Paul Tuns: On Sept. 7, the Quebec government announced that it would allow advanced directives for Medical Assistance in Dying, when Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette directed Crown prosecutors’ offices to not file charges against doctors and nurses who carry out the procedure. As of October 30, patients will be able to make advance requests for the procedure before their condition renders [...]
Paul Tuns: The Sarco suicide pod, designed by infamous Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke, is being sold in the United Kingdom and the Daily Mail newspaper reported that Peter and Christina Scott will become the first people to die by assisted suicide in the pod and that they intend to die together at the same time. Meanwhile, Swiss police arrested several people [...]
Sarah Stilton, Review: Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler (Knopf, $37, 320 pages) Judith Butler is a famous, or infamous, feminist and leading influence on gender theory through her earlier works such as Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender, and Bodies that Matter. This year she returns to the topic in Who’s Afraid Gender? which undermines many of her earlier arguments. Three decades ago, [...]
Oswald Clark: Over the past seven years, Fort Liberty has trained about 10,000 soldiers in the U.S. army, during which they classified pro-life groups as terrorists, a Congressional committee has heard. In a Sept. 19 hearing, army personnel told the official Congressional investigation that pro-life organizations, crisis pregnancy centres, sidewalk counselling, and mass pro-life demonstrations were included as examples of terrorist groups [...]
Gideon Spevak: The Canadian government in 2023 awarded more than 300 grants or contributions to pro-LGBT groups, totalling over $665 million, according to a June 12th blog post. Run With Life is a pro-life and pro-family blog by Patricia Maloney. In a post published on June 12, Maloney stated that over $665 million of taxpayer funds were spent on LGBT ideology in [...]
Paul Tuns: Rebel News’s Sheila Gunn Reid reported that Veterans Affairs Canada attempted to hide its paper trail relating to case workers who suggested that veterans access Medical Assistance in Dying. Gunn Reid, who obtained the more than 1200 pages of documents by filing access to information requests, published her findings at Rebel news on August 20. She revealed that nearly a [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Hockey Priest: Father David Bauer and the Spirit of the Canadian Game by Matt Hoven (Catholic University of America, $38.95 pb, 339 pages) Fr. David Bauer was born in Waterloo, Ont., in 1924 and would later attend St. Michael’s College School in Toronto, which was run by the Basilian Fathers. He joined their religious community and coached the St. Michael’s [...]
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Robert M. Sapolsky (Penguin Press, $48, 511 pages) Robert M. Sapolsky is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford and the author of the bestselling Behave. In Determined he delves into the scientific case against free will by explaining both the science of the brain and the epigenetic influences on how the brain [...]
Paul Tuns: The Office for Statistical Regulation (OSR) in England said there was “sufficient evidence” calling into question the results of the 2021 Census for England and Wales when it came to the gender identity question. The 2021 Census reported that there were 262,000 people who self-identified as transgender, or about one in every 200 people in the country. The 2021 census [...]
Oswald Clark, Review: Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women by Batya Ungar-Sargon (Encounter, $30, 225 pages) White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman (Random House, $42, 299 pages) Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt (Random House, $42, 492 pages) Since Donald Trump’s surprise [...]
Paul Tuns: Professor Christopher Lyon published a study titled “Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying System can Enable Healthcare Serial Killing” in HEC Forum – HEC stands for HealthCare Ethics Committee -- concluding that Canada’s euthanasia law enables serial killers within the health care system. Lyon, who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom and whose 77-year-old father was killed [...]
Interim Staff: Linda Gibbons with the sign she witnesses with, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” Two witnesses – a police officer and an abortion mill employee -- in the criminal trial against pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons testified that she did not interfere with the operations of the abortion facility at which Gibbons was demonstrating in [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements While promoting her new book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, journalist Annie Jacobsen landed a choice spot on Joe Rogan’s podcast where she laid out the dismal story she tells in her book. “One of the reasons why nuclear war is not spoken about by the general public,” Jacobsen told Rogan, “is that it’s [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze (Harper, $39.50, 291 pages) In Over Ruled, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and his former clerk Janie Nitze, make the case that there are way too many laws and regulations that carry criminal punishments in the United States, and that this excess is a [...]
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No Carl Elliott (Norton, $39.99, 355 pages) Medical ethics professor Carl Elliott’s The Occasional Human Sacrifice is unlikely to engender greater trust in the medical profession as it explores six controversial cases in which medical researchers treated human beings as guinea pigs. Often the patients consented to the interventions, albeit without [...]