Paul Tuns: Andrew Lawton stands up to speak in the Chambre during Question Period. © HOC-CDCCredit: Bernard Thibodeau, House of Commons Photo Services On Dec. 5, the House of Commons debated C-218, Tamara Jansen’s private member’s bill that would put an end to the planned March 2027 expansion of euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness. C-218, An Act [...]
Mary Zwicker Europe Correspondent: Dutch MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen condemned the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ initiative, saying the European Parliament should ‘give a voice to those who do not yet have one, namely the unborn children in their mothers’ wombs.’ A pro-abortion movement in Europe is pushing to expand abortion access to countries in the European Union in an alarming threat [...]
Mary Zwicker European Correspondent: There is an ongoing push by European countries to promote abortion in African nations where pro-life values still remain strongly enshrined. In recent years, various countries throughout the European Union and the United Kingdom have been working to extend abortion access to pro-life African nations, with investigative reports from the European Conservative revealing that the pro-life values of [...]
Paul Tuns: On Dec. 14, pro-life conservative José Antonio Kast won 58 per cent of the vote in the Chilean presidential election against Jeannette Jara of the Chilean Communist Party, which has ties to Cuba and Nicaragua. Kast will be sworn into office on March 11. Kast is a married Catholic and father of nine children, who had served as a city [...]
Paul Tuns On Jan. 14, beleaguered Quebec Premier François Legault, 68, announced he would step down as premier and leader of the party he founded before a provincial election later this year. Legault led the right-of-centre Coalition Avenir Quebec to two majority governments in 2018 and 2022. Seeking re-election four years ago, CAQ garnered 41 per cent of the vote, nearly as [...]
By J.M. Glover: ‘The value of a life cannot be measured by its challenges’ Texas Right to Life highlighted the story of rare identical triplets, two of whom were cojoined. Doctors suggested that the children might not survive birth, and if they did, they might never walk. Well, they did survive birth in May 2015 at a Corpus Christi medical center, and [...]
From the editor’s desk As we were ready to go to press, Norman Podhoretz died. He was one of the three most important conservative intellectuals of the American conservative movement of the second half of the 20th century alongside William F. Buckley, founder of National Review, and Irving Kristol, with whom Podhoretz is a founding godfather of neoconservatism. Neoconservatism has come into [...]
Josie Luetke: “You would prefer the human race to endure, right?” “Uh—” “You’re hesitating… Yes?” “Yep, well…I-I don’t know. I-I would—I would…um—” “This is a long hesitation. This is a long hesitation.” “There’s-There’s so many—there’s so many—there’s so many questions implicit in this.” “Should the human race survive?” “Uh…yes, but…” This June 2025 exchange between New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and [...]
John Carpay: Canada was one of the leaders of the international opposition to the Apartheid laws in South Africa, in force from 1948 to 1991. All South Africans were legally classified by race as White, Black, Coloured, or Indian, with laws defining the rights and obligations of each group. Apartheid laws enforced segregation in most spheres of life, including housing, marriage, and [...]
Mary Zwicker: The citizens of a European country have halted the advancement of euthanasia legislation in a recent referendum. On Nov. 23, Slovenian citizens rejected a pro-euthanasia bill through a binding referendum that banned their government from revisiting the topic for another 12 months. Following the pro-life victory, conservative politician, activist, and primary leader of the referendum campaign, Aleš Primc, declared that [...]
Paul Tuns: Delegates at the Alberta United Conservative Party (UCP) annual general meeting Nov. 28-30, held in Edmonton, passed several pro-life and pro-family motions including a call to defund late-term abortions, restricting, and upholding parental rights. Campaign Life Coalition endorsed 12 of the 36 policy resolutions and all 12 passed, most with large majorities of the more than 4000 delegates attending the [...]
Paul Tuns: Health Canada released its Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada on Nov. 28, providing data regarding Canada’s euthanasia and assisted-suicide regime in 2024, the most recent year for which there is completed data. According to the report, 16,499 Canadians were killed by euthanasia, an increase of seven per cent compared to 2023 when there were 15,427 [...]
Rory Leishman: The United States Declaration of Independence famously asserts: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” As originally understood in 1776, the phrase “all Men” in this context referred to all humans. In [...]
Sporting Life, Victor Penney: Do you want to know one of the easiest ways to get under the skin of the toughest, most intimidating professional wrestlers on the planet? Call out pro-wrasslin’ for what it is: fake. The outcomes are predetermined and the moves are choreographed, but make no mistake: the athleticism and pain are real, and so is the passion. It’s [...]
Tanis Cortens: The array of health problems caused by cannabis has serious consequences. A May 2023 analysis by Quest Diagnostics found that, in the general U.S. workforce, the percentage of employees testing positive for marijuana after an on-the-job accident reached a 25-year high in 2022, marking a steady overall 204.2 per cent increase from 2012. Katie Mueller of the National Safety Council [...]