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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
6. Alberta protects kids, women from transgender ideology Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has shown leadership in not only requiring parents be notified when their children want to socially transition to the opposite sex at school by using a different name or pronoun, ban minors from receiving hormones that stunt their natural growth, and protect women from competing against imposter “transgender” women, she [...]
David takes down Goliath: Student newspaper wins defamation suit against pro-abortion professor The Irish Rover is an independent, non-profit student newspaper at Notre Dame University in Indiana established in 2003. Its mission is “devoted to preserving the Catholic identity of Notre Dame.” (Note: Recently, Notre Dame announced that it was not necessary for the components of the university to continue to ‘preserve its [...]
As the year draws to a close, we enter into a familiar series of sharp contrasts. Along with the calm and quiet of winter comes the frenzy of December’s last-minute preparations: there are decorations to be hung, parties to be planned, and trips to be made—or travelers to welcome. Christmas always has this dual aspect: no other spiritual feast brings such a [...]
Michael Taube: It’s long been a Christmas tradition in many households, including mine, to read Charles Dickens’ brilliant novella, A Christmas Carol. Interestingly, I read two Christmas stories by Dickens during the festive season. No, it’s not one of his well-known holiday stories like The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth. I’m referring to his superb book intended to be read [...]
From the editor’s desk: In October, Compact published a provocative essay by Helen Andrews titled “The Great Feminization” in which she argued that cancel culture is essentially feminine: “Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field.” The thesis is not Andrews’. She borrowed it from the pseudonymous J. Stone and an essay [...]
Josie Luetke: The sympathetic protagonist trotted out by pro-choicers is the teenager who accidentally gets knocked up. Think Ellen Page in Juno or Shailene Woodley in The Secret Life of the American Teenager (disregarding the bit of trivia that both their characters gave birth). Yet, this stereotype hasn’t reflected reality for a while. According to Statistics Canada, in 1975, girls under 20 [...]