The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Perriter (Profile, $47, 552 pages) Diarmaid Perriter is a professor of Irish history at University College in Dublin and a columnist for the Irish Times and at times his latest history of Ireland – he has written 14 books on Ireland – seems more journalism than history. That is certainly due to fact that this “history” [...]
Sarah Stilton Review: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari (Signal, $45, 492 pages) Yuval Noah Harari is something of a rock star public intellectual who burst onto the scene with his 2014 book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, originally published in Hebrew in 2011. Previously a military historian, the Oxford-trained [...]
Interim Staff: Linda Gibbons with the sign she witnesses with, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” Linda Gibbons was arrested Feb. 13 for silently witnessing outside the Morgentaler abortuary in Toronto, her fifth arrest since last May. She was holding her sign showing a baby with the caption, “Why mom? When I have so much love [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 1, Manitoba’s Safe Access to Abortion Services Act came into effect, prohibiting all forms of pro-life speech near abortion facilities. Passed last spring after the then new NDP government came to power, the new law bans demonstration, picketing, or sidewalk counselling intended to deter women from obtaining an abortion. The bill created a 50-meter buffer zone around stand-alone [...]
Paul Tuns: The House of Commons Finance Committee has recommended to the federal government that it change the Income Tax Act to remove the “advancement of religion” as a charitable purpose under the tax code and, in another recommendation, strip all pro-life groups of charitable status. Among the 462 recommendations made by the Finance Committee to the government as part of the [...]
Paul Tuns: The Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying released in December, and updated and clarified last month, revealed that there were 15,343 reported euthanasia deaths representing 4.7% of all deaths in 2023. The report, which must be released annually by Health Canada, showed a steady increase in the number of euthanasia deaths each year, rising from 2838 in 2017, [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2021, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB), the second largest Catholic school board in Ontario—encompassing Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon, and the surrounding area—voted to fly the Pride flag outside its Catholic Education Centre and a couple of other buildings. Not even four years later, not only did the board re-affirm its [...]
The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party Michael Tackett (Simon & Schuster, $44, 397 pages) Michael Tackett’s The Price of Power is a mainstream journalist’s fair-minded account of one of the most important elected figures in U.S. history, a man whose mastering of Senate procedures led him to command and control his party [...]
Paul Tuns Review: We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan Peterson (Portfolio, $48, 544 pages) Former University of Toronto psychology professor and international darling of the Right Jordan Peterson’s fourth book, We Who Wrestle with God seems to have landed with a thud after two bestselling self-help books. The massive tome is an exegesis on Genesis, Exodus, and [...]
Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments Joe Posnanski (Dutton, $39.99, 392) Joe Posnanski is one of the best sportswriters in the biz because he is fundamentally human and humane when writing about his subject. In Why We Love Football he explores 90 important moments and ten of the best players in NFL history to show why sports can be [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Reviewing journalist Barbara Amiel’s memoir here a few years ago, what struck me most was an observation she made about her time in transatlantic high society, when her husband Conrad Black’s success and fame was at its peak. She was adopted by a circle of rich women, the wives of rich men – [...]
Paul Tuns: Presenting to the UAE World Governments Summit 2025 by video conference, the world’s richest man and President Donald Trump’s right-hand man Elon Musk envisioned a future in which humanoid robots directed by “deep intelligence” would produce a nearly infinite array of products and services that would render money meaningless. The answer came from a question at the United Arab Emirates [...]
CLC has a wish list for the government Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford called an election 18 months early with polls indicating that he could grow his majority. On Feb. 27, he was re-elected with virtually the same caucus in which Liberal leader and former Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie failed to even win her own seat. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won 2.15 [...]
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By J.M. Glover: ‘The incomparable gift of being born’ Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, gave his personal testimony at the 2025 March for Life in Washington, D.C. His words bear repeating from a man who was conceived by a teenage boy and girl. “I was born in January 1972 … I was the product of an [...]