John Carpay: Bad laws are the result of bad politics. Bad politics result from a rotten culture. A rotten culture emerges when too many people embrace bad ideas. A complete description of all the bad ideas that are now wrecking Canada’s culture, society, and economy would fill many volumes. But here follows a partial list. “Most parents are dangerous and abusive.” This [...]
Things slow down in the summer months, and all our lives are touched by this welcome change of pace. The arrival of the season may herald the end of academic classes—bringing with it more precious time with children and grandchildren. It may mark a season of office vacations or adjusted summer schedules, or simply a spirit of reprieve and relaxation in the [...]
Paul Tuns: A short, animated video, “It’s OK,” created by Choice42 shows how preborn victims of abortion are used to create fetal cell lines used in the medical and cosmetics industries. The 4:39 video, which can be viewed for free at Choice42’s website or on YouTube, starts with doctors taking tissue from “Ellie” a baby killed through abortion more than 60 years [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Treatments for anti-aging, psoriasis, and eczema may be tainted by the use of fetal tissue originating from aborted babies. Human Life International (HLI) produced Which Cosmetics Use Fetal Cells, a free e-book outlining the use of fetal cells in cosmetics. According to their United States-based research, they have not found any companies that use fetal cells in their products. They [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Last year, the only pro-life MP to attend the National March for Life was Arnold Viersen (CPC, Peace River—Westlock). Bill C-311, the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, tabled by MP Cathay Wagantall (CPC, Yorkton—Melville), was being debated at the time, and the mainstream media and leftist politicians were taking pains to paint [...]
Interim Staff: True North reported that Toronto police would not lay any charges for public nudity during the June 30 pride parade in the city’s downtown. Video footage of the homosexual fetish parade aired on social media showed various contingents of men marching naked through the city streets as on-lookers cheered and clapped, including families that brought young children. In one video, [...]
Nathalia Comrie: Prenatal development videos are a huge asset to the pro-life movement to help humanize the unborn to the world which is why they are being implemented into school curriculum in some U.S. states, with several using the well-known “Baby Olivia” video made by Live Action that shows major milestones in human development from fertilization to a week before birth. The [...]
Paul Tuns: xr:d:DAFvAWe_UX8:35,j:433883658353322572,t:23121319 On July 2, the Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda (STNSEA) announced it had “undergone a big change” as it bid adieu to its founder and president, Queenie Yu. Yu first ran as an independent candidate in the 2016 by-election in Scarbough-Rouge River to bring awareness to Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum. She finished fourth with 582 votes, good [...]
Paul Tuns: Lou Iacobelli, a former educator who blogs at Everyday for Life, says parents should inform their children’s schools that they want to exempt their children from the province’s Human Development and Sexual Heath expectation for the child’s grade. Iacobelli said that all children in Grade 1-8 are expected to learn the sex-ed curriculum as part of the Ontario Health and [...]
Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America Monica Klem and Madeleine McDowell (Encounter, $45.99. 328 pages) In Pity for Evil, historians Monica Klem and Madeleine McDowell, provide a well-documented, scholarly but accessible account of how most people, including feminists, viewed abortion in post-Civil War United States. Using the speeches of suffragists and the writings in publications of the [...]
Luka Granic: Linda Gibbons, a veteran pro-lifer, has been jailed once again. Spending nearly 11 years of her life in jail for her peaceful pro-life witnessing, Gibbons has garnered a reputation of not backing down no matter how many times she faces jail over her pro-life principles. When she is in court following an arrest, she does not speak or even nod [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements It’s been a rough four years. Everybody knows that. And though their struggles don’t register much with the public, journalists have arguably been having a rough 20 years, probably more. They’d ask for your sympathy but know they’re not likely to get it, though they can write books like Nellie Bowles’ Morning After [...]
Home Hospice Association prenatal and perinatal hospice with services available in cities including Cambridge, Guelph, Hamilton-Halton, Kitchener, Niagara, Ottawa, Toronto. Alberta Calgary: Alberta Children's Hospital Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Service, also accepting referrals for perinatal hospice. Contact: Clinical nurse specialist Kathryn da Silva, (403) 955-5460. Calgary Family Physician Navigator program, accepting referrals (from physicians or self-referrals) for family physician support to [...]
Joanna Alphonso: If choosing death for one’s child is health care, choosing life for that same child must also be health care. But how accessible is the health care choice for life for women when facing a prenatal diagnosis of severe illness and likely death shortly after birth? Palliative care, according to SickKids Hospital in Toronto, expands beyond end-of-life care, as many [...]
Donald DeMarco: George Huntston Williams, an historian of Christianity known for his extraordinary range and productivity, passed away on Oct. 6 in the second millennial year at the age of 86. Sic transit gloria mundi! His legacy should not pass into oblivion. He began his career as a teacher in 1947 at the Harvard Divinity School, which was struggling to stay afloat [...]