Warren McArthur: BT_1172205 June 2017Arnold Viersen Official Portrait Ottawa, ONTARIO, on 05 June, 2017. Credit: Bernard Thibodeau, House of Commons Photo Services© HOC-CDC, 2017 Bill C-270, known as the “Stopping Internet Sexual Exploitation Act,” is sponsored by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen (Peace River – Westlock). The Stopping Internet Sexual Exploitation Act, or the SISE Act, is still at first reading. [...]
Oswald Clark: On August 16, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Food and Drug Administration’s relaxation of restrictions around the abortion pill mifepristone in 2016, 2019, and 2021, saying they did not take into consideration the health and safety of women. The decision will likely be stayed until the Supreme Court hears the case; the Biden administration’s Justice Department [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Pro-family groups think more must be done to protect the innocence of children after Planned Parenthood was banned from Saskatchewan schools for advertising graphic sexual content to 14 and 15-year-olds. In June, the provincial Minister of Education Dustin Duncan suspended Planned Parenthood and its affiliates after the ‘pro-choice’ organization gave a presentation at Lumsden High School -- located a half-hour [...]
By J.M. Glover: Imposing abortion globally Western countries, like Canada and the U.S., provide assistance to developing countries to help combat medical emergencies like HIV/AIDS, poverty and weather-related catastrophes. However, there is an important catch. The funding is often attached with strings that abortion must be promoted and performed. Leading African business, religious and political leaders have asked members of the U.S. [...]
Rory Leishman: Dr. Warren Hern is a cold-hearted killer—the moral equivalent of a hired assassin—who has no compunction about aborting even the healthy baby of a healthy mother during the last stages of a pregnancy simply because the mother has decided that she no longer wants her child to live. In this respect, Hern stands virtually alone. Only a tiny minority of [...]
John Carpay: I recently had the privilege of meeting Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Vera Sharav and listening to her speak at an event in Hamilton, Ont. in June. Vera Sharav has been a thorn in the side of big pharma since her son died suddenly and unexpectedly from side effects caused by an antidepressant medication that he was taking in [...]
Rory Leishman: Dr. Warren Hern is a cold-hearted killer—the moral equivalent of a hired assassin—who has no compunction about aborting even the healthy baby of a healthy mother during the last stages of a pregnancy simply because the mother has decided that she no longer wants her child to live. In this respect, Hern stands virtually alone. Only a tiny minority of [...]
Liana Gordon: Almost exactly a year ago, The Daily Wire released their documentary, “What is a Woman?” Media outcry and attempts at censorship prompted the organization to refer to their film as “The Movie They Didn’t Want You to See.” As of June 7, it has been seen over 173 million times. The documentary follows The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh as [...]
John Carpay: I recently had the privilege of meeting Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Vera Sharav and listening to her speak at an event in Hamilton, Ont. in June. Vera Sharav has been a thorn in the side of big pharma since her son died suddenly and unexpectedly from side effects caused by an antidepressant medication that he was taking in [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: In an exceptionally well-reasoned article that appeared in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (“Thomas Aquinas on the Acts of Creation and Procreation,” Winter 2003), Susan Seiner-Wright argued that, “For many, sexual activity is clearly not related to a conceived child as ‘a way is related to its end.’ Instead, sexual activity clearly bears the characteristics of immanent action, which Aquinas [...]
Paul Tuns: Cathay Wagantall's private member's bill, C-311, the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, was defeated on June 14 by a vote of 113 votes for and 205 against. The Conservatives voted in favour of C-311, while the Bloc Quebecois, Green Party, Liberals, and NDP voted against it. Wagantall's bill, if passed, would have added pregnancy as an aggravating circumstance for the [...]
Liana Gordon: The government of Quebec recently shut down a religious event that was set to take place in a state-funded facility, due to the group’s pro-life views. The rally was supposed to be held by Harvest Ministries International, a Christian ministry based in Kelowna, B.C. The event, called the “Faith Fire Freedom” rally, was advertised as a prayer event to address [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: June 24 marked the first anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the infamous 1973 decision which created a “right to abortion” and severely limited the ability of states to restrict abortion in the United States. Dobbs permitted abortion to be returned to state legislatures for regulation or prohibition. Over the last 12 months, [...]
From the editor's desk: We have reported in this paper (and to their credit, the corporate media has done a good job covering, too) stories about Canadians being euthanized due to their social circumstances. Men and women, some middle-aged, are choosing to be killed by their doctor because they have trouble paying the rent, live in subsidized housing that does not accommodate [...]
Donald DeMarco: The expression “time on my hands” in ordinary parlance refers to not having anything planned. There is a much deeper understanding of this expression, however, that is the subject of this essay. One of the most significant and influential philosophers of the modern world is Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). His most important work, in which he discloses his essential view of [...]