Rory Leishman: Josh Alexander is the Grade 11 student in Renfrew, Ont., who was expelled from his Catholic high school for insisting that transgendered females -- that is to say, boys who think they are girls -- should not be permitted to use the girl’s washrooms. Alexander, of course, is correct. However, it is regrettable that in explaining his position to the [...]
Paul Tuns: The Parliamentary Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) issued its report with recommendations that include extending euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide to adolescents deemed mature enough to understand the lethal decision they are making. The joint committee of MPs and senators issued its 138-page report, Medical Assistance in Dying: Choices for Canadians. There is one full section dedicated [...]
Paul Tuns: Beginning April 1, British Columbia taxpayers will pick up the tab on most prescription contraception. In her Feb. 28 budget, provincial Finance Minister Katrine Conroy said that the provincial health plan would cover the full cost of most birth control pills, and all hormonal and copper intrauterine devices, Depo-Provera (an injectable contraceptive), Nexplanon (an implant contraceptive), and the morning-after pill [...]
John Carpay: Censorship spreads like a cancer, starting small but then expanding everywhere. Once upon a time, only 15 years ago, pro-life student clubs were the only groups facing censorship on campus. Pro-life students were barred from renting rooms or other spaces on campus that were freely available to everyone else. Pro-life students were expressly prohibited from setting up recruitment tables at [...]
Paul Tuns: Calgary city council voted to clamp down on protests in the wake of public opposition to drag events in the city. The new law, the Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw, was passed 10-5 and prohibits protests within 100 metres of an entrance to a recreation facility or library. The council also amended an existing bylaw to add the word “intimidation” [...]
Interim Staff: Michelle Zacchigna is suing her medical team for not considering her mental health issues when they affirmed her self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria and permitting her to transition to become a male. Source: Zacchinga’s Twitter Michelle Zacchigna, 34, of Orillia, Ont., is suing eight health professionals who facilitated a change in her gender from female to male in 2010, [...]
Brain-dead women as ‘baby machines’ We have learned that a German molecular biologist, Hashem Al-Ghaili, is developing Ectolife, transparent artificial wombs where babies will be conceived and “housed” until birth, while their parents can look on as spectators. He said the technology could be used to reverse declining birth rates in countries such as Bulgar, Japan, and South Korea. LifeSiteNews reports that [...]
Rory Leishman: Pope Benedict XVI was not just one of the leading Christian theologians of his era. He also had remarkable prophetic insight. In a brilliant lecture broadcast on the radio in 1969, he foresaw that the then-still relatively strong and theologically coherent Catholic Church was heading toward a catastrophic decline. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger predicted: “As the number of its adherents diminishes, [...]
Mary Zwicker: Abortion has a disproportionately negative effect on and specifically targets black people in America, a new study says, confirming what pro-lifers have observed for years: abortion mills are disproportionately located in minority neighbourhoods. In January, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) released a comprehensive report, “The Impact of Abortion on the Black Community,” that details the extent to [...]
Interim staff: On Feb. 14, Richard Coates appeared in a Hamilton courthouse to plead guilty to charges related to three separate incidents, including one on July 14, 2022, when he uttered a threat to and assaulted Josie Luetke, who, at the time, was serving as youth coordinator for Campaign Life Coalition. In the afternoon on that date, Luetke, now CLC’s director of [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: A recently published study in JAMA Psychiatry analysed how state-level abortion restrictions in America affected the suicide rate of young women between the ages of 20 and 34, although a pro-life researcher has critiqued the findings saying the researchers had not proved that a lack of abortion access leads to higher suicide rates. The study claimed to find a positive [...]
Interim Staff: The Renfrew County Catholic District School Board (RCCDSB) in northern Ontario suspended high school student Josh Alexander, 16, for the remainder of the year because he protested the school's policy of permitting gender-confused males to use the girls’ washrooms. James Kitchen, chief litigator for Liberty Coalition Canada (LCC) said St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew suspended Alexander because the [...]
Interim Staff In a late-January interview with the Associated Press in January, Pope Francis said that homosexuality should not be criminalized. Meanwhile, on Feb. 9, the governing body of the Church of England voted to bless same-sex couples while leaving unchanged the Church’s definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Pope Francis told AP reporters on Jan. 25, that, [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition reported that an unidentified 19-year-old Canadian girl died after taking the abortion pill on July 4, 2022. Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney discovered that Health Canada’s online adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs tracking system revealed that a hospital reported that a 19-year-old female who had used the abortion pill Mifegymiso to kill her preborn child died herself. Maloney [...]
Oswald Clark: During his Feb. 7 State of the Union address to Congress, President Joseph Biden vowed to expand abortion in the United States and attacked states that are protecting the preborn. Biden said, “Congress must restore the right the Supreme Court took away last year and codify Roe v. Wade to protect every woman’s constitutional right to choose.” Biden said the [...]