Paul Tuns: Ahead of the New Brunswick general election officially called on Sept. 17, Campaign Life Coalition distributed thousands of postcards with information about transgender indoctrination in schools. This raised the ire of politicians opposed to Premier Blaine Higgs’s policies requiring parental consent to use names and pronouns at odds with a student’s biological sex. CLC distributed postcards to households in August [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Josie Luetke: Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner have long been personal heroines of mine. When I was still just a high school student I was personally challenged by their witness and seriously wrestled with the dilemma of whether I—and the rest of the pro-life movement—should be so committed to the defense of the pre-born [...]
Media blames pro-life laws for tragic deaths of women Oswald Clark: Amber Thurman, left, and Candi Miller, right, died after taking the abortion pill. Pro-abortion activists are claiming the two mothers died because of Georgia’s pro-life law that bans abortion once a heartbeat is detectable at six weeks. A pair of Georgia residents, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, are [...]
Oswald Clark: West Virginia could outlaw euthanasia Voters in ten states will decide the fate of abortion laws after abortion advocates organized to get referenda on the issue on the ballot. The ten states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota. In Maryland and New York, the legislature voted to put the constitutional amendment on [...]
Candidates tackle abortion at debate On Sept. 10, Vice President Kamala Harris (D) and former president Donald Trump (R) took part in a debate moderated by ABC News in which the two sparred over abortion in the second question posed by the hosts. Harris vowed to sign a bill reinstating Roe v. Wade which would nullify state laws protecting preborn children from [...]
Paul Tuns: Cardus, an Ottawa and Hamilton-based Christian think tank, released a pair of studies in September exploring the scope and impact of sports betting, and calling for tighter regulations of the online sports-betting market. In “Hidden Harms of Single-Event Sports Betting in Ontario,” author Johanna Lewis found that the average net monthly spending per sports betting account is $283, the equivalent [...]
Interim Staff: On Sept. 24, Pastor Derek Reimer was acquitted of charges related to his drag queen story time protest in Calgary. Reimer, pastor of Mission 7 Ministries, was charged with causing a disturbance and mischief for protesting the “Reading with Royalty” event marketed for children at the Seton Public Library in February 2023. He was removed from the premises by police. [...]
Almost immediately upon becoming the Democratic candidate for president, Kamala Harris started attacking her Republican opponents, Donald Trump and JD Vance, as weird. To emphasize the difference between the Democratic ticket’s ostensible normalness and the Republicans’ alleged weirdness, she picked the mostly non-descript Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former high school football coach. No sooner had Harris delivered the broadside that “weird” [...]
Every four years, the cyclical rituals of American democracy impose the ordeal of an “election year” not only upon its own populace, but on the entire globe. At such times, stances on a range of geopolitical issues hang in the balance—positions which, in turn, promise to set the general tenor of international diplomacy and public discourse for years to come. The 2024 [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 7, the Quebec government announced that it would allow advanced directives for Medical Assistance in Dying, when Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette directed Crown prosecutors’ offices to not file charges against doctors and nurses who carry out the procedure. As of October 30, patients will be able to make advance requests for the procedure before their condition renders [...]
Paul Tuns: The Sarco suicide pod, designed by infamous Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke, is being sold in the United Kingdom and the Daily Mail newspaper reported that Peter and Christina Scott will become the first people to die by assisted suicide in the pod and that they intend to die together at the same time. Meanwhile, Swiss police arrested several people [...]
Sarah Stilton, Review: Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler (Knopf, $37, 320 pages) Judith Butler is a famous, or infamous, feminist and leading influence on gender theory through her earlier works such as Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender, and Bodies that Matter. This year she returns to the topic in Who’s Afraid Gender? which undermines many of her earlier arguments. Three decades ago, [...]
Oswald Clark: Over the past seven years, Fort Liberty has trained about 10,000 soldiers in the U.S. army, during which they classified pro-life groups as terrorists, a Congressional committee has heard. In a Sept. 19 hearing, army personnel told the official Congressional investigation that pro-life organizations, crisis pregnancy centres, sidewalk counselling, and mass pro-life demonstrations were included as examples of terrorist groups [...]
Gideon Spevak: The Canadian government in 2023 awarded more than 300 grants or contributions to pro-LGBT groups, totalling over $665 million, according to a June 12th blog post. Run With Life is a pro-life and pro-family blog by Patricia Maloney. In a post published on June 12, Maloney stated that over $665 million of taxpayer funds were spent on LGBT ideology in [...]
Paul Tuns: Rebel News’s Sheila Gunn Reid reported that Veterans Affairs Canada attempted to hide its paper trail relating to case workers who suggested that veterans access Medical Assistance in Dying. Gunn Reid, who obtained the more than 1200 pages of documents by filing access to information requests, published her findings at Rebel news on August 20. She revealed that nearly a [...]