By J.M. Glover: Billboards and the ‘culture of fear’ True North Centre reported that the mega-giant Pattison Outdoor billboard company has “cancelled a contract” with the Manitoba pro-life group, Life Culture, saying that the requested image “creates too much controversy” and that the company received “a lot of back-lash for similar designs in the past.” What is controversial about a picture of [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Quebec “legalized” euthanasia in 2014, even though the federal prohibition wouldn’t be struck down by the Supreme Court until a year later, and the new parameters for the procedure not passed until a year after that. In 2019, a Quebec Superior Court ruling declared unconstitutional the requirement that one’s natural death be [...]
John Carpay: Who would have imagined in the 1960s that Parliament would pass a law to punish Canadians if their speech was deemed to be “hateful” by federal bureaucrats? Who would have imagined, 60 years ago, that a Digital Safety Commission would enforce speech regulations created in secret by the federal cabinet? Would anyone in the 1960s have supported criminalizing advocacy for [...]
Paul Tuns: On Dec. 19, former Liberal MP Paul Szabo died in Mississauga with his family by his side, at the age of 76. Szabo, born in Toronto and raised in Mississauga was a “lifelong parishioner at of St Francis of Assisi Church – he represented Mississauga South from 1993 to 2011. Szabo first ran for the Liberals in 1980 and 1984, [...]
Oswald Clark: Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100 as the oldest ever former American president. Carter was governor of Georgia (1971-1975) before being elected president as an outsider in 1976, barely beating Republican Gerald Ford in the aftermath of Watergate. Carter was defeated four years later by Ronald Reagan amid high inflation, higher unemployment, [...]
Gideon Spivak: Trustee Michael Del Grande is setting his sights on the Supreme Court of Canada to hear his lawsuit challenging the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) after an October dismissal by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. On Oct. 23, at his most recent court appearance, Del Grande sought to overturn sanctions brought against him by the TCDSB in November [...]
Donald DeMarco: A friend of mine who teaches theology at a Catholic university informed me of an unforgettable experience he had on a flight to Chicago to visit an old friend. Seated next to him was a young woman wearing a t-shirt identifying herself as a proud member of the “pro-choice generation.” My friend wanted to say to her, “Lucky for you your [...]
Rory Leishman: On Oct. 29, Kimberly Murray issued her final report as Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools. At a press conference to mark the occasion, federal Justice Minister Arif Virani said: “You can’t hear stories about … young girls being impregnated and then (having) their babies being taken away and incinerated, [...]
Paul Tuns: According to information obtained by pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney, Ontario paid for 19 women to have their preborn babies killed by abortion in the United States at a taxpayer-funded cost of USD $229,995 or $327,608 Canadian. Maloney, who blogs at Run With Life, reported on Dec. 18, that under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, 19 women were sent to the [...]
Paul Tuns: According to Worldometer, an online collector of real-time global data, there was a record 45 million abortions committed in 2024 as of noon on Dec. 31, making the prenatal killing of preborn children the number one cause of death globally. Worldometer, a free online reference, keeps a running tally of major world statistics covering issues such as demographics, health, and [...]
Honourable mentions: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith vows to protect female spaces, Statistics Canada reports that Canada’s fertility rate hits all-time low of 1.26 children per woman of child-bearing age (among the lowest in the world), Trudeau implements national pharmacare program that provides free contraception to all Canadians whose birth control is not covered by their private insurance programs or provincial [...]
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Rick McGinnis: With the re-election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, Canada has become an interesting place, though like almost any other time when this has happened, the circumstances aren’t necessarily welcomed by Canadians. It all began with what was probably a joke, though when it comes to existential questions and particularly [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life I find myself in a rather uncomfortable position with the NFL playoffs kicking off this month. I’m doing the unthinkable: falling in love with another team, and it hurts. As a longtime fan of the Dallas Cowboys, it pains me to say this, but they’ve been a trainwreck this season, and my [...]
Interim Staff: Linda Gibbons with the sign she witnesses with, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” On Dec. 5, Ontario Court Justice Maria Speyer acquitted Linda Gibbons, a 76-year-old pro-life grandmother, of criminal mischief for witnessing outside a Toronto abortion mill earlier in the year. From May through July 2024, Gibbons was arrested four times for [...]
Oswald Clark: An annual report by Americans United for Life, Life List 2025, analyzed state laws and policies related to abortion, euthanasia, assisted-suicide, end-of-life care, conscience rights for health care workers, and bioethical policies to rank them for “life-affirming policies.” For the fifth year in a row, Arkansas came out on top. Jerry Cox, president of the Arkansas Family Council (AFC), said [...]