Rick McGinnis: I’m old enough to remember when the internet – at that point still described as an “information superhighway” – held the promise of data and knowledge at our fingertips, every day, anywhere. What we’ve ended up with is a torrent of unwanted opinion, non-curated trivia. and, lately, endless AI slop. But running underneath is another toxic stream that has been [...]
Interim Staff: Bill Whatcott was found guilty of promoting hate by Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy in a retrial for charges related to his activities at the 2016 Toronto pride parade in which he and fellow “gay zombie” activists distributed 3000 flyers opposing homosexual activity. In 2016, Whatcott and six others dressed in skin-tight lime green bodysuits and masks, registered as [...]
From the editor’s desk: Global Updates reported on the parliamentary victory for Alliance for Germany (AdF), which is invariably referred to as “far right” or “extremist,” in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt: “Alice Weidel becomes the first leader in the world who is anti-immigration but has an immigrant wife, is anti-LGBTQ+ but is a lesbian herself, opposes LGBT adoption but has adopted [...]
Victims of the Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All Nathaniel Blake with a foreword by Ryan T. Anderson (Ignatius Press, $24.95, 229 pages) In Victims of the Revolution, Nathaniel Blake of the Ethics and Public Policy Center condemns the Sexual Revolution and its aftermath, bringing the receipts as they say, to show the damage that it has done to untold numbers of [...]
Donald Demarco: There is nothing higher, for many athletes, than winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Some have said that they would give up ten years of their life if they could accomplish such a feat. This kind of exchange, however, downplays the significance of the gratitude we should have for being alive for an entire decade. Should gratitude bow to [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition has filed two applications for judicial review in the New Brunswick Court of King’s Bench asking the court to quash a pair of decisions of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission referring complaints to a Board of Enquiry about two of CLC’s political flyers distributed in the 2024 provincial election. CLC’s lawyer, provided by the Justice Centre [...]
School boards in Toronto and Ontario have recently seen a clear and sustained uptick in “behavioural problems,” a sweeping (if euphemistic) term for a large swathe of anti-social conduct in the classroom ranging from harassment to threats to outright physical violence. It would seem that the kids are not, in fact, alright. What is at the root of this growing phenomenon which, [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: Here & Queer, a CBC talk series celebrating LGBTQ artists, interviewed a “nonbinary drag king” on April 2. Heath V. Salazar is a biological female performer across various artistic disciplines who uses the stage name “Gay Jesus” and is on Instagram as @theirholiness. In early 2020, she wrote a CBC article that touched on the division her transition caused [...]
From the editor’s desk: This “From the Editor’s Desk” could focus exclusively on pride month events – or “pride season” as the Liberal government calls it. Depending on where you live in this great country of ours, you could be exposed to pride day, pride week, or pride month (or all three) any time in June, July, August, and presumably September. Heritage [...]
Kesiah Beere: On June 1, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) held the fourth annual National “Pride” Flag Walk-Out Day. Each year, on the day that schools and school boards raise “Pride” flags in celebration of “pride month,” CLC calls for parents to keep their children home from school in protest of the LGBT agenda that infiltrates the public and Catholic education systems. The [...]
John Carpay: Social media is actually quite anti-social. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp drive many teens and adults into isolation and loneliness as they spend less time in face-to-face interactions with others. Some people use artificial intelligence chatbots as a substitute for friendships. Pornography, now freely available to everyone at all times on an anonymous basis, has driven some men away from [...]
Kesiah Beere and Paul Tuns: On June 10, 2026, Liberal MP Marc Miller introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, in the House of Commons. The proposed bill seeks to protect children from online harm through preventative measures. “Regulated services,” which includes designated social media sites, AI chatbots, and other platforms, must adhere to new safety requirements and accountability measures that avert [...]
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass: 25th Anniversary Edition Theodore Dalrymple (Bloomsbury, $26.50, 225 pages) British psychiatrist and author Theodore Dalrymple (real name Anthony Daniels) published Life at the Bottom a quarter century ago and a new edition was warranted, not just because Rob Henderson (Troubled) writes the foreword, but because the baneful worldview Dalrymple identified 25 years [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis, $42, 348 pages) Paul Kingsnorth, a former Wiccan-practicing environmentalist who became a rural-living conservative has written an important book looking askance at what most people would consider progress. Against the Machine is a critique of techno-optimism, an expose of the soul-destroying aspects of technology and modern sensibilities. Kingsnorth, [...]
From the editor’s desk: By the way, between his three marriages and various mistresses, Boris Johnson has at least ten, probably 12, and perhaps even more children. ** Typically, the cover of each June edition of this paper features the National March for Life. Not this month. Jim Hughes, long-time pro-life leader, passed away days after the March. Were it not for [...]