Book Review

Author identifies causes, problems of lower fertility rates

What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster by Jonathan V. Last (Encounter, $28, 230 pages) In 1968, Paul R. Ehrlich published an influential book, The Population Bomb. The manuscript was originally entitled, “Population, Resources, and Environment,” and Erhlich warned of impending doom if global population growth was not significantly curtailed. Erhlich predicted environmental catastrophe, famine, and even war [...]

Paul Tuns2013-09-23T19:37:28-04:00September 23, 2013|Announcements, Book Review, Features, Population|

Correcting Pierre Trudeau myths. Partly.

The Truth about Trudeau by Bob Plamondon (Great River Media, $34.95, 397 pages) Political commentator Bob Plamondon, author of two books on the Conservative Party of Canada, has turned his attention to a much-needed topic, debunking the myths surrounding Pierre Trudeau. In The Truth about Trudeau, he usefully goes through Trudeau’s record from foreign policy to social policy, from his handling of [...]

Paul Tuns2013-08-16T08:39:32-04:00August 16, 2013|Announcements, Book Review, Features, Politics|

Marsden’s predictable, narrow-minded take on feminism

Canadian Women & the Struggle for Equality by Lorna Marsden (Oxford, 272 pages, $27.95) Canadian Women & the Struggle for Equality is a tedious look at the historical changes in the status of women in Canada through a “progressive” worldview. The author, Lorna Marsden, formerly a Canadian senator and the president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, is [...]

Paul Tuns2013-07-29T08:24:15-04:00July 29, 2013|Announcements, Book Review, Features|

Rediscovering Percy’s Love in the Ruins

Last summer, I wrote a column reviewing a trio of films about the apocalypse – two very serious dramas and a low-key comedy that all ended with the extinction of life as we know it. You know – classic summer movie fare. Karl Marx didn’t get much right, but his observation that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, has [...]

Paul Tuns2013-07-22T10:53:24-04:00July 22, 2013|Announcements, Book Review, Features, Rick McGinnis|

A pro-life book for parents of special needs children

A Special Mother is Born: Parents Share How God Called Them to the Extraordinary Vocation of Parenting a Special Needs Child by Leticia Velasquez (2011, WestBow Press, 228 pages, $20.47 paperback or $2.99 e-book) “The most powerful force on earth,” says Velasquez, is “humility united with suffering.” Her book calls readers to abandon themselves to divine providence and so to unleash more [...]

Paul Tuns2013-06-24T11:43:19-04:00June 24, 2013|Book Review|

If abortion was like any other product, it should be recalled: author

Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry’s Exploitation of Women by Janet Morana (Saint Benedict Press, $22.37, 211 pages) A new book, by a co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, argues that abortion is a terrible product which should have been recalled long ago. “Abortion is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated against women, and those who profit from abortion are the [...]

Paul Tuns2013-04-29T07:28:23-04:00April 29, 2013|Abortion, Announcements, Book Review, Features|

Canadian political books misunderstand social conservatism

May 2 will mark the second anniversary of the federal Conservatives winning a majority government, which in turn was five years after the Stephen Harper-led party won the first of two minority governments. The seemingly momentous political shift is the subject of several recent political books, analysing what happened in that election and what could/should happen in the future. One should be [...]

Paul Tuns2013-04-09T13:38:42-04:00April 9, 2013|Announcements, Book Review, Features, Politics|

Euthanasia studies dissected in new book

Exposing Vulnerable People to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide by Alex Schadenberg (Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, 66 pages, $20 for ebook or paper) It can be difficult to keep on top of the latest medical studies and reports, let alone understand what they are saying (and as importantly, not saying). Alex Schadenberg’s Exposing Vulnerable People to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is a brief volume [...]

Paul Tuns2013-03-08T09:12:35-05:00February 25, 2013|Book Review, Euthanasia|

Books by Ashli Foshee McCall for yourself and your favourite OB-GYN

“Take heart in the overwhelming message that you and your baby can survive and that you are not alone.” Get in touch and download McCall’s HG information pamphlet at beyondmorningsickness.com. All three are published by BookSurge through Amazon. Proceeds go to help HG sufferers. Beyond Morning Sickness: Battling Hyperemesis Gravidarum (2006, paperback, $10.03, 423 pages; 2011, e-book, $7.01, 592 pages) This is [...]

Paul Tuns2014-02-18T10:14:04-05:00February 18, 2013|Book Review|

Dispensing with flimsy articles of faith

The Tyranny of Cliches by Jonah Goldberg (Sentinel, $29.50, 312 pages) Few people would disagree that we are, more than any other time in two generations, living in a divided society, where politics have pulled people to the poles and no one seems to be able to talk across the widening chasm because we can’t even agree on the definition of the [...]

Paul Tuns2013-02-03T09:47:44-05:00January 30, 2013|Book Review|

Must-read history of how abortion came to be

Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics: The Abortion Controversy by Fr. Alphonse de Valk (Campaign Life Coalition, $15, 184 pages) One of the greatest finds in my book-buying adventures was discovering Fr. Alphonse de Valk’s Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics: The Abortion Controversy in a garage sale. For years, I repeatedly borrowed an office copy, unable to find a [...]

Paul Tuns2013-01-17T15:01:08-05:00January 17, 2013|Announcements, Book Review, Features|

Morality and the Law a timeless read

To help mark Fr. Alphonse de Valk’s retirement as editor of Catholic Insight, Campaign Life Coalition reprinted the historian-priest’s landmark book, Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics: The Abortion Controversy. Fr. de Valk wrote the book in 1974 and as Interim editor Paul Tuns says in a forthcoming review of Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics, it retells “the story [...]

Paul Tuns2013-01-17T15:02:40-05:00January 1, 2013|Book Review|

Excerpt from Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics

CHAPTER IX Summary of Positions The politics of abortion had advanced to what some believed to be its final stage: the debate in parliament and its enactment into law. Positions had been stated and solidified; yet, a certain uneasiness remained, perhaps because few people really understood exactly what had been set in motion. After 1969, of course, an increased radicalization and polarization [...]

Paul Tuns2012-12-27T11:18:43-05:00December 27, 2012|Book Review|

Coren to the defense (of Christianity)

Heresy: Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity by Michael Coren (McClelland & Stewart, $29.99, 240 pages) On the heels of the surprise 2011 best-seller, Why Catholics are Right, broadcaster and columnist Michael Coren, has come out with another book on religion, this one with a broader appeal as it applies not only to Catholicism, but Christianity. In it, Coren comes to the defense [...]

Paul Tuns2012-09-06T06:28:48-04:00August 26, 2012|Announcements, Book Review, Features|

Ex-CBC executive spills beans on state broadcaster

The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC by Richard Stursberg (Douglas & McIntyre, $32.95, 288 pages) You don’t even have to read it – the very existence of a book like The Tower of Babble proves the author’s thesis that the CBC is broken. Employees of every enterprise with the word “corporation” in its name sign confidentiality agreements, [...]

Paul Tuns2012-07-18T11:51:03-04:00July 18, 2012|Announcements, Book Review, Features|

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