Oswald Clark: During a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, highlighting the president’s unwavering support for unrestricted abortion, Joe Biden made the sign of the cross as Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried spoke lambasting Governor Ron DeSantis for signing a law that bans abortion after six weeks. It was widely taken as a sign of opposition to the state’s abortion restrictions. CatholicVote [...]
Interim Staff: On May 15, in celebration of the International Day of Families, the Group of Friends of the Family, a United Nations coalition of 29 member states, together with co-sponsoring civil society organizations hosted a high-level side event at the United Nations headquarters in New York entitled “The Family and the Future of Humanity”, bringing together diplomats, NGO representatives, and family [...]
Paul Tuns: Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is a conservative, Latin Mass Catholic, who was asked to deliver the commencement address at this year’s graduating ceremonies at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. His speech raised the ire of feminists and liberal Catholics. On May 11, Butker, who has won three Super Bowls in the last five seasons, told the graduating class, [...]
Paul Tuns: In late March, just nine months after Canada reached a population of 40 million, the number of people calling Canada home exceeded 41 million according to Statistic Canada’s live population tracker, with most growth coming through immigration. Statistics Canada reported that in 2023, Canada added 1,271,872 total inhabitants, a population increase of 3.2 per cent, the highest such figure since [...]
Joanna Alphonso: A study published in March 2024 in the International Journal of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention revealed a positive correlation between the loss of a first pregnancy and subsequent postpartum cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The pregnancy history of over one million low-income women examined based on Medicaid claims were analyzed from 1999 to 2014. After subdividing the data based on [...]
John Carpay: The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has filed a court challenge against the right of parents to be fully informed about what is happening with their own children at school. One of Canada’s oldest civil liberties groups has fully embraced woke ideology, including the claim that gender is determined by identity rather than biology. In other words, if you feel [...]
Rory Leishman: Direct attacks on the God-given, natural right of everyone to freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression are continuing to mount, not just in Canada, but also in Europe. One of the most prominent, recent victims is J.K. Rowling, a resident of Edinburgh Scotland and author of the Harry Potter series of novels. Siobhian Brown, Scotland’s Minister for Victims and [...]
Donald DeMarco: I received an email from a political candidate requesting my vote. He promised, if elected, to do many wonderful thinks. While it is easy for a politician to make promises, I had no objection to any of the promises he set forth. But I had a strong objection to his closing statement in which he swore that he would always [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey The Chosen, a wildly popular television series about the live of Jesus and His disciples, got into hot water last year because one of the members of the film crew was caught sporting a Pride flag on his equipment while on set. In the resulting brouhaha, co-founder and co-CEO of The Daily [...]
Paul Tuns: On April 23, the Toronto District Catholic School Board (TDCSB) voted 8-2 against a pair of pro-life motions. Trustee Mike Del Grande introduced two motion, one requiring that the pro-life flag be flown on all board properties for the month of May, and another requiring staff educate students about pro-life issues on the same day as the National March for [...]
Paul Tuns: According to an analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), the federal pharmacare plan that will cover diabetes care and contraception is estimated to cost $5.7 billion while recouping $3.8 billion from public and private drug plans, for a total cost to taxpayers of $1.9 billion over the next half-decade. Health Minister Mark Holland tabled legislation delivering the first phase [...]
Paul Tuns: Two Bloc MPs are sponsoring Bill C-390, which if passed, would expand Canada’s euthanasia law to permit so-called advanced directives. Sylvie Bérubé (Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou) and Luc Thériault (Montcalm) held a press conference on May 22 to announce that they have introduced C-390, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (provincial medical assistance in dying framework), to permit provinces to allow advanced [...]
Paul Tuns: Data from Vanier Institute of the Family According to a report by the Vanier Institute of the Family, the number of divorces fell to below 50,000 for the first time since 1974. The Vanier Institute’s Family Counts 2024 study relies on Statistics Canada data, and the report shows that the gradual downward trend of divorce that began in [...]
Some rhythms and patterns are so regular that their interruption is all but almost impossible to imagine—the sun rises in the east, the seasons change, and life unfolds against a settled horizon of expectations. Indeed, the deep grooves of these established pattens are the very contours that constitute “normal life,” and their cessation has the character of a cataclysm. When sudden emergencies—like [...]
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning Eli Burnstein (Union Square & Co, $26, 201 pages) Dictionary of Fine Distinctions is a charming little book that uses pithy descriptions and cute illustrations to delineate the meaning of words that are often confused for one another. Most of these clarifying notes are done so in easily to digest one [...]