Yearly Archives: 2023

Study looks at men affected by abortion

Mary Zwicker While societal conversations on abortion continue to revolve primarily around women, celebrating the murder of the preborn as a “women’s right,” a new study has revealed the extent to which men, the oft-forgotten victims of abortion, are impacted by the trauma of abortion.  In April, the Florida-based pro-life organization, Support After Abortion (SAA), released a white paper summarizing the findings [...]

2023-06-16T12:26:39-04:00June 16, 2023|Abortion|

Courage in the face of school board censorship

John Carpay: In Canada in 2023, it takes remarkable courage to state the obvious. At a public meeting of the Waterloo Region District School Board in January of 2022, a teacher raised concerns about school library books promoting transgender ideology to children. In a shocking display of blatant censorship, Waterloo school board chair Scott Piatkowski expelled Carolyn Burjoski from this public meeting, after [...]

2023-06-16T12:18:55-04:00June 16, 2023|John Carpay, Society & Culture|

Abortion’s sordid history

Paul Tuns: The Story of Abortion in America by Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas (Crossway, $53, 494 pages) Marvin Olasky, author of the Tragedy of American Compassion and Abortion Rites, and Leah Savas, who writes about abortion for World magazine, have written a remarkable work of scholarship, a deep dive into what the subtitle promises, “A Street-Level History, 1652-2022,” of abortion. The [...]

2023-06-15T10:16:10-04:00June 15, 2023|Abortion, Reviews|

Bernier announces he will introduce anti-abortion bill if returned to Parliament

Paul Tuns: People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier announced on May 17 that he was seeking a return to Parliament by running in the Portage-Lisgar by-election to be held June 19 and in his announcement speech appealed directly to socially conservative voters in the rural Manitoba riding by vowing to table at the first available opportunity his the Protection of Preborn [...]

2023-06-15T09:57:34-04:00June 15, 2023|Abortion, Politics|

Pro-labour Right needed

Oswald Clark, Review: Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America by Michael Lind (Portfolio, $39, 213 pages) Conservative writer Michael Lind has followed up his book The New Class War which looked at the trans-Atlantic West through the prism of the growing economic and cultural gap between the university-educated overclass and the working class, with Hell to Pay, a [...]

2023-06-14T13:17:42-04:00June 14, 2023|Reviews|

New Brunswick reconsiders trans student policy

Interim Staff: New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs announced he would review Policy 713, the province’s public school Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity policy, arguing that the current policy denies parents their right to know if their child wants to change genders. The current policy, implemented by the Ministry of Education in 2020, states, “Transgender or non-binary students under the age [...]

2023-06-14T13:09:01-04:00June 14, 2023|Politics, Society & Culture|

NDP calls for ‘national abortion strategy’

Paul Tuns: The NDP launched an online petition calling for "abortion services" to be made "accessible to every Canadian," suggesting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government was insufficiently pro-abortion. The petition stated, "Many Canadians seeking abortion services can’t access them – this must change," claiming, "in Canada many individuals seeking abortion services can’t access them," with "only one hospital in six [...]

2023-06-08T11:14:36-04:00June 8, 2023|Abortion, Politics|

Quarter of women having abortions are coerced

Paul Tuns: According to a study published in the medical journal Cureus, one in four American women who have had an abortion described having one as coerced, and most others describe their abortion as unwanted. The study by Dr. David Reardon, an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and director of the Elliott Institute, and Tessa Longbons, Charlotte Lozier’s senior research [...]

2023-06-08T11:02:06-04:00June 8, 2023|Abortion|

Is the West done?

Paul Tuns, Review: Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads: Essays from The New Criterion Edited by Roger Kimball (Encounter, $28, 234 pages) The New Criterion is an essential conservative review of the culture today, focused on the visual arts, music, books, and the goings-on in academia. Every few years they have a year-long series in their monthly journal dedicated to a particular [...]

2023-06-07T14:55:53-04:00June 7, 2023|Reviews|

Violence Against Pregnant Women Act debated in parliament

Paul Tuns: On May 9, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) moved that Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women), be read the second time and referred to a committee, with the Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois condemning the Conservatives for what they claim is an attempt to reopen the abortion issue. If passed, Bill C-311 would [...]

2023-06-07T14:47:27-04:00June 7, 2023|Abortion, Politics|

Planned Parenthood ventures into transgender ‘medicine’ to buttress bottom line

Mary Zwicker: Between July 2021 and June 2022, the year before the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the United States saw the second-highest number of abortions carried out by Planned Parenthood in its history, new data indicates, despite the total number of abortions in the United States trending downward since the 1990s. Under the theme of “Relentless,” the Planned Parenthood Federation [...]

2023-06-06T09:59:28-04:00June 6, 2023|Abortion, Society & Culture|

Read his mind: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot

Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements If you were a fan, you might have experienced the death of singer Gordon Lightfoot last month in different ways depending on where you lived. Expressions of grief and mourning were a testament to his popularity on both sides of the 49th parallel and all over the world, but the tributes and reminiscences [...]

2023-06-06T09:49:05-04:00June 6, 2023|Reviews|

Ontario NDP proposes bubble zones to defend drag

Paul Tuns Two NDP members of provincial parliament in British Columbia and Ontario have introduced private member's bills in support of drag shows for children. In Ontario, NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam tabled Bill 94, the Keeping 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Safe Act, 2023, which, if passed, would allow the Attorney General to temporarily designate addresses where drag shows are taking place as "community safety [...]

2023-06-05T11:10:43-04:00June 5, 2023|Politics, Society & Culture|

CLC calls on RCMP to investigate born-alive abortion deaths

Paul Tuns: According to data obtained from Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information, researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run with Life, has found that more than 1500 babies born-alive after a failed abortion have been left to die over the past 23 years and Campaign Life Coalition has renewed calls for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate [...]

2023-06-05T10:55:42-04:00June 5, 2023|Abortion, Politics|

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2023-06-03T11:55:13-04:00June 3, 2023|Issues|
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