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 [...]
Paul Tuns Review: Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age by Matt Feeney (Basic Books, $35, 303 pages) In Little Platoons, Matt Feeney, a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker and National Review, describes how the family – an “irreplaceable zone of human connections” – is under pressure from the hyper-competitive race parents participate in to give [...]
Maeve Roche: After a woman swallows the first chemical abortion pill, either mifegymiso or mifepristone, she may believe that her decision to end her unborn child’s life is irreversibly set-in-stone. This is not entirely the case. There is hope. The Abortion Pill Rescue Network launched a campaign earlier this year to provide women with an abortion pill reversal treatment that has a [...]
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: Stephen R. Soukoup (Encounter, $33.99, 200 pages) Stephen Soukoup, a finance professional is the senior commentator for The Political Forum and a fellow in culture and the economy at the Culture of Life Foundation. In his new book The Dictatorship of Woke Capital, he shows how the Marxist march through the institutions has made its way to [...]
Rory Leishman: What can account for the unprecedented outburst of anti-Christian rage in Canada that has fueled the incineration of 20 Christian churches and the defacing of dozens more with red and orange paint? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blames the Catholic and Protestant churches that operated Indian Residential Schools (IRS) on behalf of the government of Canada. In a statement on July [...]
The writ has been drawn and just under two years into the minority mandate of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadians are returning to the voting booth to decide 338 elections for Member of Parliament. It is useful to remember that it is not a singular election, but multiple simultaneous elections. We are not electing a prime minister to lead us or party [...]
Paul Tuns - Analysis: On August 15, Justin Trudeau asked for an election with an eye to regaining a majority. Voters will cast their ballots on Sept. 20, following a five-week campaign. Over the last 22 months, the Trudeau government has continued to push a socially liberal agenda, just as it had during its first mandate. Over the first four years, Justin Trudeau’s [...]
Mark Wegierski The Maverick Party (formerly the Wexit Party) is the federal Western separatist party readying to attack the Conservative flank in the next election. The Conservatives do not need an election, until they can figure out how to deal with this undoubtedly potentially fatal vote splitting. Their Western flank is only going to be more exposed as time passes (as Wexit/’Buffalo’/separatism [...]
Biden Administration erases women WASHINGTON D.C. -- Gender neutral language takes over the U.S. government in President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget proposal in the replacement of traditionally female terms to be “more inclusive.” The public health sub-section titled Reduces Maternal Mortality Rate and Ends Race-Based Disparities in Maternal Mortality begins with gender-specific terms such as “women” and “maternal,” but continues on to [...]
Paul Tuns: Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed House Bill 2574 on June 15 which allows what is euphemistically called “natural organic reduction,” but which is more colloquially known as “human composting” to dispose of the bodies of the deceased. The law goes into effect in July 2022, making the state the third to allow the decomposing of the body of deceased human [...]
“This Canada Day, let’s cancel the cancellers” Christopher Dummitt The Hub (June 28) But it’s possible to deplore the legacy of residential schools and still be put off by the sickening glee with which some activists (and sadly, some actual historians) jumped on the news of the discovery to advance their pre-set ideological attack on Canada and the western world, and its [...]