Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Canada has just undergone an election – endured is a better word; suffered through even better – but before we collectively consign the experience to the memory dump (it’s unlikely we’d have another one if we remember what they’re like) I think we should make this what they call a “teachable moment” and [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn edited by Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Notre Dame University Press, $38, 195 pages) The novelist and essayist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn is best-known as a Soviet dissident who spent time in communist concentration camps known as the gulag, of which he became their most famous chronicler. He is one of [...]
From the editor’s desk: We live in an age in which far too many people live lives of anguish because they lack meaning or are searching for it in the wrong places. In Be not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James (Princeton, $24.99, 377 pages), John Kaag and Jonathan Van Belle say that seekers looking for meaning could do [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements First Nations issues are evergreen in Canadian politics, rising to prominence regularly, like during the battle over the Meech Lake Accord in the late ‘80s, when Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper and his eagle feather helped scuttle any attempted constitutional amendment (and got Harper elected as an MP shortly after). It was a major [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Viability has long been the line in the sand drawn by many abortion apologists so that they can tell themselves they aren’t monsters who are okay with killing – like -- real babies. Before it was overturned, Roe v. Wade, for instance, permitted states to prohibit abortion only after fetal viability, describing [...]
Rory Leishman: Statistics Canada projects that for the first time in the history of Confederation the total population of Canada will decline this year. What accounts for this momentous turnaround from rapid population growth to impending decline? According to Statistics Canada, the immediate cause was the sudden about-face on immigration last year by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Instead [...]
John Carpay: The Bank of Canada has made no secret of its efforts to explore a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which could lead to the abolition of cash. Cash remains essential to protect the rights and freedoms of Canadians, including their privacy, security, and autonomy. In a cashless economy, all transactions are digital, and therefore subject to surveillance and government interference. [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life It was the best of tweets, it was the worst of tweets. It was a pearl of wisdom, it was a moment of misguided masculinity. It was a tale of two men that began with a social media post by one of the most controversial influencers on the internet. On Feb. 16, [...]
Donald DeMarco: Fr. Paul Marx founded Human Life International. Rev. Paul Marx, was the 15th of 17 children born to devoutly religious parents, George and Elizabeth, on a dairy farm in St. Michael, Minnesota on May 8, 1920. Coincidentally, and perhaps in some way providentially, Benjamin Franklin was also the 15th of 17 children. It may also be of interest [...]
John Carpay: In reporting on Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) Justices touring the country, the Canadian Press described it as a “roadshow,” defined by Merriam-Webster as “a theatrical performance given by a troupe on tour.” Having met with select groups in Winnipeg in 2019 and Quebec City in 2022, the judges will press the flesh of Canadians in 2025 when visiting Moncton, [...]
Victor Penny: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life Donald Trump has driven a stake deep into the heart of the woke agenda. On Feb. 5, the U.S. President signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” The concept is straightforward: male athletes are now banned from participating in athletic competitions that are exclusively for girls and women. [...]
Rory Leishman: In The Moral Vision of the New Testament (1996), Richard B. Hays, renowned New Testament scholar and professor emeritus at Duke University, convincingly demonstrated that the “New Testament offers no loopholes or exception clauses that might allow for the acceptance of homosexual practice under some circumstances.” Yet in his last book published last September and co-authored with his son Christopher, [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2021, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB), the second largest Catholic school board in Ontario—encompassing Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon, and the surrounding area—voted to fly the Pride flag outside its Catholic Education Centre and a couple of other buildings. Not even four years later, not only did the board re-affirm its [...]
Paul Tuns Review: We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan Peterson (Portfolio, $48, 544 pages) Former University of Toronto psychology professor and international darling of the Right Jordan Peterson’s fourth book, We Who Wrestle with God seems to have landed with a thud after two bestselling self-help books. The massive tome is an exegesis on Genesis, Exodus, and [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Reviewing journalist Barbara Amiel’s memoir here a few years ago, what struck me most was an observation she made about her time in transatlantic high society, when her husband Conrad Black’s success and fame was at its peak. She was adopted by a circle of rich women, the wives of rich men – [...]