Paul Tuns I listened out of both duty and interest to the oral arguments before the Supreme Court, and followed along on Twitter and a number of people live-blogging the proceedings. Since the Court accepted the case, I’ve assumed that it would uphold Roe v. Wade but amend it by permitting supposedly severe restrictions before the commonly accepted point of viability point [...]
Rory Leishman Judging from the questions and comments during oral arguments in the Supreme Court of the United States on Dec. 1 in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, it seems likely, although far from certain, that the Court will finally decide in its ruling in Dobbs next June to reverse the calamitous judgment in Roe v. Wade [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns Analysis “Roe versus Wade and Planned Parenthood versus Casey haunt our country.” So began testimony of Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart’s oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization before the Supreme Court as the nine justices questioned three lawyers in a case that could overturn the 49-year-old precedent that created the right to abortion in [...]
Paul Tuns The Scott Moe government in Saskatchewan introduced and swiftly passed Bill 48, The Public Health (Safe Access to Hospitals) Amendment Act, 2021, that creates a so-called “safe access zone” of 50 metres around hospital property in which any non-union protests will be prohibited. The Bill passed on Nov. 24 and the law has a sunset clause to expire in two [...]
Paul Tuns Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canada Labour Code, is an omnibus bill that if passed will amend the Criminal Code to make it a crime to impede others from obtaining or providing health services. It will also amend the Canada Labour Code to provide employees with up to 10 days of medical leave of [...]
DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible Allan V. Horwitz (Johns Hopkins University Press, $43, 215 pages) Allan V. Horwitz is a sociology professor emeritus at Rutgers known for his numerous books on psychiatry. His latest is DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible, a slim but thorough look at the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and how this handbook for psychiatrists [...]
MP Leslyn Lewis MP Cathay Wagantall MP Arnold Viersen Paul Tuns On Nov. 24, three Conservative MPs addressed the Save Our Charities rally on Parliament Hill to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s threat to strip crisis pregnancy centres and other pro-life organizations of their charitable tax status. During the federal election, on page four [...]
Let us dissent from the orgy of praise for House of Commons and Senate passing the odious conversion therapy ban, Bill C-4, without any debate or hearings, a parliamentary manoeuvre that requires unanimous consent. When private companies agree to cooperate, it is called collusion; when politicians agree to cooperate, it receives hosannahs as bipartisanship. Politics is an arena in which ideas are [...]
10. Texas Heartbeat law protects thousands of preborn On May 19, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the Texas Heartbeat Act that bans abortion after the detection of a preborn baby’s heartbeat, typically around the sixth week of pregnancy. The law took effect on Sept. 1. The law allows citizens to sue anyone who commits or facilitates an abortion after a [...]
Interim Staff For Giving Tuesday, the week after the consumer orgy Black Friday sales during which organizations ask for donations, Campaign Life Coalition did something unusual: instead of asking its supporters to donate to their organization, they raised money to help mothers and babies in Canada’s north. CLC partnered with former Nunavut MLA Patterk Netser and his wife, Mona, “to help mothers [...]
Against the COVID jab (I) I am shocked by some of Rory Leishman’s statements in his latest column (“The Pro-Life Case for Vaccines,” November). He claims there is no credible evidence that the available vaccines for COVID-19 pose severe risks to health. However, hundreds of eminent doctors all over the world (including Dr. M. Yeadon, a former vice-president of Pfizer) have been [...]
Jim Hughes Fr. Paul Casullo died on Oct. 31 at the age of 91. The former Trappist monk, Fr. Casullo immigrated to Canada in 1964 where he served as a parish priest within the Archdiocese of Toronto. A shy and humble man, he struck people as a prayer warrior. As the pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Weston, he could [...]
In one of Kafka’s haunting parables, “An Imperial Message,” we read of an august Emperor who dispatches a daring, trusted messenger with a communication from his deathbed which is specifically for you, the most humble subject in his realm. But although this emissary is full of dignity, authority, and power his errand is hopeless. Layers upon layers of walls and palaces, and [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary In ancient Rome, the father dominated the family. As “paterfamilias” (head of the family), he had absolute rule over his household. If his children angered him, he had the legal right to disown them, sell them into slavery, or even kill them. Sons were preferred. The birth of a female, could be her death warrant. The father came first, [...]
Michael Taube Commentary “You better watch out, you better not cry / You better not pout, I’m telling you why / Santa Claus is coming to town.” Have you heard the news? Santa Claus is nearly here! Santa’s sleigh is always led by eight tiny reindeer, you know - and guided by Rudolph’s shiny red nose, of course. The elves are making [...]