From sandwich bag to healthy 13-year-old Blake is a thriving British 13-year-old, with tousled blondish hair and blue t-shirt, smiling into the camera. The first time his mom, Lauren, saw Blake was as a preemie, delivered 13 weeks early by caesarean, being carried in a sandwich bag immediately after birth to the neonatal intensive care unit. As unlikely as it seems, the [...]
Victor Penney: All things work for the good of those who love God, for those who are called according to His purpose – even baseball and blasphemous drag performers who mock Catholic nuns. What am I getting at? Well, in this case, it has to do with an undercover exposé by the O’Keefe Media Group, an organization founded by James O’Keefe, the [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Republican senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi) and Mike Rounds (South Dakota) introduced legislation banning the dilation and evacuation abortion procedure (D&E abortions), which critics calls dismemberment abortion because it involves cutting the preborn child apart in utero with surgical instruments and extracting the child piece by piece. Hyde-Smith said “the fact that this horrifying procedure is still being done to [...]
Rory Leishman: In the remarkable case of Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia on May 15, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada was subjected to devastating criticism by a significant authoritative source, namely, three dissenting judges on the same court. The case arose out of divorce proceedings initiated by Amrit Pal Singh Ahluwalia in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The trial judge, [...]
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Rick McGinnis Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy When the writer Walker Percy wrote to explain why he converted to Catholicism for the forward of a book about Catholic converts, he began by stating that “my tradition was scientific.” Born into a Presbyterian but essentially agnostic Southern family and trained [...]
Rick McGinnis: A nagging question has been percolating through what passes for the conservative movement these days: What, if anything, has conservatism conserved? At its finest point the question asks what conservative politicians and governments have succeeded in preserving – in society and domestic policy, never mind in economics and foreign policy? But essentially, it’s a question about just what conservatism means [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: Same-sex “marriage” is slowly creeping into Poland through recent court decisions which have allowed for the recognition of out-of-country unions, despite the country’s traditional stance on marriage. On May 14, Warsaw officials formally registered the union of two Polish men whose “marriage” took place in Germany, despite the fact that Poland’s constitution strictly adheres to the definition of [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A small European country is temporarily pausing efforts to decriminalize abortion amidst ongoing discussions with the Vatican. The Principality of Andorra, a small, majority Catholic country located in the mountain range between France and Spain, is stalling the implementation of their fully drafted bill on the decriminalization of abortion. “I hope this debate moves forward,” said French President Emmanuel [...]
From the editor’s desk: This “From the Editor’s Desk” could focus exclusively on pride month events – or “pride season” as the Liberal government calls it. Depending on where you live in this great country of ours, you could be exposed to pride day, pride week, or pride month (or all three) any time in June, July, August, and presumably September. Heritage [...]
Kesiah Beere: On June 1, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) held the fourth annual National “Pride” Flag Walk-Out Day. Each year, on the day that schools and school boards raise “Pride” flags in celebration of “pride month,” CLC calls for parents to keep their children home from school in protest of the LGBT agenda that infiltrates the public and Catholic education systems. The [...]
Gianna Baklinski: In British Columbia, midwives will now act as abortionists after a health-policy change allowing them to prescribe the abortion pill. The policy change brings B.C. to join Quebec and Saskatchewan in a growing band of provinces that allows midwives to both assist at births and kill babies. B.C. Health Minister Josie Osbourne announced on May 7 that the role of [...]
John Carpay: Social media is actually quite anti-social. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp drive many teens and adults into isolation and loneliness as they spend less time in face-to-face interactions with others. Some people use artificial intelligence chatbots as a substitute for friendships. Pornography, now freely available to everyone at all times on an anonymous basis, has driven some men away from [...]
Kesiah Beere and Paul Tuns: On June 10, 2026, Liberal MP Marc Miller introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, in the House of Commons. The proposed bill seeks to protect children from online harm through preventative measures. “Regulated services,” which includes designated social media sites, AI chatbots, and other platforms, must adhere to new safety requirements and accountability measures that avert [...]
Declared alive patient dead, approved MAiD at Tim Horton’s Gianna Baklinski: A 45-year-old man was “assessed” outside a Tim Horton’s franchise, approved for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), and killed by euthanasia. The physician responsible, Dr. James MacLean, is still practicing as a doctor. MacLean is a doctor from London, Ontario. In June of 2023, he met Thomas Dillon at Tim Horton’s where [...]
Paul Tuns: Over the past two months, the New Blue Party of Ontario has ratcheted up its criticism of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government. On May 14, an email blast from former PC and New Blue MPP Belinda Karahalios, titled “Clear and Terrible: The PC Record on Life Issues,” condemned the Ford government’s record on life issues, including maintaining “(Kathleen) Wynne’s ‘bubble [...]