Rory Leishman: In the remarkable case of Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia on May 15, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada was subjected to devastating criticism by a significant authoritative source, namely, three dissenting judges on the same court. The case arose out of divorce proceedings initiated by Amrit Pal Singh Ahluwalia in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The trial judge, [...]
Rory Leishman: Prior to the enactment of repressive human rights codes and the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms in the 1980s, Canadians were no less free to speak their minds than the people of the United States. Today, that is no longer the case. In an exemplary ruling on March 31 in Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court of the [...]
Rory Leishman: Over the past 40 years, left-wing, secular zealots in the courts and legislatures of Canada have mounted an escalating attack on the rights and freedoms of theologically orthodox Christians -- Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical -- who uphold the traditional teachings of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. The Supreme Court of Canada got the process underway in 1985 with its [...]
Rory Leishman: Over the past decade, physicians have subjected tens of thousands of vulnerable, transsexual teenagers to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and permanently mutilating sex-reassignment surgery. Yet there is no solid evidence that these dangerous and experimental treatments have any lasting benefits. That is the stark conclusion of a definitive, peer-reviewed, scientific paper entitled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence [...]
Rory Leishman: On Jan. 26, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights delayed consideration of Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. That is not sufficient: Parliament should defeat this freedom-stifling bill altogether and also repeal the anti-hate law provisions in the Criminal Code. Government should not stifle the expression of any political viewpoint, no matter how vile. Experience [...]
National Affairs, Rory Leishman: For the past several years, the secular mass media in Canada have fanned the flames of anti-Christian hate, by publishing uncorroborated allegations of mass murder, torture, and other atrocities in the Church-run Indian Residential Schools. On Dec. 11, The Globe and Mail was at it again, this time defaming dedicated Catholic nuns who cared for unwed mothers and [...]
Rory Leishman: The United States Declaration of Independence famously asserts: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” As originally understood in 1776, the phrase “all Men” in this context referred to all humans. In [...]
Rory Leishman: In yet another deeply disturbing development in the rapidly evolving science of in vitro fertilization (IVF), Professor Shoukrhat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health and Science University announced in a paper published in Nature Communications on Sept. 30 that a research team led by him has succeeded in transforming human skin cells into human eggs. Mitalipov anticipates that once this technique [...]
Rory Leishman: The Free Press is an outstanding, new media company founded and edited by Bari Weiss, a former columnist for The New York Times who quit that newspaper in disgust over its woke, left-wing ideological bias. In her letter of resignation, she charged that at The Times: “Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, [...]
Rory Leishman: The book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible describes an era in ancient Israel when, instead of obeying the commandments of God, most men did what was right in their own eyes. The result was chaos, confusion and disaster. The same is true of our own era. Instead of steadfastly upholding the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality, most people have [...]
Rory Leishman: Under the pretense of upholding the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, judicial activists on the Supreme Court of Canada have subverted democracy and the rule of law in Canada by systematically violating the separation of legislative and judicial powers. Consider, for example, the egregious ruling by the Court in R. v. Bissonette, 2022. At issue in this case [...]
On June 20, the British House of Commons delivered another devastating blow to respect for the sanctity of human life, by adopting a bill to legalize euthanasia on a vote of 314 to 291. However, it is noteworthy that, in comparison to Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying legislation, this British bill is, for now, far more restrictive and contains much more stringent [...]
Rory Leishman: In a landmark ruling on April 16, a five-judge panel of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (the country’s highest court of appeal since 2009) unanimously upheld the plain words of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010). Would that the Supreme Court of Canada would do the same in interpreting the laws and the Constitution of Canada. At issue [...]
Rory Leishman: Statistics Canada projects that for the first time in the history of Confederation the total population of Canada will decline this year. What accounts for this momentous turnaround from rapid population growth to impending decline? According to Statistics Canada, the immediate cause was the sudden about-face on immigration last year by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Instead [...]
Rory Leishman: In The Moral Vision of the New Testament (1996), Richard B. Hays, renowned New Testament scholar and professor emeritus at Duke University, convincingly demonstrated that the “New Testament offers no loopholes or exception clauses that might allow for the acceptance of homosexual practice under some circumstances.” Yet in his last book published last September and co-authored with his son Christopher, [...]