Joanna Alphonso: Today’s technological advances, intended to benefit humanity, have a significant capability to harm every one of us, especially as long as they remain legally unbridled. Welcome to the world of artificial intelligence (AI). What is AI? AI makes it possible for computers to learn from experience based on inputs of its human users. It has exploded over the last year [...]
Interim staff: On Sept. 20, 2024, the second Million Person March for Children, organized by “Hands off Our Kids,” was held in communities across Canada. Although numbers were down in many locations compared to last year according to one-the-ground reports, one organizer said “the message was still clear that parents of all faiths want their children protected from the dangers of LGBTQ [...]
Immigration responsible for nearly all population growth Paul Tuns: Source: Statistics Canada On Sept. 25, Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s fertility rate has been declining for 15 years and reached the new low of 1.26 children per woman in 2023. Demographers consider 2.1 children to be the natural replacement rate. The number of live births in Canada was unchanged at [...]
Paul Tuns: Ahead of the New Brunswick general election officially called on Sept. 17, Campaign Life Coalition distributed thousands of postcards with information about transgender indoctrination in schools. This raised the ire of politicians opposed to Premier Blaine Higgs’s policies requiring parental consent to use names and pronouns at odds with a student’s biological sex. CLC distributed postcards to households in August [...]
Oswald Clark: West Virginia could outlaw euthanasia Voters in ten states will decide the fate of abortion laws after abortion advocates organized to get referenda on the issue on the ballot. The ten states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota. In Maryland and New York, the legislature voted to put the constitutional amendment on [...]
Paul Tuns: Cardus, an Ottawa and Hamilton-based Christian think tank, released a pair of studies in September exploring the scope and impact of sports betting, and calling for tighter regulations of the online sports-betting market. In “Hidden Harms of Single-Event Sports Betting in Ontario,” author Johanna Lewis found that the average net monthly spending per sports betting account is $283, the equivalent [...]
Interim Staff: On Sept. 24, Pastor Derek Reimer was acquitted of charges related to his drag queen story time protest in Calgary. Reimer, pastor of Mission 7 Ministries, was charged with causing a disturbance and mischief for protesting the “Reading with Royalty” event marketed for children at the Seton Public Library in February 2023. He was removed from the premises by police. [...]
Almost immediately upon becoming the Democratic candidate for president, Kamala Harris started attacking her Republican opponents, Donald Trump and JD Vance, as weird. To emphasize the difference between the Democratic ticket’s ostensible normalness and the Republicans’ alleged weirdness, she picked the mostly non-descript Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former high school football coach. No sooner had Harris delivered the broadside that “weird” [...]
Every four years, the cyclical rituals of American democracy impose the ordeal of an “election year” not only upon its own populace, but on the entire globe. At such times, stances on a range of geopolitical issues hang in the balance—positions which, in turn, promise to set the general tenor of international diplomacy and public discourse for years to come. The 2024 [...]
Sarah Stilton, Review: Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler (Knopf, $37, 320 pages) Judith Butler is a famous, or infamous, feminist and leading influence on gender theory through her earlier works such as Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender, and Bodies that Matter. This year she returns to the topic in Who’s Afraid Gender? which undermines many of her earlier arguments. Three decades ago, [...]
Gideon Spevak: The Canadian government in 2023 awarded more than 300 grants or contributions to pro-LGBT groups, totalling over $665 million, according to a June 12th blog post. Run With Life is a pro-life and pro-family blog by Patricia Maloney. In a post published on June 12, Maloney stated that over $665 million of taxpayer funds were spent on LGBT ideology in [...]
Paul Tuns: The Office for Statistical Regulation (OSR) in England said there was “sufficient evidence” calling into question the results of the 2021 Census for England and Wales when it came to the gender identity question. The 2021 Census reported that there were 262,000 people who self-identified as transgender, or about one in every 200 people in the country. The 2021 census [...]
Oswald Clark, Review: Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women by Batya Ungar-Sargon (Encounter, $30, 225 pages) White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman (Random House, $42, 299 pages) Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt (Random House, $42, 492 pages) Since Donald Trump’s surprise [...]
With September comes the familiar rituals of going “back to school,” a moment in the year which always contains a faint echo of the distant rhythms of harvest time. When growing season would approach its end, fruits and fields would need to be gleaned, gathered, and mowed. Our overflowing grocery stores—stocked with produce of various kinds—remind us of both these extant agricultural [...]
Almost impossible to completely shield young students from LGBTQ propaganda in schools Gideon Spivak: The LGBTQ+ ideology is a part of most elementary and high school curricula across the country, some including teaching the latest politically correct Newspeak as early as kindergarten to describe same-sex couples. Many of these lessons about homosexuality and gender theory are not isolated within a sex-ed curriculum [...]