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Legalizing marijuana sends negative health effects rippling through society

Tanis Cortens: Though Trump is considering reclassifying marijuana with less dangerous substances such as testosterone and ketamine, strong evidence suggests the drug’s health risks are more significant than many realize. A November 2024 article in the American Journal of Public Health said cannabis use “can lead to a range of short- and long-term adverse cognitive, psychological, and physical outcomes.” Short-term harms include [...]

admin2026-01-16T17:12:51-05:00January 16, 2026|Society & Culture|

High society

In the 1960s, Malcolm Muggeridge remarked that “sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.” In the heady days of the sexual revolution, his observation had a special force: it revealed, behind the relaxed, permissive posture of “free love” advocates, a concealed cultic reverence for the bodily pleasures that they elevated above all others. For [...]

admin2026-01-16T16:47:45-05:00January 16, 2026|Society & Culture|

Ford sidelines elected school board trustees

Gideon Spevak: Queen’s Park is taking an increasing interest in the management of school boards throughout the province of Ontario. In April, Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra announced a provincial supervisor would be appointed to take over the Thames Valley District School Board serving the London, Ont., area in southwestern Ontario, for the reason of financial mismanagement within the board. A provincial [...]

admin2026-01-15T15:47:09-05:00January 15, 2026|Politics, Religion|

Trump administration labels abortion human rights abuse

Oswald Clark: On Nov. 25, the U.S. State Department’s annual report on human rights practices in foreign countries stated it would classify state-sponsored abortions as human rights abuses. Also, among human rights violations, the State Department will highlight in its annual country reviews sex change treatments for minors, arrests for hate speech, government DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hiring practices, and the [...]

admin2026-01-15T15:38:01-05:00January 15, 2026|Abortion, Politics, Religion|

Life and death on the third rock from the sun

Donald DeMarco: G. K. Chesterton suggested that an extraterrestrial explorer will find proof of intelligence on some distant planet when he discovers a tablet on which is inscribed the injunction, “Thou shall not kill.” Chesterton was not so much impressed with technological accomplishments as expressions of intelligence. He was inferring that the ultimate expression of intelligence among a people is that they [...]

admin2026-01-12T15:48:30-05:00January 12, 2026|Abortion|

There’s an app for that: How the world got worse

Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements If you go by what you read or the cultural mood today, we’re doomed. In spite of improvements in life expectation, overall wages, quality of life, consumer goods and nutrition – among a dozen other benchmarks – the sense that we are on the downward slope of a decline persists, a subjective intimation [...]

admin2026-01-12T15:37:27-05:00January 12, 2026|Reviews, Rick McGinnis|

Giving women a ‘second chance at choice’

Paul Tuns, Review: Abortion Pill Reversal: A Second Chance at Choice edited by George Delgado (Ignatius Press, $19.95, 254 pages) There is no better person to edit a collection of testimonials about Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) that its creator, Dr. George Delgado. In Abortion Pill Reversal: A Second Chance at Choice, Delgado describes how he came about inventing the “game changer” that gives [...]

admin2026-01-09T10:19:36-05:00January 9, 2026|Abortion, Paul Tuns, Reviews|

Dr. Delgado deserves Nobel Prize

For decades, the pro-abortion movement has masked its murderous agenda in the language of liberty, freedom, and choice. There are, of course, any number of examples which put the lie to the pretense that advocates of abortion seek only to increase the range of options available to women. But one of the most glaring, surely, is their failure to acknowledge a medical [...]

admin2026-01-09T10:09:59-05:00January 9, 2026|Abortion|

Monaco prince vetoes abortion bill

Mary Zwicker: Prince Albert II of Monaco has vetoed a bill permitting elective abortions up to 12 weeks gestation. A European monarch has vetoed proposed pro-abortion legislation on the grounds that it violates his country’s Catholic foundations. Prince Albert II of Monaco has refused to sign into law a bill that proposed to legalize abortion up to 12 weeks of [...]

admin2026-01-08T15:01:55-05:00January 8, 2026|Abortion|

Liberals, Bloc approve anti-religion amendment to hate crime bill

Paul Tuns: Conservative MP Jamil Jivani criticized the Liberal-Bloc plan to remove good faith religious exemption from hate crime law. The Liberals have agreed to a Bloc Quebecois amendment to Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, that would eliminate the religious exemption from Canada’s hate crime laws. Current law permits sincerely held religious views do not violate federal hate crime [...]

admin2026-01-08T14:59:39-05:00January 8, 2026|Politics, Religion|

Quebec proposes provincial constitution with freedom of abortion, right to euthanasia

Paul Tuns: In October, Quebec Premier François Legault and Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette introduced Bill 1, a proposed constitution for the province which would constitutionally guarantee access to abortion and euthanasia. The bill, if passed, “enacts the Constitution of Québec, the Act respecting the constitutional autonomy of Québec and the Act respecting the Conseil constitutionnel,” and it would have “primacy over any [...]

admin2026-01-08T14:56:59-05:00January 8, 2026|Abortion, Euthanasia, Politics, Religion|

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