Society & Culture

Can’t fix past racism with new racism

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, [...]

2026-04-29T15:11:44-04:00April 29, 2026|John Carpay, Politics, Society & Culture|

Transgender facts

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 [...]

2026-04-29T15:12:05-04:00April 29, 2026|Rory Leishman, Society & Culture|

Olympic village or Garden of Hedon

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 [...]

2026-04-27T18:05:20-04:00April 27, 2026|Society & Culture, Victor Penney|

‘There are real medical consequences’: maternity care deficit in Canada, US

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 [...]

2026-04-17T08:08:23-04:00April 17, 2026|Bioethics, Demography, Society & Culture|

What it means to be human

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 [...]

2026-04-16T10:07:30-04:00April 16, 2026|Abortion, Marriage and Family, Paul Tuns, Society & Culture|

The trouble with artificial intelligence: What is AI? What are its harms?

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 [...]

2026-04-16T10:02:58-04:00April 15, 2026|Society & Culture|

AI (atrophy of intelligence)

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 [...]

2026-04-14T15:58:42-04:00April 15, 2026|Society & Culture|

Former school trustee loses human rights case, ordered to pay $750,000

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, [...]

2026-04-08T09:39:02-04:00April 8, 2026|Society & Culture|

CHP loses Hamilton sign battle

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 [...]

2026-04-07T11:02:16-04:00April 7, 2026|Politics, Society & Culture|

Widespread expansion of personhood to animals and nature raises concerns

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 [...]

2026-03-19T13:03:54-04:00March 19, 2026|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

Plastic surgeons’ group advises delaying gender surgery until age 19

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 [...]

2026-03-12T12:08:51-04:00March 12, 2026|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

Surgeon, psychologist lose surgical transition malpractice suit

In legal first, a detransitioner successfully sued her medical care team Paul Tuns: On Feb. 2, a White Plains, N.Y., jury awarded Fox Varian $2 million in damages after her psychologist and plastic surgeon failed to properly treat her history of mental illness before approving of a surgical “gender-affirming” mastectomy and provide professional standards of care during Fox’s medical treatment. Varian’s is the [...]

2026-03-12T12:08:19-04:00March 12, 2026|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

Transgender surgeries for minors in Saskatchewan exposed

Paul Tuns: Rebel News reported that according to provincial data they obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, “The thing that gender activists claim isn’t happening, not only happened, but it happened 99 times” as records indicated. Rebel News reported that, “What the documents show is a pattern of abuse, a staggering waste of medical resources, and an alarming rise in [...]

2026-03-12T10:18:41-04:00March 12, 2026|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

Debriefing after the Conservative convention

Josie Luetke: Like a kicked dog coming back for more, I flew to Calgary for the 2026 Conservative Party of Canada convention at the tail end of January. As pro-life candidates have been disqualified by the party and leader Pierre Poilievre has gone over to the dark side—fully embracing abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and even the status quo on euthanasia—many of Campaign Life [...]

Observations on the continuing crisis

From the editor’s desk: In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords is debating whether to legalize euthanasia. We have a report on it in “And then there was this” on p. 17. I wanted to highlight one part of the on-going debate on that side of the lake, namely Lord Falconer’s comment during the third committee stage debate that the Terminally [...]

2026-03-02T12:26:13-05:00February 28, 2026|Abortion, Euthanasia, Paul Tuns, Politics, Religion, Society & Culture|
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