Maeve Roche The French sociologist Émile Durkheim said flags are emblems of social solidarity with transcendent qualities to represent the unifying values of a collective group of individuals. In March of this year, the Pro-Life Flag Project prompted pro-life organizations across the United States to share their opinions on the potential creation and distribution of a unifying, pro-life flag. On May 24, [...]
Paul Tuns Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announced on August 9 that he would not lead the Progressive Conservatives in the next provincial election. Pallister, a former federal MP, was acclaimed leader in 2012. In 2016, the Pallister-led PCs won 40 of 57 provincial seats. In 2019, returning to the polls early, the PCs were re-elected with 36 seats. But following supposedly insensitive [...]
Rick McGinnis: The 9/11 terrorist attacks thrust a lot of questions that were lingering in the background two long decades ago to the forefront. Like what does revenge mean when your attacker isn’t a country? And what do you do when pursuing revenge makes you the caretaker of places and people that war has destabilized and devastated? It has taken us 20 [...]
From the editor’s desk: Before looking at the weird news stories and commentary that come across my desk in any given month, a note or two about the current paper. I was preparing a story about how those who oppose abortion can reach beyond the pro-life bubble as a cover story for this edition of the paper. It has been something I’ve [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: The Center for Medical Progress and Judicial Watch announced on August 3 that they had received “252 pages of new documents” exposing the University of Pittsburgh’s lucrative “quest” to become a “tissue hub” for fetal organs taken from preborn children 6-42 weeks gestation. The documents, acquired as part of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against [...]
John Henry Newman once wrote that mankind’s most vivid and proximate experience of God is the phenomenon of conscience. He argues that the feelings that accompany moral action yield a “picture of a Supreme Governor, a Judge, holy, just, powerful, all-seeing, (and) retributive.” The Abrahamic religions, grounded as they are on the Decalogue, affirm this deep and universal intuition: God is a [...]
Paul Tuns: A medical student expelled by the University of Manitoba over pro-life and pro-gun social media posts has won a court case overturning his expulsion. In February 2019, Rafael Zaki, a Coptic Orthodox student at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine, posted three items on his Facebook page: two supported the U.S. Second Amendment to bear arms and [...]
Andrew Lawton: As I and many others have written previously, the political left has been winning the culture war for years. Whatever little victories have been gained by social conservatives as of late have been dwarfed by a general backslide in society on a number of conscience issues. In my efforts to diagnose this problem, I’ve identified a chief attribute that makes [...]
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization Paul Strathern (Pegasus Books, $38.95, 371 pages) The recovery of common sense for a culture gone haywire requires that we know and understand what makes our civilization great, which by definition includes knowledge of our history. Novelist and historian Paul Strathern (The Venetians, The Medicis), has written a marvelous, wide-ranging, and [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Theodore Dalrymple is associated in my mind with a small group of conservative writers whose columns I have been reading in American and British magazines, newspapers, and websites for at least two decades – men such as the historian Victor Davis Hanson and the economist Thomas Sowell. I’m not sure how much this [...]
Paul Tuns: Cannabis became legal in 2018, but the number of legal pot shops in Ontario has exploded in 2021, with no end in sight to new openings, with the number of locations selling marijuana soon to eclipse the number of dedicated liquor and beer stores in the province. According to the annual report of the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), the province’s [...]
Schadenberg calls for criminal investigation on long-term care deaths Paul Tuns: An assistant chief nurse at a long-term care home in Laval, Quebec was directed by the provincial health department to administer morphine to coronavirus patients instead of caring for them to treat their illness with an eye to survival, an inquest was told. “I had never seen deaths happen so quickly,” [...]
Sarah Gangl: Health Canada’s recent report on g (MAiD) in 2020 reveals a dramatic increase in deaths in Canada, rising 34.2 per cent over 2019. A staggering 7,595 reported deaths in Canada last year can be attributed to assisted killing, accounting for 2.5 per cent of all deaths nationally. In total, Canada has officially counted 21,589 medically assisted deaths since the legislation [...]
Paul Tuns: In July, both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland took aim at the New Brunswick government. On July 22, Trudeau re-announced that the federal government would withhold Canada Health Transfer funds from the province, claiming the provincial policy of not funding private abortion facilities limits women’s access to abortion. In the 2021 federal budget, Ottawa announced it [...]