Donald DeMarco: “Dialogue” is a word that brings to mind fairness and respect for both sides of the debate. For the most part, however, it is a concerted attempt on the part of one side to achieve a triumphant monologue. In other words, certain people who propose dialogue use the word as camouflage to conceal their own intentions. I once taught a [...]
Josie Luetke: In the Spring, a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled that the province must legally recognize multi-parent families. The plaintiffs were La Coalition des familles LGBT+ and three families—a man and two women and their four kids; a lesbian couple and the sperm donor who wants to be a part of his child’s life; and an infertile woman, her husband, and [...]
Gideon Spevak: A trend has been forming within Western democratic institutions, one that contradicts the democratic ideal of such bodies: Elected officials face censure and being stripped of their rights (and obligations) as members of elected bodies to represent their constituents — at the hands of their fellow members, with whom they often find ideological differences. In May 2025, the U.S. Supreme [...]
Tanis Cortens: Two celebrities are facing backlash over their questionable pro-abortion views. British singer Lily Allen said jokingly on the July 1 episode of her podcast Miss Me? that she “can’t remember exactly how many” abortions she has had. “I have an IUD now,” she told co-host Miquita Oliver. “I think I’m on my third or fourth and I just remember before [...]
Tanis Cortens: Sean Feucht, an American Christian rocker, is experiencing a wave of venue cancellations across Canada. He was scheduled to begin his “Revive in 25” Canadian tour with a performance at the York Redoubt National Historic Site near Halifax, N.S., on July 16. Parks Canada revoked his concert permit, citing “heightened public safety concerns.” According to the CBC, some residents living [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements With the recent announcement that government employees must return to their work in office, the physical remnants of the COVID-19 lockdowns are mostly gone. Do you remember where your vaccination documents are? The arrows on the floors of stores telling us which direction to walk are gone, as are the stickers on subway [...]
Tanis Cortens: After 35 years in operation, the Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic, a downtown Vancouver abortuary, closed its doors on June 30. The facility’s board cited changes to the provincial health care system as the cause. Vancouver formerly had four abortion mills: one in the B.C. Women’s Hospital, and three funded by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). VCH’s decision to shift to a new [...]
Tanis Cortens: The two buildings had shared a wall since the Centre’s inception in early 2023, causing some abortion-minded women to walk into the Centre by mistake and thus discover resources for themselves and their babies. In an interview with The Interim, co-founder and president Frank D’Angelo described the Centre as “the last chance to offer positive options.” A mother in distress [...]
UN agencies use AI to spy on youth UN agencies are targeting adolescents around the world—India, Eastern and Southern Africa, the Philippines—by spying on them for their attitudes towards contraception, abortion access, and sexual identity. The agencies target youth with information to change their traditional, family views on these controversial issues. UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) works in more [...]
From the editor’s desk Paul Tuns: From the editor's desk Kevin Yuill writes about the eugenic roots of the euthanasia movement in Spiked: “This campaign of involuntary euthanasia, known as Aktion T4, cost tens of thousands of lives. According to the Nazis’ own record, at least 70,000 disabled people were put to death, although some sources suggest that the figure [...]
John Carpay: If ethnic guilt can be transmitted from generation to generation, Canada would face never-ending conflict and strife, to the exclusion of unity and friendship. While the application of the principle “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none” will not by itself create a perfect society, following this principle will create more trust, more justice and more social cohesion than [...]
Josie Luetke: It is curious that doctors are forsaking the Hippocratic Oath—neither to administer a poison, nor suggest such a course—and patients are being euthanized by the state at record rates at precisely the time in history when pain management is at its best. People used to suffer horrific deaths—from plagues, wounds, starvation, and whatnot. I’m not pretending people don’t die horrific [...]
Few incidents offer a better snapshot of modern discourse than the recent exchanges surrounding ordo amoris. That Latin phrase can be translated as “the order of love,” a concept which has had currency in Christian theology since it was formulated in late antiquity by St. Augustine, and was further refined, almost a millennium later, by St. Thomas Aquinas. In the 20th century, [...]
Victor Penney: Do you ever read T-shirts, hoping to unlock the deepest mysteries of life, faith, and philosophy? Yeah, me neither; but that’s how my life goes sometimes. I once saw a black tee with the phrase “Pro-Good Things” and “Anti-Bad Things” emblazoned on the front, and I’ve embraced the slogan ever since as a lens for analyzing politics. If you want [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Corrupted by Fear: How the Charter was Betrayed, and What Canadians Can Do about It by John Carpay (Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, $24.95, 303 pages) John Carpay will be familiar to our readers as author of the popular Law Matters column in this paper. Many will know him as the founder and president of the Justice Center for Constitutional [...]