Andrew Lawton: As I and many others have written previously, the political left has been winning the culture war for years. Whatever little victories have been gained by social conservatives as of late have been dwarfed by a general backslide in society on a number of conscience issues. In my efforts to diagnose this problem, I’ve identified a chief attribute that makes [...]
Paul Tuns: Cannabis became legal in 2018, but the number of legal pot shops in Ontario has exploded in 2021, with no end in sight to new openings, with the number of locations selling marijuana soon to eclipse the number of dedicated liquor and beer stores in the province. According to the annual report of the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), the province’s [...]
Schadenberg calls for criminal investigation on long-term care deaths Paul Tuns: An assistant chief nurse at a long-term care home in Laval, Quebec was directed by the provincial health department to administer morphine to coronavirus patients instead of caring for them to treat their illness with an eye to survival, an inquest was told. “I had never seen deaths happen so quickly,” [...]
Rory Leishman: What can account for the unprecedented outburst of anti-Christian rage in Canada that has fueled the incineration of 20 Christian churches and the defacing of dozens more with red and orange paint? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blames the Catholic and Protestant churches that operated Indian Residential Schools (IRS) on behalf of the government of Canada. In a statement on July [...]
Donald DeMarco The task of the commencement speaker is a curious one. After all, what more can students learn inside of an hour that they have not learned over the long haul of four years? However, the show must go on in spite of its rich potential for inducing boredom. Humorist Garry Trudeau has stated that, “Commencement speeches were invented largely in [...]
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 [...]