Monthly Archives: July 2025

Nova Scotia aggressively pushing ‘gender-affirming care’ for youth

Paul Tuns: Since February 2024, the Progressive Conservative government of Tim Houston has opened two facilities geared toward youth providing so-called gender-affirming care. In February, Nova Scotia Health opened a youth “clinic” in Kentville (Kentville Gender Affirming Care Clinic) and in March, opened one in Bridgewater. The facilities – which have pediatricians, mental health practitioners, nurses, and pharmacies on-site -- provide puberty [...]

admin2025-07-24T12:05:46-04:00July 24, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture|

The problem with comfort

Donald DeMarco: There could hardly be a greater disparity concerning the meaning of life than going to church and watching television. There is a TV commercial for step-in shoes that relieve people of the burden of using their hands. A proud citizen of this world of comfort rebukes another by saying, “Are you still using your hands?” The person who is “with-it” [...]

admin2025-07-24T12:01:53-04:00July 24, 2025|Society & Culture|

What the Bible says about abortion

Samara Douma: Although the Bible never explicitly says that abortion is wrong, it does have a lot to say about how God values human life from conception. Many verses speak about how God formed us with a purpose from before we were born. In Psalm 139, David praises God for His omniscience and omnipresence not only in his life after birth but [...]

admin2025-07-24T12:04:08-04:00July 24, 2025|Abortion, Religion|

UK legalizes euthanasia

On June 20, the British House of Commons delivered another devastating blow to respect for the sanctity of human life, by adopting a bill to legalize euthanasia on a vote of 314 to 291. However, it is noteworthy that, in comparison to Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying legislation, this British bill is, for now, far more restrictive and contains much more stringent [...]

admin2025-07-18T06:28:51-04:00July 18, 2025|Euthanasia, Rory Leishman|

United Kingdom won’t prosecute women over illegal abortions

Paul Tuns: On June 17, the British House of Commons voted 379-136 for an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would end prosecutions of women who obtain abortions. In 1967, the Abortion Act permitted abortion up to 28 weeks if approved by two doctors under supposedly limited circumstances such as to protect the health of the mother. The law was [...]

admin2025-07-18T06:28:08-04:00July 18, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Poilievre to face leadership review in January

Paul Tuns The Conservative Party’s 2026 national convention, scheduled to be held in Ottawa, has been moved to Calgary following a vote by the party’s national council. The convention, to be held Jan. 29-31 will also serve as the location for a party constitution-required leadership review. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who lost his own seat despite improving the party’s seat and vote [...]

admin2025-07-18T06:24:10-04:00July 18, 2025|Politics|

Abortion Pill Reversal has saved more than 6000 babies

Samara Douma: In March, Pregnancy Help News reported the first successful Abortion Pill Reversal story in India. Her firstborn now a toddler, Priya (name changed at her request) was ready to direct more of her focus back toward her career when she found out she was pregnant. Priya decided to have a chemical abortion. After taking the first of two drugs involved [...]

admin2025-07-17T09:08:47-04:00July 17, 2025|Abortion|

Two new studies question safety of abortion pills

Oswald Clark: One month after the Washington D.C. Ethics and Public Policy Center released a report showing the abortion pill to be potentially 22 times more dangerous than the Food and Drug Administration claims it is, two new peer-reviewed articles show that the abortion pill is more dangerous than advertised. One article published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care [...]

admin2025-07-17T08:54:41-04:00July 17, 2025|Abortion|

Pro-life, sovereignty concerns raised over WHO Pandemic Agreement

Kesiah Beere: On May 20, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Pandemic Agreement after three years of development and negotiations. Started in December 2021, the Agreement was proposed to implement strategies to “make the world safer from – and more equitable in response to – future pandemics,” according to the WHO. On the surface, such an international agreement may seem appealing [...]

admin2025-07-16T11:59:40-04:00July 16, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia

Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia Malise Ruthven (Verso, $46, $368) BBC editor Malise Ruthven has written an expose of Saudi Arabia, the Unholy Kingdom, the alliance between the House of Saud – the royal family that ruled modern Saudi Arabia since its founding – and extremist imams who he labels a “sectarian Islamic cult.” Their extreme Wahhabism has become [...]

admin2025-07-15T10:27:04-04:00July 15, 2025|Politics, Religion, Reviews|

The Baton and the Cross

The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin Lucy Ash (Icon Books, $36, 384 pages) Journalist Lucy Ash has written a broadside attack on the Russian Orthodox Church and its relationship with Moscow, which inevitably focuses on how the Church provides ideological backing for Vladimir Putin’s regime. Ash, who has worked as a foreign correspondent in Russia for three [...]

admin2025-07-15T09:18:58-04:00July 15, 2025|Politics, Religion, Reviews|

Supreme Court won’t hear Del Grande appeal

Interim Staff: On May 15, the Supreme Court of Canada announced it would not hear the case of Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Mike Delgrande’s challenge to the TCDSB’s censure over his opposition adding gender identity and gender expression to the board’s code of conduct. In November 2019, during debate on amending the code of conduct – in contravention of Church [...]

admin2025-07-11T07:57:01-04:00July 11, 2025|Politics, Religion, Society & Culture|

Third annual National ‘Pride’ Walk-Out Day

Interim Staff: The third annual National “Pride” Flag Walk-Out Day (NPFWD) was held May 30 and June 2 in protest of LGBQT indoctrination taking place in classrooms across Canada. The timing of the walk-out, in which families are encouraged to keep their children out of school for the day, coincides with the days many schools raise the LGBQT pride flag to promote [...]

admin2025-07-11T07:57:40-04:00July 11, 2025|Society & Culture|

Man-Devil

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, The Wickedest Man in Europe John Callahan (Princeton, $48, 315 pages): Bernard Mandeville was a self-exiled Dutch writer who found his work on the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Banned Books). The libertarian writer is most famous for The Fable of the Bees, a book which stood trial in 1723 in Middlesex [...]

admin2025-07-10T10:57:14-04:00July 10, 2025|Politics, Religion, Reviews|

Alberta to ban obscene books from school libraries

Kesiah Beere: On May 26, Alberta’s Minister of Education and Childcare, Demetrios Nicolaides, announced in a press conference that Alberta intends to establish “clear policies and guidelines for all school divisions to follow,” regarding the inclusion of sexually-explicit books in school libraries. This message was delivered in response to four “coming-of-age” novels found in Calgary and Edmonton school libraries, according to Jack [...]

admin2025-07-10T10:49:06-04:00July 10, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture|

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