Interim Staff: As the push for universal vaccination continues with provinces creating vaccine passports for residents to use in order to access non-essential services such as gyms, restaurants and many other entities including universities and (in Moncton, New Brunswick) Catholic churches requiring proof of vaccination to enter premises, some who are opposed to the vaccines for pragmatic or principled reasons are looking [...]
Interim Staff On Sept. 1, the Texas Heartbeat Act, which protects preborn children at six weeks gestation, took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request (on narrow procedural grounds) to throw out the law. The Texas Heartbeat Act provides no criminal sanctions for abortions committed after a heartbeat is detectable, typically around six weeks. Instead, the law, also known as [...]
Joanna Alphonso: As if it were not enough for adults to be bombarded with pro-abortion slogans such as “my body, my choice,” or “abortion is empowering,” and even “abortion is a human right!” now children can be propagandized, too. According to a Rewire News Group article, author Carly Manes came up with the idea for a childrens’ book, What’s an Abortion Anyway?, [...]
Paul Tuns: On August 8, former Ontario premier William (Bill) Davis passed away at the age of 92. David never lost an election, being first elected as MPP when he was 29 years old in the riding of Peel, northwest of Toronto, in 1959. Although he won by a mere 1,203 votes, he turned his Brampton riding into a safe Progressive Conservative [...]
Paul Tuns: The University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine announced that the pro-life Saskatoon Pregnancy Options Centre (SPOC) “will not be included as a placement site option going forward,” after pro-abortion students complained that the Centre discouraged abortion. Initially, the University’s medical school resisted the campaign by Gender Engagement in Medicine to make the Pregnancy Center verboten for medical students seeking work [...]
Interim Staff: Patricia Maloney, who writes about pro-life issues at the Run with Life blog, has reported that Nunavut territory sends women elsewhere for second trimester abortions. The discovery was made when she asked the territorial ministry of health in June 2020 about it not tracking abortions through doctor billing, yet the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports abortion numbers. The [...]
Sarah Gangl: The Ministry of Education announced a new policy on July 6 mandating the implementation of anti-sex trafficking protocols in school boards across Ontario. The Keeping Students Safe Policy is the first of its kind in Canada, by which every school board will adopt a framework with core components to protect students and equip school communities in the fight against sex [...]
Sarah Gangl Amid the chaotic COVID-19 pandemic, it has been easy to lose sight of a societal pandemic that attacks our morals, rights, and freedoms as pro-life individuals. This pandemic is none other than the cancel culture, which involves shaming and punishing those whose comments, ideas, or beliefs are contrary to the mainstream narrative and considered offensive. Social media platforms and news [...]
Maeve Roche The French sociologist Émile Durkheim said flags are emblems of social solidarity with transcendent qualities to represent the unifying values of a collective group of individuals. In March of this year, the Pro-Life Flag Project prompted pro-life organizations across the United States to share their opinions on the potential creation and distribution of a unifying, pro-life flag. On May 24, [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: The Center for Medical Progress and Judicial Watch announced on August 3 that they had received “252 pages of new documents” exposing the University of Pittsburgh’s lucrative “quest” to become a “tissue hub” for fetal organs taken from preborn children 6-42 weeks gestation. The documents, acquired as part of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against [...]
John Henry Newman once wrote that mankind’s most vivid and proximate experience of God is the phenomenon of conscience. He argues that the feelings that accompany moral action yield a “picture of a Supreme Governor, a Judge, holy, just, powerful, all-seeing, (and) retributive.” The Abrahamic religions, grounded as they are on the Decalogue, affirm this deep and universal intuition: God is a [...]
Paul Tuns: A medical student expelled by the University of Manitoba over pro-life and pro-gun social media posts has won a court case overturning his expulsion. In February 2019, Rafael Zaki, a Coptic Orthodox student at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine, posted three items on his Facebook page: two supported the U.S. Second Amendment to bear arms and [...]
Andrew Lawton: As I and many others have written previously, the political left has been winning the culture war for years. Whatever little victories have been gained by social conservatives as of late have been dwarfed by a general backslide in society on a number of conscience issues. In my efforts to diagnose this problem, I’ve identified a chief attribute that makes [...]
Paul Tuns: Cannabis became legal in 2018, but the number of legal pot shops in Ontario has exploded in 2021, with no end in sight to new openings, with the number of locations selling marijuana soon to eclipse the number of dedicated liquor and beer stores in the province. According to the annual report of the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), the province’s [...]
Schadenberg calls for criminal investigation on long-term care deaths Paul Tuns: An assistant chief nurse at a long-term care home in Laval, Quebec was directed by the provincial health department to administer morphine to coronavirus patients instead of caring for them to treat their illness with an eye to survival, an inquest was told. “I had never seen deaths happen so quickly,” [...]