Paul Tuns, Review: Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (And the Truth About Residential Schools) edited by C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan with foreword by Conrad Black (True North and Dorchester Books, $21.99 343 pages) In May 2021, the news broke that the remains of 221 missing children were discovered in an unmarked, mass grave in an apple orchard at a residential [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns, Analysis: Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the 2022 Dobbs decision, U.S. pro-life organizations have fought a multifront effort to protect the preborn: they sought full or partial legal protection in predominantly Republican states, fought against efforts to expand abortion in Democrat-controlled states, and differed amongst themselves on how to best address the issue at the [...]
Paul Tuns: On April 8, the Vatican released a document affirming the dignity of every individual, condemning abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy, human trafficking and transgenderism, as well as poverty, violence, war, sexual abuse, and poor treatment of migrants and prisoners. The document, Dignitas infinita, was released by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and written by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Experts from around the world gathered in Rome’s LUMSA University (Libera Universita Maria SS. Assunta—a private Catholic university) April 5-6, 2024, to discuss the issues surrounding surrogacy. This major discussion started on March 3, 2023 with the Casablanca Declaration. More than 100 experts gathered from 75 countries in Casablanca, Morocco, to form a document calling for a global abolishment of [...]
Interim Staff: U.S. pro-life leader Abby Johnson will address numerous events at this year’s National March for Life in Ottawa. Johnson is a former abortuary director who left the industry and became a leading U.S. pro-life activist, her life story inspiring a documentary, Unplanned that was released in 2019. She will address a screening of her new film Unthinkable, keynote the Rose [...]
By J.M. Glover: World Down Syndrome Day: One mother’s story Ten years ago, Natalie Wood, a British pregnant mom, was faced with the diagnosis that her unborn baby had Down Syndrome. Her husband, and medical professionals, pressured her to get an abortion, going so far as to book her into an abortion facility. She says that she was shocked that everyone around [...]
Interim Staff: Former Ontario attorney general and chief justice Roy McMurtry, who wrote the ruling legalizing same-sex “marriage,” died March 18, two months shy of his 92nd birthday. As Attorney General under then-premier Bill Davis in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, McMurtry helped get approval of Pierre Trudeau’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which inaugurated an era of judicial activism. In [...]
Paul Tuns: Brian Mulroney died last month at the age of 84 to widespread praise among politicians of all stripes despite leading what was the most scandal-plagued and unpopular government by the time he resigned. Three decades after leaving office in disgrace, he was lauded for his public service, Canada’s free trade agreement with the United States, and his environmental record. Not [...]
Donald DeMarco: It is a relatively simple thing to make something. All we need to do is put together parts that are readily available. Man is a maker. Homo faber is his classical name. On the other hand, man himself is made. The process of making a man is unimaginably complex and extends over centuries. We could not come into existence save [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Canada’s fertility rate is now 1.3 children per woman, its lowest in recorded history. Replacement level fertility, by comparison, is 2.1 children per woman. Several years ago, Statistics Canada cautioned, “If the country’s fertility continues to decline further in the coming years, Canada could join the countries with the ‘lowest-low’ fertility rates [...]
Rory Leishman: On Feb. 16, the Supreme Court of Alabama touched off an international uproar, by holding that the state’s 1872 Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies no less to frozen embryos than to all other children. Abortion zealots were outraged: They contended that a frozen embryo is not a child and has no right to life. This dispute came before [...]
Paul Tuns: A branch of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) says that “the anti-gender movement” could “inspire and encourage” violence against people who identify as homosexual, bisexual or transgender. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) obtained the report by the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC) through an access to information request and reported its findings on Feb. 15. According to the CSIS [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition has written a letter to Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Mike Duheme asking the police to investigate more than 1500 deaths of babies born alive following a botched abortion, who were then left to die. CLC says that data obtained from Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information show that at least 1500 preborn babies [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin, writing for the unanimous R v Kruk decision rendered on March 8, 2024, said that “the use of the words ‘a woman’ may have been an unfortunate and engendered confusion.” March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day instituted to celebrate the achievements of women in establishing legal equality and to recognize historical and [...]
Paul Tuns: Leaked files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) show that medical professionals routinely practice medical malpractice in providing sex-trait modification procedures such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-reassignment surgery. WPATH is treated by many journalists and politicians as disinterested experts in so-called gender medicine. Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger was provided with the internal text messages from [...]