Paul Tuns: Popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, aborted their unborn baby because of a Down syndrome diagnosis, after which they complained about the backlash they faced online. Ridgway, who runs a YouTube account called McJuggerNuggets with 4.34 million subscribers, posted a message on Instagram on June 3 saying, “This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision [...]
Interim Staff: A Newfoundland and Labrador email message to residents in the province dated June 19 informed parents that they would not have automatic access to the medical records of their children ages 12-15 unless the child gave express permission to share that information. Days later, Newfoundland Premier Tony Wakeham said the policy would be reversed and blamed previous privacy policy for [...]
Paul Tuns: On June 17, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) announced she was stepping down as MP effective in August and later that day gave her last speech in the House of Commons in which she noted Canada had no abortion law and highlighted her own pro-life work. Wagantall began by praising her husband, Marty, and her staff, Conservative colleagues and party [...]
Kesiah Beere: Over the past seven years, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) has received roughly $1.1 million from the federal government through Canadian Heritage and Public Safety Canada programs. Funding from those two departments expired at the end of February and March 2026 respectively with no expressed intent of renewal. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is a self-proclaimed “nonpartisan” nonprofit organization that monitors [...]
Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Encounter Broadside, $12.99, 46 pages) Glenn Harlan Reynolds, founder of InstaPundit, has written a short, stark warning, Seductive AI in which he argues that artificial intelligence presents a threat to human beings well short of an extinction-level event. He says that superhuman, sentient, artificial general intelligence (AGI) could “conquer the world” through “cuteness, or sexiness, or simply friendliness” because [...]
Kesiah Beere On June 11, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in favour of applicants Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and Maeve Gainey in a lawsuit against the Parliamentary Protective Services (PPS). Justice Calum MacLeod held that PPS’s order requiring CLC and Gainey, then Maeve Roche, to remove images depicting abortion victims from Parliament Hill violated their section 2(b) right to freedom [...]
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass: 25th Anniversary Edition Theodore Dalrymple (Bloomsbury, $26.50, 225 pages) British psychiatrist and author Theodore Dalrymple (real name Anthony Daniels) published Life at the Bottom a quarter century ago and a new edition was warranted, not just because Rob Henderson (Troubled) writes the foreword, but because the baneful worldview Dalrymple identified 25 years [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis, $42, 348 pages) Paul Kingsnorth, a former Wiccan-practicing environmentalist who became a rural-living conservative has written an important book looking askance at what most people would consider progress. Against the Machine is a critique of techno-optimism, an expose of the soul-destroying aspects of technology and modern sensibilities. Kingsnorth, [...]
Without any fanfare, Canada passed a somber and chastening milestone last month: the 10th anniversary of its legalization of euthanasia. During this time, at least 100,000 euthanasia deaths have been reported—and, given the systemic evasion of official procedures and protocols that are endemic to this depraved practice, the real number of voluntary and involuntary liquidations is, in all likelihood, far greater than [...]
Paul Tuns: Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, reported that in April “Canada surpassed 100,000 reported euthanasia deaths since legalization in June 2016.” According to the Sixth Annual Report released last year, from legalization in 2016 until December 31, 2024, there were 76,475 reported euthanasia deaths in Canada – about 45 each day of that year. Schadenberg calculated from [...]
Paul Tuns: On June 17, the tenth anniversary of the legalization of euthanasia in Canada, Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance (AMAD) issued an 88-page report recommending the federal government “indefinitely exclude” people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime. In 2021, Parliament expanded Canada’s euthanasia law to include people suffering from [...]