Yearly Archives: 2021

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2021-05-04T08:17:27-04:00May 4, 2021|Issues|

Is it time for a new decentralism in Canada?

Mark Wegierski The problem of centre-periphery relations in a society, and of how a geographically extensive country extending beyond the confines of a city-state, is to be effectively governed, are some of the most pressing problems in political theory. One of the failures of the Ancient Greeks was that they found it difficult to extend their political units beyond the city-state. One [...]

2021-05-03T12:07:47-04:00May 3, 2021|Politics, Soconvivium|

Trudeau government may force provinces to pay for abortion

Interim Staff Chapter 7 of the federal budget is titled, “A more equal Canada,” and within it is a section “Supporting access to sexual and reproductive health care information and services,” in which the government asserts, “All Canadians should have access to a full suite of sexual and reproductive health resources and services, no matter where they live.” To this end, it [...]

2021-05-03T12:59:21-04:00May 3, 2021|Abortion, Politics|

And then there was this, April 2021

Portuguese court nixes euthanasia law LISBON -- Portugal’s Constitutional Court ruled on March 15 that a recently passed assisted suicide law is unconstitutional. In January, Portugal’s parliament passed a euthanasia bill that permitted euthanasia in cases of psychiatric suffering, disability, or when patients refused care for treatable illness. President Marcelo de Sousa said the bill was “excessively imprecise” and refused to sign [...]

2021-04-26T08:46:46-04:00April 26, 2021|And then there was this...|

Amazon bans book critical of LGBTQ

The Interim Staff In February, Amazon, the online bookseller responsible for more than half of all books sold in the United States, banned the sale of the print and e-book versions of Ryan Anderson’s 2018 book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. The book was removed from Amazon, as well as from Amazon subsidiaries Kindle, Audible, and AbeBooks. Initially [...]

2021-04-26T08:45:04-04:00April 25, 2021|Society & Culture|

Trudeau cuts health funding to N.B. over abortion

Paul Tuns The Trudeau government deducted $140,216 from Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer to New Brunswick over “the province’s lack of coverage under its health insurance plan for abortion services outside the hospital setting.” According to the 2019-2020 Health Act Annual Report, the federal government’s report to Parliament, tabled on Feb. 22, Ottawa reimplemented a cut made to the health transfer that was [...]

2021-04-23T11:51:49-04:00April 23, 2021|Abortion, Politics|

A Budget Without Restraints

Rod Taylor On Monday, April 19, the federal Liberals unveiled a budget that showed no attempt to achieve balance or relief for taxpayers. What else could one expect? The same government that took the national debt over the $1 trillion mark in 2020 has now laid out a plan to allow that debt to further balloon to $1.23 trillion over the course [...]

2021-04-23T11:14:10-04:00April 23, 2021|Politics, Soconvivium|

Witnessing requires we live not by lies

Review By Emma Castellino Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, by Rod Dreher (Sentinel, $36, 256 pages). Live Not By Lies is the book I needed someone to write. When I read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago in 2016, it felt like the scales had fallen from my eyes. I began to smell propaganda beneath every compassionate platitude in the [...]

2021-04-23T11:52:35-04:00April 22, 2021|Society & Culture|

Hang in there

Interim writer, Joe Campbell, Light is Right “I got bumped,” he said, stepping out of his car. Although I looked, I could see no evidence of damage or injury. “Where?” I asked, looking more closely at both vehicle and driver. “At work.” “It’s good it wasn’t serious.” “It was serious enough.” “You have accident insurance.” “This was no accident.” “Someone [...]

2021-04-20T17:22:45-04:00April 20, 2021|Joe Campbell|

Parliament and the Court

During debate on Bill C-7—the Trudeau government’s new medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation—some members of Parliament argued that a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada would find that some provisions of the bill go too far in licensing physicians to kill patients, while other members contended that the Court would deem that those same provisions do not go far enough. [...]

2021-04-19T21:04:58-04:00April 19, 2021|Rory Leishman|

April 2021 Excerpts

“Is Democracy a Transcendent Good?” Edwin Dyga New Oxford Review (March 2021) How has a movement dedicated to the promotion of moral order in the public square, known broadly as “mainstream conservatism,” come to advocate ideas and policies that traditionally characterized its opponents’ worldview and objectives? There is an obvious consensus between both ends of the mainstream political spectrum concerning [...]

2021-04-19T20:30:29-04:00April 19, 2021|Soconvivium|

Suffer Well

Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey By Josie Luetke This past year has been a hard one for me, and, unsurprisingly, for most of the rest of the world. At my lowest moments, I considered whether there was a conflict between my professional life in the pro-life movement and my personal life. I was urging people to choose life whilst [...]

2021-04-16T11:47:46-04:00April 16, 2021|Josie Luetke|

A woke world without forgiveness

By Rick McGinnis In the first decades of the 19th century, upstate New York became known as the “Burned Over District,” a hotbed of spiritual revival that gave birth to an explosion of religious sects and utopian communities. Usually evangelical and often millenarian in nature, these included the Shakers, the Mormons, the Millerites – who would in turn produce Seventh-day Adventists and [...]

2021-04-15T12:16:36-04:00April 15, 2021|Rick McGinnis, Society & Culture|

Pornography Action Kit available from EFC

By The Interim Staff In February, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) published its Pornography Action Kit, a toolkit to help concerned Christians urge the government to act against pornographic websites.   The EFC says that “children and youth are exposed to sexually explicit and violent material online at younger and younger ages,” and that Ottawa must act, at the very least, [...]

2021-04-14T14:15:10-04:00April 14, 2021|Society & Culture|
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