The Greater Reset: Reclaiming Personal Sovereignty Under Natural Law Michael D. Greany and Dawn K. Brohawn (Tan, $30, 383 pages): For 40 years the World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab has pushed a globalist agenda of stakeholder capitalism which would make companies answerable not to their shareholders but a global elite that share a centralizing worldview of welfare statism and monopoly capitalism. The [...]
Philip Tomchyshyn: Though gender confusion in minors typically subsides without invasive treatment, gender confused minors are at a higher risk of committing suicide than their peers. It has been proposed that suicide rates can be decreased if confused adolescents receive cross-sex medical interventions, particularly through the prescription of puberty blockers and sex hormones. Several organizations, including the World Professional Association for Transgender [...]
Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity Claudia Goldin (Princeton, $38, 325 pages): Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity examines the career and family decisions women make as they try to narrow both the wage gap in the workplace and experience equitable sharing of responsibilities in the home. The most important insight Goldin makes is that [...]
Philip Tomchyshyn: On May 17, Halton Catholic District School Board trustee Helena Karabela proposed a motion to alter the board’s fundraising policies by recognizing the sanctity of life. The motion, “Upholding the Sanctity of Life in Fundraising Services at the Halton Catholic District School Board – Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” stated “that the Halton Catholic District School Board because it is a [...]
Population collapse in South Korea In the May issue, editor Paul Tuns wrote about “the social consequences of the housing affordability crisis” in Canada. A look into similar problems in South Korea, outlined by the Population Research Institute (Athan Clark, “Sunset in South Korea”), might give Canadians pause at the direction our country is going. Koreans very rarely marry and have children. [...]
Andrew Lawton: Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked what seems like a simple question: “Can you provide a definition for the word woman?” Brown Jackson said she couldn’t, famously attributing it to the fact that she’s “not a biologist.” The question is a necessarily blunt one, because most people know full well what a woman is and are [...]
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine – formerly Richard Levine – told NPR that “There is no argument among medical professionals … about the value and importance of gender-affirming care” for children and adolescents. Really? Was Levine being dishonest or is he (willfully) ignorant? There is, in fact, a great deal of debate on such matters, with many European nations putting [...]
Interim Staff: Statistics Canada released data from the 2021 Census that showed just 0.33 per cent of the population identify as either transgender or non-binary. The 2021 Census was the first time Canada -- or any other country -- included gender identification in the general survey, and it found that very few Canadians identified as either transgender or non-binary. There are nearly [...]
Interim Staff: A new directive from Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) states that biological males who “identify” as “women” are now allowed to be transferred from a men’s prison to a women’s facility if given approval by the assistant commissioner for correctional operations and programs. The new policy, released May 11 and titled “Commissioner’s Directive 100 Gender Diverse Offenders,” states that inmate [...]
John Carpay: Will Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, empower the federal government to censor controversial and unpopular speech on the internet? Not immediately. But the Online Streaming Act (OSA) is a significant and dangerous first step towards government control of the internet. The stated purpose of the OSA is not particularly controversial: to bring influential streaming services like Netflix, Disney and [...]
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Rick McGinnis: There’s a fallacy that history and progress march in lockstep, and that we are constantly moving forward to an ever better place; it’s the appeal to novelty, which favours the new over everything else, if only because the errors and dangers of the latest idea have not become apparent. Citizens in a thriving [...]
Interim Staff: A Helsinki court acquitted former Finnish Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen and Juhana Pohjola, the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, of inciting hatred against homosexuals with their defenses of traditional Christian teaching about the sinfulness of homosexual activity. The unanimous ruling was released on March 30. The charges against Räsänen related to her comments in [...]
Rory Leishman: On March 31, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson dealt a devastating blow to the predominance of transgender ideologues, by announcing that his Conservative government would not proceed with a promise to ban transgender conversion therapy. What can account for this abrupt about-face on a key policy issue by a government and prime minister that have hitherto sedulously courted the favour [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements I’m sure it’s not just because I have COVID as I write this, but I’ve found it hard to escape the sensation that modern life – society, culture, whatever you want to call it – is a lot less fun that it used to be, even if the circumstances of the last two [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey The Canadian government, in consultation with “experts,” is presently determining “how MAID can be provided safely to those whose only medical condition is a mental illness.” In less than a year, on March17, 2023, they will become eligible for euthanasia, deceptively referred to as “medical assistance in dying,” even though the only [...]