Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Parliament Hill has been cleared, but the memory of the Freedom Convoy and the extreme actions government took to crush it will remain. Snapshots of the move by the police against peaceful protesters were splattered across social media with proclamations like, “This is not my Canada.” Except it is. Anyone who was [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements While writing my recent review of Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties: A Book, I couldn’t help but notice some conspicuous omissions from the catalogue of pop culture and political events the writer referenced in the book. I could understand why he might overlook important events that took place outside the United States – Klosterman’s [...]
Jonathon Van Maren Commentary: One of the few issues that Canadian social conservatives have been able to discuss without backlash is that of digital pornography. Several years ago, freshman Conservative MP Arnold Viersen put forward Motion 47 to have a committee research the connections between porn and sexual violence—it passed unanimously.With a number of parliamentary allies and his unlikely partner, Montreal Senator [...]
Old films are charming partly for the windows that they open on to the vanished worlds of the past. We hear cadences and colloquia that we might dimly recall from our own youth—or from the phrases of our fathers or grandfathers. We see antiquated manners and styles of dress that have migrated from thrift stores to antique shops—or sometimes even history books. [...]
Oswald Clark: In 2020 on the campaign trail, then-candidate Joe Biden promised to appoint a pro-abortion, black woman to the top court and he fulfilled his promise by naming Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring liberal judge Stephen Breyer, for whom she once clerked. Breyer’s retirement takes affect after the current term meaning that he will be ruling on the challenge to [...]
Paul Tuns: In 2021, Ms. Magazine and the New York Times published articles touting “missed period pills” – the chemical abortion cocktail of mifepristone and misoprostol, which goes by the name Mifegymiso in Canada. The two American news outlets promoted the efforts of the National Working Group on Missed Period Pills in the U.S., a coalition of 21 organizations and individuals that [...]