From the editor’s desk: You probably saw that during Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, she refused to answer what a woman is. Joe Biden appointed Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court because she was a black woman, the sole qualification Biden outlined for his first Supreme Court appointment when he was running for president. Asked if she agreed with the late Justice [...]
Jed Perl (Knopf, $27, 161 pages): Long-time critic Jed Perl (The New York Review of Books, The New Republic) has slim new volume, Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts that is being described in many reviews as a salvo against relevancy. Perl, say these reviewers, defends art-for -art’s sake. Up to a point that this is true. Roger Scruton says [...]
Interim Staff : Under the “Better Regulations for British Columbia” initiative, provincial bureaucrats in B.C. are obligated to take an annual inventory of government regulations to excise any instances of “gendered language.” After removing more than 600 such terms in 2021, it excised 741 more “instances of outdated gendered language” in 138 regulations this year. The changes took effect on March 30. [...]
Paul Tuns: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the federal budget on April 7 and most media coverage focused on the size of the deficit, measures to address the housing affordability crisis, new defense spending and a new dental program, and tax increases for large businesses and the wealthy. But there are a number of anti-life and anti-family initiatives in the budget that [...]
Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed a deal with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to become the last province to join the federal government’s plan for $10-a-day daycare. While seven provinces and territories inked deals before the September 2021 federal election and all were signed onto it before the end of the year except Ontario, Ford was waiting to announce his province’s agreement [...]
Seventy-five years ago, an English poet described what he called “the modern problem:” that is, “of living in a society in which men are no longer supported by tradition without being aware of it.” The individual who “wishes to bring order and coherence” into his mental life and inner experience must therefore do “for himself what in previous ages had been done [...]
Paul Tuns: As everyone knows, the price of housing -- both renting and buying a place to live -- is skyrocketing across the country. The issue has seized politicians with the Trudeau budget introducing no less than 17 budget measures to address housing affordability and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland saying during her budget speech that out-of-control housing prices is an “intergenerational injustice.” [...]
Janice Glover and Paul Tuns: The remains of 115 aborted babies were discovered by pro-life activists in a when they intercepted a box labelled from Washington, D.C. abortuary with dismembered babies being sent to a medical waste centre. Members of The Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) group that intercepted the box from Washington Surgi Centre, an abortion mill, said that it contained 110 [...]
The managerial welfare-state consumes the planet By Mark Wegierski It is the 52nd anniversary of the first Earth Day (1970). Many people in Western societies today are rightly concerned with environmental issues. The locus of resistance to many negative current-day trends is likely to be found in ecology. Ironically, however, it could be argued that the Western managerial welfare-state so beloved by [...]
Paul Tuns: Kerry Lavender, an assistant professor of biochemistry, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine, wrote two articles based on government-funded research she has conducted on “humanized mice” experiments that used fetal tissue procured from aborted preborn babies. The mice are known in the scientific literature as “TKO-BLT mice.” The controversial experiments entail implanting human fetal tissue [...]
Interim Staff: Two Windsor women were charged with murder after they killed a 79-year-old female family member that the accused say was an assisted suicide. Police did not release the names of the victim and the accused in order protect the integrity of the investigation, but the two women were identified as being 23 and 49 years of age, and both were [...]
Interim Staff: An Ontario Superior Court judge dismissed a legal challenge by two southwestern Ontario evangelical churches against the province’s pandemic restrictions that closed and limited capacity of churches. During a three-day hearing that began Jan. 31, lawyers for the Church of God in Aylmer, Ont., and the Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, Ont., argued that restrictions designed to limit the spread [...]
There are two stories in this issue that delve into ways in which the Culture of Death is sustained through deception. We have a story about how the abortion pill is being marketed as “missed period pills.” Of course, the missed period being described is not a medical ailment, but a natural occurrence during pregnancy. The pill does not treat the missed [...]
Oswald Clark: On Feb. 28, the Senate failed to invoke cloture (closure) on a filibuster in order to proceed to a vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act, which passed in the House of Representatives when every Democrat but one voted for it earlier in the month. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer knew he did not have enough votes for victory as [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 was International Women’s Day. It was incumbent on America’s 46th president to salute women throughout the world and to offer them something encouraging and uplifting. He told half the population on the planet that women cannot “live up to their God-given potential” without abortion-on-demand. The inclusion of a reference to God is curious since hardly [...]