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, [...]
Rory Leishman: The Free Press is an outstanding, new media company founded and edited by Bari Weiss, a former columnist for The New York Times who quit that newspaper in disgust over its woke, left-wing ideological bias. In her letter of resignation, she charged that at The Times: “Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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: On Oct. 8, the British Columbia legislature voted 48-40 against the Protecting Minors from Gender Transition Act, a comprehensive, 11-page bill that would have outlawed medical transitioning of minors and restricted social transitioning of children. “I stand before you today not only as a member at this legislature but as a mother,” OneBC Party MLA Tara Armstrong (Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream) said [...]
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 [...]
Oswald Clark Last year running for re-election, Donald Trump vowed to increase support for in vitro fertilization, calling himself the “father of IVF,” and last month he followed through with that promise by announcing new federal guidance for insurance coverage. President Trump’s new system would allow employers to offer insurance which employees may opt-into providing fertility benefits, including giving discounts to couples [...]
Tanis Cortens: The Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank, released a report on March 24 entitled “Treating Infertility: The New Frontier of Reproductive Medicine.” The report contrasts two methods of dealing with infertility: assisted reproductive technology (ART) and restorative reproductive medicine (RRM). “One of the major differences between ART and RRM,” wrote Natalie Dodson in the introduction to the report, “is [...]
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 [...]
Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has been a painful disappointment for pro-lifers. A long-time ally of the since-defrocked abuser, Theodore McCarrick, Cupich has been, at best, a reluctant defender of the unborn. Although he did hail the demise of Roe v. Wade as an opportunity for “a national conversation on protecting human life in the womb,” he criticized a statement made by his brother [...]
Interim Staff: On Oct. 16, the Uruguay Senate passed a euthanasia law which permits a medical professional to kill an adult patient but does not permit assisted suicide in which a patient self-administers a lethal dose of a deadly medication. The vote was carried 31-20, supported by the governing left-wing coalition government of President Yamandú Orsi. The South American country lower house, [...]