The Detransition Diaries Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell (Ignatius Press, $24.95, 246 pages) Documentarian Jennifer Lahl (Trans Mission) and perinatal nurse Kallie Fell have written a short, powerful, timely argument against transgender ideology. There are several short chapters on issues surrounding gender dysphoria such as “The rise of the gender-affirmation movement,” “Lessons not learned from medical abuses,” “Why is the trend higher among [...]
Donald DeMarco: The Fifth Annual Report on It was just another game in the long 162 marathon that is the season of baseball. Or was it? Boston Red Sox first baseman Pat Stapleton came to bat in the fourth inning against the Chicago White Sox with the score tied 2-2. Stapleton hit a line-drive that would have been far less memorable if [...]
Victor Penny: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life Donald Trump has driven a stake deep into the heart of the woke agenda. On Feb. 5, the U.S. President signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” The concept is straightforward: male athletes are now banned from participating in athletic competitions that are exclusively for girls and women. [...]
Mary Zwicker: Individuals who suffer from gender confusion are more likely to be on the autism spectrum and vice versa, studies reveal. Various studies have demonstrated a link between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and gender confusion, revealing that a higher percentage of gender confused individuals are on the autism spectrum compared to “cis-gender” people, while at the same time, higher numbers of [...]
Sarah Stilton Review: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari (Signal, $45, 492 pages) Yuval Noah Harari is something of a rock star public intellectual who burst onto the scene with his 2014 book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, originally published in Hebrew in 2011. Previously a military historian, the Oxford-trained [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2021, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB), the second largest Catholic school board in Ontario—encompassing Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon, and the surrounding area—voted to fly the Pride flag outside its Catholic Education Centre and a couple of other buildings. Not even four years later, not only did the board re-affirm its [...]
Paul Tuns: Presenting to the UAE World Governments Summit 2025 by video conference, the world’s richest man and President Donald Trump’s right-hand man Elon Musk envisioned a future in which humanoid robots directed by “deep intelligence” would produce a nearly infinite array of products and services that would render money meaningless. The answer came from a question at the United Arab Emirates [...]
Paul Tuns: Following Donald Trump’s executive order recognizing just two sexes, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s responded to a question of whether he would follow suit if the Conservatives formed government. His response was non-committal: ”I’m not aware of any other genders than men and women.” He notably stopped short of committing to a future Conservative government recognizing only two sexes. In [...]
January 20 – Donald Trump is sworn-in as President of the United States Donald J. Trump is sworn-in as the 47th President of the United States at a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. January 20 – Recognition of just two sexes Calling the eradication of “biological sex” an attack on women and “corrosive … of the entire American system,” Trump issued a memorandum [...]
Oswald Clark: President Donald Trump was busy in his first ten days undoing many of the socially liberal policies on abortion and gender of the Biden administration. President Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office saw a flurry of action from the White House through executive orders covering everything from immigration to celebrating the U.S.’s 250th anniversary in 2027, many [...]
Gideon Spivak: Trustee Michael Del Grande is setting his sights on the Supreme Court of Canada to hear his lawsuit challenging the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) after an October dismissal by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. On Oct. 23, at his most recent court appearance, Del Grande sought to overturn sanctions brought against him by the TCDSB in November [...]
Honourable mentions: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith vows to protect female spaces, Statistics Canada reports that Canada’s fertility rate hits all-time low of 1.26 children per woman of child-bearing age (among the lowest in the world), Trudeau implements national pharmacare program that provides free contraception to all Canadians whose birth control is not covered by their private insurance programs or provincial [...]
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Rick McGinnis: With the re-election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, Canada has become an interesting place, though like almost any other time when this has happened, the circumstances aren’t necessarily welcomed by Canadians. It all began with what was probably a joke, though when it comes to existential questions and particularly [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life I find myself in a rather uncomfortable position with the NFL playoffs kicking off this month. I’m doing the unthinkable: falling in love with another team, and it hurts. As a longtime fan of the Dallas Cowboys, it pains me to say this, but they’ve been a trainwreck this season, and my [...]
Donald DeMarco: I shall begin by enunciating the premise that the life that God has granted us is richer, more meaningful, and more important than any of the gifts we have given ourselves, such as our possessions, our artifacts, our entertainments, and our amusements. We are tempted to believe that the things we enjoy in life are more important than life itself. [...]