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Tribute speech to editor Paul Tuns

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:18:02 +0000

Jeff Gunnarson, Special to The Interim: Editor’s Note: These remarks were given by Campaign Life Coalition national president and Interim editorial advisory board member Jeff Gunnarson at an August 13 celebration marking the 25th anniversary of Paul Tuns as editor of The Interim (August 8, 2001). What can one say about a faithful Catholic man, pro-life [...]

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Jeanne Head, who fought abortion at UN, RIP

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:55:07 +0000

Paul Tuns: Jeanne Head, who led pro-life efforts at the United Nations for decades, died on July 1 at the age of 94 in Omaha, Nebraska. Born in Selby, South Dakota in 1932, Head earned a nursing degree and went to New York City in 1965 to pursue an acting career. She became a nurse [...]

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Pro-life lawyer Angela Costigan, RIP

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:07 +0000

Paul Tuns: On July 14, Angela Costigan died at the age of 83. Costigan, originally a high school teacher, left that profession at the age of 33 to attend law school, and after she became a lawyer took on numerous cases in pursuit of obtaining legal rights for the unborn child, leading Jakki Jeffs, director [...]

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IRA terrorist had abortion to go through with bombing attack

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:06:26 +0000

Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: A former Irish Republican Army member and later Irish politician has revealed that she had an abortion in the 1980s while preparing to join a bombing mission in England during the Troubles. Martina Anderson, a former IRA member who spent more than a decade in prison for her involvement in a plot [...]

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Memories are made of this

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:05:38 +0000

Donald DeMarco: The year was 2003, Oct. 6, to be exact. The Boston Red Sox were playing the Oakland Athletics in the American League Division Series. The Beantowners had come back from an 0-2 deficit and had a chance to win the series with one more victory. Victories in playoff games, however, are seldom easy. [...]

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France legalizes euthanasia

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:35:42 +0000

Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: France has legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia after a long struggle and apparent stalemate between the French Senate and the National Assembly. On July 15, the French National Assembly voted to adopt the final draft of a bill to enshrine the “right” to assistance in dying and, in some circumstances euthanasia, in [...]

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CLC asks court to quash brochure complaint

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:30:15 +0000

Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition has filed two applications for judicial review in the New Brunswick Court of King’s Bench asking the court to quash a pair of decisions of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission referring complaints to a Board of Enquiry about two of CLC’s political flyers distributed in the 2024 provincial election. [...]

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Gay couple adopts surrogate child after demanding it to be aborted due to genetic defect

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:14:50 +0000

Gianna Baklinski An Ontario woman who carried a baby for a same-sex couple is being sued after she refused to abort at their request. The woman was engaged to act as a surrogate by two men. Part-way through the pregnancy, routine ultrasounds indicated that the baby might have a cleft lip and palate, as well [...]

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Religion ban for military personnel expanded

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:07:14 +0000

Paul Tuns: On July 29, Military Personnel Command issued a new directive expanding restrictions on faith-specific language and practices at official military ceremonies. The new rules require all members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and all employees and contractors of the Department of National Defence (DND) who speak at public events to eschew any [...]

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B.C. euthanasia report finds hundreds of ‘compliance concerns’

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:37:57 +0000

Paul Tuns: On July 5, Canadian Catholic News (CCN) carried a story by Terry O’Neill exposing an internal report that found thousands of errors in reporting British Columbia Medical Assistance in Dying cases and more than 350 cases of that required education of health care professionals about MAiD’s legal requirements. Through a freedom of information [...]

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Reaping the whirlwind

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:12:48 +0000

School boards in Toronto and Ontario have recently seen a clear and sustained uptick in “behavioural problems,” a sweeping (if euphemistic) term for a large swathe of anti-social conduct in the classroom ranging from harassment to threats to outright physical violence. It would seem that the kids are not, in fact, alright. What is at [...]

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With social conservative leadership, B.C. Conservatives lead in polls

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:41:44 +0000

Paul Tuns: In May, Conservative Party of British Columbia (CPBC) members narrowly elected former MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay as leader on the fourth ballot, besting Caroline Elliott 51-49 per cent. During her leadership campaign, Findlay vowed to scrap the province’s sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) program in schools, ran against the NDP government’s lax drug [...]

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U.S regains leadership of Geneva Consensus Declaration

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:37:22 +0000

Argentina joins pro-life coalition Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On August 12, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accepted the United States taking on the role as the next rotating Secretariat of the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), a 2020 document affirming support for the right to life around the world. The document was signed [...]

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Court sides with Christian ministry targeted by Quebec politician

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:46:03 +0000

Interim Staff: On July 28, Superior Court Justice Alain Trudel ruled against former Quebec tourism minister Caroline Proulx, declaring that in pressuring the Quebec City Convention Centre to cancel its contract with Harvest Ministries International to host the Faith, Fire, Freedom Rally in 2023, she had exercised her ministerial authority in “an arbitrary and abusive [...]

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Ontario grandmother euthanized despite opposition from woman, family

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:42:49 +0000

Gianna Baklinski: An Ontario family is grieving their matriarch who was killed through euthanasia, despite having refused it, stating that it was contrary to her Christian beliefs. Her family also opposed her death but found themselves powerless to prevent it. Stegemann’s family has chosen to share the story, and posted it on the Euthanasia Prevention [...]

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