Interim Staff: On May 15, in celebration of the International Day of Families, the Group of Friends of the Family, a United Nations coalition of 29 member states, together with co-sponsoring civil society organizations hosted a high-level side event at the United Nations headquarters in New York entitled “The Family and the Future of Humanity”, bringing together diplomats, NGO representatives, and family [...]
Joanna Alphonso: A study published in March 2024 in the International Journal of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention revealed a positive correlation between the loss of a first pregnancy and subsequent postpartum cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The pregnancy history of over one million low-income women examined based on Medicaid claims were analyzed from 1999 to 2014. After subdividing the data based on [...]
Donald DeMarco: I received an email from a political candidate requesting my vote. He promised, if elected, to do many wonderful thinks. While it is easy for a politician to make promises, I had no objection to any of the promises he set forth. But I had a strong objection to his closing statement in which he swore that he would always [...]
Some rhythms and patterns are so regular that their interruption is all but almost impossible to imagine—the sun rises in the east, the seasons change, and life unfolds against a settled horizon of expectations. Indeed, the deep grooves of these established pattens are the very contours that constitute “normal life,” and their cessation has the character of a cataclysm. When sudden emergencies—like [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 9, an estimated 3,500 Canadians took part in the National March for Life in the nation’s capital. The 27th annual National March for Life’s program, organized by Campaign Life Coalition, ran over four days and including the airing of a new pro-life documentary, a pro-life coffee house, a press conference, a series of masses and church services, the [...]
Paul Tuns: In the week of and following the National March for Life in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal MPs repeatedly raised the issue of abortion, vowing to fight to protect the current abortion status quo in which abortion takes the lives of approximately 100,000 preborn Canadian children annually, and accusing the Conservative Party of wanting to rollback so-called [...]
Oswald Clark: Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the federal Department of Justice has vigorously enforced the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which prohibits pro-life activism that may block abortuaries. In May, seven pro-lifers were sentenced to jail terms ranging from 21 to 57 months in prison. Led by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the [...]
Interim Staff: Photo credit: Facebook, Dorothy Pilarski On May 23, Linda Gibbons, who has spent years in prison for her pro-life activism outside Canada’s abortuaries, was arrested once again outside the Morgentaler abortuary in downtown Toronto. Gibbons had been witnessing for three hours in front of the abortion mill when police arrived, questioned her, and put her in a police [...]
By J.M. Glover: British Fetal Sentience Bill The private member’s Foetal Sentience bill, introduced by Baron Daniel Moylan (Conservative) in the British House of Lords passed second reading on March 22. The bill requires the secretary of state to establish a Foetal Sentience Committee “to provide evidence-based scientific expertise on the sentience of the human foetus in light of developments in scientific [...]
Donald DeMarco: My name is Henry Smith. I am just an ordinary guy with a thin resume. I have accepted the post of president for our local pro-life group. On the one hand, my job seems rather easy. Essentially, my task is to convince people that love and truth provide a better basis for human existence than violence and lies. The reality, [...]
Paul Tuns Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustee Mike Del Grande introduced a motion that, if passed, would require every school in the board to fly the international pro-life flag annually throughout the month of May beginning this year. The motion, scheduled for debate at the April 23 meeting of the TCDSB, states, “As a public expression of this Board’s fidelity [...]
Oswald Clark: The annual report of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America revealed that it committed nearly 400,000 abortions in almost 600 abortion mills across the United States and amassed assets of nearly $3 billion. The 2022-23 annual report stated that Planned Parenthood affiliates committed 392,715 abortions from Oct. 1, 2021 through Sept. 30, 2022, which the Lozier Institute’s Michael New said [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey As British politician Lord Acton once remarked, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And for some reason, a bunch of lowly municipal politicians in Canada have become convinced they possess absolute power. I do not exaggerate. The Corporate Services Committee for Niagara Region (that you’ve likely never heard of [...]
Mother’s Day should be an occasion for the celebration of our mothers, a day to venerate the office of motherhood with all the tenderness and reverence that this high calling inspires. But in 2024, this annual feast now raises an inevitable question: what is a mother? Such a question, of course, only imposes itself because of the depravity of our age. When [...]