Leire Douros: London City Council defeated a proposed bylaw that would have restricted the size and proximity of signs to roads by pro-life groups that use abortion victim photography (graphic images of aborted babies). At the July council meeting, city councillor Paul Van Meergen argued that to live in a democratic society means to be exposed to “a variety of speech and [...]
With September comes the familiar rituals of going “back to school,” a moment in the year which always contains a faint echo of the distant rhythms of harvest time. When growing season would approach its end, fruits and fields would need to be gleaned, gathered, and mowed. Our overflowing grocery stores—stocked with produce of various kinds—remind us of both these extant agricultural [...]
Almost impossible to completely shield young students from LGBTQ propaganda in schools Gideon Spivak: The LGBTQ+ ideology is a part of most elementary and high school curricula across the country, some including teaching the latest politically correct Newspeak as early as kindergarten to describe same-sex couples. Many of these lessons about homosexuality and gender theory are not isolated within a sex-ed curriculum [...]
Interim Staff: Last year, the nation-wide Million Person March for Children drew an estimated 1.5 million Canadians to demonstrate for parental rights and in an interview with LifeSiteNews, Muslim pro-family activist Kamel El-Cheikh, head of Hands Off Our Kids, said his group has quadrupled in size in the months leading up to the second Million Person March. Hands off Our Children is [...]
Leire Douros: St Joseph’s Centre of Hope for Women, a pregnancy care centre in downtown Toronto is situated beside Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic, an abortuary that performs abortion up until 24 weeks. The location of this pregnancy centre is crucial to pro-lifers due to the bubble zone legislation prohibiting pro-lifers from praying or conversing with abortion-minded women. According to Frank D’Angelo, the centre’s [...]
Gideon Spevak: Campaign Life Coalition’s Maeve Roche and Kim Headley were honoured by Aid To Women at their Life Night Mass and Music Event on 26 April 2024, receiving the 2023 Joanne Dieleman Award. Aid To Women, a Toronto-based crisis pregnancy centre, celebrated its 35th anniversary with a Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Mississauga followed by a [...]
Gideon Spivak: The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) announced that they received over half a million dollars of grant money from the federal government which they will use to produce “academic-level research with practical applications to prevent the growth of the far-right.” In July 2024, CAHN reported that they received two grants totaling $640,000 from the federal government. $200,000 of this public money [...]
Why Does Everything Come in Threes: A Short Book About Everything Peter Kreeft (Ignatius, $22, 146 pages) Peter Kreeft, a modern-day G.K. Chesterton, has a delightful meditation on the persistence of important things coming in threes, modeled on the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Trinity, asserts Kreeft “is the most practical thing in the world,” the First Cause, the [...]
Lost in the Chaos: Immanence, Despair, Hope: R.J. Snell (Angelico Press, $28 pb, 182 pages) R.J. Snell, editor-in-chief of The Public Discourse and director of academic programs at the Witherspoon Institute at Princeton, has written an important short brief against modern malaise, the false idylls that promise but fail to address that malaise, and the recovery of hope to escape the malaise. [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements First of all, in the interest of full disclosure, I have eaten crickets – and many other bugs besides. There was a couple of culinary events for “foodies” showcasing not just insect ingredients but the skills of chefs tasked with making them palatable. And then there were trips to places where bugs are [...]
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Oswald Clark: Photo credit: Post Millennial After the June debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, it became obvious that the incumbent was unable to mount a vigorous campaign for re-election and about a month later he was convinced that it would be better for the Democrats if he would step down as the party’s presidential candidate. [...]
Paul Tuns: Linda Gibbons was in court on August 20 to work out details for her upcoming trial after being charged with violating Ontario’s “Safe Access to Abortion Services Act,” a 2017 law that established a 50-150 metre anti-free speech “bubble zone” around abortion mills. Gibbons will return to provincial court on Sept. 3 at 10 a.m., when she will be handed [...]
Fulton Sheen (Cluny, US$20, 233 pages) In 1940, Bishop Fulton Sheen, wrote Freedom Under God, a meditation on the extremisms of liberalism and totalitarianism that idolized the individual and society respectively with no appreciation of the interdependency of the individual and society. Both extremes were guilty of making “redemption and brotherly love” irrelevant, although in different ways. Christianity, Bishop Sheen, the popular [...]
Antoine Campagnon, translated by Catherine Porter (Belknap Press, $29.95, 168 pages) A Summer with Pascal is a light, breezy introduction by Antoine Campagnon to one of the most important Christian apologists, Blaise Pascal. Campagnon, who has written about other French writers (Montaigne, Proust) turns his eye to the 17th century writer who famously gave us Pascal’s Wager, which posits that it is [...]