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Commentaries that caught my attention last month — and an introduction

Let me start this month by introducing a new columnist, Victor Penney. His “Sporting Life” column (on page 8 this month) will look at the intersection of the world of sports and life/faith/family issues. It is a bit of an experiment but I think you might enjoy the lighter side of these serious issues (although it might not always be so light). [...]

2024-12-02T12:10:45-05:00November 30, 2024|Abortion, Paul Tuns, Politics, Politics, Religion|

Sticker shock and hidden fees

Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Pro-lifers are normally preoccupied with the challenge of making other people pro-life. We aren’t as focused on keeping the ones we already have … we shouldn’t have to be, right? However, multiple times now, I’ve been posed the question: Why do people not stay pro-life? Many stalwarts in the movement have been [...]

Pro-life strategy after Dobbs

Rory Leishman: It was on June 24, 2022, that the Supreme Court of the United States released its judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson that overturned Roe v. Wade, the calamitous 1973 ruling which alleged that women have a fundamental constitutional right to abortion. At the time, Dobbs was widely regarded as the greatest triumph for the pro-life movement in 50 years, yet, [...]

2024-11-28T09:44:01-05:00November 28, 2024|Abortion, Politics, Rory Leishman|

Endangered preborn

The World Wildlife Fund released its annual “Living Planet Report” subtitled “A system in peril.” The report states that “nature is being lost – with huge implications for us all,” asserting “biodiversity sustains human life and underpins our society.” We cannot help but wonder why there are no international organizations or agencies releasing similar reports decrying the systemic extermination of preborn children [...]

Curious legacy of Harry Chiti

Donald DeMarco: Columnist Donald DeMarco imagines a conversation with journeyman baseball player Harry Chiti. Harry Chiti was a major league catcher who played for the Tigers, Cubs, Athletics, Indians, and Mets from 1950-1962. In his final year, he was traded from the Indians to the Mets where he played 15 games and hit a woeful .195. He was then traded [...]

2024-11-15T12:42:40-05:00November 15, 2024|Donald DeMarco|

Section 1 allows judges to trample on Charter freedoms

John Carpay:  “The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it, subject only to such reasonable limits, prescribed by law, as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” Thus reads Section 1 of the document added to Canada’s constitution in 1982. In R. v. Oakes (1986) the Supreme Court ruled that when [...]

2024-11-15T12:36:03-05:00November 15, 2024|John Carpay|

Tackling pro-abortion politics

Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life One of the strongest pro-life messages during this U.S. Presidential election hasn’t come from everyone’s “favourite” Republican candidate. In fact, it hasn’t even come from a politician. It’s from someone who made a good living by getting grown men to knock over tackling dummies. So, who is it? It’s none other than [...]

2024-11-04T10:04:06-05:00November 4, 2024|Abortion, Politics, Victor Penney|

The politicians we deserve

RickMcGinnis:  Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements By the time this column comes out America will be on the eve of a presidential election that has been alternately incredible and improbable, and might transform that country’s politics irrevocably no matter who wins. In hindsight this vertiginous moment is the result of events that began over a quarter century ago, though I [...]

2024-11-05T14:46:02-05:00November 1, 2024|Politics, Rick McGinnis|

The case against MAiD

Rory Leishman: Thanks to the appalling Medical Assistance in Dying laws mandated by the Supreme Court of Canada and enacted by the Trudeau Liberals and their NDP and Bloc Quebecois allies, Canada now has both the most and the fastest increasing number of euthanasia deaths in the entire world. More Canadians are killed every year by MAID than die of stroke. Yet [...]

2024-10-30T11:44:57-04:00October 30, 2024|Euthanasia, Rory Leishman|

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice …

John Carpay: How long will Canadians continue falling for the same media tricks that they fell for during the years of lockdowns and vaccine passports? As the annual flu season approaches, Canadian media are raising the banner of fear, lifting high the torch of terror, and waiving the flag of foreboding. Media allege that we are seeing large numbers of “Covid cases” [...]

2024-10-30T11:26:37-04:00October 30, 2024|John Carpay|

Authors challenges evangelicals to confront anti-Christian culture

Paul Tuns, Review: Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture by Aaron Renn (Zondervan, $33.50, 247 pages) Aaron Renn is a fellow at American Reformer and former research fellow at the right-of-centre Manhattan Institute for Public Policy. You might be familiar with his work if you are regularly reader of First Things, his subscription newsletter or his Substack. His [...]

2024-10-29T13:29:55-04:00October 29, 2024|Paul Tuns, Religion|

Line-crossing and finger pointing

Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Josie Luetke: Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner have long been personal heroines of mine. When I was still just a high school student I was personally challenged by their witness and seriously wrestled with the dilemma of whether I—and the rest of the pro-life movement—should be so committed to the defense of the pre-born [...]

2024-10-28T17:06:55-04:00October 28, 2024|Abortion, Josie Luetke|

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|

How bad was COVID, actually

John Carpay: In March 2020, Dr. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London predicted 40 million COVID deaths globally, including 2.2 million deaths in the United States. Dr. Ferguson publicly compared COVID to the Spanish Flu of 1918, which had killed between 20 and 100 million people world-wide, at a time when the world’s population was roughly one-fourth of what it is today. [...]

2024-09-30T11:27:11-04:00September 30, 2024|John Carpay|

COVID jabs don’t deserve pro-life criticism

Rory Leishman: According to the latest, most reliable information on COVID 19 vaccines, are they ethical? Have they really been a safe and effective means of drastically reducing hospitalizations and deaths due to the COVID-19 virus? Consider, first, the ongoing controversy over the ethics of the Moderna and Pfizer-BionTech mRNA vaccines. Some well-meaning, but misguided, pro-lifers maintain that no one in good [...]

2024-09-30T11:21:32-04:00September 30, 2024|Abortion, Bioethics, Religion, Rory Leishman|
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