Interim Staff: Toronto-area pro-life activist Cyril “Cy” Fleming died at the age of 93 with his family by his side. Fleming was born on Allan’s Island, Newfoundland, and would eventually open Nascopie Travel in Labrador City. Ever the entrepreneur, Fleming helped bring Mary Brown’s Chicken to eastern Canada before moving to Mississauga, west of Toronto, to operate the Sheridan Travel Agency in [...]
Pete Baklinski: There are so many reasons why I’m attending this year’s National March for Life on May 11, 2023, the 26th march since the event was first begun by Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of Canada’s pro-life movement. Not only is it lots of fun to be openly pro-life in a crowd of thousands of like-minded people standing on Parliament [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Pro-life youngsters across the country are looking forward to the annual March for Life (M4L) taking place this year in the nation’s capital the week of May 7-12. Organized by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), this year’s march is slated to feature a number of interesting keynote speakers such as Oxford University Research Associate Dr. Callum Mitchell, Students for Life spokesperson [...]
It should, of course, be cause for celebration: this month, The Interim newspaper will enter its fifth decade of publication. And, to a certain extent, congratulations are due—we need to honor the generosity of donors and advertisers, the efforts of our reporters, columnists, and editorial staff, and, above all, our intelligent, passionate, and longstanding readership, without whom our words would have no [...]
Jim Hughes: Although it might seem like yesterday to some, it’s actually been 40 years since the first edition of The Interim rolled off the presses. The paper’s name came courtesy of the late Carl Scharfe, media man for Campaign Life. He’s also the man who suggested that we needed a presence on the Internet (what’s an internet?) which led to the [...]
Stalin was, of course, right about statistics; a million deaths is a figure, a thing to be grasped only by the mind. Like the ancient philosopher, Lucretius, who watched with pleasure a shipwreck from the shore, we can comprehend an integer—62,502,904, say—from the safe distance of abstract intelligibility. What does that number even mean, “sixty-two million, five-hundred-and-two thousand, nine hundred and four”? [...]
MP Leslyn Lewis MP Cathay Wagantall MP Arnold Viersen Paul Tuns On Nov. 24, three Conservative MPs addressed the Save Our Charities rally on Parliament Hill to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s threat to strip crisis pregnancy centres and other pro-life organizations of their charitable tax status. During the federal election, on page four [...]
10. Texas Heartbeat law protects thousands of preborn On May 19, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the Texas Heartbeat Act that bans abortion after the detection of a preborn baby’s heartbeat, typically around the sixth week of pregnancy. The law took effect on Sept. 1. The law allows citizens to sue anyone who commits or facilitates an abortion after a [...]
Interim Staff For Giving Tuesday, the week after the consumer orgy Black Friday sales during which organizations ask for donations, Campaign Life Coalition did something unusual: instead of asking its supporters to donate to their organization, they raised money to help mothers and babies in Canada’s north. CLC partnered with former Nunavut MLA Patterk Netser and his wife, Mona, “to help mothers [...]
Against the COVID jab (I) I am shocked by some of Rory Leishman’s statements in his latest column (“The Pro-Life Case for Vaccines,” November). He claims there is no credible evidence that the available vaccines for COVID-19 pose severe risks to health. However, hundreds of eminent doctors all over the world (including Dr. M. Yeadon, a former vice-president of Pfizer) have been [...]
Jim Hughes Fr. Paul Casullo died on Oct. 31 at the age of 91. The former Trappist monk, Fr. Casullo immigrated to Canada in 1964 where he served as a parish priest within the Archdiocese of Toronto. A shy and humble man, he struck people as a prayer warrior. As the pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Weston, he could [...]
Paul Tuns A study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry confirmed that a child’s personality begins development within the womb. The researchers found that different areas of the babies’ brains were already communicating in way that indicated unique personality traits such as cuddliness, fear, laughter, sadness, soothability, and perceptual sensitivity. University of Virginia (UVA) researchers, led by Tobias Grossmann, a professor [...]
Since the very first Life Chain in 1987 in Yuba City, California, pro-lifers have gathered annually for one hour along roadways and at intersections to pray and hold signs with varying pro-life messages. The 2021 Life Chain took place at around 270 locations in Canada, with the majority of communities participating on Sunday, October 3. Campaign Life Coalition reported that this is [...]
Paul Tuns A Nova Scotia man was assaulted during the 40 Days for Life witness in Halifax. The man, whom The Interim is not identifying, were “minding our own business on the side of Spring Garden Road” in Halifax, “praying my rosary” when “suddenly” a “masked woman rushed onto us from our right side,” grabbing one of the signs from the man’s [...]
Paul Tuns: The University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine announced that the pro-life Saskatoon Pregnancy Options Centre (SPOC) “will not be included as a placement site option going forward,” after pro-abortion students complained that the Centre discouraged abortion. Initially, the University’s medical school resisted the campaign by Gender Engagement in Medicine to make the Pregnancy Center verboten for medical students seeking work [...]