Family & Marriage Articles
Trudeau government pledges billions for child care
Paul Tuns The centerpiece of the Liberal government’s spending plans over the next five years is a $30 billion commitment [...]
State of the family
BY PAUL TUNS In his under-rated and under-appreciated sociological treatise, Passion and Social Constraint, Ernst van den Haag, notes that [...]
Books of the Day
What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense Sherif Gergis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George (Encounter, $24, 136 [...]
Liberals vow to create a national child care scheme
Critics say the cookie-cutter program is unnecessary By Paul Tuns At the beginning of pandemic lockdowns in Canada schools and [...]
Ontario government proposes changes to marriage law
By Interim Staff The Doug Ford government said it will amend Bill 213, Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, [...]
Pope Francis sows confusion with comments about civil unions
By Paul Tuns In late October, the news media was in a frenzy that the Catholic Church had apparently changed [...]
Catholic trustee faces continued attacks over LGBQT views
By Paul Tuns Last November, Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Michael Del Grande offered a reductio ad absurdum motion [...]
Conversion therapy ban passes second reading
Pro-family, faith groups concerned about broad implications of C-6 By Interim Staff On Oct. 28, the Trudeau government’s C-6, which, [...]
Will we recognize our lives when we get them back?
Amusements Rick McGinnis With the end of the coronavirus lockdown in sight as I write this, we’ll finally [...]
Patience
Laying Down the Lawton Even though I was raised with the teaching that “patience is a virtue,” it’s [...]
Applying the law of unintended consequences
Law Matters John Carpay In 1958, Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong ordered his countrymen to kill all the [...]
The decline of the nuclear family
National Affairs Rory Leishman In March, The Atlantic published an informative essay by David Brooks on the current state of [...]
Federal ban on ‘conversion therapy’ threatens to jail caring parents
Law Matters John Carpay If Trudeau’s Bill C-8 becomes law, parents could spend up to five years in jail [...]
B.C. appeal court rules father must refer to teen daughter as ‘him’
The British Columbia court of appeal ruled Friday that a 13-year-old girl was old enough to consent to testosterone shots [...]
Ottawa, Quebec intent on expanding euthanasia
Both federal government and province rush consultations ahead of court-imposed March deadline Justice Minister David Lametti has long supported [...]