Interim staff: On Sept. 20, 2024, the second Million Person March for Children, organized by “Hands off Our Kids,” was held in communities across Canada. Although numbers were down in many locations compared to last year according to one-the-ground reports, one organizer said “the message was still clear that parents of all faiths want their children protected from the dangers of LGBTQ [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life (Sutherland Books, $35.95, 212 pages) Former Interim columnist Andrew Lawton has written a biography about Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a book which will help readers understand how an adopted, middle class, politically obsessed kid from Calgary rose to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Lawton’s book is a well-researched, based on newspaper stories [...]
Immigration responsible for nearly all population growth Paul Tuns: Source: Statistics Canada On Sept. 25, Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s fertility rate has been declining for 15 years and reached the new low of 1.26 children per woman in 2023. Demographers consider 2.1 children to be the natural replacement rate. The number of live births in Canada was unchanged at [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Ethics for Beginners: Big Ideas from 32 Great Minds by Peter Kreeft (Word on Fire, $32.50 pb, 260 pages) Peter Kreeft may be the best living explainer of philosophy and in his most recent book he examines what some of the greatest minds in history had to say about ethics. Ethics for Beginners is a book for “intelligent beginners” who [...]
Click on the images to expand. On October 6, 2024, pro-lifers across the country witnessed to the sanctity of life and the evil of abortion as part of the annual Life Chain. [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life One of the strongest pro-life messages during this U.S. Presidential election hasn’t come from everyone’s “favourite” Republican candidate. In fact, it hasn’t even come from a politician. It’s from someone who made a good living by getting grown men to knock over tackling dummies. So, who is it? It’s none other than [...]
According to the 2024 report by Open Doors, an advocacy group, at least 365 million Christians worldwide suffer persecution and discrimination because they believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. At least 5000 Christians were killed for their beliefs last year. Many Christian congregations designate either Nov. 3 or Nov. 10 as the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted [...]
RickMcGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements By the time this column comes out America will be on the eve of a presidential election that has been alternately incredible and improbable, and might transform that country’s politics irrevocably no matter who wins. In hindsight this vertiginous moment is the result of events that began over a quarter century ago, though I [...]
Moms for the Motherland A recent CBC online story has reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing towards more traditional Russian conservative values, aligned with the Orthodox Christian faith. He is encouraging Russian women to have more children. Russia’s fertility rate -- the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime -- is 1.4, considerably less than the [...]
Rory Leishman: Thanks to the appalling Medical Assistance in Dying laws mandated by the Supreme Court of Canada and enacted by the Trudeau Liberals and their NDP and Bloc Quebecois allies, Canada now has both the most and the fastest increasing number of euthanasia deaths in the entire world. More Canadians are killed every year by MAID than die of stroke. Yet [...]
John Carpay: How long will Canadians continue falling for the same media tricks that they fell for during the years of lockdowns and vaccine passports? As the annual flu season approaches, Canadian media are raising the banner of fear, lifting high the torch of terror, and waiving the flag of foreboding. Media allege that we are seeing large numbers of “Covid cases” [...]
On Heroes: The Annotated Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, edited by Edward Maxwell III (Imperium Press, $11 pb, 332 pages) Thomas Carlyle was a 19th century historian, philosopher, and social critic best known for his Great Man Theory of History which argues that history is shaped by exceptional individuals who take command of events. The argument was first made in his lecture “On Heroes,” [...]
Why pro-lifers are like pinch-hitters Donald DeMarco: Four days after I was born, Clarence McKay “Ace” Parker made his debut with the Philadelphia Phillies. This tidbit of information concerning two entirely unconnected events is of no importance to anyone except to me. It gives me a personal tie-in to him, though a rather thin one. But I will honor it and also [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture by Aaron Renn (Zondervan, $33.50, 247 pages) Aaron Renn is a fellow at American Reformer and former research fellow at the right-of-centre Manhattan Institute for Public Policy. You might be familiar with his work if you are regularly reader of First Things, his subscription newsletter or his Substack. His [...]
Paul Tuns: Ahead of the New Brunswick general election officially called on Sept. 17, Campaign Life Coalition distributed thousands of postcards with information about transgender indoctrination in schools. This raised the ire of politicians opposed to Premier Blaine Higgs’s policies requiring parental consent to use names and pronouns at odds with a student’s biological sex. CLC distributed postcards to households in August [...]