Paul Tuns On Dec. 13, it was announced that the Trudeau government may once again delay the expansion of euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness. In March 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which expanded euthanasia to those whose natural death was not reasonably foreseeable as well as to those suffering solely from mental illness. The law’s liberalization of the euthanasia [...]
Paul Tuns Statistics Canada released its analysis of death in 2022 and found that for the third consecutive year, life expectancy for Canadians fell with the average Canadian living to 81.3 years in 2022, a full year less than the life expectancy registered three years earlier in 2019. Globe and Mail health columnist Andre Picard wrote, “a one-year loss in life expectancy [...]
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a World Without Us Adam Kirsch (Columbia Global Reports, $16, 99 pages) Adam Kirsch’s The Revolt Against Humanity is the best short introduction to the posthuman world imagined by futurists fascinated by the imagined combining of technology and humanity in what is called the singularity. He briefly lays out the literary, philosophic, and scientific literature that imagined [...]
Paul Tuns According to an annual report by Operation Rescue on the state of the abortion landscape, 49 abortion mills closed and one more state became “abortion-free” in 2023, although the total number of abortion facilities have increased. Operation Rescue’s Anne Reed and Sarah Neely report that in the two years since Dobbs overturned the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, 137 [...]
Paul Tuns A new report reveals that pregnancy resource centres (PRCs) provided nearly $360 million in services and goods in a single year, even as Democrat-controlled states reduce funding and try to restrict their operations. The “Hope for a New Generation” report covers 2022 and is a joint “collaboration of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, and National Institute of Family [...]
John Carpay Interim writer, John Carpay, Law Matters Rape victims in Ontario grieve not only the evil that was inflicted on them, but also the failure of the Crown to ensure that serious offences are tried promptly. In 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Jordan that serious crimes must be tried within 30 months, based on [...]
Paul Tuns The Vatican has once again muddied the waters of Catholic moral teaching with the release of Fiducia Supplicans – On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings, which was widely reported on the front pages of newspaper and the leads of many news broadcasts as the Roman Catholic Church officially sanctioning the blessing of same-sex unions. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of [...]
Paul Tuns Dec. 6 tweet from Veterans 4 Freedom According to a directive issued by Employment and Social Development Canada, beginning Dec. 15, all federally regulated workplaces, government offices, and military bases must provide menstruation products in men’s bathrooms as part of the government’s program to promote “inclusivity.” Feminists have lobbied for free feminine hygiene products to battle what they [...]
For centuries, there was no question at all. Apart from some outliers who departed from prevailing norms—one thinks of Thomas More, in the early 16th century, giving his daughters a classical education—the societal conventions surrounding the place of women in society were not in dispute. In the 18th century, however, radical utopians reimagined the roles that women might play in the world [...]
Joanna Alphonso Numerous records have been broken in women’s competitions over the past few years. This sounds like amazing news – women reaching new heights of power and skill. Except these new records have been set by men who identify as women. Here’s a record of the times that female-identifying males beat women in various competitions in 2023. Tiffany [...]
Oswald Clark Where Have All the Democrats Gone: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes by John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira (Holt, $38.99, 325 pages) More than two decades ago, John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority, predicting demographic changes would result in presidential and congressional victories for the Democrats for the foreseeable future. [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 24, Dan Quayle (not the former U.S. vice president) opted to be medically killed after he was unable to access timely chemotherapy for an aggressive form of esophageal cancer. On Oct. 7, he had been told that chemotherapy might prolong his life by a year. He was kept waiting for chemotherapy for ten weeks in Victoria General Hospital. [...]
10. Women facing biological men in competition After the trans-identified Lia Thomas, a biological male, competed and won the 500-yard collegiate freestyle swimming competition in 2022, governing bodies of various sports have been forced to consider their policies of permitting biological males to compete against girls and women. World Athletics, formerly the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which governs track and field, began [...]