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 [...]
Congressman challenges abortion activist Brandon Gill, a 32-year-old member of U.S. House of Representative from New Mexico grilled an abortion activist who appeared before a judicial hearing in April. Jessica Waters is a representative of the abortion industry whose research focuses on “reproductive rights law,” “abortion regulation” and “state control of reproductive decision-making.” Gill pressed her, using graphic detail, to say [...]
Interim Staff: The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) is seeking to intervene in the “emergency relief” court case that was launched by Dying with Dignity to have the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approve Medical Assistance in Dying for Claire Brosseau who is living with mental illness alone. On May 4, Dying with Dignity said in a press release that it filed a [...]
This July marks the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Although it would take the 13 colonies that many years to win the Revolutionary War and then establish themselves as states within a constitutional framework, that foundation—and all else that has flowed from it in the ensuing quarter millennium—springs from this document. While the vast majority of the Declaration, [...]
From the editor’s desk: By the way, between his three marriages and various mistresses, Boris Johnson has at least ten, probably 12, and perhaps even more children. ** Typically, the cover of each June edition of this paper features the National March for Life. Not this month. Jim Hughes, long-time pro-life leader, passed away days after the March. Were it not for [...]
Donald DeMarco: “Why are you Catholics so hung up on abortion?” It is a rather cynical remark that has been directed to pro-life Catholics and is more an invitation for them to be embarrassed than a request for a reasonable response. From the viewpoint of logic, it illustrates the fallacy of the ‘Loaded Question’ in which the conclusion is assumed in the [...]
Rory Leishman: Prior to the enactment of repressive human rights codes and the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms in the 1980s, Canadians were no less free to speak their minds than the people of the United States. Today, that is no longer the case. In an exemplary ruling on March 31 in Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court of the [...]
Josie Luetke: When I entered the pro-life movement as a teenager, it seemed to be dominated by neoconservatives, influenced no doubt by former US President George Bush. The feel-good pro-life news stories I hungrily consumed would not uncommonly be complemented by tone-deaf glorification of aggressive American military action. That hawkishness seemed to wane with Donald Trump’s first presidency, but recent wars have [...]
Victor Penney: Nothing sacred can be left undefiled in the land of the Quiet Revolution. It’s one of the diabolic features of the cultural upheaval that began 66 years ago in la belle province. The latest manifestation of this Satanic chaos involves the Stanley Cup playoffs and a church named after the Disciple whom Jesus loved. It’s a story of sacrilege, one [...]
John Carpay: Having governments spy on citizens is a great way to reduce crime! Consider how many more criminals would have been caught over the past century if only police had been able to listen in on citizens’ telephone conversations. Why do Canadians – and citizens of other democracies around the world – cherish privacy in the first place? If a man [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On May 11, the Trump administration launched the moms.gov website, a resource to help pregnant women bring their babies to term and assist them with their newborns. The website opens with the message, “Addressing the needs of mothers and fathers who face difficult or unexpected pregnancies and ensuring the wellbeing of mothers and the health of American families.” [...]