Interim Staff: Bill Whatcott was found guilty of promoting hate by Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy in a retrial for charges related to his activities at the 2016 Toronto pride parade in which he and fellow “gay zombie” activists distributed 3000 flyers opposing homosexual activity. In 2016, Whatcott and six others dressed in skin-tight lime green bodysuits and masks, registered as [...]
John Carpay: Devyn Cousineau is a very woke panelist of the BC Human Rights Tribunal, empowered by law to punish people who disagree with transgender ideology. In February 2026, she ordered former Chilliwack school board trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 to some gay teachers. In September 2026, Cousineau ordered Dr. Henry Ajaero to pay $20,000 to “Child Q” for refusing to [...]
From the editor’s desk: Global Updates reported on the parliamentary victory for Alliance for Germany (AdF), which is invariably referred to as “far right” or “extremist,” in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt: “Alice Weidel becomes the first leader in the world who is anti-immigration but has an immigrant wife, is anti-LGBTQ+ but is a lesbian herself, opposes LGBT adoption but has adopted [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: According to research published in Health Policy in August, “interstate travel for abortion increased” after state-level restrictions were implemented after the 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade, which had declared women had a right to abortion. The research, led by Kelsey B. Loeliger, was titled “Out-of-State Travel for Abortion Care Before [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 14, the Group of Experts of the Declaration of Casablanca for the Universal Abolition of Surrogacy, along with a group of 160 non-government organizations spanning the globe, sent a letter to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child asking it to recognize that surrogacy constitutes the sale of children according to the Optional Protocol to [...]
Nothing is more telling than the rhetorical sleights of hand which attempt to keep modern immoral practices out of sight. Before vivid ultrasound images made the lie utterly untenable, the humanity of the unborn child was concealed by the verbal screen of a “clump of cells.” In a political context, at the height of the Global War on Terror, a range of [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Lawyers for two pro-life pregnancy care centres being sued by California Attorney General Rob Bonta for promoting Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) said in their closing brief the State had not met the burden in any element of the lawsuit being brought against Heartbeat International and RealOptions Medical Clinics. APR is permitted in California, but the Attorney General is trying [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 9, Saskatoon city councilor Bev Dubois proposed that the city restrict the distribution of flyers featuring abortion victim photography. The Saskatoon Abortion Support Network launched a petition in support of banning such flyers and it has reportedly received more than 3200 signatures. Angie Kells, a volunteer abortion doula at the Network, spoke at the meeting considering restrictions, saying, [...]
Paul Tuns: Ontario Superior Court Justice Carissima Mathen denied Claire Brosseau and Dying With Dignity an injunction to approve Brosseau to be killed by Medical Assistance in Dying based on mental illness as the sole criteria. Brosseau, a 49-year-old Toronto woman, is an actress and comedian, who filed a motion in May seeking a constitutional exemption from Canada’s euthanasia law that currently [...]
Victor Penney: I’ve never been a fan of the Women’s National Basketball Association, but it’s been difficult to ignore lately and for all the wrong reasons. There has been a slew of wild headlines surrounding the league and the best way to summarize everything boils down to two words: dumpster fire. This is a serious problem for the WNBA because if the [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: In response to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Illinois Republican U.S. congressman, Rep. Henry Hyde, introduced the Hyde Amendment banning the use of federal funds to pay for abortion through the Medicaid program, at a time when federal programs were estimated to be paying for 300,000 abortions annually. Hyde argued, “An innocent, defenseless human life, in a caring [...]
Meditations Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian (Liveright, $29.99, 240 pages) In recent years Stoicism, the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy that stressed self-control as the path to the well-lived life in accordance with nature, has enjoyed an intellectual renaissance. Although it began in Greece, its most famous practitioners and expositors were Roman, Cicero and Marcus Aurelius (121–180 A.D.), the latter a philosopher-king. Aaron [...]
Victims of the Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All Nathaniel Blake with a foreword by Ryan T. Anderson (Ignatius Press, $24.95, 229 pages) In Victims of the Revolution, Nathaniel Blake of the Ethics and Public Policy Center condemns the Sexual Revolution and its aftermath, bringing the receipts as they say, to show the damage that it has done to untold numbers of [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: The United Kingdom House of Commons has voted down the latest attempt at legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales. On Sept. 11, the UK House of Commons voted down the Terminally Ill Adults Bill in a 286 to 270 vote. If passed, this bill would have legalized assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales. “This [...]
Interim Staff: Nova Scotia’s last Catholic hospital, St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish changes its name to the Antigonish Memorial Regional Hospital Oct. 1, and with the hospital’s Catholic Mission Assurance Agreement expiring Sept. 30 it will no longer be restricted from committing abortion and euthanasia. The Sisters of St. Martha announced in the spring that it would withdraw its name and [...]