Mary Zwicker Despite selling its building due to lack of government funding, an abortion mill in New Brunswick has been given temporary permission by the building’s new owners to continue offering its gruesome services from that location. Clinic 554 in Fredericton, the only privately run abortion mill in New Brunswick, was forced to shut its doors and sell their building in September [...]
Mary Zwicker Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) has responded to charges from a left-wing group – and repeated in the corporate media – that has labelled the pro-life organization a “hate group" for its pro-life, pro-family stance, specifically regarding LGBTQ ideology. In recent months, Campaign Life Coalition has been targeted by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), which released multiple articles calling CLC a “reactionary far-right” group for [...]
Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis (Regnery: $38, 296 pages) Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis have written the definitive book that works as both an extended critique of abortion and as an invaluable and insightful reference about its detrimental effects. The authors note in their introduction that “Abortion harms every single [...]
No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental Right Becca Andrews (Public Affairs, $37, 267 pages) In No Choice, Mother Jones journalist Becca Andrews offers accounts of abortion before and during the Roe v. Wade era to argue that the battle for abortion is not merely part of a larger battle for women’s rights, but [...]
Paul Tuns, Review Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to do About It by Richard V. Reeves (Brookings, $38, 242 pages) Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition by Nicholas Eberstadt (Templeton, $17, 238 pages) Richard Reeves of the liberal Brookings Institute has written an important, if at times annoying, book about the plight of boys [...]
Oswald Clark On Nov. 16, during a lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate passed the On Nov. 16, during a lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act – a version of which was passed in the House of Representatives in July– a version of which was passed in the House of Representatives in July -- that repeals [...]
Paul Tuns A current Conservative MP and the leader of the People’s Party of Canada have both condemned Canada’s permissive euthanasia laws that are resulting in people who have treatable conditions but living in poverty being approved for so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis criticized Canada’s euthanasia regime as a money-saving measure the government is using to “rid society” [...]
Paul Tuns Bloc Quebecois, Liberal, and NDP members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities rejected a motion by Conservative MP Rosemarie Falk (Battlefords-Lloydminster) to condemn child euthanasia. During Oct. 7 testimony at the Commons’ Special Joint Committee of Medical Assistance in Dying, Dr. Louis Roy of the [...]
Harold Rosenberg: A Critic’s Life by Debra Bricker Balken (University of Chicago Press, $52, 640 pages) Paul Tuns Review Harold Rosenberg was a public intellectual long before that term was coined, a leading cultural critic in the New York scene in the middle of the 20th century. Debra Bricker Balken has written the first -- and long overdue -- comprehensive biography of [...]
Interim Staff CTV announced and posted a teaser video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appearing on a spinoff of the television show Canada's Drag Race, much to the tittering excitement of Canadian journalists. CTV News said in a statement, "Justin Trudeau is swinging by the 'werkroom' on an upcoming spinoff of 'Canada’s Drag Race'." The statement continued: "Producers of the drag [...]
Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America & How to Fight Back Chris Stirewalt (Center Street, $37, 246 pages) Chris Stirewalt, a former political editor at Fox News who lost his job for his role in prematurely (but correctly) calling Arizona for Joe Biden in 2020, is the author of a new, indispensable look at why mainstream journalism is broken. [...]
Angelica Vecchiato After a long-awaited debut, on Oct. 31, the Canadian pro-life advocacy group Choice42 released “The Procedure,” a short, animated video based on a true story that details the gruesome realities of an abortion. The four-minute video — boasting a voice-over by Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo — chronicles a health technician’s shocking firsthand encounter with a second-trimester dismemberment [...]
Paul Tuns The National Post reported that unlike other jurisdictions that have legalized euthanasia, Canadians physicians are introducing the topic before patients broach the topic. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said this might be why "euthanasia deaths have increased so quickly in Canada" compared to countries like Belgium and the Netherlands. According to the 2021 official Medical Assistance [...]
From the editor’s desk Paul Tuns I read a lot and many of the books I read get reviewed in these pages, either in longer reviews or essays under my byline or as unsigned brief reviews. But there are many that I can’t get around to writing a review about and I want to let you know about several of them, and [...]