Paul Tuns I want to bring to your attention three articles written about euthanasia over the last few days that are all very important. The first is the always pertinent Wesley Smith, at NRO, with an article titled, "Alzheimer’s Breakthrough and the False Compassion of Assisted Suicide." Smith notes: Alzheimer’s and other dementia patients are now in the cross hairs of the [...]
If Canadians pro-lifers want to hear some good news, they need only look south of the border. Our conscientious counterparts in the United States can boast of both substantial achievements and undeniable momentum in their noble efforts in the protection of life: promising Supreme Court justices were appointed in the previous administration; states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, among [...]
Paul Tuns: Washington Post political reporters routinely refer to U.S. President Joe Biden as “devoutly” or “deeply” Catholic despite his support for abortion. Biden calls himself personally pro-life, but has completely abandoned his prior support for the Hyde Amendment which outlawed taxpayer funding for abortion through Medicaid. Upon becoming President, he reversed the Mexico City Policy which outlawed the use of American [...]
Oswald Clark: The U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear Mississippi’s appeal to defend its state law protecting the human right to life beginning at 15 weeks, a case that presents the most direct challenge to the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In 2018, Mississippi’s state House of Representatives passed Bill 1510, the Gestational Stage Act, which outlaws almost all abortions [...]
Paul Tuns: Review The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari (Convergent, $36, 298 pages) Sohrab Ahmari has been one of the most prominent critics of the brand of conservatism best characterized as fusionism -- the National Review-led unification of libertarian and socially conservative priorities in a supposedly cohesive movement. In recent years, Ahmari, the [...]
Paul Tuns: DutchNews reports that in 2020 there was a record 6938 officially reported euthanasia deaths in 2020, up from 6361 the year before, an increase of nine per cent. The number of euthanasia cases exceeded the previous peak of 6585 deaths in 2017. Each year, Regional Euthanasia Review Committees (RTE) analyze all official deaths by euthanasia to ensure that they meet [...]
Interim Staff - During the Rose Dinner at the National March for Life, there was a panel discussion on the pro-life movement and cancel culture – the trend that sees attacks not only on the ideas that people hold, but the attempt to cancel the people who hold them from polite society, banishing them by firing them from their job, preventing them [...]
Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of them Admirable George Weigel (Ignatius, $24, 221 pages) George Weigel, the popular Catholic writer and biographer of Pope John Paul II, has collected more than 60 columns, essays and eulogies on (mostly) famous people Weigel knew, sometimes personally, occasionally far afar, who have died. Many of the names [...]
Rory Leishman In an attempt to justify their new, multi-billion dollar, “Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan,” the Trudeau Liberals maintain that infants and toddlers generally thrive better under the care and guidance of professional child-care workers than their own parents. Is that right? The Department of Finance claims: “Studies by Canadians Dr. Fraser Mustard and the Honourable Margaret McCain have [...]
Interim Staff After convincing every public school board in Ontario to fly the rainbow pride flag -- the universal emblem of LGBTQ+ rights -- on board and school properties, gay activists focused their attention on the publicly funded Catholic school boards. After the separate boards in Waterloo and Thunder Bay voted earlier this year to begin flying the pride flag in June, [...]
Paul Tuns For the second consecutive year, the National March for Life in Ottawa was affected by the pandemic, although this year they were able to hold a smaller event and march as approximately 500 people attended in-person to hear a smaller program of speakers before marching through the streets in the nation’s capital. Campaign Life Coalition, which was forced to provide [...]
Paul Tuns British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Sandra Wilkinson ruled on April 26 that the name of a second mother must be included as one of three legal parents on the birth certificate of a two-year-old boy, finding that the provincial legislature “did not contemplate polyamorous families” when it amended the Family Law Act (FLA) in 2011. Wilkinson said all three members [...]
Andrea Mrozek Laying out plans for a national daycare system is one thing. Dealing with the reality of implementing those plans is quite another. The federal government is staring down a shocking reality check on both the costs and complexities of a daycare system. The federal government wants to spend $30 billion over five years on a daycare system – landing on [...]
Paul Tuns A new report from the Cardus think tank, “Look Before You Leap,” says the federal government of Justin Trudeau is dramatically underestimating the cost of creating a national daycare plan modeled on Quebec’s $10-a-day plan, leaving provinces on the hook for a much larger share than federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland suggests might be the case. The authors conclude, “the [...]