Interim Staff: John McCash, a co-founder of Students for Life, died at the age of 53 on May 18 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. McCash’s official death notice stated, “John was fearless and unapologetic in his drive to reach unsaved souls for the Kingdom of God, and was often found evangelizing on the streets of Toronto carrying his cross.” It [...]
Paul Tuns: A month short of her 85th birthday, Kathleen Toth passed away on May 23 following hip surgery at Surrey Memorial Hospital in B.C. At the time hailing from Edmonton, Toth was one of 18 pro-lifers who took part in the initial conference in Winnipeg in May 1978 at which Campaign Life was founded, becoming the organization’s first president. Campaign Life [...]
Paul Tuns: Dr. Carmelo (Carm) Scime, died on June 17 at St. Joseph’s Health Care in Hamilton at the age of 93 following a brief illness. Scime – pronounced SHEE-may -- was born in 1932, the seventh of Giuseppe and Marianna Scime’s nine children. He was married to Lynne Scime for 66 years and they were partners in pro-life activism in Hamilton [...]
Paul Tuns: The Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Canada is challenging the constitutionality of a London, Ont., bylaw that is designed to restrict pro-life speech, while the Ontario Court of Appeal has agreed to hear the Christian Heritage Party’s challenge to the city of Hamilton’s refusal to accept a bus advertisement that questioned transgender ideology. The Ontario Court of Appeal has [...]
Samara Douma: Although the Bible never explicitly says that abortion is wrong, it does have a lot to say about how God values human life from conception. Many verses speak about how God formed us with a purpose from before we were born. In Psalm 139, David praises God for His omniscience and omnipresence not only in his life after birth but [...]
Paul Tuns: On June 17, the British House of Commons voted 379-136 for an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would end prosecutions of women who obtain abortions. In 1967, the Abortion Act permitted abortion up to 28 weeks if approved by two doctors under supposedly limited circumstances such as to protect the health of the mother. The law was [...]
Samara Douma: In March, Pregnancy Help News reported the first successful Abortion Pill Reversal story in India. Her firstborn now a toddler, Priya (name changed at her request) was ready to direct more of her focus back toward her career when she found out she was pregnant. Priya decided to have a chemical abortion. After taking the first of two drugs involved [...]
Oswald Clark: One month after the Washington D.C. Ethics and Public Policy Center released a report showing the abortion pill to be potentially 22 times more dangerous than the Food and Drug Administration claims it is, two new peer-reviewed articles show that the abortion pill is more dangerous than advertised. One article published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care [...]
Kesiah Beere: On May 20, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Pandemic Agreement after three years of development and negotiations. Started in December 2021, the Agreement was proposed to implement strategies to “make the world safer from – and more equitable in response to – future pandemics,” according to the WHO. On the surface, such an international agreement may seem appealing [...]
Samara Douma: On May 18, eligible Polish voters headed to polling stations to cast their vote in the Polish presidential election. When votes had been counted, none of the thirteen candidates had the majority needed to win the presidency. The top two candidates, Rafal Trzaskowski, with 31.4 per cent of the vote, and Karol Nawrocki, with 29.5 per cent of the vote, [...]
Interim Staff: On June 16, Linda Gibbons was declared not guilty by Justice Patrice Band regarding obstruction and disobeying a lawful order in relation to an arrest earlier this year. On Feb. 12, Gibbons was arrested after peacefully witnessing outside the Toronto Abortion Clinic at 727 Hillsdale Ave. She was charged with obstruction and disobeying a 30-year-old court injunction tied to the [...]
Kesiah Beere: On Saturday, May 31, Quebec’s March for Life was held in Quebec City, organized by Campagne Québec-Vie (Quebec Life Coalition). The day’s events were set to begin with music at 11 am in front of Quebec’s National Assembly. LifeSiteNews journalist Dorothy Cummings McLean reported that Georges Buscemi, president of Quebec Life Coalition, noticed a [...]
By J.M. Glover: March for Life Ireland 2025 On May 5, thousands of Irish men, women, and children marched in Dublin, Ireland, under the banner “Pro-Woman, Pro-Baby, Pro-Life.” Busloads of pro-lifers from all over Ireland descended on Dublin to join the March. Since the abortion law took effect in 2019, there have been a staggering 51,000 abortions in Ireland. This does not [...]
From the editor's desk: From the editor's desk New York City-based Orthodox Jewish university, reversed its decision to permit an LGBTQ club, Hareni, from operating on campus. In March, the university, with campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx, agreed to official club status for Hareni. However, on May 9, in a letter to the school community, the university said that [...]
Donald DeMarco: Charles E. Rice, in his book, The Winning Side, offers a cogent case for the connection between abortion and euthanasia. He points out that contraception and abortion have reduced the numbers of taxpayers in the United States who could pay for the elderly and disabled. It is predicted that by the year 2050 one American in 20 will be 85 [...]