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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rory Leishman: Thanks to the proclamation on Dec. 5 of Bill 26, The Health Statutes Amendment Act, Alberta is the first and only province to protect children under age 16 from the potentially disastrous consequences of administering puberty-blockers as a treatment for a gender identity disorder. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith deserves accolades for initiating such a compassionate and enlightened government policy. Instead, [...]