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 [...]
Sporting Life, Victor Penney: Do you want to know one of the easiest ways to get under the skin of the toughest, most intimidating professional wrestlers on the planet? Call out pro-wrasslin’ for what it is: fake. The outcomes are predetermined and the moves are choreographed, but make no mistake: the athleticism and pain are real, and so is the passion. It’s [...]
David takes down Goliath: Student newspaper wins defamation suit against pro-abortion professor The Irish Rover is an independent, non-profit student newspaper at Notre Dame University in Indiana established in 2003. Its mission is “devoted to preserving the Catholic identity of Notre Dame.” (Note: Recently, Notre Dame announced that it was not necessary for the components of the university to continue to ‘preserve its [...]
From the editor’s desk: In October, Compact published a provocative essay by Helen Andrews titled “The Great Feminization” in which she argued that cancel culture is essentially feminine: “Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field.” The thesis is not Andrews’. She borrowed it from the pseudonymous J. Stone and an essay [...]
Interim Staff: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced Bill 9, which would utilize the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to ensure that three bills addressing transgender issues can remain free of judicial override. In 2024, the Smith government passed three bills: Bill 26, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2024, prohibiting gender reassignment surgery for children under 18 and [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life Do you know why we have the stereotype that professional athletes are into gambling, partying hard, and having babies out of wedlock with multiple women? Precedent. I don’t need to point to any specific examples here, but you know I’m right. Let’s face it: Pro-sports is a world that seems to enable [...]
From the editor’s desk: From the editor's desk On pages 14 and 15 of this issue we have book reviews of three giants of mid-20th century conservatism: William F. Buckley, Frank S. Meyer, and James Burnham. All three were at the founding of National Review, a magazine that has shaped U.S. conservatism since its founding 70 Novembers ago in 1955. [...]
Rory Leishman: The book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible describes an era in ancient Israel when, instead of obeying the commandments of God, most men did what was right in their own eyes. The result was chaos, confusion and disaster. The same is true of our own era. Instead of steadfastly upholding the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality, most people have [...]
Paul Tuns: Just 11 days after Charlie Kirk was killed, his widow Erika Kirk addressed the nationally broadcast memorial service with words of grace: “My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life … On the cross, our Savior said: ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That young man—that young [...]
Paul Tuns: Canadian Press reported that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is prepared to use the notwithstanding clause to uphold three transgender laws if the courts attempt to overturn them. In a Sept. 10 memo obtained by the Canadian Press, the Smith government’s Justice Department directed other departments to prepare for Smith’s office to invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights [...]
Paul Tuns: After the League of Nations disintegrated in the wake of World War II, U.S. President Frank Delano Roosevelt proposed the idea of the Four Powers (the U.S., U.K., Russia, and Red China) as an international body to coordinate cooperation among them. Throughout the war the idea morphed into what became the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International [...]
Paul Tuns: Editor’s Note: There are descriptions of graphic sex acts in this story. The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) published a report that reveals the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has developed resources and funded activities that promote obscene sex-ed programs, homosexuality, and transgenderism to children. In “UNICEF Programs Sexually Groom Children: Evidence of UNICEF Promoting Comprehensive Sexuality Education, [...]