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Campaign Life Coalition goes multilingual in sex-ed fight

Campaign Life Coalition, Canada’s national pro-life political organization, has translated its detailed analysis of the Ontario Liberal government’s explicit sex-ed curriculum into many of the languages spoken by outraged parents. CLC’s comprehensive examination of the history and harmful nature of the controversial curriculum is now available in Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Italian, and Spanish. Many of the demonstrations against the imposed [...]

Paul Tuns2015-06-01T11:25:51-04:00May 31, 2015|Pro-Life, Sex Education, Society & Culture|

Levin pleads guilty, still faces sentencing for child porn

Ben Levin The sentencing hearing for Benjamin Levin, a former top bureaucrat in Ontario’s Ministry of Education, took place from April 13 to 15. In March, Levin pled guilty in court to three out of seven charges: creating written child pornography, encouraging a person to commit sexual assault, and possessing child pornography. Critics of Ontario’s new sex ed curriculum note [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-25T08:03:51-04:00May 25, 2015|Politics, Sex Education|

The Procession of Untruths

Carmen Salayka Carmen Salayka, a Grade 12 student in St. Theresa of Lisieux, Richmond Hill, Ont. won third prize in the Fr. Ted Colleton Scholarship, co-sponsored by Niagara Region Right to Life and The Interim Once upon a time, as young children, our parents read us fairy tales. We allowed our imaginations to unravel the plots as we immersed ourselves [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-22T17:02:27-04:00May 22, 2015|Fr. Ted Colleton Scholarship|

Misinformation about condoms

Experts on sexual health ranging from the executive director of the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada to the head of adolescent medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto have lauded the new sex-education curriculum imposed on all elementary schools in Ontario. Does it follow that concerned parents have no reasonable basis for alarm? Definitely not. Notwithstanding the assurances [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-22T16:56:33-04:00May 22, 2015|Rory Leishman, Sex Education|

Deconstructing the deconstructionists

Liberalism is a smiley-faced demolition project – in a purely positive, hopey-changey sense of the word “demolition,” that is. Since the innumerable “social constructs” that litter the highway of history are impediments to human progress, the time has come to clear them out of the way. Margaret Mead taught us that patriarchy was a social construct. According to moral relativists, right and [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-22T16:50:09-04:00May 22, 2015|Society & Culture|

The Supremacy of the Courts?

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCOC) was busy last month; they handed down two significant judgements. Both are significantly flawed. The judgement on prayer in a municipal chamber in Quebec was discussed in more detail in Leader Rod Taylor’s article in the Vancouver Sun, but other arbitrary decisions by the SCOC, including its recent ban on mandatory minimum sentences for gun-related infractions, [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-22T16:47:24-04:00May 22, 2015|Society & Culture|

Supreme Court rules against city council prayer

On April 15, in a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada deemed it unconstitutional for municipal councils to begin their meetings with a denominational prayer. The case originated when Alain Simoneau and the Mouvement laëque québécois (Quebec Secular Movement) challenged the city of Saguenay opening its meetings with a Catholic prayer. The case wound through the province’s human rights commission and [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-22T16:39:19-04:00May 22, 2015|Religion, Society & Culture|

Charles E. Rice, RIP

Prolific pro-life author Charles Rice remembered as friendly and generous. The pro-life movement lost one its intellectual giants on Feb. 25. Charles E. Rice, a Catholic apologist and Notre Dame Law School professor, was the author of 14 books and countless articles and regular speaker at pro-life events throughout the continent, including Campaign Life Coalition conferences in Canada. Rice passed [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-22T14:04:21-04:00May 22, 2015|Pro-Life, Profiles|

Defining disorder

Light is Right Joe Campbell When she revealed that she was carrying twins, her next-door neighbour suggested an ultrasound to determine their sex. “Ultrasounds don’t determine sex,” she replied. “Of, course,” the neighbor declared, “I should have said ‘discover.’” But the clarification didn’t help. The twins came only minutes apart. When the first arrived, the doctor declared happily, “It’s a [...]

Paul Tuns2016-11-21T08:57:07-05:00May 21, 2015|Columnist, Joe Campbell, Society & Culture|

#No2Trudeau campaign a success

Alissa Golob (left) and Jonathon Van Maren (right) address the attendees of the Toronto launch of the #No2Trudeau campaign April 10. A pro-life cross-country tour highlighting the extreme pro-abortion position of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is being labelled a success by organizers Alissa Golob and Jonathon Van Maren. Golob of Campaign Life Coalition and Van Maren of the Canadian Centre [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-11T11:59:55-04:00May 11, 2015|Politics, Youth Activism|

Push for HPV vaccines for boys

Peter Kent is pushing for the HPV vaccine for boys. Scientists are suggesting that offering the HPV vaccine to boys could reduce throat cancer rates. Oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) caused by HPV affects three times as many men as women, often occurring at the tonsils or the base of the tongue. Typically, the disease develops when men are 40 to 70 [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-11T11:48:43-04:00May 11, 2015|Health Risks|

History and hope

Progress is not a Christian notion. Writing to the Church at Ephesus, Paul could have offered triumphal assurances of eventual victory, or at least the prospect of earthly ease. Had Christ not conquered sin and death? Weren’t His followers now spreading His message with vigor and zeal? Paul, however, does not conjure dreams of immanent success but offers, instead, only a chastening [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-11T11:37:17-04:00May 11, 2015|Editorials|

Traditionalism in Canada 50 years after Lament for a Nation

2015 is the 50th Anniversary of George Grant’s Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism, probably Grant’s best known and most accessible book. One could sharply ask today – is there still really a place for Grantian-type traditionalism in current-day Canada? First of all, it should be remembered that Grant’s profound and subtle definition of conservatism is very remote from [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-11T11:35:18-04:00May 11, 2015|Society & Culture|

Deliver us from evil

“And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.” (Mt 11:6) The recitation of the Lord’s Prayer has been a standard part of political meetings in this country since its beginning. The Christian hands which laboured tirelessly to build up our country up from a British outpost into a nation glorious in its own right knew that their stomachs were [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-11T11:42:05-04:00May 10, 2015|Editorials|

Whatever happened to Peggy’s baby in Mad Men?

Rick McGinnis wonders whatever happened to Peggy Olson's baby. By the time you read this the last episode of Mad Men will be about to air, and since it’s unlikely that that last hour will satisfy everyone that’s followed the show for eight years, there might be some shouting. The series finale probably won’t be the Shakespearean tragedy that concluded [...]

Paul Tuns2015-05-07T08:54:34-04:00May 7, 2015|Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis|

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