By Rory Leishman In a tragic case stemming from the gender-identity craze that has engulfed much of North America and Western Europe, the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled on March 19 that the father of a transgender child must remain in jail pending trial in April on charges of criminal contempt of court. In court documents, the father is designated C.D., his [...]
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Twenty years is not a long time. In the United States, it is a period that could see as few as three presidents. Shorter than the term of most mortgages, a pair of decades is certainly not a timeframe in which one should expect, in healthy societies, radical changes to fundamental categories and definitions. And yet imagine the shock that someone describing [...]
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Benjamin M. Friedman (Knopf, $50, 534 pages) Benjamin M. Friedman, a former chairman of the Harvard economics department, has written a masterful and accessible intellectual history showing, not as R.H. Tawney did in his book of the same title in the early 1900s about the influence of religion on economics but rather how religious ideas have [...]
Road to Redemption: The Liberal Party of Canada, 2006-2019 Brooke Jeffrey (University of Toronto Press, $39.95, 322 pages) Brooke Jeffrey, a Concordia University professor of political science and long-time Liberal activist, follows up her history of the party during the Chretien-Martin feud, Divided Loyalties, with a volume that looks at the post-Martin political lows of the party and its revival under Justin Trudeau. [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary An embarrassing number of “Catholics” have tied themselves in academic knots attempting to convince people that they can both express their religious faith and at the same time negate it while offering a coherent political strategy. John Milloy is a former Liberal Ontario MPP and cabinet minister. He currently serves as the director of the Centre for Public Ethics [...]
Interim Staff The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed abortion drugs to be dispensed by mail, with acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock declaring it safe to allow mifepristone, the first half of the chemical abortion drug RU-486, to be taken at home without medical supervision, in order to reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 by minimizing visits to doctors’ offices. [...]
By Andrew Lawton Saskatchewan Conservative member of parliament Cathay Wagantall’s private member’s bill to criminalize sex-selective abortion is noble, but it should be approached with caution. The bill confronts a horrific reality, but also poses moral challenges to the pro-life movement. “Above all, I’m bringing this bill forward in defense of pre-born Canadian girls and boys who are aborted simply due to [...]
Lou Iacobelli Have you looked at Canada's 2021 Census? This is the message Canadians get from some unnamed chief statistician, "Thank you for taking a few minutes to participate in the 2021 Census. The information you provide is converted into statistics used by communities, businesses and governments to plan services and make informed decisions about employment, education, health care, market development and more." [...]
By Paul Tuns Bill C-233, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sex-selective abortion) was introduced to the House of Commons in February and had second reading on April 14. Proponents of C-233 said it is necessary to protect preborn children, especially girls, from being killed by abortion for being the wrong sex. Pro-abortion MPs claimed there was no need for the [...]
By Rick McGinnis Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements The end of lockdown is in sight, or so they tell us. There is, of course, the little matter of vaccinating the majority of the population – easier in some countries than others, apparently. Then there are ongoing debates about just what privilege immunity confers – the speed with which we’ll be [...]
By John Carpay At an April 8 news conference, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney referenced pro-life convictions as the basis for continuing with, and tightening further, his lockdown restrictions on social and economic life. Since politicians imposed “two weeks to flatten the curve” more than 13 months ago, Kenney has repeatedly referred to the “moral responsibility to protect lives.” He and other premiers, [...]
Paul Tuns Last month, Cardus, a Hamilton-based think tank, released a Family Policy Brief by Jon Peter Mitchell and Andrea Mrozek that examined “policy options to better serve families.” Mitchell and Mrozek note that “strong, stable families are irreplaceable and are foundational to a healthy society,” and that “our best social policies do not replace or attempt to replicate the family but [...]
Paul Tuns Analysis Richard Decarie’s leadership bid for the Conservative Party of Canada was nixed by their Leadership Election Organizing Committee in February 2020. This spring he tried to run for a position on the party’s National Council, but the party executive claimed it did not receive his nomination form before the deadline, disqualifying him and another pro-lifer from Quebec from running [...]
Paul Tuns The centerpiece of the Liberal government’s spending plans over the next five years is a $30 billion commitment to child care. It is a relatively small amount among the $614 billion in program spending in 2020/2021, which is schedule to fall to $475.5 billion in 2021/2022 before levelling off in the vicinity of $430 billion in the years afterwards. But [...]