Doctors at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto took their flight to unilaterally withdraw life support from Hassan Rasouli to three levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Rasouli's family was victorious, saying medical staff could not end treatment with ought their content or without the permission of the Consent and Capacity Board. The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled in [...]
Light is Right Joe Campbell Inconsistency always amuses me. It’s one of the funniest elements of humour. The sayings of Yogi Berra are consistently inconsistent. That’s why we laugh at them. That’s why we ought to laugh at the sayings of progressives. They are consistently inconsistent, too. When Yogi Berra says things like “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded,” [...]
Michael Coren Journalist for Life Put simply, we have to stop obsessing about what the Pope may or may not have said about Catholics obsessing. That Papal interview now seems so long ago, but in truth it was recent, and the ripples of its landing are still being felt both inside and outside of the Church. Everybody became an expert [...]
I was deeply saddened by the news of Dr. Donald Low’s passing away on Sept. 18, at age 68 due to terminal brain cancer diagnosed seven months ago. In this difficult time, I send my heart-felt condolences to his wife Maureen Taylor and children. Dr. Low was a microbiologist in-chief at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital and a professor at the University of [...]
Dr. Donald Low became a public figure during the Toronto SARS crisis of 2003 when, amid innumerable news conferences, the staid and reassuring microbiologist became a familiar face. He returned to the public’s mind last month after a video was released following his death at age 68. In this video, recorded just one week before he succumbed to natural causes, Low makes [...]
To the 18th century, French encyclopedist, Diderot, is attributed the enlightened observation: “Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Christ’s immortal Church has its origin in a violent, state-sponsored murder. And, although the actors may change, the same drama plays itself out on the world stage throughout the centuries: from savage [...]
National Affairs Rory Leishman In a report five years ago, the “Expert Panel on Infertility and Adoption,” a body appointed by Deb Matthews, then Ontario Minister of Children and Youth Services, admonished the government of Ontario to assure that people from the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer (LBGTQ) communities” have access to assisted-reproduction and adoption services on the same [...]
How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization by Mary Eberstadt (Templeton Press, $26.50, 268 pages) I’ve almost been trained to smile on cue when I read Mary Eberstadt’s name in the media, even though How the West Really Lost God was only the second of her works I’d read in its entirety (an early draft of The Loser [...]
Michael Orsi writes about the crazy expansion of animal rights in The American Spectator. Orsi notes that historically, man* had "a unique status in the order of creation," on top of the status food chain, so to speak. That is changing, with common-sense concern about the environment that houses humanity and our responsibility to be good stewards of the Earth's bounty and to [...]
I have a pro-life friend whose passion for defending human rights is only matched by her love of writing. She recently shared an interesting New York Times column with me, in which essayist and cartoonist Tim Kreider laments the tendency for writers to go unpaid. This idea is not completely baseless. Our society teaches us to be dissatisfied, constantly craving the latest [...]
Sally Cohn explains in a column at The Daily Beast, "Why I’m joining a telethon to raise money for abortion services in Texas, land of Wendy Davis and Jane Roe." In the column Cohn has a throwaway line: And lest we forget, Texas is also where the fight for access to abortion arguably originated in America, where a Texas woman filed a [...]
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that China will ease its one-child policy. The media -- legacy and social -- were quick to celebrate the coming end of the one-child policy that is often enforced with coerced abortion. But as Reggie Littlejohn of Women's Rights Without Frontiers says the changes are actually a minor "tweak" because "China will now lift the ban [...]
Interim columnist Rick McGinnis reviewed Helen Smith's Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream -- and Why it Matters in the November edition of The Interim. McGinnis gets a bit autobiographical: In college I’d witnessed the successes of first and second-wave feminism meld with Marxist ideology and solidify into a social orthodoxy that would become known [...]
The worst part of being a TV critic, I used to joke to my friends, was having to watch television. Like most jokes, it was mostly a statement of fact. The worst thing about watching TV in the last decade or so was a ubiquity of a lazy trope, played for laughs, that cast men as the village idiot of the family. [...]
Dorothy Carston, 94, has never missed a LifeChain and took part in the event in Kirkland Lake despite eight-degree temperatures, wind and rain. She said you are never too old to come out to LifeChain. According to LifeChain founder Royce Dunn, 1,890 chains took place in 1,552 cities across the United States and Canada on Oct. 6. Campaign Life Coalition [...]