Victor Penney: Sports and smut. I’m not a fan of the combination. In general, mixing anything with sexual perversion is a horrible idea, but not everyone feels the same way, at least on the surface. On Jan. 15th, for example, Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the National Hockey League, was asked about his opinion of Heated Rivalry, the sexually explicit hit series [...]
From the editor’s desk We sent our February edition with its cover story on the link between transgenderism and deadly violence to the printer in the last week of January. The edition started hitting mailboxes around Feb. 7. On Feb. 10, a man who identified as a woman, killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., at his family [...]
Rory Leishman: On Jan. 26, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights delayed consideration of Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. That is not sufficient: Parliament should defeat this freedom-stifling bill altogether and also repeal the anti-hate law provisions in the Criminal Code. Government should not stifle the expression of any political viewpoint, no matter how vile. Experience [...]
Reflections on why we march Donald DeMarco: The word “life” has several shades of meaning. In this article I call attention to just two of its meanings. The first is the life that is the focus of the various marches for life. It refers to the sacredness of life. All human life, including the life of the unborn, is invested with an [...]
Josie Luetke: Like a kicked dog coming back for more, I flew to Calgary for the 2026 Conservative Party of Canada convention at the tail end of January. As pro-life candidates have been disqualified by the party and leader Pierre Poilievre has gone over to the dark side—fully embracing abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and even the status quo on euthanasia—many of Campaign Life [...]
National Affairs, Rory Leishman: For the past several years, the secular mass media in Canada have fanned the flames of anti-Christian hate, by publishing uncorroborated allegations of mass murder, torture, and other atrocities in the Church-run Indian Residential Schools. On Dec. 11, The Globe and Mail was at it again, this time defaming dedicated Catholic nuns who cared for unwed mothers and [...]
From the editor’s desk: In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords is debating whether to legalize euthanasia. We have a report on it in “And then there was this” on p. 17. I wanted to highlight one part of the on-going debate on that side of the lake, namely Lord Falconer’s comment during the third committee stage debate that the Terminally [...]
Sporting Life, Victor Penney: I’m laying down the law in my home ahead of the Super Bowl. As a father, it’s my right and duty to lead and set the tone throughout the year, but especially ahead of one of the biggest sporting events on the calendar. As a man, as the head of the household, it falls on me to make [...]
Josie Luetke: Officially, in Canada, there were 326,571 deaths in 2023. If you add the abortion volume for that year to that number, you’re looking at 428,124 recorded deaths. Tallying up abortion (101,553), “MAiD” or “medical assistance in dying” (15,427), (legally recognized) homicide (778), and suicide (approximately 4,447), 28.5 per cent of deaths were not tragic accidents or the sad succumbence to [...]
John Carpay: Darkness has descended upon Canada as Parliament contemplates extending government control over the internet. The Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) became law in 2023, and put all streaming platforms and user-generated content under the authority of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The CRTC now has control over the content produced by Canadian individuals, businesses, charities, and citizens’ groups [...]
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Some of us might have woken up with a shock recently to discover that we are already a quarter of the way through the 21st century. By this point in the last century the old monarchies of Europe had made themselves extinct after a world war of unprecedented carnage, one of them had embarked on [...]
From the editor’s desk As we were ready to go to press, Norman Podhoretz died. He was one of the three most important conservative intellectuals of the American conservative movement of the second half of the 20th century alongside William F. Buckley, founder of National Review, and Irving Kristol, with whom Podhoretz is a founding godfather of neoconservatism. Neoconservatism has come into [...]
Josie Luetke: “You would prefer the human race to endure, right?” “Uh—” “You’re hesitating… Yes?” “Yep, well…I-I don’t know. I-I would—I would…um—” “This is a long hesitation. This is a long hesitation.” “There’s-There’s so many—there’s so many—there’s so many questions implicit in this.” “Should the human race survive?” “Uh…yes, but…” This June 2025 exchange between New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and [...]
John Carpay: Canada was one of the leaders of the international opposition to the Apartheid laws in South Africa, in force from 1948 to 1991. All South Africans were legally classified by race as White, Black, Coloured, or Indian, with laws defining the rights and obligations of each group. Apartheid laws enforced segregation in most spheres of life, including housing, marriage, and [...]
Rory Leishman: The United States Declaration of Independence famously asserts: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” As originally understood in 1776, the phrase “all Men” in this context referred to all humans. In [...]