Paul Tuns: According to an analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), the federal pharmacare plan that will cover diabetes care and contraception is estimated to cost $5.7 billion while recouping $3.8 billion from public and private drug plans, for a total cost to taxpayers of $1.9 billion over the next half-decade. Health Minister Mark Holland tabled legislation delivering the first phase [...]
Paul Tuns: Data from Vanier Institute of the Family According to a report by the Vanier Institute of the Family, the number of divorces fell to below 50,000 for the first time since 1974. The Vanier Institute’s Family Counts 2024 study relies on Statistics Canada data, and the report shows that the gradual downward trend of divorce that began in [...]
Interim Staff: On May 9, the parliamentary secretary for International Development, Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the Liberal government would give $1.7 million to international groups committed to advancing the LGBTQ+ agenda in the developing world. Taking part in a Dignity Network panel, Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld (Ottawa West-Nepean), said the federal government would disburse $1.7 million over three years to promote “2SLGBTQI+ [...]
Oswald Clark: Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the federal Department of Justice has vigorously enforced the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which prohibits pro-life activism that may block abortuaries. In May, seven pro-lifers were sentenced to jail terms ranging from 21 to 57 months in prison. Led by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the [...]
Interim Staff: Photo credit: Facebook, Dorothy Pilarski On May 23, Linda Gibbons, who has spent years in prison for her pro-life activism outside Canada’s abortuaries, was arrested once again outside the Morgentaler abortuary in downtown Toronto. Gibbons had been witnessing for three hours in front of the abortion mill when police arrived, questioned her, and put her in a police [...]
By J.M. Glover: British Fetal Sentience Bill The private member’s Foetal Sentience bill, introduced by Baron Daniel Moylan (Conservative) in the British House of Lords passed second reading on March 22. The bill requires the secretary of state to establish a Foetal Sentience Committee “to provide evidence-based scientific expertise on the sentience of the human foetus in light of developments in scientific [...]
Donald DeMarco: My name is Henry Smith. I am just an ordinary guy with a thin resume. I have accepted the post of president for our local pro-life group. On the one hand, my job seems rather easy. Essentially, my task is to convince people that love and truth provide a better basis for human existence than violence and lies. The reality, [...]
Paul Tuns Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustee Mike Del Grande introduced a motion that, if passed, would require every school in the board to fly the international pro-life flag annually throughout the month of May beginning this year. The motion, scheduled for debate at the April 23 meeting of the TCDSB, states, “As a public expression of this Board’s fidelity [...]
Oswald Clark: The annual report of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America revealed that it committed nearly 400,000 abortions in almost 600 abortion mills across the United States and amassed assets of nearly $3 billion. The 2022-23 annual report stated that Planned Parenthood affiliates committed 392,715 abortions from Oct. 1, 2021 through Sept. 30, 2022, which the Lozier Institute’s Michael New said [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey As British politician Lord Acton once remarked, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And for some reason, a bunch of lowly municipal politicians in Canada have become convinced they possess absolute power. I do not exaggerate. The Corporate Services Committee for Niagara Region (that you’ve likely never heard of [...]
Paul Tuns: A 20-year-old Quebec man was reported to have two fingers on his left hand amputated to deal with his “body integrity dysphoria” (BID). The National Post reported April 5 on the highly unusual circumstance of BID, which sometimes goes by the clinical assessment Body Image Identity Disorder, for a man who had “incessant” and unwanted thoughts since he was a [...]
Paul Tuns: Last month, the CBC reported that Normand Meunier, a 66-year-old tetraplegic, requested “medical assistance in dying” following a hospitalization during which he developed severe bedsores. In January, Meunier arrived at the hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Que., with a respiratory virus. Meunier, who suffered a debilitating spinal cord injury in 2022 that left his arms and legs paralyzed, had his third respiratory [...]
Interim Staff: On April 11, Sharon Nicklas, Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, issued a directive requiring all lawyers and parties in court provide their preferred pronouns at the beginning of “any in-person, virtual or hybrid hearings, when lawyers are introducing themselves, their client, a witness or another individual.” Lawyers have been told to provide the judge or justice of [...]
Paul Tuns: On April 8, the Vatican released a document affirming the dignity of every individual, condemning abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy, human trafficking and transgenderism, as well as poverty, violence, war, sexual abuse, and poor treatment of migrants and prisoners. The document, Dignitas infinita, was released by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and written by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, [...]
Interim Staff: Former Ontario attorney general and chief justice Roy McMurtry, who wrote the ruling legalizing same-sex “marriage,” died March 18, two months shy of his 92nd birthday. As Attorney General under then-premier Bill Davis in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, McMurtry helped get approval of Pierre Trudeau’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which inaugurated an era of judicial activism. In [...]