Johnny Tzoganakis: Despite all the focus on COVID-19, in Canada there has recently been an uptick in another disease: syphilis. Saskatchewan has been recently struck with an outbreak of the disease, with 903 reported cases in 2020 and 537 so far in 2021 (as of May). While the other provinces by and large have not had any recent outbreaks (excepting Alberta), the [...]
Andrew Lawton: In our pluralistic society, it has become common to find some rights seemingly butt up against each other. Transgender rights and women’s rights, gay rights and religious freedoms, and so on. As these conflicts fit into the ongoing culture wars, I take comfort in knowing the two most important rights, those to life and to free speech, are never in [...]
John Carpay: Interim writer, John Carpay, Law Matters Sixteen months into lockdowns, governments continue to restrict our basic Charter freedoms of expression, association, peaceful assembly, religion, conscience, travel, and movement. Meanwhile, our economy lies in ruins. Our children and grandchildren will need to repay hundreds of billions of dollars of lockdown debt. What started out as a reasonable, precautionary response [...]
Johnny Tzoganakis: COVID-19 may not be the only immediate threat to public health: measures to combat it may prove very deadly as well. There are a number of opinions on the medical efficacy of one of the main measures being taken across Canada—lockdowns—but there is an increasing body of evidence to suggest that they may result in untold deaths that are not [...]
Paul Tuns: Senate debates C-6 On June 22, the House of Commons passed the Trudeau government’s Bill C-6, the so-called conversion therapy ban, in a 263-63 vote. Independent MP Derek Sloan (Hastings—Lennox and Addington) joined 62 of his former Conservative colleagues voting against the bill, which was supported by the Liberal, NDP, Bloc, and Green caucuses and nearly a third of the [...]
George Orwell once wrote: “he who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” In the West today, there can be no clear hallmark of the control that grips parties across the political spectrum and governments across the world than the history which recedes further, every day, into the category of the unmentionable—and, therefore, the forgotten. [...]
Johnny Tzoganakis: NDP MPP Sara Singh (Brampton Centre) has proposed a new bill that seeks to make information about Down syndrome publicly available, especially to expectant parents of children prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome. Bill 225 would amend the Regulated Health Professions Act of 1991 to require public availability of accurate, up-to-date medical information concerning Down syndrome: life expectancy, developmental issues (physical [...]
Gerry Nicholls - Commentary: It’s odd how inanimate objects can sometimes generate animated debates. Consider the passionate arguments currently taking place in various parts of the world over sculptures made of stone or bronze. In the United States, for instance, there were recently emotional battles waged over whether or not to remove statues of Confederate war heroes, while in Britain there’s an ongoing [...]
Josie Luetke: The sexual revolution is responsible for the rampant increase of abortion and a slew of other evils. This near-axiomatic notion was instilled in me early on, but as this upheaval was driven by social liberals, I thought of it as only affecting social liberals. Not so. Josh Duggar, the eldest of the kids on the show 19 Kids and Counting, [...]
Interim Staff: After numerous runs with various Big Tech platforms in the past, Facebook permanently banned LifeSiteNews’ Facebook page on May 4. LifeSiteNews reporter Doug Mainwaring said, “This apparently is not a temporary measure: It is gone for good.” A message was sent by email to the LifeSiteNews marketing department, accusing the pro-life news website of publishing “false information about COVID-19 that [...]
Mark Wegierski: The last several years have witnessed the brutal struggle between print media and social media -- broadcasters really -- like Facebook, Google, Instagram, and Twitter, in regards to consuming advertising budgets. Facebook now scoops up close to 80 per cent of advertising revenue, thus starving print media of much of its sources of income. Numerous daily and weekly newspapers have [...]
Rory Leishman In an attempt to justify their new, multi-billion dollar, “Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan,” the Trudeau Liberals maintain that infants and toddlers generally thrive better under the care and guidance of professional child-care workers than their own parents. Is that right? The Department of Finance claims: “Studies by Canadians Dr. Fraser Mustard and the Honourable Margaret McCain have [...]
Interim Staff After convincing every public school board in Ontario to fly the rainbow pride flag -- the universal emblem of LGBTQ+ rights -- on board and school properties, gay activists focused their attention on the publicly funded Catholic school boards. After the separate boards in Waterloo and Thunder Bay voted earlier this year to begin flying the pride flag in June, [...]
Paul Tuns British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Sandra Wilkinson ruled on April 26 that the name of a second mother must be included as one of three legal parents on the birth certificate of a two-year-old boy, finding that the provincial legislature “did not contemplate polyamorous families” when it amended the Family Law Act (FLA) in 2011. Wilkinson said all three members [...]
Andrea Mrozek Laying out plans for a national daycare system is one thing. Dealing with the reality of implementing those plans is quite another. The federal government is staring down a shocking reality check on both the costs and complexities of a daycare system. The federal government wants to spend $30 billion over five years on a daycare system – landing on [...]