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Pastor acquitted of drag queen protest charges

Interim Staff: On Sept. 24, Pastor Derek Reimer was acquitted of charges related to his drag queen story time protest in Calgary. Reimer, pastor of Mission 7 Ministries, was charged with causing a disturbance and mischief for protesting the “Reading with Royalty” event marketed for children at the Seton Public Library in February 2023. He was removed from the premises by police. [...]

2024-10-16T13:46:23-04:00October 16, 2024|Religion, Society & Culture|

Who’s weird?

Almost immediately upon becoming the Democratic candidate for president, Kamala Harris started attacking her Republican opponents, Donald Trump and JD Vance, as weird. To emphasize the difference between the Democratic ticket’s ostensible normalness and the Republicans’ alleged weirdness, she picked the mostly non-descript Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former high school football coach. No sooner had Harris delivered the broadside that “weird” [...]

2024-10-16T13:37:09-04:00October 16, 2024|Paul Tuns, Politics, Society & Culture|

Standard deviations

Every four years, the cyclical rituals of American democracy impose the ordeal of an “election year” not only upon its own populace, but on the entire globe. At such times, stances on a range of geopolitical issues hang in the balance—positions which, in turn, promise to set the general tenor of international diplomacy and public discourse for years to come. The 2024 [...]

2024-10-16T13:26:23-04:00October 16, 2024|Politics, Society & Culture|

Quebec approves advance request for euthanasia

Paul Tuns: On Sept. 7, the Quebec government announced that it would allow advanced directives for Medical Assistance in Dying, when Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette directed Crown prosecutors’ offices to not file charges against doctors and nurses who carry out the procedure. As of October 30, patients will be able to make advance requests for the procedure before their condition renders [...]

2024-10-15T15:40:37-04:00October 15, 2024|Euthanasia|

Euthanasia pods hit the European market

Paul Tuns: The Sarco suicide pod, designed by infamous Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke, is being sold in the United Kingdom and the Daily Mail newspaper reported that Peter and Christina Scott will become the first people to die by assisted suicide in the pod and that they intend to die together at the same time. Meanwhile, Swiss police arrested several people [...]

2024-10-15T15:37:54-04:00October 15, 2024|Euthanasia|

Judith Butler’s broadside against ‘gender critics’

Sarah Stilton, Review: Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler (Knopf, $37, 320 pages) Judith Butler is a famous, or infamous, feminist and leading influence on gender theory through her earlier works such as Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender, and Bodies that Matter. This year she returns to the topic in Who’s Afraid Gender? which undermines many of her earlier arguments. Three decades ago, [...]

2024-10-15T15:35:24-04:00October 15, 2024|Reviews, Society & Culture|

Congress hears army taught soldiers pro-lifers are terrorists

Oswald Clark: Over the past seven years, Fort Liberty has trained about 10,000 soldiers in the U.S. army, during which they classified pro-life groups as terrorists, a Congressional committee has heard. In a Sept. 19 hearing, army personnel told the official Congressional investigation that pro-life organizations, crisis pregnancy centres, sidewalk counselling, and mass pro-life demonstrations were included as examples of terrorist groups [...]

2024-10-08T10:14:19-04:00October 8, 2024|Abortion|

Trudeau gives $600 million for LGBQT promotion

Gideon Spevak: The Canadian government in 2023 awarded more than 300 grants or contributions to pro-LGBT groups, totalling over $665 million, according to a June 12th blog post. Run With Life is a pro-life and pro-family blog by Patricia Maloney. In a post published on June 12, Maloney stated that over $665 million of taxpayer funds were spent on LGBT ideology in [...]

2024-10-08T09:47:15-04:00October 8, 2024|Politics, Society & Culture|

Veterans Affairs tried to cover up euthanasia scandal

Paul Tuns: Rebel News’s Sheila Gunn Reid reported that Veterans Affairs Canada attempted to hide its paper trail relating to case workers who suggested that veterans access Medical Assistance in Dying. Gunn Reid, who obtained the more than 1200 pages of documents by filing access to information requests, published her findings at Rebel news on August 20. She revealed that nearly a [...]

2024-10-07T08:39:36-04:00October 7, 2024|Euthanasia|

The Catholic priest who made the hockey hall of fame

Paul Tuns, Review: Hockey Priest: Father David Bauer and the Spirit of the Canadian Game by Matt Hoven (Catholic University of America, $38.95 pb, 339 pages) Fr. David Bauer was born in Waterloo, Ont., in 1924 and would later attend St. Michael’s College School in Toronto, which was run by the Basilian Fathers. He joined their religious community and coached the St. Michael’s [...]

2024-10-04T10:58:13-04:00October 4, 2024|Religion, Reviews|

Determined

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Robert M. Sapolsky (Penguin Press, $48, 511 pages) Robert M. Sapolsky is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford and the author of the bestselling Behave. In Determined he delves into the scientific case against free will by explaining both the science of the brain and the epigenetic influences on how the brain [...]

2024-10-04T10:41:39-04:00October 4, 2024|Religion, Reviews|

Britain’s trans population exaggerated by official stats

Paul Tuns: The Office for Statistical Regulation (OSR) in England said there was “sufficient evidence” calling into question the results of the 2021 Census for England and Wales when it came to the gender identity question. The 2021 Census reported that there were 262,000 people who self-identified as transgender, or about one in every 200 people in the country. The 2021 census [...]

2024-10-04T10:32:21-04:00October 4, 2024|Society & Culture|

Understanding the white working class

Oswald Clark, Review: Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women by Batya Ungar-Sargon (Encounter, $30, 225 pages) White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman (Random House, $42, 299 pages) Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt (Random House, $42, 492 pages) Since Donald Trump’s surprise [...]

2024-10-03T13:19:29-04:00October 3, 2024|Politics, Reviews, Society & Culture|

Study says health care serial killer could take advantage of Canada’s assisted dying program

Paul Tuns: Professor Christopher Lyon published a study titled “Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying System can Enable Healthcare Serial Killing” in HEC Forum – HEC stands for HealthCare Ethics Committee -- concluding that Canada’s euthanasia law enables serial killers within the health care system. Lyon, who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom and whose 77-year-old father was killed [...]

2024-10-03T12:42:57-04:00October 3, 2024|Euthanasia|

Gibbons trial hears Gibbons did not interfere

Interim Staff: Linda Gibbons with the sign she witnesses with, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” Two witnesses – a police officer and an abortion mill employee -- in the criminal trial against pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons testified that she did not interfere with the operations of the abortion facility at which Gibbons was demonstrating in [...]

2024-10-02T11:50:47-04:00October 2, 2024|Abortion|
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