Paul Tuns: Prolife Alberta launched its “Left to Die” campaign demanding protection for babies born alive after botched abortions. The organization hopes to inform Albertans of the Alberta Health Services policy that allows babies born alive after surviving an abortion to die without receiving any care. The campaign was launched in September but gained publicity in late October and early November, forcing [...]
Paul Tuns: During a discussion about Bill C-9, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places) in the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, the committee’s chair, Liberal MP Marc Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) stated certain Bible verses constituted hatred. Derek Ross, executive director and general counsel of the Christian Legal Fellowship, [...]
Paul Tuns The CBC and Sudbury Star reported that Cleo Gratton, 84, was approved for Medical Assistance in Dying after he received terrible medical care at Health Sciences North in Sudbury. Gratton told family that after receiving poor care caused by “hallway healthcare” at the Sudbury hospital, he would rather die than go back to Health Sciences North. His daughter, Lynn, told [...]
Paul Tuns: On Oct. 30, Quebec’s 2024-2025 Report on the Commission of End-of-Life Care was released, revealing that 1 in 15 deaths in the province is through Medical Assistance in Dying. “The Commission notes that MAiD is in increasing demand and occupies an important place in the public sphere in Quebec,” the report states. The report covers April 1, 2024 to March [...]
Interim Staff: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced Bill 9, which would utilize the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to ensure that three bills addressing transgender issues can remain free of judicial override. In 2024, the Smith government passed three bills: Bill 26, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2024, prohibiting gender reassignment surgery for children under 18 and [...]
I Also Had My Hour: An Alternative Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton Dale Ahquist (Ignatius, $21.95 USD, 477 pages) Chesterton scholar Dale Ahlquist has assembled a unique “autobiography” of G.K. Chesterton by taking snippets from GKC’s vast body of writing and arranging them into a collage of sorts – Ahlquist says the quotes are “cobbled” together -- in lieu of an autobiography. (Chesterton [...]
Oswald Clark: The Charlotte Lozier Institute issued its annual report on pregnancy care centres, and it reports that in the United States 2775 pregnancy resource/help centres provided $452 million in medical care, support, educational services, and material goods to mothers and family in 2024. The 2025 report, titled, “Pregnancy Centers: Rising to the Occasion with Unwavering Care,” and produced with Heartbeat International, [...]
Oswald Clark: In November, Planned Parenthood issued an “impact report” detailing the closure of 43 of its abortuaries in 2025, which it blamed on the loss of Title X funds and Medicaid reimbursements after Congress passed, and President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, a ban on federal taxpayer funds being used to pay for abortions. In their report, “The [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: On Nov. 4, Liberal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the the Liberal government’s 2025 federal budget and after two weeks of kabuki theatre of whether or not enough opposition MPs would cross the floor, vote for the budget, or miss the final vote, it passed on a party-line vote 170-168. With a minority caucus that fell just [...]
The Prime Ministers: Canada’s Leaders and the Nation They Shaped J.D.M. Stewart (Sutherland House, $37.95, 361 pages) The last books on Canada’s prime ministers were published in the 1990s and while it is difficult to match Right Honourable Men by Michael Bliss, former high school teacher, J.D.M. Stewart has proven worthy of the task. History that focuses on politics or great men [...]
Sarah Stilton, Review: Newman and His Critics by Edward Short (Gracewing, $70 pb, 592 pages) Newman and his Contemporaries by Edward Short (Gracewing, $60 pb, 491 pages) Newman and his Family by Edward Short (Gracewing, $60 pb, 427 pages) Early in his career as a columnist, George F. Will said that his views could be known to anyone familiar with the Oxford Movement. I doubt [...]
Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education Richard K. Vedder (Independent Institute, $39.95, 230 pages) It is axiomatic that you get what you paid for, except perhaps in post-secondary education where universities get bailed out by governments or donors and incentives and such that professors care more about research than teaching. Richard K. Vedder, founding director of the [...]
"I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column Mary Beth Norton (Princeton, $34, 203 pages) In the 1690s, John Dunton published a two-page broadsheet, the Athenian Mercury, a double-sided broadsheet that was “the world’s first advice column,” answering queries from anonymous writers and responded to by the paper’s anonymous Athenian Society of [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso (Simon & Schuster, $39.99, 307 pages) Concerns about rapidly declining fertility rates are mostly expressed by those on the right-end of the political spectrum. Pro-natalism is unfairly conflated with ideas of Christian nationalist and right-wing populism in political discourse even though the prospect [...]
Paul Tuns, Review Moral Issues: How Public Opinion on Abortion and Gay Rights Affects American Religion and Politics by Paul Goren and Christopher Chapp (University of Chicago Press, $42.50 pb, 223 pages) In their book Moral Issues: How Public Opinion on Abortion and Gay Rights Affects American Religion and Politics, Paul Goren, director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology [...]