Interim Staff: The Department of National Defence said it will not tolerate members of the Canadian Armed Forces vandalizing or removing feminine hygiene products in the mens’ washrooms of its facilities. True North reports that it has received first-hand accounts and photographs of damaged or removed tampon dispensers and disposal units in male washrooms following an edict last year that went into [...]
Paul Tuns: During his annual address to diplomats in January, Pope Francis called surrogacy “a grave violation of the dignity of the women and the child” as he called for global ban on the practice of surrogacy. Pope Francis said a child’s life should not be “suppressed or turned into an object of trafficking" and called on the global community “to prohibit [...]
Texas abortion law upheld Abortion in Texas is mostly illegal. An abortion can only be carried out when the mother’s life is in such danger that “a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that, as certified by a physician, places the woman in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a [...]
Paul Tuns: A new report reveals that pregnancy resource centres (PRCs) provided nearly $360 million in services and goods in a single year, even as Democrat-controlled states reduce funding and try to restrict their operations. The “Hope for a New Generation” report covers 2022 and is a joint “collaboration of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, and National Institute of Family [...]
Paul Tuns: Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor died Dec. 1, at the age of 93. O’Connor, whom Ronald Reagan appointed as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, betrayed the president’s pro-life views by often voting with the pro-abortion justices in a court that was often divided 5-4. Born in El Paso, Texas and raised on a ranch, [...]
Interim Staff: David Anthony Hogg, who served as a trustee with the Metropolitan Toronto Separate Catholic School Board, in the 1990s, died Dec. 13 at the age of 94. Hogg, then a director with the Federation of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations of Ontario, was elected trustee in 1991 – along with Peter Johnson and Michael Del Grande -- with the support of Campaign [...]
Oswald Clark: Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. Secretary of State, died at the age of 100 on Nov. 29. Kissinger was the author of a 1974 National Security Study memo calling for global depopulation. Kissinger served as Secretary of State during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations in the 1970s and had served since then as a foreign policy guru to [...]
Paul Tuns A private member’s bill, Motion 36, that called upon the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide universal access to contraception, was defeated by a vote of 61-23 on Nov. 30. The motion, introduced by NDP MPP Jennifer Stevens (St. Catharines) in March 2023, stated, “That, in the opinion of this House, the Ministry of Health should expand the Ontario Health [...]
Oswald Clark: According to the Pennsylvania Family Council, nine abortion facilities in the state are putting the safety of women at risk after failing routine health and safety inspections, including more than half of the Planned Parenthood abortion mills in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Family Council’s Family Institute scoured figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and found that nine of 22 abortion [...]
Paul Tuns Statistics Canada released its analysis of death in 2022 and found that for the third consecutive year, life expectancy for Canadians fell with the average Canadian living to 81.3 years in 2022, a full year less than the life expectancy registered three years earlier in 2019. Globe and Mail health columnist Andre Picard wrote, “a one-year loss in life expectancy [...]
Paul Tuns According to an annual report by Operation Rescue on the state of the abortion landscape, 49 abortion mills closed and one more state became “abortion-free” in 2023, although the total number of abortion facilities have increased. Operation Rescue’s Anne Reed and Sarah Neely report that in the two years since Dobbs overturned the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, 137 [...]
Paul Tuns A new report reveals that pregnancy resource centres (PRCs) provided nearly $360 million in services and goods in a single year, even as Democrat-controlled states reduce funding and try to restrict their operations. The “Hope for a New Generation” report covers 2022 and is a joint “collaboration of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, and National Institute of Family [...]
Paul Tuns Dec. 6 tweet from Veterans 4 Freedom According to a directive issued by Employment and Social Development Canada, beginning Dec. 15, all federally regulated workplaces, government offices, and military bases must provide menstruation products in men’s bathrooms as part of the government’s program to promote “inclusivity.” Feminists have lobbied for free feminine hygiene products to battle what they [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Episode 28 of Tucker Carlson’s show, “Tucker on X” (formerly Twitter) featured Chris Moritz, a longtime investment banker and policy enthusiast to discuss what he calls “Trans Inc.” Moritz begins by explaining that transgenderism is largely driven by the sex reassignment industry. In 2018, the industry grossed at least $2.94 billion, which rose to $4.18 billion in 2022, and is [...]
Oswald Clark: On Oct. 25, 100 pro-abortion organizations signed the 2023 Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Policy Agenda (SRHRJ) calling on the Biden administration to increase abortion access in the United States and abroad. The blueprint asserts, “There is no gender equality or bodily autonomy for all without meaningful progress in reproductive justice, freedom, and liberty,” as it [...]