While the continuing COVID-crisis has been painful and alarming in equal parts, it has been clarifying, too. Never before in the living memory of most Canadians have the power and the meaning of our most primal bonds been felt so strongly or understood as clearly. In dark times, the real lights of our lives that are dimmed by daily familiarity glow which [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden released a letter on the weekend expressing their disappointment that Joe Biden is precisely who he says he is: a pro-abortion Democrat who wants to codify Roe v. Wade in law and force American taxpayers to foot the bill for abortions at home and abroad. Once upon a time, Biden supported the Hyde [...]
A year ago, a news story from the “World” section of the newspaper—reports about an outbreak of viral pneumonia in a Chinese city—became the world’s permanent headline for the rest of the year; twelve months later, we are still in its throes. While we all look forward to the day when we can take stock of the COVID-19 crisis as a thing [...]
Pagans & Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac Steven D. Smith (Eerdmans, $65, 386 pages) Steven D. Smith, coordinator of the University of San Diego’s Institute for Law and Religion, has written a provocative book arguing that today’s culture wars are really a rehash of the ancient debates between pagans and Christians. Smith is both scholarly [...]
By Rick McGinnis Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements The “OK Boomer” meme – a condescending, dismissive internet catchphrase that’s supposed to be generational kryptonite when employed by millennials against anyone over 55 - is not new. OK Boomer began, as far as we know, on either reddit or 4chan – the very nerdy, largely boomer-proof online bulletin boards that are lumped [...]
Paul Tuns An open letter to the House of Commons' Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics signed by 104 survivors, 525 NGO’s from 65 countries regarding the "Protection of Privacy and Reputation on Platforms such as Pornhub" is a comprehensive indictment of PornHub's corporate owners MindGeek, and its executives. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has posted the complete letter, [...]
On Jan. 28, President Joe Biden revoked Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order banning the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to be used to commit or promote abortion in foreign countries. The executive order, known as the Mexico City Policy but derided by pro-abortion groups as the Global Gag Rule, was expected to be an early casualty of Biden’s pro-abortion administration. In a [...]
REAL Women of Canada Editor's Note: This article was released March 3 by REAL Women of Canada and is reprinted with permission. International Women's Day is March 8. It's time Canadians gave women a break. It would make International Women's Day much more meaningful for them if we did. The break women desperately need is to be allowed to make their own [...]
By Paul Tuns Dr. Joel Zivot, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, testified last month before Canada’s Senate committee hearings on Bill C-7, which, if passed, will expand criteria to make euthanasia more permissive. Zivot testified that an assisted death may be tortuous, not peaceful, explaining that death from the pharmaceutical [...]
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By Paul Tuns After nearly two months of debate and hearings, the Senate amended the government’s Bill C-7, which, if passed, will extend euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide to those who are not terminally ill and those suffering psychologically and thus opening the door to euthanasia for mental illness despite the government’s insistence that mental illness is not a reason to access a [...]
By Paul Tuns Campaign Life Coalition has urged the United Nations to call upon all countries to end the practice of sex-selective abortions. CLC submitted a statement to the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women as part of the UN’s agency’s follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and the 23rd special session of the General Assembly [...]
Paul Tuns The Equality Act passed in the House of Representatives last week amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" as protected classes under federal nondiscrimination statutes. There has been a great deal of criticism that by adding special protections for transgenderism, the law could undermine or erase women's rights by opening female institutions from [...]
The Interim Staff Mary Wagner with her father, Frank Wagner outside B.C. Provincial Court after her September 11 release. The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Mary Wagner’s Charter challenge to Canadian law that denies the humanity of the preborn child. Wagner was challenging Section 223(1) of Canada’s Criminal Code, which states that a “child becomes a human being within the [...]
Oswald Clark Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and a member of this paper's editorial advisory board, has a new 25-minute video on Preventing the Spread of Assisted Suicide in America. A total of 16 states, comprising 35 per cent of the U.S. population, are considering either legalizing euthanasia (Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New [...]