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CHP fights for right to advertise

Jonathan Van Maren: In a truly absurd story that serves as a microcosm of the battle over Canada’s soul, the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) is facing off with the City of Hamilton … over an ad that depicts a smiling young woman, and the dictionary definition: “Woman: An Adult Female.” The ad was submitted by CHP Hamilton in January 2023 to Outfront [...]

2025-04-07T12:08:34-04:00April 7, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture|

The importance of Montesquieu and his four cardinal goods

Sarah Stilton, Review:  Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws: A Critical Edition Edited by W. B. Allen (Anthem Press, $215, 954 pages) There are Marxists and Lockeans, Nietzscheans and Aristotelians but there are no Montesquieuans. The knock against Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu is that he created no system, that he was not a theorizer. Montesquieu is considered a [...]

2025-04-02T13:08:19-04:00April 2, 2025|Politics, Reviews|

Carney wins Liberal leadership, calls snap election

CLC, CHP call on pro-lifers to vote conscientiously this election Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition gave Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre (left) an F, People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier (center) a C+, and Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor (right) an A+. Two weeks after winning the Liberal leadership, Prime Minister Mark Carney called an election for April 28. Carney, [...]

2025-04-01T12:10:08-04:00April 1, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

And then there was this, March 2025

  Danielle Smith outraged about euthanasia Alberta Premier Danielle Smith appeared on the John Bachman Now Show on Newsmax in January. Toward the end of the interview, Bachman said that the increase in doctor-assisted suicide in Canada was frightening, and asked Smith for her opinion. Smith agreed that “one of the things that the federal government was allowing was a potential for [...]

Abortion activist who lobbied feds received funds

Paul Tuns: Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run for Life, revealed that the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (AARC) lobbied the federal government to restrict pro-life activism by stripping pro-life groups of their charitable tax status, a policy that the Trudeau government would later propose. Maloney revealed that according to the Canadian Registry of Lobbyists, AARC director Joyce Arthur had [...]

2025-03-25T09:49:55-04:00March 25, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Death to Woke Sports

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. [...]

2025-03-21T09:05:35-04:00March 21, 2025|Politics, Society & Culture, Victor Penney|

RFK to look at abortion pill dangers

Oswald Clark: New Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy announced he will investigate the safety of the abortion pill. After being sworn in as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told Fox News that he would study the dangers of the abortion pill. Kennedy, who said he was pro-abortion when he [...]

2025-03-19T15:25:15-04:00March 19, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Politics|

Unfinished business, or the Post-Dobbs Moment (III)

By any measure, the bygone days of the Biden administration were dark ones for the pro-life movement in America: no position seemed too radical, and no progressive agenda—from gender ideology to the criminalization of public, peaceful pro-life witness—was left behind. In a strange way, however, the very strides that this administration made towards the dystopian nightmare of left-wing ideology were what sealed [...]

2025-03-18T11:32:44-04:00March 18, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Politics|

March for Life foundress among ‘American heroes’ to be honoured in national garden

Oswald Clark: Nellie Gray, president of the  March for Life Fund, at the March for Life rally near the White House in 2004 As part of the celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of American independence on July 4, 2026, President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes which will feature at least 244 significant [...]

2025-03-14T11:32:15-04:00March 14, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

Manitoba bubble zone takes effect

Paul Tuns: On Feb. 1, Manitoba’s Safe Access to Abortion Services Act came into effect, prohibiting all forms of pro-life speech near abortion facilities. Passed last spring after the then new NDP government came to power, the new law bans demonstration, picketing, or sidewalk counselling intended to deter women from obtaining an abortion. The bill created a 50-meter buffer zone around stand-alone [...]

2025-03-10T12:41:02-04:00March 10, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell  Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party Michael Tackett (Simon & Schuster, $44, 397 pages) Michael Tackett’s The Price of Power is a mainstream journalist’s fair-minded account of one of the most important elected figures in U.S. history, a man whose mastering of Senate procedures led him to command and control his party [...]

2025-03-08T08:54:30-05:00March 8, 2025|Politics, Reviews|

Doug Ford wins re-election

CLC has a wish list for the government Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford called an election 18 months early with polls indicating that he could grow his majority. On Feb. 27, he was re-elected with virtually the same caucus in which Liberal leader and former Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie failed to even win her own seat. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won 2.15 [...]

2025-03-05T19:23:07-05:00March 5, 2025|Abortion, Politics|

And then there was this, February 2025

By J.M. Glover: ‘The incomparable gift of being born’ Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, gave his personal testimony at the 2025 March for Life in Washington, D.C. His words bear repeating from a man who was conceived by a teenage boy and girl. “I was born in January 1972 … I was the product of an [...]

2025-03-01T09:43:17-05:00March 1, 2025|Abortion, Demography, Politics, Population|

Ontario city council bans in-person meeting

Interim Staff: Lisa Robinson, a city councilor in Pickering, Ont., posted a video Jan. 2, condemning her city council for banning in-person public meetings as “cowardly” and “an affront to democracy.” The City of Pickering has closed off their meetings to the public because of allegations that “alt-right” groups are becoming involved. The decision, Robinson said, “reveals how the mayor and the [...]

2025-03-01T09:34:17-05:00March 1, 2025|Politics|

A taxpayer-funded political attack ad

John Carpay: On Dec. 30, the City of Pickering, Ont., released a 13-minute political attack ad against Councilor Lisa Robinson, paid for by Pickering taxpayers. The ad concludes with Mayor Kevin Ashe declaring that council meetings would henceforth be held virtually due to “increasing threats to our safety” and a need to avoid “further harassment” by “external actors.” The video decries the [...]

2025-03-01T09:28:42-05:00March 1, 2025|John Carpay, Politics|
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