Interim Staff The CBC reported on two London, Ont. funeral homes which are making an extra buck by renting out dedicated rooms where customers can have a medically induced death. The CBC reports that Northview Funeral Chapel owner Paul Needham started receiving requests from families looking for “a place to go” for the euthanasia “procedure” at the start of COVID lockdowns. Needham [...]
Josie Luetke Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey “Every woman in Canada has a right to a safe and legal abortion,” according to none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “Access to safe, legal abortion is a fundamental right of women, irrespective of where they live,” according to a 2006 publication from the World Health Organization. One of Campaign Life Coalition’s [...]
Every new annual provincial or federal report on the euphemistically named Medical Aid in Dying shows that the number of medicalized murders in the form of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide grows by leaps and bounds. In October, Quebec’s euthanasia data revealed a 37 per cent increase (to 2426 euthanasia deaths) from April 2020 to March 31, 2021 compared to the previous year. [...]
John Carpay This past Remembrance Day, I thought of my grandparents and all the others who fought for freedom against foreign dictatorships: Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, fascist Italy, and communist forces in Korea and Vietnam. While successfully defending freedom abroad, Canadians have now surrendered to living under a medical dictatorship on our own soil. Starting in March of 2020, we were prohibited [...]
Interim Staff On Nov. 2, NDP MPP Terrance Kernaghan (London North Centre) reintroduced a private member’s bill that will, if passed, outlaw the use of abortion victim photography in pro-life activism unless certain conditions are met. Bill 41, an “Act to regulate the mailing of images of fetuses” or the “Viewer Discretion Act” is the same as Bill 259 that Kernaghan introduced [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 10, Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman introduced a bill to ban all non-labour protests within 50 metres of a hospital. Bill 48, “The Public Health (Safe Access to Hospitals) Amendment Act, 2021,” is the Scott Moe government’s response to calls to ban anti-COVID restrictions and vaccination policy demonstrations near so-called frontline workers. Merriman said in a press release, [...]
“Telling Women They Don’t Need Men is Hurting Their Children” Tim Goeglein The Federalist (Oct. 14) As the late Michael Novak, recipient of the Templeton Prize and renowned philosopher, once remarked, “Marriage, the family unit, was the ‘original Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.’” Unfortunately, these days, the fundamental foundation for societal well-being – strong marriages and intact families – is crumbling at [...]
Sexual abuse in Louden County public schools LOUDEN COUNTY, Virginia -- Early this spring, in Louden County, a 15-year-old female student was sexually attacked in the girls’ washroom in her school, by a biological boy in a skirt, who claimed to be “non-binary.” The school board tried to cover it up to the point of moving the boy to another school, where he [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary Helen Alvaré is a professor of law at George Mason University, and a courageous defender of unborn human life. In her case courage means a willingness to tell the truth when political correctness forbids it. “The government is essentially proclaiming,” she writes, “that there is only one legitimate kind of homicide in the US: killing within the family.” To [...]
John Carpay Canada is now divided into two classes of citizens, the Vaccinated and the Unvaccinated, each with different legal rights. How will Canadian churches respond to this medical apartheid? Apartheid (Afrikaans for “apartness”) was South Africa’s system of racial segregation, in force from 1948 to the early 1990s. All South Africans were legally designated as “Black,” “White,” Coloured” or “Indian.” A [...]
Rory Leishman In response to an alarming upsurge in severe Covid-19 cases, the government of New Brunswick declared a State of Emergency on Sept. 24 and followed up with a mandatory order that only patrons who are fully vaccinated or medically exempt from vaccination can engage in any non-essential indoor activities. Are such restrictive orders justifiable if necessary to prevent a rapid [...]
Janice Glover Commentary In the pages of The Interim over the past three years, we have been highlighting various “family friendly” policies and legislation that Hungary has been passing in its parliament that have stood out as a model for a 21st century country. The country has been criticized by the European Union and others in the West, including personal attacks on [...]
Interim Staff The trial of Bill Whatcott for an alleged hate crime began at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto last month in relation to the distribution of flyers at the 2016 Toronto Pride parade displaying the potential consequences of homosexual activity. The literature described both the physical and spiritual dangers of homosexual activity and the Crown prosecution says that is [...]
Paul Tuns The Manitoba Progressive Conservative caucus voted against a private member’s bill that would have created an anti-free speech zone around all facilities that committed abortions in the province. Bill 207, The Abortion Protest Buffer Zone Act, was defeated 30-20 with the NDP and Liberal MLAs voting for the bill, on the last day of the fall legislative session. NDP MLA [...]
Interim Staff A Québec inquest into COVID-related deaths in Quebec long-term care homes heard testimony that residents who died of dehydration, malnourishment and neglect at the Herron nursing home in the Dorval suburb of Montreal were reported as COVID deaths to hide alleged elder abuse. A nurse, whose name was not released, testified that beginning on March 13, 2020, at the outset [...]