daycare. While seven provinces and territories inked deals before the September 2021 federal election and all were signed onto it before the end of the year except Ontario, Ford was waiting to announce his province’s agreement [...]
Janice Glover and Paul Tuns: The remains of 115 aborted babies were discovered by pro-life activists in a when they intercepted a box labelled from Washington, D.C. abortuary with dismembered babies being sent to a medical waste centre. Members of The Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) group that intercepted the box from Washington Surgi Centre, an abortion mill, said that it contained 110 [...]
Paul Tuns: Kerry Lavender, an assistant professor of biochemistry, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine, wrote two articles based on government-funded research she has conducted on “humanized mice” experiments that used fetal tissue procured from aborted preborn babies. The mice are known in the scientific literature as “TKO-BLT mice.” The controversial experiments entail implanting human fetal tissue [...]
Interim Staff: Two Windsor women were charged with murder after they killed a 79-year-old female family member that the accused say was an assisted suicide. Police did not release the names of the victim and the accused in order protect the integrity of the investigation, but the two women were identified as being 23 and 49 years of age, and both were [...]
Interim Staff: An Ontario Superior Court judge dismissed a legal challenge by two southwestern Ontario evangelical churches against the province’s pandemic restrictions that closed and limited capacity of churches. During a three-day hearing that began Jan. 31, lawyers for the Church of God in Aylmer, Ont., and the Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, Ont., argued that restrictions designed to limit the spread [...]
Oswald Clark: On Feb. 28, the Senate failed to invoke cloture (closure) on a filibuster in order to proceed to a vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act, which passed in the House of Representatives when every Democrat but one voted for it earlier in the month. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer knew he did not have enough votes for victory as [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 was International Women’s Day. It was incumbent on America’s 46th president to salute women throughout the world and to offer them something encouraging and uplifting. He told half the population on the planet that women cannot “live up to their God-given potential” without abortion-on-demand. The inclusion of a reference to God is curious since hardly [...]
Interim Staff: The Globe and Mail reported that data from the four western provinces and Ontario finds that Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have lower per capita prescription rates for the abortion pill than B.C. or Ontario, and in the case of Alberta, significantly lower rates. Data from the 2020-2021 fiscal year shows that the Alberta government’s drug plan paid for 3800 prescriptions [...]
John Carpay: A person who is arrested or put in prison because of his or her political beliefs is a political prisoner. This also holds true for peaceful activists who are wrongfully arrested under trumped-up criminal charges. Long-standing readers of The Interim will immediately think about Mary Wagner and Fr. Tony Van Hee as examples of Canadians who were arrested or imprisoned [...]
Interim Staff: On March 1, Ontario Supreme Court Justice M.J. Valente ordered pro-abortion activist Brooke Dietrich and her unnamed allies to cease and desist from activities that harassed a pro-life vigil in Kitchener. Phil Horgan, representing 40 Days for Life, told the court that Dietrich attempted to sabotage the prayerful campaign by “filling vigil spots with no intent to participate, filling shopping [...]
Oswald Clark: In 2020 on the campaign trail, then-candidate Joe Biden promised to appoint a pro-abortion, black woman to the top court and he fulfilled his promise by naming Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring liberal judge Stephen Breyer, for whom she once clerked. Breyer’s retirement takes affect after the current term meaning that he will be ruling on the challenge to [...]