Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: As Congressional leaders worked on a deal to extend Obamacare subsidies where Democrats insisted on funds for abortion and Republicans resisted, President Donald Trump told the Republican leadership on Jan 6. “you have to be a little flexible on Hyde, you know.” The Hyde Amendment, federal law since 1976, bans federal funds from being used in Medicare, Medicaid, [...]
Josie Luetke: Officially, in Canada, there were 326,571 deaths in 2023. If you add the abortion volume for that year to that number, you’re looking at 428,124 recorded deaths. Tallying up abortion (101,553), “MAiD” or “medical assistance in dying” (15,427), (legally recognized) homicide (778), and suicide (approximately 4,447), 28.5 per cent of deaths were not tragic accidents or the sad succumbence to [...]
In their university philosophy classes, undergraduates are sometimes asked to grapple with thought experiments. The so-called “trolley problem,” for example, places an observer in view of an out-of-control locomotive. This on-looker is also, somehow, located at a switch which will divert the runaway train’s course and reduce the number of casualties—at the cost of the moral agent making a direct intervention. What [...]
Donald DeMarco: Some time ago, I was involved in an abortion debate at the University of Waterloo before a large gathering of students who were largely “pro-choice.” I was one of the panelists, the only one who was pro-life. I was fully aware that my presence that evening was not going to be kindly received. I was pegged as “behind the times.” [...]
Paul Tuns: Kelowna Right to Life Society has been erecting billboards along B.C.’s Highway 97 for with pro-life messages for years, but now B.C. Billboards, the company that sells the ad space, said it will no longer run any advertising related to abortion. Sophie Harms, a local pro-abortion advocate, attempted to purchase pro-abortion advertising that said abortion is safe, normal, and common, [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Operation Rescue investigates and documents botched abortions, abuse and negligence, and other “wrongdoings” at American abortion mills, and in its year-end report the organization said it conducted 56 investigations in 15 states. Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, describes the process of investigating the abortion industry’s harms to women. “Many of these investigations begin with reports from dedicated sidewalk [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A self-governing territory in the EU has cast aside their formerly pro-life views in favour of more permissive abortion laws in a historic vote. On Dec. 4, 2025, the Faroe Islands, a group of self-governing islands under the Kingdom of Denmark, narrowly overturned what had been one of the most restrictive abortion laws in all of Europe when the [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: According to the annual report on the number of abortion mills operating in the United States, there are 657 abortuaries, down from 667 the previous year. It marked the fourth consecutive decline in the number of individual abortion facilities operating in the country. As recently as 2021 there were 718 abortion mills, that last time that the number [...]
Mary Zwicker Europe Correspondent: Dutch MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen condemned the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ initiative, saying the European Parliament should ‘give a voice to those who do not yet have one, namely the unborn children in their mothers’ wombs.’ A pro-abortion movement in Europe is pushing to expand abortion access to countries in the European Union in an alarming threat [...]
Mary Zwicker European Correspondent: There is an ongoing push by European countries to promote abortion in African nations where pro-life values still remain strongly enshrined. In recent years, various countries throughout the European Union and the United Kingdom have been working to extend abortion access to pro-life African nations, with investigative reports from the European Conservative revealing that the pro-life values of [...]
Paul Tuns: On Dec. 14, pro-life conservative José Antonio Kast won 58 per cent of the vote in the Chilean presidential election against Jeannette Jara of the Chilean Communist Party, which has ties to Cuba and Nicaragua. Kast will be sworn into office on March 11. Kast is a married Catholic and father of nine children, who had served as a city [...]
Paul Tuns On Jan. 14, beleaguered Quebec Premier François Legault, 68, announced he would step down as premier and leader of the party he founded before a provincial election later this year. Legault led the right-of-centre Coalition Avenir Quebec to two majority governments in 2018 and 2022. Seeking re-election four years ago, CAQ garnered 41 per cent of the vote, nearly as [...]
From the editor’s desk As we were ready to go to press, Norman Podhoretz died. He was one of the three most important conservative intellectuals of the American conservative movement of the second half of the 20th century alongside William F. Buckley, founder of National Review, and Irving Kristol, with whom Podhoretz is a founding godfather of neoconservatism. Neoconservatism has come into [...]
Paul Tuns: Delegates at the Alberta United Conservative Party (UCP) annual general meeting Nov. 28-30, held in Edmonton, passed several pro-life and pro-family motions including a call to defund late-term abortions, restricting, and upholding parental rights. Campaign Life Coalition endorsed 12 of the 36 policy resolutions and all 12 passed, most with large majorities of the more than 4000 delegates attending the [...]
Rory Leishman: The United States Declaration of Independence famously asserts: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” As originally understood in 1776, the phrase “all Men” in this context referred to all humans. In [...]