Monthly Archives: May 2018

British hospitals, courts conspire against life of infant

Alfie Evans, the British infant at the centre of a battle between doctors and his parents about how to proceed with medical care. A year after British infant Charlie Gard captured international attention over a battle between his parents and the hospital over continuing care to allow their child a chance at living, another British case is making headlines around [...]

I’m biased

Light is Right Joe Campbell Is it wrong to discriminate? I hope not, because I do it all the time. I discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation and religion, among other grounds. I hate cassava and plantains, so I refuse to patronize African restaurants. It’s not the African cooks I discriminate against. It’s their cooking. You know, [...]

2018-07-04T07:49:38-04:00May 4, 2018|Joe Campbell|

Paul Ehrlich is still wrong

Despite evidence to the contrary, population control advocate Paul Ehrlich maintains that the Earth cannot support 7 billion people. This month marks the 50th anniversary of biologist Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, in which he famously and incorrectly predicted it was a “near certainty” that humanity faced imminent demise because over-consumption of resources would result in “hundreds of million of [...]

2018-05-07T08:05:12-04:00May 4, 2018|Announcements, Features, Issues, Society & Culture|

The battle for the soul of Ontario

On June 7, voters in Ontario will have the chance to replace Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne by electing a new NDP or Progressive Conservative government. Technically, this is not one election, but 124 simultaneous elections, one in each riding across the province. In Canada, voters do not directly elect a government or premier, but rather members of federal or provincial parliaments that [...]

How to vote

Traditionally, Campaign Life Coalition reminds its supporters that they should vote for the local pro-life candidate for MPP regardless of party affiliation. If there is more than one pro-life candidate, voters could then look at other issues and choose among the pro-life candidates that best represents their overall views. Unfortunately, not many voters have that opportunity; there are few ridings in which [...]

2018-05-03T07:16:24-04:00May 3, 2018|Editorials, Politics|
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