Paul Tuns: Rita Marker, who Wesley Smith called “the great anti-euthanasia warrior,” died at the age of 83 on Oct. 30 after a long illness. Marker’s activism against euthanasia began in the mid-1980s after attending an international “right-to-die” convention in Europe. Smith said, “She was so alarmed by what she heard, she and her late husband and soulmate Mike Marker, formed the [...]
Paul Tuns: Diane Coleman, founder of the anti-euthanasia organization Not Dead Yet, died on Nov. 1 at the age of 71. Coleman, who was born with muscular spinal atrophy, a disorder that led her to use a wheelchair by the age of 11 and which doctors predicted would prevent her from reaching adulthood, founded Not Dead Yet in 1996 to show opposition [...]
Donald DeMarco: I shall begin by enunciating the premise that the life that God has granted us is richer, more meaningful, and more important than any of the gifts we have given ourselves, such as our possessions, our artifacts, our entertainments, and our amusements. We are tempted to believe that the things we enjoy in life are more important than life itself. [...]
Interim Staff: Maria Odete Nunes and the baby saved from abortion by Linda Gibbons. In October when Linda Gibbons was in court facing trial for interfering with the Toronto Abortion Clinic’s business by offering compassionate assistance to abortion-minded women entering the facility, there a special person in court to witness to Gibbons’s ordeal. And that person had a personal connection [...]
Joanna Alphonso: “The idea that a kid who’s 11, 9, 10 can open his phone, watch all this porn is a public health issue,” said independent Senator Julie Miville Dechêne, who tabled an anti-porn bill in 2021. A shocking article by Fight the New Drug, an anti pornography organization, what was once relatively well-hidden is now seemingly endless and totally accessible online [...]
Paul Tuns: On Oct. 24, the New Democratic Party announced that it would use its next scheduled opposition day – a day scheduled to let an opposition party set the business for the day, including moving motions – to call for increased abortion access. In announcing the motion, the party released a statement titled, “NDP fights back anti-choice movement, pledges to expand [...]
Joanna Alphonso: A year after a Canadian Armed Forces directive discouraging prayers from being part of any formal military Remembrance Day ceremonies was rescinded, many such services still eschewed prayer. Brigadier-General Guy Bélisle, Chaplain General for the Canadian Armed Forces, issued a directive in October 2023 discouraging prayer at Remembrance Day memorial services. “While the dimension of prayer may occupy a significant [...]
Paul Tuns: Alexander Raikin published a report in The New Atlantis on Nov. 13, that reveals at least 428 Ontario patients who were killed by the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime that did not comply with federal law, or federal or provincial regulations. Raikin begins his report with the stark comment: “For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers [...]
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 [...]
Donald DeMarco: Columnist Donald DeMarco imagines a conversation with journeyman baseball player Harry Chiti. Harry Chiti was a major league catcher who played for the Tigers, Cubs, Athletics, Indians, and Mets from 1950-1962. In his final year, he was traded from the Indians to the Mets where he played 15 games and hit a woeful .195. He was then traded [...]
Paul Tuns: NDP MP Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) introduced a private member’s bill on Sept. 25, which, if passed, classifies as a hate crime the condoning, denying, justifying, or downplaying the impact Indian Residential Schools (IRSs) had on indigenous people. More than 150,000 indigenous children attended residential schools and an estimated 6000 children died during their stay at such schools. Bill C-413, [...]
Mary Zwicker: The Spanish Ministry of Social Rights proposed a new law to extend human rights to apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas) due to their “genetic closeness” to human beings. A European country has proposed to extend certain human rights to apes while the lives of unborn babies remain unprotected in their society. In Spain, where unborn children can be [...]
Meanwhile Dying with Dignity asks courts to extend law to mentally ill Paul Tuns: On Sept. 26, a coalition of disability rights organizations and two individuals filed a Charter challenge with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice opposing Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not terminally ill. The [...]
Oswald Clark: The American Life League released a report, “Beneath the Surface: Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel” that shows that since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the two-pill regimen involving mifepristone and misoprostol — so-called “medication abortions” or “chemical abortions” – have been used to circumvent state pro-life laws that restrict or ban abortion. Since the 2022 Dobbs [...]
Paul Tuns: Barrhead, Alberta, population 4320, will hold a binding plebiscite on a new bylaw that, if passed, would ban rainbow flags and crosswalks following a citizen petition urging the city to take the action. In June, a group of Barrhead residents started a petition to remove all pro-LGBTQ rainbow crosswalks and flag from municipal property. The petition was presented to the [...]