Society & Culture

Bad ideas are destroying Canada

John Carpay: Bad laws are the result of bad politics. Bad politics result from a rotten culture. A rotten culture emerges when too many people embrace bad ideas. A complete description of all the bad ideas that are now wrecking Canada’s culture, society, and economy would fill many volumes. But here follows a partial list. “Most parents are dangerous and abusive.” This [...]

2024-07-29T09:23:36-04:00July 29, 2024|John Carpay, Politics, Society & Culture|

The meaning of rest

Things slow down in the summer months, and all our lives are touched by this welcome change of pace. The arrival of the season may herald the end of academic classes—bringing with it more precious time with children and grandchildren. It may mark a season of office vacations or adjusted summer schedules, or simply a spirit of reprieve and relaxation in the [...]

2024-07-26T17:33:06-04:00July 26, 2024|Editorials, Society & Culture|

Police won’t lay charges for public nudity during Toronto pride parade

Interim Staff: True North reported that Toronto police would not lay any charges for public nudity during the June 30 pride parade in the city’s downtown. Video footage of the homosexual fetish parade aired on social media showed various contingents of men marching naked through the city streets as on-lookers cheered and clapped, including families that brought young children. In one video, [...]

2024-07-24T09:42:06-04:00July 24, 2024|Society & Culture|

Ontario parents can exempt children from province’s explicit sex-ed curriculum

Paul Tuns: Lou Iacobelli, a former educator who blogs at Everyday for Life, says parents should inform their children’s schools that they want to exempt their children from the province’s Human Development and Sexual Heath expectation for the child’s grade. Iacobelli said that all children in Grade 1-8 are expected to learn the sex-ed curriculum as part of the Ontario Health and [...]

2024-07-23T12:07:00-04:00July 23, 2024|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

It was the worst of times: Four cancelled years

Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements It’s been a rough four years. Everybody knows that. And though their struggles don’t register much with the public, journalists have arguably been having a rough 20 years, probably more. They’d ask for your sympathy but know they’re not likely to get it, though they can write books like Nellie Bowles’ Morning After [...]

2024-07-19T11:45:44-04:00July 19, 2024|Reviews, Rick McGinnis, Society & Culture|

Nova Scotia bill to educate people on Down syndrome

Paul Tuns: Liberal MLA Keith Irving (Kings South) introduced Bill 440, which, if passed, would provide evidence-based data about Down syndrome to parents informed of a prenatal diagnosis of the chromosomal anomaly. A law respecting Down syndrome, or so-called Harvey’s Law, would require medical staff to provide up-to-date and evidence-based information on Down Syndrome, including data about life expectancy, education and psychosocial [...]

2024-07-13T11:05:40-04:00June 30, 2024|Bioethics, Politics, Society & Culture|

NFL star causes furor over commencement address

Paul Tuns: Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is a conservative, Latin Mass Catholic, who was asked to deliver the commencement address at this year’s graduating ceremonies at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. His speech raised the ire of feminists and liberal Catholics. On May 11, Butker, who has won three Super Bowls in the last five seasons, told the graduating class, [...]

2024-07-13T09:10:42-04:00June 30, 2024|Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

Reality versus ideology in N.B. Court

John Carpay:  The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has filed a court challenge against the right of parents to be fully informed about what is happening with their own children at school. One of Canada’s oldest civil liberties groups has fully embraced woke ideology, including the claim that gender is determined by identity rather than biology. In other words, if you feel [...]

2024-06-21T08:40:26-04:00June 21, 2024|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Impurity death spiral

Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey The Chosen, a wildly popular television series about the live of Jesus and His disciples, got into hot water last year because one of the members of the film crew was caught sporting a Pride flag on his equipment while on set. In the resulting brouhaha, co-founder and co-CEO of The Daily [...]

2024-06-20T14:05:51-04:00June 20, 2024|Society & Culture|

Contracepting the future

Some rhythms and patterns are so regular that their interruption is all but almost impossible to imagine—the sun rises in the east, the seasons change, and life unfolds against a settled horizon of expectations. Indeed, the deep grooves of these established pattens are the very contours that constitute “normal life,” and their cessation has the character of a cataclysm. When sudden emergencies—like [...]

2024-06-14T06:59:19-04:00June 14, 2024|Abortion, Bioethics, Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Christian lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos dead at 41

Paul Tuns: On May 9, Albertos Polizogopoulos, a Canadian pro-life lawyer, died at the age of 41 following a three-year battle with cancer. Polizogopoulos had a career that defended life, conscience, and religious freedom, with his official obituary noting, “He defended the rights of the vulnerable and the freedoms of Christians." Polizogopoulos appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada ten times and [...]

2024-06-07T10:23:41-04:00June 7, 2024|Religion, Society & Culture|

Brave New Words

Brave New Words: How AI will Re/volutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing) Salman Khan (Viking, $39.99, 237 pages) Salman Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a non-profit that provides free online educational instruction for all ages. His Khan Academy videos have been viewed billions of times by more than 150 million users as he has dedicated his life [...]

2024-06-06T13:37:15-04:00June 5, 2024|Reviews, Society & Culture|

Trudeau government pledges $1.7 million to push LGBTQ ideology abroad

Interim Staff: On May 9, the parliamentary secretary for International Development, Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the Liberal government would give $1.7 million to international groups committed to advancing the LGBTQ+ agenda in the developing world. Taking part in a Dignity Network panel, Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld (Ottawa West-Nepean), said the federal government would disburse $1.7 million over three years to promote “2SLGBTQI+ [...]

2024-06-05T10:34:14-04:00June 5, 2024|Society & Culture|

Backlash against LGBTQ ideology ‘extreme,’ national security threat: CSIS

Paul Tuns: Phil Gurski, president and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting In its annual report to the House of Commons, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) listed the "anti-gender movement" as a an "Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism" movement (IMVE) which poses "a significant risk to Canada's national security risk." On May 7, CSIS tabled its annual report to [...]

2024-06-05T10:21:15-04:00June 5, 2024|Society & Culture|

Turning around the family unfriendly culture

Paul Tuns, Review: Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by Timothy P. Carney (Harper, $36.99, 343 pages) Invariably, it seems, Timothy Carney’s Family Unfriendly and Brad Wilcox’s Get Married are getting reviewed together. Not here. Both are deserving of their own treatment. The Wilcox review will appear next month. Carney, a Catholic father of [...]

2024-06-04T10:41:21-04:00June 4, 2024|Marriage and Family, Paul Tuns, Reviews, Society & Culture|
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