Interim Staff: Prominent Toronto businessman Paul Kromer, a faithful Catholic and stalwart pro-lifer, died on Jan. 7 at the age of 89. Kromer, founder of Kromer Radio, an electronics retail store in Toronto, took over Renewal Ministries in 1998, which organized the the Lift Jesus Higher Rally that sought to inspire Catholics through prayer, worship, and orthodox Catholic speakers. In 2017, Paul [...]
Interim Staff: Campagne Quebec Vie, the Quebec arm of Campaign Life Coalition, announced that on June 1, for the first time, a march for life will be held in the province, in Quebec City. CQV president Georges Buscemi said the decision to bring a regional march to the province was based on the success of the U.S. March for Life buttressing the [...]
Paul Tuns: Last month, Blacklock’s Reporter revealed that both the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and Canadian Centre for Christian Charities expressed concerns to the House of Commons human resources committee that the Department of Employment and Social Development continues to discriminate against faith-based employers applying to the summer job grants program. In 2016, the Trudeau government mandated that employers sign an [...]
Paul Tuns: Following pressure to not change its medical standards that would severely restrict the conscience rights of doctors, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) backed down from a proposal to require doctors to make an “effective referral.” Currently, doctors and nurses are not required to participate in or be complicit in abortion, euthanasia, birth control, or so-called gender-affirming [...]
Oswald Clark: In December, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will review the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the abortion drug mifepristone and subsequent liberalization of regulations by the Biden administration. In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under pressure from the Clinton administration and abortion advocates, allowed the two-pill abortion drug regimen (mifepristone and misoprostol) then known as [...]
Paul Tuns: Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis endorsed a petition calling on Canada to leave the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) because the organizations undermine national sovereignty and the personal autonomy of its citizens. The petition was launched in October and was signed by nearly 19,000 Canadians in its first month. The petition explains that the UN’s Agenda 2030’s SDGs [...]
Paul Tuns: At the World Economic Forum’s Davos summit on Jan. 18, Argentina's president, Javier Milei, condemned the global elite who are promoting population control and its concomitant “bloody abortion agenda” because human beings “damage the planet.” The WEF meets annually at Davos, Switzerland, bringing together world leaders, cabinet ministers, top business executives, and the heads of non-governmental organizations to discuss world [...]
Paul Tuns: According to the Worldometer, a real-time measure of vital international statistics, abortion was the leading cause of death in the world in 2023 with more than 44.6 million abortions committed globally. The Worldometer does not record abortions as deaths, of which there were 60.6 million in 2023. As the Christian Post reported, “If abortions were counted as deaths in the [...]
Texas abortion law upheld Abortion in Texas is mostly illegal. An abortion can only be carried out when the mother’s life is in such danger that “a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that, as certified by a physician, places the woman in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a [...]
Paul Tuns: A new report reveals that pregnancy resource centres (PRCs) provided nearly $360 million in services and goods in a single year, even as Democrat-controlled states reduce funding and try to restrict their operations. The “Hope for a New Generation” report covers 2022 and is a joint “collaboration of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, and National Institute of Family [...]
Paul Tuns: Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor died Dec. 1, at the age of 93. O’Connor, whom Ronald Reagan appointed as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, betrayed the president’s pro-life views by often voting with the pro-abortion justices in a court that was often divided 5-4. Born in El Paso, Texas and raised on a ranch, [...]
Interim Staff: David Anthony Hogg, who served as a trustee with the Metropolitan Toronto Separate Catholic School Board, in the 1990s, died Dec. 13 at the age of 94. Hogg, then a director with the Federation of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations of Ontario, was elected trustee in 1991 – along with Peter Johnson and Michael Del Grande -- with the support of Campaign [...]
Paul Tuns On Dec. 11, Anaida Poilievre, wife of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, told French-language media outlet TVA Nouvelles, “We are pro-choice,” in the latest attempt by the Conservative leader to distance himself from his pro-life past. Anaida Poilievre explained, “We have spoken out on this. I am a woman from Quebec, I grew up here. And it’s part of my [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I completely understand why “pro-choicers” use rape as their trump card. If the preborn are simply clumps of cells lacking moral status or the mother’s bodily autonomy takes precedence regardless, then how much more justified is abortion when her bodily autonomy has already been grossly violated, when there’s a thing inside her as a [...]
Oswald Clark: According to the Pennsylvania Family Council, nine abortion facilities in the state are putting the safety of women at risk after failing routine health and safety inspections, including more than half of the Planned Parenthood abortion mills in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Family Council’s Family Institute scoured figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and found that nine of 22 abortion [...]