Oswald Clark: Photo credit: Post Millennial After the June debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, it became obvious that the incumbent was unable to mount a vigorous campaign for re-election and about a month later he was convinced that it would be better for the Democrats if he would step down as the party’s presidential candidate. [...]
Oswald Clark: American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified our Nation – and Could Again by Yuval Levin (Basic Books, $41, 341 pages) For the last century, the American Left has been frustrated by the U.S. Constitution’s limits on government because, they claimed, it prevented necessary political action to remedy all of life’s ills. In recent decades, some on the American Right have likewise [...]
Rory Leishman: Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump is not and never has been, a sincere pro-lifer. As evidence, consider some of the serious damage he has done to the pro-life movement over the past year. Last September, he denounced Florida Governor Ron DiSantis for signing into law a bill banning abortion after six weeks. In Trump’s misguided opinion, the bill [...]
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 [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Last year, the only pro-life MP to attend the National March for Life was Arnold Viersen (CPC, Peace River—Westlock). Bill C-311, the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, tabled by MP Cathay Wagantall (CPC, Yorkton—Melville), was being debated at the time, and the mainstream media and leftist politicians were taking pains to paint [...]
Paul Tuns: xr:d:DAFvAWe_UX8:35,j:433883658353322572,t:23121319 On July 2, the Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda (STNSEA) announced it had “undergone a big change” as it bid adieu to its founder and president, Queenie Yu. Yu first ran as an independent candidate in the 2016 by-election in Scarbough-Rouge River to bring awareness to Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum. She finished fourth with 582 votes, good [...]
Paul Tuns: There is a scene near the end of Billy Madison in which the title character played by Adam Sandler compares the Industrial Revolution to a puppy. Astonished at the vacuity of the answer, the principal who posed the question said: “What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in [...]
On July 4, the British voters elected a Labour 411-seat majority (out of a total of 650 seats). The Conservative Party was reduced from majority government to a party low 121 seats. Various other parties split the remaining 128 seats. Pro-life MP Miriam Cates, who lost her seat, said that her party lost because it governed to the left of the average [...]
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 [...]
Oswald Clark: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in several interviews this spring that he supported abortion through all nine months, for any reason, only to backtrack slightly to say post-viability babies – around 20 weeks gestation – “have rights” and “deserve society’s protection.” Kennedy originally told podcaster Sage Steele and EWTN’s Raymond Arroya in separate interviews he would not [...]
Oswald Clark: During a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, highlighting the president’s unwavering support for unrestricted abortion, Joe Biden made the sign of the cross as Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried spoke lambasting Governor Ron DeSantis for signing a law that bans abortion after six weeks. It was widely taken as a sign of opposition to the state’s abortion restrictions. CatholicVote [...]
Rory Leishman: Direct attacks on the God-given, natural right of everyone to freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression are continuing to mount, not just in Canada, but also in Europe. One of the most prominent, recent victims is J.K. Rowling, a resident of Edinburgh Scotland and author of the Harry Potter series of novels. Siobhian Brown, Scotland’s Minister for Victims and [...]
Paul Tuns: According to an analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), the federal pharmacare plan that will cover diabetes care and contraception is estimated to cost $5.7 billion while recouping $3.8 billion from public and private drug plans, for a total cost to taxpayers of $1.9 billion over the next half-decade. Health Minister Mark Holland tabled legislation delivering the first phase [...]
Paul Tuns: Two Bloc MPs are sponsoring Bill C-390, which if passed, would expand Canada’s euthanasia law to permit so-called advanced directives. Sylvie Bérubé (Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou) and Luc Thériault (Montcalm) held a press conference on May 22 to announce that they have introduced C-390, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (provincial medical assistance in dying framework), to permit provinces to allow advanced [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 9, an estimated 3,500 Canadians took part in the National March for Life in the nation’s capital. The 27th annual National March for Life’s program, organized by Campaign Life Coalition, ran over four days and including the airing of a new pro-life documentary, a pro-life coffee house, a press conference, a series of masses and church services, the [...]