Paul Tuns: Prolife Alberta launched its “Left to Die” campaign demanding protection for babies born alive after botched abortions. The organization hopes to inform Albertans of the Alberta Health Services policy that allows babies born alive after surviving an abortion to die without receiving any care. The campaign was launched in September but gained publicity in late October and early November, forcing [...]
Oswald Clark: The Charlotte Lozier Institute issued its annual report on pregnancy care centres, and it reports that in the United States 2775 pregnancy resource/help centres provided $452 million in medical care, support, educational services, and material goods to mothers and family in 2024. The 2025 report, titled, “Pregnancy Centers: Rising to the Occasion with Unwavering Care,” and produced with Heartbeat International, [...]
Oswald Clark: In November, Planned Parenthood issued an “impact report” detailing the closure of 43 of its abortuaries in 2025, which it blamed on the loss of Title X funds and Medicaid reimbursements after Congress passed, and President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, a ban on federal taxpayer funds being used to pay for abortions. In their report, “The [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: On Nov. 4, Liberal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the the Liberal government’s 2025 federal budget and after two weeks of kabuki theatre of whether or not enough opposition MPs would cross the floor, vote for the budget, or miss the final vote, it passed on a party-line vote 170-168. With a minority caucus that fell just [...]
"I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column Mary Beth Norton (Princeton, $34, 203 pages) In the 1690s, John Dunton published a two-page broadsheet, the Athenian Mercury, a double-sided broadsheet that was “the world’s first advice column,” answering queries from anonymous writers and responded to by the paper’s anonymous Athenian Society of [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso (Simon & Schuster, $39.99, 307 pages) Concerns about rapidly declining fertility rates are mostly expressed by those on the right-end of the political spectrum. Pro-natalism is unfairly conflated with ideas of Christian nationalist and right-wing populism in political discourse even though the prospect [...]
Paul Tuns, Review Moral Issues: How Public Opinion on Abortion and Gay Rights Affects American Religion and Politics by Paul Goren and Christopher Chapp (University of Chicago Press, $42.50 pb, 223 pages) In their book Moral Issues: How Public Opinion on Abortion and Gay Rights Affects American Religion and Politics, Paul Goren, director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology [...]
Canadians divided on abortion, euthanasia, not so much on divorce, contraception Paul Tuns: On Oct. 16, Research Co. released the results of their online poll on what behaviours Canadians find morally acceptable from abortion and euthanasia to marital affairs and gambling. With the exception of pedophilia, there was significant support for most immoral behaviours and majority support for many of them. While [...]
Paul Tuns: In three videos released by Right Now, a pro-life group, abortuary staff and a hospital worker indicated to the organization’s cofounder, Alissa Golob, who was five months pregnant and pretended to be seeking an abortion, that she could obtain an abortion for any reason, or no reason. Abortion advocates and pro-abortion politicians have claimed that late-term abortions are only committed [...]
Josie Luetke: Last month, I shared how Campaign Life Coalition, with the help of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, is legally challenging the rules barring abortion victim photography or any “signs or banners that display explicit graphic violence or blood” on Parliament Hill. Our hearing date, originally scheduled for Oct. 2, has been postponed, but since I last wrote, the respondents, [...]
Donald DeMarco: I had a terrible dream last night. Maybe it was brought about by that extra slice of “everything on it” pizza I consumed before I retired. It was having its revenge. At any rate, the dream was not only terrifying, but it lasted a long time. I hastened to write it down before I forgot the incidents that rose to [...]
Estimated 20,000 attend Life Chain The 2025 Life Chain, held on Sunday, October 5 in most locations, marked the 35th year of this powerful demonstration in Canada. The Life Chain Canada committee used the occasion to launch a new online hub [...]
Interim Staff MP Rachael Thomas (Lethbridge, Alberta) told the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) targets pro-life advocates. On Sept. 24 Conservative MP Rachael Thomas (Lethbridge, Alberta) told the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) targets pro-life advocates. She said that CAHN has been funded by the federal government and [...]
Paul Tuns: The August 27 Globe and Mail reported that Rheanna Laderoute, 19, died of sepsis after taking the abortion pill. Described by her older sister, Kassandra Costabile, as empathetic with a quiet grace and a sense of humour, Laderoute died at the Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ont., in February 2022. She was admitted on Feb. 14, about two weeks [...]
Paul Tuns: According to the Catholic Register, Karina Gould, chair of the House of Commons Committee on Finance, has denied the Carney government has any plans to follow through with a proposal from the committee in 2024 to rescind the charitable tax status of religious organizations by removing the promotion of religion as a valid charitable end. The Register obtained a copy [...]