Paul Tuns: On Feb. 26, federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General Arif Virani introduced Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act in the House of Commons, which pro-life and civil rights groups say far exceeds the bill’s ostensible purpose of promoting online safety and could chill free speech in Canada. According to the bill’s critics, the Online Harms Act would, if passed, [...]
Interim Staff: For the past two years, students at the Halton Catholic District School Board, just west of Toronto, comprised of the cities of Burlington, Oakville, and Halton Hills, have prayed the Lord’s Prayer each morning due to an initiative of trustee Helena Karabela. Karabela, who represents Oakville, told supporters through email in late January that students across the board have prayed [...]
Paul Tuns: In 2021, the Liberal Party campaign platform included rescinding charitable tax status for all pro-life organizations, including pregnancy care centres that serve pregnant women, on the pretense that they truck in misinformation. Nearly five years later, the Trudeau government has yet to act on their threat. The Liberal Party platform vowed that a Trudeau government would “no longer provide charity [...]
Paul Tuns: New Democratic Party MP Randall Garrison (Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke) was asked by a reporter during a scrum about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s new parental rights policy, to which he responded “there is no such thing as parental rights in Canada.” The off-camera reporter asked Garrison, “Do you view this as a parental rights issue at all?” Garrison, who is openly homosexual, said, [...]
Joanna Alphonso and Paul Tuns: Mixed reactions erupted across the country as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in a video post on X (formerly Twitter), shared her plan on Jan. 31 to protect women and children from the LGBQT ideology. Smith’s plan includes a ban on gender reassignment surgeries for children ages 17 and under, and a ban on puberty blockers and hormone [...]
Paul Tuns: A Fredericton abortuary is closing after years of pressing for full funding at the private facility. It ended without convincing either Liberal or Progressive Conservative governments to pay for abortions done at the province’s only free-standing abortion mill. Campaign Life Coalition declared it “great news” that Clinic 554 was finally closing its doors for good after repeatedly threatening to shut [...]
As many provinces celebrate Family Day, there is a movement afoot, in both Ontario and Manitoba, to follow the example of British Columbia in providing universal coverage for contraception; in that fact, of course, there is no little irony. Just as the holiday points to the indisputable facts of the family—and every citizen’s origin therein—there is a push for the pharmaceutical suppression [...]
Interim Staff The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Mike Del Grande, granting him leave to appeal a lower court ruling that rejected his constitutional and administrative law arguments to overturn the board’s sanctions against him for speaking out against the LGBTQ ideology in Catholic schools. In 2020, Del Grande spoke against adding “gender [...]
Paul Tuns: Last month, Blacklock’s Reporter revealed that both the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and Canadian Centre for Christian Charities expressed concerns to the House of Commons human resources committee that the Department of Employment and Social Development continues to discriminate against faith-based employers applying to the summer job grants program. In 2016, the Trudeau government mandated that employers sign an [...]
Paul Tuns: Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis endorsed a petition calling on Canada to leave the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) because the organizations undermine national sovereignty and the personal autonomy of its citizens. The petition was launched in October and was signed by nearly 19,000 Canadians in its first month. The petition explains that the UN’s Agenda 2030’s SDGs [...]
Paul Tuns: At the World Economic Forum’s Davos summit on Jan. 18, Argentina's president, Javier Milei, condemned the global elite who are promoting population control and its concomitant “bloody abortion agenda” because human beings “damage the planet.” The WEF meets annually at Davos, Switzerland, bringing together world leaders, cabinet ministers, top business executives, and the heads of non-governmental organizations to discuss world [...]
Interim Staff: David Anthony Hogg, who served as a trustee with the Metropolitan Toronto Separate Catholic School Board, in the 1990s, died Dec. 13 at the age of 94. Hogg, then a director with the Federation of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations of Ontario, was elected trustee in 1991 – along with Peter Johnson and Michael Del Grande -- with the support of Campaign [...]
Oswald Clark: Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. Secretary of State, died at the age of 100 on Nov. 29. Kissinger was the author of a 1974 National Security Study memo calling for global depopulation. Kissinger served as Secretary of State during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations in the 1970s and had served since then as a foreign policy guru to [...]
Paul Tuns A private member’s bill, Motion 36, that called upon the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide universal access to contraception, was defeated by a vote of 61-23 on Nov. 30. The motion, introduced by NDP MPP Jennifer Stevens (St. Catharines) in March 2023, stated, “That, in the opinion of this House, the Ministry of Health should expand the Ontario Health [...]
Paul Tuns On Dec. 11, Anaida Poilievre, wife of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, told French-language media outlet TVA Nouvelles, “We are pro-choice,” in the latest attempt by the Conservative leader to distance himself from his pro-life past. Anaida Poilievre explained, “We have spoken out on this. I am a woman from Quebec, I grew up here. And it’s part of my [...]