Every new annual provincial or federal report on the euphemistically named Medical Aid in Dying shows that the number of medicalized murders in the form of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide grows by leaps and bounds. In October, Quebec’s euthanasia data revealed a 37 per cent increase (to 2426 euthanasia deaths) from April 2020 to March 31, 2021 compared to the previous year. [...]
Peter Baklinski Pro-life hospice president on why she’ll never surrender to euthanasia activists Angelina Ireland never could have imagined the battle she was about to face, when, two years ago, she became president of a palliative care society that ran a small 10-bed hospice for the sick and elderly in a small Canadian city. Angelina never could have imagined that she and [...]
Rory Leishman As rising numbers of critically ill COVID-19 patients threatened to overwhelm Saskatchewan’s intensive care units (ICU) wards last October, the Saskatchewan government called upon the Canadian military to airlift 19 of the province’s ICU patients to hospitals in Ontario. This was not an isolated incident. Earlier in the pandemic, critically ill COVID patients in some regions of Ontario also had [...]
Interim Staff The Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) and it’s local chapter launched a legal challenge against the city of Hamilton after its transit service rejected one of their advertisements. Hamilton Street Railway (HSR), the city’s transit service, refused to run ads stating ““We’re for women’s rights” with the word “hers” accompanying photos of girls in her 20s, her teens, as [...]
John Carpay This past Remembrance Day, I thought of my grandparents and all the others who fought for freedom against foreign dictatorships: Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, fascist Italy, and communist forces in Korea and Vietnam. While successfully defending freedom abroad, Canadians have now surrendered to living under a medical dictatorship on our own soil. Starting in March of 2020, we were prohibited [...]
Interim Staff On Nov. 2, NDP MPP Terrance Kernaghan (London North Centre) reintroduced a private member’s bill that will, if passed, outlaw the use of abortion victim photography in pro-life activism unless certain conditions are met. Bill 41, an “Act to regulate the mailing of images of fetuses” or the “Viewer Discretion Act” is the same as Bill 259 that Kernaghan introduced [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 10, Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman introduced a bill to ban all non-labour protests within 50 metres of a hospital. Bill 48, “The Public Health (Safe Access to Hospitals) Amendment Act, 2021,” is the Scott Moe government’s response to calls to ban anti-COVID restrictions and vaccination policy demonstrations near so-called frontline workers. Merriman said in a press release, [...]
The Music of Christendom: A History Susan Treacy (Ignatius Press, $16.95, 235 pages) ”It behooves us,” says Susan Treacy, professor of music at Ave Maria University and music columnist for St. Austin Review, “to immerse ourselves in music of the Western classical tradition, which is so imbued with the beauty of Christ. This is our music!” In The Music of Christendom: A [...]
From the editor’s desk I read a lot. Not only for my job, but for fun so I thought I’d write about a few non-work books that I enjoyed immensely this year. For years baseball was my favourite sport; it has since been usurped by football and I no longer watch the game that I spent years watching and listening to, but [...]
Andrew Lawton I’m hesitant to overstate the importance of “shadow ministers” in the opposition benches. The insufferable term the Conservatives have taken to calling them obscures the function better exemplified by the previous title – “critics.” Critic slots aren’t real jobs to the extent that cabinet appointments are, who fills them nonetheless revealing of what and whom the opposition leader values. Conservative [...]
Paul Tuns Following what Erin O’Toole himself called a “disappointing” election result in September, the Conservative leader promised a review of the party’s campaign. Many disappointed party members do not want to wait for the results of the review that will be conducted by the former MP, James Cumming, hand-picked by O’Toole to explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of [...]
Donald DeMarco Review Jérôme Lejeune: A Man of Science and Conscience by Aude Dugast, translated by Michael J. Miller (Ignatius Press, $20, 393 pages). This, Jérôme Lejeune: A Man of Science and Conscience by Aude Dugast, is a work to be cherished. “The world needs this book,” states Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, “because the world needs to [...]
Rick McGinnis A year of sometimes arbitrary restrictions on our livelihood and liberty has got people talking about rights and citizenship and government authority again. There are, of course, people who have been constantly talking and writing - and warning us - about the encroachment of the state and unelected bureaucracy on our lives, and Ronald J. Pestritto is among them. A dean [...]
Paul Tuns Review The Choice: The Abortion Divide in America by Danielle D’Souza Gill (Hachette, $22.99, 309 pages) The cover of Danielle D’Souza Gill’s book about abortion prominently displays the words The Choice surrounded by pink concentric circles on a pink background. The cover looks like one that would be chosen for a book written in favour of “the choice” to have [...]
Paul Tuns Liberal party platform vowed to strip pro-life groups of charitable tax status In its 2021 election platform, “Forward. For Everyone,” the Liberals threatened to go after the charitable tax status of pro-life groups, including crisis pregnancy centres, that supposedly provide “misinformation” about prenatal development and abortion. On page four of the 89-page document, in a section about “Building Back Better” [...]