Annual report reveals abortion advocates are misleading about pro-life laws and miscarriage care Mary Zwicker: According to a new report, abortions committed by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the United States has reached its greatest number ever recorded in the abortion giant’s history. Planned Parenthood recently released its annual report, an overview of services provided and revenues received during the [...]
Let me start this month by introducing a new columnist, Victor Penney. His “Sporting Life” column (on page 8 this month) will look at the intersection of the world of sports and life/faith/family issues. It is a bit of an experiment but I think you might enjoy the lighter side of these serious issues (although it might not always be so light). [...]
The World Wildlife Fund released its annual “Living Planet Report” subtitled “A system in peril.” The report states that “nature is being lost – with huge implications for us all,” asserting “biodiversity sustains human life and underpins our society.” We cannot help but wonder why there are no international organizations or agencies releasing similar reports decrying the systemic extermination of preborn children [...]
Interim Staff: Justin Trudeau’s federal government tabled its budget on March 28 and among the items announced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is $36 million in new funding to promote abortion in Canada, in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars already spent by provincial healthcare systems to commit at least 87,000 abortions annually and $700 million annually to commit and [...]
By Mark Wegierski: The Canadian federal election of September 20, 2021, was another failure for the Conservative Party of Canada, despite Conservative leader Erin O’Toole’s attempted “move to the centre.” After five months the Conservative Party put an end to the infighting among pro- and anti-O’Toole factions, with the caucus voting him out as leader. While the political leader is important, the [...]
Paul Tuns: In his mandate letter to the finance minister, released on Dec. 16, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau instructed Chrystia Freeland, who also serves as Deputy Prime Minister, to “introduce amendments to the Income Tax Act to make anti-abortion organizations that provide dishonest counselling to pregnant women about their rights and options ineligible for charitable status.” The mandate letter means that Trudeau [...]
By Mark Wegierski: Thoughtful conservatives in Canada face a dilemma. Already in 1965, in his famous book, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism, Canadian traditionalist philosopher George Parkin Grant had pointed to the “impossibility of conservatism” in Canada. His writings have proved increasingly prophetic. Nevertheless, there are some thoughtful conservatives left in Canada, who could be called “George Grant’s [...]
By Andrew Lawton: I hold a somewhat unique position in Canadian politics as the only candidate, to my knowledge, to have the support of both the Campaign Life Coalition and Marc Emery in the same campaign. When I ran for Ontario’s PC party in 2018, I was given a green light by the CLC for my on-record pro-life stance. Emery, the infamous ‘prince [...]
Stalin was, of course, right about statistics; a million deaths is a figure, a thing to be grasped only by the mind. Like the ancient philosopher, Lucretius, who watched with pleasure a shipwreck from the shore, we can comprehend an integer—62,502,904, say—from the safe distance of abstract intelligibility. What does that number even mean, “sixty-two million, five-hundred-and-two thousand, nine hundred and four”? [...]
Oswald Clark If Roe v. Wade is reversed, the abortion issue will likely be dealt with by state legislatures unless Congress passes a law that federalizes the issue. Over the past four years, 19 state legislatures considered bans on all or most abortions, including several that take effect if Roe is overturned. In 2021, 12 total abortion bans statutes were debated in [...]
MP Leslyn Lewis MP Cathay Wagantall MP Arnold Viersen Paul Tuns On Nov. 24, three Conservative MPs addressed the Save Our Charities rally on Parliament Hill to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s threat to strip crisis pregnancy centres and other pro-life organizations of their charitable tax status. During the federal election, on page four [...]
Let us dissent from the orgy of praise for House of Commons and Senate passing the odious conversion therapy ban, Bill C-4, without any debate or hearings, a parliamentary manoeuvre that requires unanimous consent. When private companies agree to cooperate, it is called collusion; when politicians agree to cooperate, it receives hosannahs as bipartisanship. Politics is an arena in which ideas are [...]
Paul Tuns Bill C-4, the Trudeau government’s sweeping ban of conversion therapy which was to help same-sex attracted and Canadians confused about their birth gender passed in both the House and Senate in early December without debate or committee hearings when both chambers gave unanimous consent to send the bill to a final vote. An earlier version of the government’s conversion therapy [...]
Interim Staff On Nov. 2, NDP MPP Terrance Kernaghan (London North Centre) reintroduced a private member’s bill that will, if passed, outlaw the use of abortion victim photography in pro-life activism unless certain conditions are met. Bill 41, an “Act to regulate the mailing of images of fetuses” or the “Viewer Discretion Act” is the same as Bill 259 that Kernaghan introduced [...]
Andrew Lawton I’m hesitant to overstate the importance of “shadow ministers” in the opposition benches. The insufferable term the Conservatives have taken to calling them obscures the function better exemplified by the previous title – “critics.” Critic slots aren’t real jobs to the extent that cabinet appointments are, who fills them nonetheless revealing of what and whom the opposition leader values. Conservative [...]