Expect to hear a lot of the term gendercide in the next while, in part because of Mara Hvistendahl's new book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, And The Consequences Of A World Full Of Men. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has released a discussion paper on the topic. The subject is finally getting some much-needed and overdue attention. As always, Mark Steyn sums up [...]
On June 3, euthanasia advocate and convicted murderer Jack Kevorkian passed away naturally in Royal Oak, Michigan after being hospitalized for difficulties connected to pneumonia and kidney problems. His death occasioned laudatory obituaries in the media that ignored the man’s ghoulish history. The Detroit News and Washington Post compared him to civil rights heroes, fighting for what the News euphemistically referred [...]
When Tom Wappel was first elected to Parliament in 1988, he recalls that 40 per cent or more of the Liberal caucus was pro-life, or held traditional values. But by the time he left federal politics and retired as MP for Scarborough Southwest in 2008, he was one of the last remaining pro-life MPs in caucus. The same year, [...]