Paul Tuns: Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, died at the age of 84 on Feb. 17. Jackson is famous for having marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and in 1971 founded People United to Save Humanity (Operation Push), later renamed People United to Serve Humanity. He was [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent In January, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held hearings on the abortion pill, with Republicans and their witnesses calling for more regulation and Democrats and their witnesses maintaining that mifepristone is perfectly safe. The committee is chaired by Senator Bill Cassidy (R, Louisiana), a former physician who called upon Robert Kennedy Jr. and Martin Makary to [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: The Two Greatest Novels Ever Written: The Wisdom of The Lord of the Rings and The Brothers Karamazov by Peter Kreeft (Word on Fire, $24.95 USD, 164 pages) Philosopher Peter Kreeft says that J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (BK) are not merely masterpieces but the two greatest novels ever written because [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 3, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued a new recommendation that so-called gender affirming surgery should not be carried out on minors until the age of 19, citing professional ethics and the lack of quality research supporting such surgeries as reasons for the new guidelines. The next day, the American Medical Association issued a statement saying that [...]
In legal first, a detransitioner successfully sued her medical care team Paul Tuns: On Feb. 2, a White Plains, N.Y., jury awarded Fox Varian $2 million in damages after her psychologist and plastic surgeon failed to properly treat her history of mental illness before approving of a surgical “gender-affirming” mastectomy and provide professional standards of care during Fox’s medical treatment. Varian’s is the [...]
Paul Tuns: Rebel News reported that according to provincial data they obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, “The thing that gender activists claim isn’t happening, not only happened, but it happened 99 times” as records indicated. Rebel News reported that, “What the documents show is a pattern of abuse, a staggering waste of medical resources, and an alarming rise in [...]
Paul Tuns: The Ontario coroner’s MAiD Death Review Committee revealed that a woman in her 80s identified as Mrs. B was killed by euthanasia even though the elderly woman changed her mind about the procedure. The woman had complications resulting from a coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Her condition worsened and she opted for palliative care. She was sent home with palliative [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: The world’s largest island is home to the world’s highest abortion rate, a history of forced sterilization, and extreme anti-family policies. “Greenlanders deserve better than abortion, and a government that protects and provides for both women and their preborn children,” said Focus on the Family, a global pro-family ministry group. Following Denmark’s legalization of abortion in 1973, abortion [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 1, Laura Fernández Delgado was elected president of Costa Rica with 1.191 million votes and 48.3 per cent of the vote in a 20-candidate field, to become the second female president of the Central American country. If she had not won 40 per cent of the vote, the two candidates with the most votes would have faced each [...]
Josie Luetke: Like a kicked dog coming back for more, I flew to Calgary for the 2026 Conservative Party of Canada convention at the tail end of January. As pro-life candidates have been disqualified by the party and leader Pierre Poilievre has gone over to the dark side—fully embracing abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and even the status quo on euthanasia—many of Campaign Life [...]
Interim Staff: At their recent national convention, the Conservative Party of Canada transformed an opportunity to lead the charge on the protection of Canada’s founding values into an exercise in defending the modern political status quo. Voting delegates from ridings across Canada gathered in Calgary from Jan. 29-31 to network with fellow party members, hear from distinguished speakers, and vote on amendments [...]
Why do right-wing populist governments vote with the left at the EU? This is a question that has perplexed many. Why is it that conservative countries like Hungary, Italy, and Poland almost uniformly stand with the rest of the European Union countries in supporting far-left measures? Are they strong-armed, bullied, afraid of losing friends, afraid of losing trade opportunities, afraid of retaliation [...]
National Affairs, Rory Leishman: For the past several years, the secular mass media in Canada have fanned the flames of anti-Christian hate, by publishing uncorroborated allegations of mass murder, torture, and other atrocities in the Church-run Indian Residential Schools. On Dec. 11, The Globe and Mail was at it again, this time defaming dedicated Catholic nuns who cared for unwed mothers and [...]
From the editor’s desk: In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords is debating whether to legalize euthanasia. We have a report on it in “And then there was this” on p. 17. I wanted to highlight one part of the on-going debate on that side of the lake, namely Lord Falconer’s comment during the third committee stage debate that the Terminally [...]
Sporting Life, Victor Penney: I’m laying down the law in my home ahead of the Super Bowl. As a father, it’s my right and duty to lead and set the tone throughout the year, but especially ahead of one of the biggest sporting events on the calendar. As a man, as the head of the household, it falls on me to make [...]