Monthly Archives: June 2025

Toronto pumps money into Pride celebrations as companies drop sponsorships

Paul Tuns: After at least two major corporate sponsors dropped their financial backing of Toronto Pride, host of the largest annual LGBQT festivities in Canada each year, the city of Toronto came to the organization’s rescue. The city increased their share of funding to 15 LGBQT festivals in the city by 33 per cent to $2.5 million. The municipal largesse was not [...]

2025-06-09T09:06:05-04:00June 9, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture|

Abortion pill 22 times more dangerous than manufacturer, government claim

Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: Senator Josh Hawley has called for stricter regulation of the abortion pill. A new report, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event,” from the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that the abortion drug mifepristone causes 22 times more serious adverse effects than is claimed [...]

2025-06-09T09:00:24-04:00June 9, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics|

CLC calls for legal ‘protection from conception’

Paul Tuns: On May 7, the day before the National March for Life, Campaign Life Coalition called on the Liberal government to protect life beginning at conception. Pete Baklinski, CLC director of communications, called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to end abortion. “The National March for Life began in 1998—29 years after Canada legalized [...]

2025-06-06T16:55:18-04:00June 6, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

National March for Life 2025

Calls for politicians to end the killing of the preborn Interim Staff: On May 8, pro-life Canadians assembled in the nation’s capital for the 29th annual National March for Life, the highlight of a week of pro-life events in Ottawa organized by Campaign Life Coalition. This year’s them was “Protection at Conception,” calling for legal recognition and protection of human life from [...]

2025-06-06T15:28:05-04:00June 6, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

What do we know about Pope Leo XIV’s views on life, family

Paul Tuns: On May 8, white smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel to indicate that the Conclave had chosen a new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, appeared on the balcony in St. Peter’s Square, have chosen the name Leo XIV. Much was made that Leo XIV is the first “American pope” but he has [...]

2025-06-05T08:45:17-04:00June 5, 2025|Abortion, Marriage and Family, Religion|

Two-tour Afghanistan veteran offered euthanasia

Paul Tuns: The Toronto Sun headline “Another combat vet who says he was offered medical suicide comes forward” is the story of David Baltzer, likely the first Canadian Armed Forces soldier offered Medical Assistance in Dying, in December 2019. The April 25 article by Bryan Passiffiume begins, “He came seeking help, but he says he was instead offered death.” Baltzer served two [...]

2025-06-05T08:42:02-04:00June 5, 2025|Euthanasia|

Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything All Wrong All at Once

Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All at Once: Tristan Hopper (Sutherland House, $22.95, 126 pages) National Post writer Tristan Hopper has written a recent history of Canada that serves as a warning for the rest of the world. Recently, Canadians have enjoyed a splurge of patriotism in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump, but Hopper says we should [...]

2025-06-05T08:33:36-04:00June 5, 2025|Euthanasia, Politics, Reviews, Society & Culture|

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2025-06-04T16:34:13-04:00June 4, 2025|Issues|

The Canada we deserve: Learning from the election

Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Canada has just undergone an election – endured is a better word; suffered through even better – but before we collectively consign the experience to the memory dump (it’s unlikely we’d have another one if we remember what they’re like) I think we should make this what they call a “teachable moment” and [...]

2025-06-04T08:25:40-04:00June 4, 2025|Politics, Rick McGinnis|

Number of pro-life MPs increases after April 28 federal vote

Paul Tuns, Analysis:  According to Campaign Life Coalition, there were 42 green-lighted candidates elected MP on April 28, up six from the previous Parliament. CLC gave the green light to more than 150 candidates among four parties – the Conservatives, Christian Heritage Party of Canada, United Party of Canada, and Libertarians – who were pro-life without exceptions based on answers to the organization’s [...]

2025-06-04T08:05:44-04:00June 4, 2025|Politics|

God on Stage: 15 Plays that Ask the Big Questions

God on Stage: 15 Plays that Ask the Big Questions Peter Kreeft (Word on Fire, $32.50, 216 pages): Peter Kreeft’s God on Stage examines 15 plays, three each on five different themes (life and joy, relationship with God, suffering, death, damnation), one that is pre-Christian, one Christian, and one that is post-Christian. Kreeft says “reading and reflecting on great dramas, great plays, [...]

2025-06-12T12:34:20-04:00June 3, 2025|Religion, Reviews|

Unraveling the Mystery of Joy

Paul Tuns, Review: The Mystery of Joy by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius, $18.95, 241 pages) Version 1.0.0 Peter Kreeft’s latest book offers 95 pensées about joy, short, (two to four page) thoughts on what joy is, and isn’t. Joy, says Kreeft, “is to happiness what happiness is to pleasure: the next step up.” According to Kreeft, way up, up to heaven. He [...]

2025-06-03T09:56:30-04:00June 3, 2025|Religion, Reviews|

T.S. Eliot: Culture and Anarchy

T.S. Eliot: Culture and Anarchy: James Matthew Wilson (Wiseblood Books, USD$8, 66 pages) T.S. Eliot is probably the greatest literary and social critic of the 21st century, as well as one of its greatest poets. There is no shortage of treatments of his work, but James Matthew Wilson’s T.S. Eliot: Culture and Anarchy is a worthy edition to any library. Eliot was [...]

2025-06-02T13:26:58-04:00June 2, 2025|Religion, Reviews, Society & Culture|

Solzhenitsyn saw the purpose

Paul Tuns, Review:  We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn edited by Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Notre Dame University Press, $38, 195 pages) The novelist and essayist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn is best-known as a Soviet dissident who spent time in communist concentration camps known as the gulag, of which he became their most famous chronicler. He is one of [...]

2025-06-05T16:25:07-04:00June 2, 2025|Paul Tuns, Religion, Reviews, Society & Culture|
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