Pornocracy: Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel (Polity, $36, 183 pages) In their introduction, Jo Bartosch, a journalist, and Robert Jessel, a human rights campaigner, argue that pornography defines our culture, calling our society a “pornocracy” which they define as, “A society in which political power, culture, relationships and identity are shaped or dominated by the purveyors of pornography.” Bartosch and Jessel continue: [...]
Sarah Stilton, Review: The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto by Leah Libresco Sargeant (Notre Dame University Press, $37.95, 219 pages) Leah Libresco Sargeant, an author and speaker, provocatively argues in her brief The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist that it is not women who form families by choosing marriage and motherhood that betray the sisterhood, but rather radical feminists who ignore or hide [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements At the end of last year Helen Andrews (whose book Boomers I reviewed here five years ago) published an essay in the online magazine Compact called “The Great Feminization,” looking over the world now that women have achieved parity and are edging into dominance of certain professions and institutions. It was a sensation [...]
Interim Staff: On March 24, Didsbury, Albera, a town of just over 5000 population north of Calgary, voted to ban pride flags at government buildings and painted pride crosswalks on city streets. The vote was 4-3 in favour, and it applies only to government buildings, properties, and roads. Mayor Chris Little said the policy is designed to keep the municipality neutral in [...]
John Carpay: Is racism always wrong? In Canada in 2026, asking this question is not only fair, but necessary. A Rights Recognition Agreement signed in secret between the Musqueam Indian Band and Canada’s federal government recognizes Musqueam Aboriginal title over Vancouver and nearby municipalities and much of the Lower Mainland. Much of this same area is also claimed by the Tsawwassen, Squamish, [...]
Rory Leishman: Over the past decade, physicians have subjected tens of thousands of vulnerable, transsexual teenagers to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and permanently mutilating sex-reassignment surgery. Yet there is no solid evidence that these dangerous and experimental treatments have any lasting benefits. That is the stark conclusion of a definitive, peer-reviewed, scientific paper entitled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence [...]
Are the Olympics the grandest stage of all for elite athletes, or a two-week festival of fornication and debauchery? Sadly, it’s hard to tell and the recent Winter Games in Italy prove it. The Milano Cortina organizers made international headlines when they ran out of free condoms for the athletes. The math is crazy. They started out with a stockpile of about [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: Over the past year, six Canadian hospitals have experienced decreases in maternity care availability. Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock, B.C., has a maternity diversion in place as of this writing: Expectant mothers will have to deliver their babies at other hospitals between March 12 and 18, marking the ward’s eighth temporary closure since December. Also in B.C., Ridge [...]
Our cover story and editorial this month is about artificial intelligence (AI), and as the Marxists say, it is not a coincidence that we are publishing this series of articles and commentary the month after we wrote about the significance of imago dei. AI presents an existential threat to humanity, but even if it does not wipe out mankind, it still represents [...]
Paul Tuns: Artificial intelligence (AI) is celebrated by its boosters as a game-changing innovation that promises not merely greater efficiency and convenience, but solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges and problems. As Marc Andreesson, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, says, “AI will save the world.” AI’s critics warn that it creates new problems from widespread unemployment to an existential risk to the continued [...]
Consider a first-year university student writing a paper at the end of the term. The task is daunting, and a tumult of emotions besets the young writer as he sits down to do his work. He is excited by the swirl of nascent ideas and by a handful of what sound, in his head, like fine phrases. But as the work gets [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 18, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered Barry Neufeld, a former Chilliwack, British Columbia school trustee, to pay $750,000 to a teacher’s union for his insistence that there are only two genders. The BC HRT decision ruled that Neufeld made discriminatory comments against LGBTQ teachers over a five-year period in his social media posts. The Tribunal’s decision said, [...]
Interim Staff: On March 18, the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a Superior Court decision in favour of the City of Hamilton which censored a Christian Heritage Party of Canada advertisement defining a woman, that was intended for bus shelters in the southwestern Ontario city. In January 2023, CHP Canada attempted to purchase advertising space in bus shelters in Hamilton for a [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: In 2025, two Peruvian municipalities passed ordinances giving legal rights to wild stingless bees from the Amazon. According to the Earth Law Center, which campaigned for the ordinances, among the “inherent rights of the bees and their ecosystems” now recognized under law are “the right to exist and thrive, the right to maintain healthy populations, the right to [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 3, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued a new recommendation that so-called gender affirming surgery should not be carried out on minors until the age of 19, citing professional ethics and the lack of quality research supporting such surgeries as reasons for the new guidelines. The next day, the American Medical Association issued a statement saying that [...]