Paul Tuns: In July, the United Nations’ Population Division predicted that on Nov. 15, global population would hit 8 billion people. Let us be among the first to wish the newborn baby boy or girl, probably born in Africa, the Middle East, or south Asia, a happy birth day and welcome to the human family. Typically, the UN’s population estimates come with [...]
Chileans reject pro-abortion constitution On Sept. 4, voters in Chile rejected a new constitution that would have legalized abortion-on-demand and strip away unborn babies’ right to life. In a national binding referendum, more than six in ten voters voted against a new “progressive” constitution (38 per cent in favour, 62 per cent against) that was part of socialist President Gabriel Boric’s sweeping [...]
More than five decades ago, the Club of Rome released its report “The Limits of Growth” which predicted a certain economic and societal collapse that would accompany a rapidly growing global population. In 1970, there were about 3.7 billion inhabitants. Two decades later, in June 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth [...]
Interim Staff: In July 1993, Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition hosted a conference that attracted nearly 1300 attendees – some from as far away as Nigeria and England – to Toronto to call on world leaders and policymakers to prioritize human beings over the planet. The national conference, held at the Toronto Holiday Inn, had international overtones with its theme [...]
Paul Tuns: As it does every other July 11 – the date is designated by the United Nations as World Population Day -- the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs released its biannual report on global population and future projections. The World Population Prospects 2022, released a year late due to data-gathering bottlenecks because of the pandemic, predicted that in November, [...]
Paul Tuns: Statistics Canada released data May 31 showing that the average birth rate for women has decreased to a record-low 1.4 children per woman of child-bearing age, down from the previous low of 1.47 in 2019; 2.1 children per woman of child-bearing age is considered the natural replacement rate for a population. Canada’s population has grown 5.2 per cent since 2016 [...]