Mary Zwicker: In a world where men can become women and women can become men, Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire attempt to uncover an answer to a seemingly simple question in their new film, What Is a Woman? In order to define womanhood, Walsh questions different “experts” on the topic of gender and sex. He interviews therapists, surgeons, and university professors, [...]
Mary Zwicker: As the fear of COVID-19 begins to ease up and life regains some of its normalcy, the World Health Organization has sounded the alarm on a new threat to society, Monkeypox, an epidemic that has been identified as spreading primarily through the gay community. Monkeypox is a disease similar to smallpox, although less deadly. Originating in West and Central Africa, [...]
Oswald Clark: In May, Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, said that outlawing abortion would hurt the economy by limiting educational and employment opportunities for women. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, she said, “I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set [...]
Philip Tomchyshyn: Though gender confusion in minors typically subsides without invasive treatment, gender confused minors are at a higher risk of committing suicide than their peers. It has been proposed that suicide rates can be decreased if confused adolescents receive cross-sex medical interventions, particularly through the prescription of puberty blockers and sex hormones. Several organizations, including the World Professional Association for Transgender [...]
Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity Claudia Goldin (Princeton, $38, 325 pages): Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity examines the career and family decisions women make as they try to narrow both the wage gap in the workplace and experience equitable sharing of responsibilities in the home. The most important insight Goldin makes is that [...]
The Story of the Family: G.K. Chesterton on the Only State that Creates and Loves Its Own Citizens edited by Dale Ahlquist (Ignatius, $17.95, 237 pages) Paul Tuns Review Despite writing a century ago about the maladies afflicting the family and thus the whole of society, G.K. Chesterton still seems relevant, an insightful critic of the intellectual, economic, and cultural challenges that [...]
Paul Tuns: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the federal budget on April 7 and most media coverage focused on the size of the deficit, measures to address the housing affordability crisis, new defense spending and a new dental program, and tax increases for large businesses and the wealthy. But there are a number of anti-life and anti-family initiatives in the budget that [...]
Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed a deal with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to become the last province to join the federal government’s plan for $10-a-day daycare. While seven provinces and territories inked deals before the September 2021 federal election and all were signed onto it before the end of the year except Ontario, Ford was waiting to announce his province’s agreement [...]
Seventy-five years ago, an English poet described what he called “the modern problem:” that is, “of living in a society in which men are no longer supported by tradition without being aware of it.” The individual who “wishes to bring order and coherence” into his mental life and inner experience must therefore do “for himself what in previous ages had been done [...]
Paul Tuns: As everyone knows, the price of housing -- both renting and buying a place to live -- is skyrocketing across the country. The issue has seized politicians with the Trudeau budget introducing no less than 17 budget measures to address housing affordability and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland saying during her budget speech that out-of-control housing prices is an “intergenerational injustice.” [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 was International Women’s Day. It was incumbent on America’s 46th president to salute women throughout the world and to offer them something encouraging and uplifting. He told half the population on the planet that women cannot “live up to their God-given potential” without abortion-on-demand. The inclusion of a reference to God is curious since hardly [...]
The mainstream media has parroted a Democrat talking-point in labeling a Florida parental rights law a “don’t say gay” prohibition in the classroom. Florida House Bill 1557, the Parental Rights in Education Act was passed in the state house in February and the state Senate in early March, and was set to be signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis. The move [...]
Interim Staff: The Jason Kenney government announced that women on Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) or income support will be eligible for a new prenatal benefit beginning in May. On March 10, Premier Kenney, along with Jason Luong, Minister of Community and Social Services, announced eligible women will be able to receive $100 per month starting in the second trimester [...]
Rory Leishman: Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau promised that the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would enhance the constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. Instead, the opposite is true: Canadians today are demonstrably less free than they were 40 years ago. As evidence, consider the unprecedented, freedom-stifling provisions of Bill C-4, the notorious legislation adopted in December by Parliament with [...]
Commentary By Donald DeMarco: An important factor that has been ignored in the ongoing discussion concerning the constitutionality of abortion is the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble. While this important statement is part of the Constitution, it does not specify on how the government should operate, but it does allude to its goals thereby providing a context for what the Founding Fathers were aiming [...]