Pro-gay youth line TORONTO -- Youth Line is a Toronto area on-line resource for young people up to the age of 29, which caters to queers, trans- and two-spirit persons. Its content includes explicit information on how to conduct a homosexual sexual encounter; how to normalize the giving of sex-toy gifts; how girls can become sex “workers” (a euphemism for prostitutes); a [...]
By Interim Staff On Jan. 27, three months after Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled abortions for malformed preborn babies was unconstitutional because it discriminated on the basis of disability, the ruling Law and Justice Party finally published the decision in the Journal of Laws, allowing a near-total ban on abortion to take effect. Protests against the government and churches in 60 Polish municipalities [...]
By Interim Staff A new study published in Issues in Law & Medicine has found that deaths and adverse events related to the abortion pill are not being properly tracked or reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and that women who take the abortion pill mifepristone and have complications are more likely to require follow-up care at an emergency center [...]
By Joe Campbell “Our reality is given,” he said. “Theirs is chosen.” “But surely, Dingwall,” I replied, “you don’t mean that progressives occupy an alternate reality.” “How else could they be impervious to facts and principles that are obvious to us?” I conceded that an alternate reality might account for their being out of touch with the given one. “Still,” I said, [...]
By Josie Luetke Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey For days surrounding Derek Sloan’s removal from the Conservative caucus, I wrote lengthy rants on Facebook, my rage ignited in a way it hadn’t been for a while. The excuse Erin O’Toole employed for seeking to eject him—accepting a donation from a white nationalist whose membership the party had also accepted—was [...]
By Rory Leishman In First Corinthians 14:9, Paul admonished the faithful to speak the truth plainly: “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound,” he observed, “who shall prepare himself for the battle?” Like Paul, José Gómez, Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), is not given to making uncertain sounds about the [...]
By Interim Staff Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run with Life, obtained 287 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information request that found the Ontario government lacked any evidence that anti-free speech bubble zones around the province’s abortuaries was necessary. In 2017, the Wynne government’s Bill 163, the Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, passed with all-party support. It [...]
While the continuing COVID-crisis has been painful and alarming in equal parts, it has been clarifying, too. Never before in the living memory of most Canadians have the power and the meaning of our most primal bonds been felt so strongly or understood as clearly. In dark times, the real lights of our lives that are dimmed by daily familiarity glow which [...]
A year ago, a news story from the “World” section of the newspaper—reports about an outbreak of viral pneumonia in a Chinese city—became the world’s permanent headline for the rest of the year; twelve months later, we are still in its throes. While we all look forward to the day when we can take stock of the COVID-19 crisis as a thing [...]
On Jan. 28, President Joe Biden revoked Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order banning the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to be used to commit or promote abortion in foreign countries. The executive order, known as the Mexico City Policy but derided by pro-abortion groups as the Global Gag Rule, was expected to be an early casualty of Biden’s pro-abortion administration. In a [...]
By Paul Tuns Campaign Life Coalition has urged the United Nations to call upon all countries to end the practice of sex-selective abortions. CLC submitted a statement to the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women as part of the UN’s agency’s follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and the 23rd special session of the General Assembly [...]
The Interim Staff Mary Wagner with her father, Frank Wagner outside B.C. Provincial Court after her September 11 release. The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Mary Wagner’s Charter challenge to Canadian law that denies the humanity of the preborn child. Wagner was challenging Section 223(1) of Canada’s Criminal Code, which states that a “child becomes a human being within the [...]
BY JOE CAMPBELL Interim writer, Joe Campbell, Light is Right I don’t know economics. Although introduced to it at university, I don’t know it, let alone understand it. Economics is about scarcity. For several months I studied it. For the rest of my days I lived it. Scarcity means you can’t have everything you want. You have to choose, presumably after [...]
BY RICK McGINNIS Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements You have to assume that Ronald Diebert was being provocative by calling his book about the internet in a time of social and political crisis Reset. Presented as a series of lectures this past year in the middle of the unfolding coronavirus pandemic, the title evokes the concept the “Great Reset” – [...]
BY JOSIE LUETKE Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I’m writing this column for precisely the reason I didn’t want to: the information available on vaccines in general, and particularly the COVID-19 ones, is immensely confusing and contradictory (even without journeying down the rabbit hole into conspiracies about nanoparticles, cryptocurrency, and 5G antennas—don’t ask). If I had trouble sifting through [...]