Rory Leishman: On Oct. 29, Kimberly Murray issued her final report as Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools. At a press conference to mark the occasion, federal Justice Minister Arif Virani said: “You can’t hear stories about … young girls being impregnated and then (having) their babies being taken away and incinerated, [...]
Rory Leishman: It was on June 24, 2022, that the Supreme Court of the UIt was a banner day for pro-lifers when the United States Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson (2022) overturned Roe v. Wade (1973), the infamous ruling that purported to find a right to abortion hidden in the United States Constitution. According to Human Life Review, 18 states have [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rory Leishman: Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump is not and never has been, a sincere pro-lifer. As evidence, consider some of the serious damage he has done to the pro-life movement over the past year. Last September, he denounced Florida Governor Ron DiSantis for signing into law a bill banning abortion after six weeks. In Trump’s misguided opinion, the bill [...]
Rory Leishman: Direct attacks on the God-given, natural right of everyone to freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression are continuing to mount, not just in Canada, but also in Europe. One of the most prominent, recent victims is J.K. Rowling, a resident of Edinburgh Scotland and author of the Harry Potter series of novels. Siobhian Brown, Scotland’s Minister for Victims and [...]
Rory Leishman: Faithful Canadians who look to Sacred Scripture as the ultimate authority on all matters of faith and morality should beware: They could soon end up in jail as a prisoner of conscience for upholding their honest Christian beliefs. That is the fate now threatening Paivi Rasanen in Finland. She is a prominent medical doctor and long-standing member of the Finnish [...]
Rory Leishman: On Feb. 16, the Supreme Court of Alabama touched off an international uproar, by holding that the state’s 1872 Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies no less to frozen embryos than to all other children. Abortion zealots were outraged: They contended that a frozen embryo is not a child and has no right to life. This dispute came before [...]
Rory Leishman: Toronto’s world-famous psychologist, Jordan Peterson, has warned Canadians: “Your much-vaunted Charter of Rights isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.” He has good reason to think so. Notwithstanding the ostensible guarantee of “freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression” in section 2 of the Charter, the Ontario Court of Appeal has refused to hear his appeal of an unanimous ruling [...]
Rory Leishman: Rampant, out-of-control, drug abuse is a serious problem all across Canada, but nowhere more so than in British Columbia. According to the B.C. Coroners Service, “Unregulated drug toxicity is the leading cause of death in British Columbia for people aged 10 to 59, accounting for more deaths than homicides, suicides, accidents, and natural disease combined.” What is the cause of [...]
Rory Leishman Among the nine judges on the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Malcolm Rowe stands alone in that he is the only current justice who has demonstrated a clear understanding that the separation of legislative and judicial powers is essential to the preservation of democracy and the rule of law. In a perceptive in the UBC Law Review and a series [...]
Rory Leishman: Nothing can better illustrate the theological degradation of the mainline Protestant churches than their pathetic twists and turnings in their conceptions of murder and assisted suicide. As originally enacted, Section 14 of the Criminal Code provided that anyone who unlawfully kills another person can be found guilty of murder, even if the victim begged to be killed. However, under the [...]
Rory Leishman: For 15 years, blameless Christians dedicated to the care and teaching of children within Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRS) have been lumped in with the few perverts in their midst and vilified with the most outrageous smears. Yet no political leaders or clerical leaders within the churches -- Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, and United -- which ran these schools for the [...]
Rory Leishman: Time and again, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged that as of March 17, 2024, physicians and nurse practitioners in Canada will be authorized to kill suicidal patients who are suffering solely from a mental illness. What can account for this appalling prospect? The Criminal Code of Canada clearly and unambiguously states in sections 14 and [...]