Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Poetry in the best sense offers us glimpses into reality that we can ill afford to do without. Science, opinion polls, psychological theories, and the like, are but shadows in comparison with the light by which poetry can illuminate certain realities. G.K. Chesterton maintained that “great poets use the telescope as well as the microscope.” This paradoxical feature may make [...]
Rory Leishman: In addition to overturning the unfounded and outrageous abortion decision in Roe v. Wade (1976), the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health raises another fundamental issue: Who should have primary responsibility in a democracy for determining public policy -- unelected judges or elected legislators? It is a question that Canadians [...]
Paul Tuns: As it does every other July 11 – the date is designated by the United Nations as World Population Day -- the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs released its biannual report on global population and future projections. The World Population Prospects 2022, released a year late due to data-gathering bottlenecks because of the pandemic, predicted that in November, [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: The Haldimand Pregnancy Care and Family Centre, located in Dunnville, Ont., south of Hamilton, has been helping women with their pregnancy and maternal care needs for 18 years. The 22,000 square foot facility, formerly a school building repurposed as a pregnancy care centre, wasn’t always located on Adler Street West. Carol Butler, director of the Haldimand facility, avows that the [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 overturn of Roe v. Wade means that abortions in the United States are no longer (and never were) deemed a constitution right. In protest, the pro “choice” side has gone up in arms — and quite literally at that. As early as the Dobbs leak in May — when speculation surrounding the possibility of Roe’s [...]
The English phrase, a “deal with the devil,” usually refers to pragmatism pushed to the point of compromise or to an arrangement with unlovely characters, daunting costs, or likely downsides. Yet the idiom draws its resonant power from significant sources: deals with devils have been immortalized in literature by the likes of Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the image [...]
Interim Staff: The Gender Identity Development Service for Children and Adolescents (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service trust (hospital) in north London was established in 1983, and on July 28, it announced it was winding down its services and closing its doors after charges that it overdiagnosed gender dysphoria (transgenderism) in kids and teens. GIDS is the only child- and adolescent-focused [...]
The infamous Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service for Children and Adolescents (GIDS) in London, England, is going to close its doors following two reports and a court judgement on how they scandalously did not collect any data regarding puberty blockers they prescribed to children and teens. GIDS does not have any data on the number of patients who were given puberty blockers, [...]
Paul Tuns: A CNN report on the May 23 mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school began, “we may never know why a shooter gunned down 19 children and two teachers in a massacre Tuesday at Robb Elementary School …” Not specifically, no. Reasonable explanations often betray such evil acts. But it is not impossible to diagnose the moral muck from [...]
Paul Tuns: According to a number of reports released by Statistics Canada in early July based on the 2021 census, more Canadians are living alone and fewer couples who live together are getting married. More people are living alone than ever before, with 4.4 million people living on their own, representing 15 per cent of all adults 15 years or older in [...]
Interim Staff: The Athena Health Centre abortion mill in St. John’s, Newfoundland received a $1 million bailout from Andrew Furey’s Liberal provincial government after claiming it would close its doors if it did not get taxpayer funding for its operations, according to a report by Campaign Life Coalition. The privately owned abortuary, run out of a two-storey, red house on Lemarchant Road [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Beginning on July 4, physician training and ultrasounds prior to prescribing Mifepristone were no longer required in Quebec. More than 300 pro-abortion doctors from across the province signed an open letter calling for these changes. The doctors condemned the requirements for the Mifepristone abortion pill as “unjustified” because, they argue, the barriers impede access and increase patient delays for chemically [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: According to a recent report from Statistics Canada entitled, “Violence against seniors and their perceptions of safety in Canada,” elder abuse is on the rise in Canada. Although estimates vary, violent victimization affects approximately one in eight seniors, especially those who are socially isolated, cognitively impaired, physically frail, living in institutionalized settings or dependent upon others for care. Although elder abuse [...]
Paul Tuns: On August 11, the Associated Press ran a 2300-word story, “’Disturbing:’ Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws,” which shone an international light on the country’s permissive euthanasia regime and how numerous families felt pressured to accept so-called Medical Assistance in Dying in lieu of proper medical care. Maria Cheng, the AP reporter, interviewed the families of Alan Nichols and Sean [...]
Paul Tuns: Health Canada released its “Third Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada (2021),” revealing that there were 10,064 euthanasia deaths, representing 3.3 per cent of all deaths in Canada and a 32 per cent increase over euthanasia deaths the previous year. The Health Canada report is based on data submitted by medical and nurse practitioners who carried out [...]