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Quebec proposes provincial constitution with freedom of abortion, right to euthanasia

Paul Tuns: In October, Quebec Premier François Legault and Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette introduced Bill 1, a proposed constitution for the province which would constitutionally guarantee access to abortion and euthanasia. The bill, if passed, “enacts the Constitution of Québec, the Act respecting the constitutional autonomy of Québec and the Act respecting the Conseil constitutionnel,” and it would have “primacy over any [...]

admin2026-01-08T14:56:59-05:00January 8, 2026|Abortion, Euthanasia, Politics, Religion|

And then there was this, December 2025

David takes down Goliath: Student newspaper wins defamation suit against pro-abortion professor The Irish Rover is an independent, non-profit student newspaper at Notre Dame University in Indiana established in 2003. Its mission is “devoted to preserving the Catholic identity of Notre Dame.” (Note: Recently, Notre Dame announced that it was not necessary for the components of the university to continue to ‘preserve its [...]

admin2025-12-23T18:34:19-05:00December 23, 2025|Abortion, And then there was this..., Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

The Christmas miracle

As the year draws to a close, we enter into a familiar series of sharp contrasts. Along with the calm and quiet of winter comes the frenzy of December’s last-minute preparations: there are decorations to be hung, parties to be planned, and trips to be made—or travelers to welcome. Christmas always has this dual aspect: no other spiritual feast brings such a [...]

admin2025-12-23T18:28:29-05:00December 23, 2025|Abortion, Religion|

Dickens’ famous Christmas story that we all know … and the one that we mostly don’t

Michael Taube: It’s long been a Christmas tradition in many households, including mine, to read Charles Dickens’ brilliant novella, A Christmas Carol. Interestingly, I read two Christmas stories by Dickens during the festive season. No, it’s not one of his well-known holiday stories like The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth. I’m referring to his superb book intended to be read [...]

admin2025-12-23T08:41:36-05:00December 23, 2025|Religion|

‘The Great Feminization’ and other observations

From the editor’s desk: In October, Compact published a provocative essay by Helen Andrews titled “The Great Feminization” in which she argued that cancel culture is essentially feminine: “Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field.” The thesis is not Andrews’. She borrowed it from the pseudonymous J. Stone and an essay [...]

admin2025-12-22T14:10:49-05:00December 22, 2025|Abortion, Marriage and Family, Paul Tuns, Politics, Religion, Society & Culture|

Portrait of a lady stained red

Josie Luetke: The sympathetic protagonist trotted out by pro-choicers is the teenager who accidentally gets knocked up. Think Ellen Page in Juno or Shailene Woodley in The Secret Life of the American Teenager (disregarding the bit of trivia that both their characters gave birth). Yet, this stereotype hasn’t reflected reality for a while. According to Statistics Canada, in 1975, girls under 20 [...]

admin2025-12-22T14:02:44-05:00December 22, 2025|Abortion, Josie Luetke|

The habit of sports

Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life College basketball has lost one of its impressive figures, and no, it wasn’t a lean, mean, dunking machine — it was a five-foot nun in a wheelchair. I’m talking about Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, who died back on Oct. 9 at the tender age of 106. She was a Sister of Charity [...]

admin2025-12-22T13:53:25-05:00December 22, 2025|Religion, Victor Penney|

Skin cell babies

Rory Leishman: In yet another deeply disturbing development in the rapidly evolving science of in vitro fertilization (IVF), Professor Shoukrhat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health and Science University announced in a paper published in Nature Communications on Sept. 30 that a research team led by him has succeeded in transforming human skin cells into human eggs. Mitalipov anticipates that once this technique [...]

admin2025-12-22T13:49:34-05:00December 22, 2025|Bioethics, Rory Leishman|

The ‘pro-choice’ generation

Donald DeMarco: I had a terrible dream last night. Maybe it was brought about by that extra slice of “everything on it” pizza I consumed before I retired. It was having its revenge. At any rate, the dream was not only terrifying, but it lasted a long time. I hastened to write it down before I forgot the incidents that rose to [...]

admin2025-12-19T12:04:38-05:00December 19, 2025|Abortion, Donald DeMarco|

Pro-life group condemned in B.C. legislature

Interim Staff On Oct. 6, the British Columbia legislature debated for an hour a motion condemning Association for Reformed Political Action’s (ARPA) “views and policies.” NDP MLA Rohini Arora (Burnaby East) introduced Motion 38, “Views and Policies of Association for Reformed Political Action.” The motion stated, “That this House condemns the intolerant views of the Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA), including [...]

admin2025-12-19T11:50:34-05:00December 19, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Religion|

Trans identification in decline

Oswald Clark: Eric Kaufmann of the Centre for Heterodox Social published a report in October, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans,” showing that the number of university students identifying as transgender is in steep decline. Using data collected by Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), polling 60,000 undergraduate students, Kaufmann determined that 3.6 per cent of respondents [...]

admin2025-12-19T11:36:21-05:00December 19, 2025|Society & Culture|

Changing language, losing reality

The contortions that the transgender phenomenon has foisted on the medical profession’s language are myriad—and pernicious. Although 20th-century thinkers had described man as “the symbol-making animal,” we have demonstrated, in our day, that we are symbol-destroying animals as well. The way in which the medical profession has conspired to warp both language and bodies to conform to a series of self-defining fictions [...]

admin2025-12-18T20:00:22-05:00December 18, 2025|Society & Culture|

Erasing biological reality: how transgenderism in health care harms women

Tanis Cortens Quillette magazine’s podcast released an episode on Oct. 10 entitled “Desexing the Language of Motherhood,” in which maternal and infant health specialist Karleen Gribble joined host Iona Italia to discuss the trend toward gender-neutral terminology in the field of women’s health. Italia and Gribble talked about Gribble’s article, “The Desexing of Language in Women’s Health Research and Care: A Story [...]

admin2025-12-18T19:45:13-05:00December 18, 2025|Society & Culture|

Despite anti-life, anti-family measures in budget, pro-lifers find reason to celebrate

Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns On Nov. 4, Liberal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the the Liberal government’s 2025 federal budget and after two weeks of kabuki theatre of whether or not enough opposition MPs would cross the floor, vote for the budget, or miss the final vote, it passed on a party-line vote 170-168. With a minority caucus that fell just [...]

admin2025-12-18T19:10:44-05:00December 18, 2025|Abortion, Politics|