Paul Tuns: Dave MacKenzie resigned his Oxford seat in southwestern Ontario in December 2022, leading to a highly competitive race to replace the long-time MP in what is considered a safe Conservative riding. Among the candidates seeking the party’s nomination was Gerrit Van Dorland, a Parliament Hill staffer green-lit as pro-life by Campaign Life Coalition as pro-life and endorsed by former Conservative [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Glorious and Free By Derek Sloan (Sloan Publishing Inc., $38.80, 270 pages) Since Derek Sloan was kicked out of Conservative Party of Canada caucus in 2021, the tales of his political career have garnered quasi-mythic proportions. In the mainstream media vernacular, the former Conservative MP turned Ontario Party leader has been condemned as a “racist” for accepting a donation from [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s appearance at a local Hamilton, Ont., restaurant during the Liberal cabinet retreat in the city, was met with protest by pro-life activists. Around a dozen young people-- members of Campaign Life Coalition and Campaign Life Coalition Youth, Hamilton Against Abortion, Oxford Against Abortion, Niagara Against Abortion and Peel Against Abortion-- held photos of abortion victims as [...]
Paul Tuns: Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) introduced her private member’s bill, C-311, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women), on Jan. 31. Speaking in the House of Commons, Wagantall said, “It is my honour to rise to introduce this private member’s bill, which would go a long way to addressing violence against some of the most vulnerable [...]
Oswald Clark: During his Feb. 7 State of the Union address to Congress, President Joseph Biden vowed to expand abortion in the United States and attacked states that are protecting the preborn. Biden said, “Congress must restore the right the Supreme Court took away last year and codify Roe v. Wade to protect every woman’s constitutional right to choose.” Biden said the [...]
Paul Tuns: Federal Justice Minister David Lametti introduced bill C-39, to delay for one year its decision to allow people who suffer solely from mental illness to seek euthanasia. This came after a public backlash to Canada’s euthanasia regime, following news stories of numerous cases of people accessing so-called Medical Assistance in Dying for social reasons, and concerns from mental health experts [...]
David Daleiden wins landmark lawsuit David Daleiden, an American pro-life activist who founded the Center for Medical Progress in 2013, produces undercover video recordings to expose Planned Parenthood’s (PP) nefarious activities around the “aborted baby parts trade” (i.e. the selling of aborted fetal tissue and organs for profit). This has resulted in PP being discredited, but has also led to civil and [...]
Russell E. Kuykendall: Lorne Anthony (“Tony”) Reznowski served as a pro-life evangelist and conscience to candidates, Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of Legislative and National Assemblies (MLAs and MNAs), Ministers of the Crown, and to party organizers, activists and youth. First and always, Tony was a devoted follower of Jesus, a family man, and a faithful supporter of his parish. These [...]
Interim Staff: Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustee Mike Del Grande lost an Ontario Superior Court decision in his petition to quash sanctions imposed on him by the majority of the elected school board for using rhetoric supposedly “offensive” to LGBTQ activists and students in his defense of Catholic sexual and gender teaching. In 2019 and 2020, Del Grande opposed a [...]
Oswald Clark: According to a study from the pro-abortion WeCount coalition, the number of abortions in the United States fell by 10,000 in the first two months following the Dobbs decision in June 2022 that overturned the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion across the United States. While Dobbs did not recriminalize abortion, it permitted states that had “trigger” laws [...]
Paul Tuns: On Jan. 26, Campaign Life Coalition held a press conference in front of the Supreme Court of Canada calling upon Parliament to pass a law protecting all human beings from the moment of fertilization and, if the federal legislature fails to do so for the Supreme Court to provide Charter protection to preborn children. The press conference was held two [...]
John Carpay: After six weeks of witnesses testifying under oath in October and November, the Public Order Emergency Commission process has provided Canadians with important evidence on the government’s decision to use the Emergency Act. The biggest and most glaring revelation was the absence of violence in Ottawa during the three weeks in January and February of 2022, when thousands of Canadian [...]
We understand that many pro-life activists already do a lot for the movement to restore moral sanity in a Culture of Death, but if we are honest with ourselves, all of us can do a little more. Let us resolve to act like 2023 will be the year we work to end abortion—even though barring some great unforeseen development that is not [...]
Paul Tuns Amid a growing chorus of opposition to a scheduled March 17 expansion for medicalized killing for people who suffer solely from mental illness, federal Justice Minister David Lametti said he is open to working with opposition parties to pass an extension in order to develop protocols to allow people suffering from depression and other psychiatric disorders to access Canada’s Medical [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 9, a pair of NDP MLAs called upon the Saskatchewan Party government of Scott Moe to guarantee more surgical abortions be committed in the province by introducing a province-wide intake system and opening two abortion centres in Saskatoon and Prince Albert. Official Opposition Status of Women Critic Jennifer Bowes and Democracy and Ethics Critic Meara Conway were leading [...]