Interim Staff: John McCash, a co-founder of Students for Life, died at the age of 53 on May 18 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. McCash’s official death notice stated, “John was fearless and unapologetic in his drive to reach unsaved souls for the Kingdom of God, and was often found evangelizing on the streets of Toronto carrying his cross.” It [...]
Paul Tuns: A month short of her 85th birthday, Kathleen Toth passed away on May 23 following hip surgery at Surrey Memorial Hospital in B.C. At the time hailing from Edmonton, Toth was one of 18 pro-lifers who took part in the initial conference in Winnipeg in May 1978 at which Campaign Life was founded, becoming the organization’s first president. Campaign Life [...]
Paul Tuns: Dr. Carmelo (Carm) Scime, died on June 17 at St. Joseph’s Health Care in Hamilton at the age of 93 following a brief illness. Scime – pronounced SHEE-may -- was born in 1932, the seventh of Giuseppe and Marianna Scime’s nine children. He was married to Lynne Scime for 66 years and they were partners in pro-life activism in Hamilton [...]
Paul Tuns: The Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Canada is challenging the constitutionality of a London, Ont., bylaw that is designed to restrict pro-life speech, while the Ontario Court of Appeal has agreed to hear the Christian Heritage Party’s challenge to the city of Hamilton’s refusal to accept a bus advertisement that questioned transgender ideology. The Ontario Court of Appeal has [...]
Kesiah Beere: Across Canada, medical and political organizations have sought unwavering support for gender changes through the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapies and surgical procedures, including for minors. This message, upheld by many Canadian media outlets, “has left the public with the false impression that such treatments are safe, effective, and universally accepted by physicians,” according to a statement originally signed [...]
Paul Tuns: Since February 2024, the Progressive Conservative government of Tim Houston has opened two facilities geared toward youth providing so-called gender-affirming care. In February, Nova Scotia Health opened a youth “clinic” in Kentville (Kentville Gender Affirming Care Clinic) and in March, opened one in Bridgewater. The facilities – which have pediatricians, mental health practitioners, nurses, and pharmacies on-site -- provide puberty [...]
Donald DeMarco: There could hardly be a greater disparity concerning the meaning of life than going to church and watching television. There is a TV commercial for step-in shoes that relieve people of the burden of using their hands. A proud citizen of this world of comfort rebukes another by saying, “Are you still using your hands?” The person who is “with-it” [...]
Samara Douma: Although the Bible never explicitly says that abortion is wrong, it does have a lot to say about how God values human life from conception. Many verses speak about how God formed us with a purpose from before we were born. In Psalm 139, David praises God for His omniscience and omnipresence not only in his life after birth but [...]
On June 20, the British House of Commons delivered another devastating blow to respect for the sanctity of human life, by adopting a bill to legalize euthanasia on a vote of 314 to 291. However, it is noteworthy that, in comparison to Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying legislation, this British bill is, for now, far more restrictive and contains much more stringent [...]
Paul Tuns: On June 17, the British House of Commons voted 379-136 for an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would end prosecutions of women who obtain abortions. In 1967, the Abortion Act permitted abortion up to 28 weeks if approved by two doctors under supposedly limited circumstances such as to protect the health of the mother. The law was [...]
Samara Douma: In March, Pregnancy Help News reported the first successful Abortion Pill Reversal story in India. Her firstborn now a toddler, Priya (name changed at her request) was ready to direct more of her focus back toward her career when she found out she was pregnant. Priya decided to have a chemical abortion. After taking the first of two drugs involved [...]
Oswald Clark: One month after the Washington D.C. Ethics and Public Policy Center released a report showing the abortion pill to be potentially 22 times more dangerous than the Food and Drug Administration claims it is, two new peer-reviewed articles show that the abortion pill is more dangerous than advertised. One article published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care [...]
Kesiah Beere: On May 20, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Pandemic Agreement after three years of development and negotiations. Started in December 2021, the Agreement was proposed to implement strategies to “make the world safer from – and more equitable in response to – future pandemics,” according to the WHO. On the surface, such an international agreement may seem appealing [...]
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia Malise Ruthven (Verso, $46, $368) BBC editor Malise Ruthven has written an expose of Saudi Arabia, the Unholy Kingdom, the alliance between the House of Saud – the royal family that ruled modern Saudi Arabia since its founding – and extremist imams who he labels a “sectarian Islamic cult.” Their extreme Wahhabism has become [...]
The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin Lucy Ash (Icon Books, $36, 384 pages) Journalist Lucy Ash has written a broadside attack on the Russian Orthodox Church and its relationship with Moscow, which inevitably focuses on how the Church provides ideological backing for Vladimir Putin’s regime. Ash, who has worked as a foreign correspondent in Russia for three [...]