Donald DeMarco: G. K. Chesterton suggested that an extraterrestrial explorer will find proof of intelligence on some distant planet when he discovers a tablet on which is inscribed the injunction, “Thou shall not kill.” Chesterton was not so much impressed with technological accomplishments as expressions of intelligence. He was inferring that the ultimate expression of intelligence among a people is that they [...]
Mary Zwicker: Prince Albert II of Monaco has vetoed a bill permitting elective abortions up to 12 weeks gestation. A European monarch has vetoed proposed pro-abortion legislation on the grounds that it violates his country’s Catholic foundations. Prince Albert II of Monaco has refused to sign into law a bill that proposed to legalize abortion up to 12 weeks of [...]
Paul Tuns: Conservative MP Jamil Jivani criticized the Liberal-Bloc plan to remove good faith religious exemption from hate crime law. The Liberals have agreed to a Bloc Quebecois amendment to Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, that would eliminate the religious exemption from Canada’s hate crime laws. Current law permits sincerely held religious views do not violate federal hate crime [...]
David takes down Goliath: Student newspaper wins defamation suit against pro-abortion professor The Irish Rover is an independent, non-profit student newspaper at Notre Dame University in Indiana established in 2003. Its mission is “devoted to preserving the Catholic identity of Notre Dame.” (Note: Recently, Notre Dame announced that it was not necessary for the components of the university to continue to ‘preserve its [...]
Josie Luetke: The sympathetic protagonist trotted out by pro-choicers is the teenager who accidentally gets knocked up. Think Ellen Page in Juno or Shailene Woodley in The Secret Life of the American Teenager (disregarding the bit of trivia that both their characters gave birth). Yet, this stereotype hasn’t reflected reality for a while. According to Statistics Canada, in 1975, girls under 20 [...]
Donald DeMarco: I had a terrible dream last night. Maybe it was brought about by that extra slice of “everything on it” pizza I consumed before I retired. It was having its revenge. At any rate, the dream was not only terrifying, but it lasted a long time. I hastened to write it down before I forgot the incidents that rose to [...]
John Carpay: Interim writer, John Carpay, Law Matters If passed into law, the Combatting Hate Act (Bill C-9) will make Canada more like the increasingly authoritarian United Kingdom. U.K. police now arrest more than 30 people every day for offensive tweets, question citizens for political commentary, and have even arrested parents in front of their children, over private WhatsApp messages. [...]
Oswald Clark: Eric Kaufmann of the Centre for Heterodox Social published a report in October, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans,” showing that the number of university students identifying as transgender is in steep decline. Using data collected by Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), polling 60,000 undergraduate students, Kaufmann determined that 3.6 per cent of respondents [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns On Nov. 4, Liberal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the the Liberal government’s 2025 federal budget and after two weeks of kabuki theatre of whether or not enough opposition MPs would cross the floor, vote for the budget, or miss the final vote, it passed on a party-line vote 170-168. With a minority caucus that fell just [...]
Paul Tuns: Prolife Alberta launched its “Left to Die” campaign demanding protection for babies born alive after botched abortions. The organization hopes to inform Albertans of the Alberta Health Services policy that allows babies born alive after surviving an abortion to die without receiving any care. The campaign was launched in September but gained publicity in late October and early November, forcing [...]
Paul Tuns The CBC and Sudbury Star reported that Cleo Gratton, 84, was approved for Medical Assistance in Dying after he received terrible medical care at Health Sciences North in Sudbury. Gratton told family that after receiving poor care caused by “hallway healthcare” at the Sudbury hospital, he would rather die than go back to Health Sciences North. His daughter, Lynn, told [...]
Paul Tuns: On Oct. 30, Quebec’s 2024-2025 Report on the Commission of End-of-Life Care was released, revealing that 1 in 15 deaths in the province is through Medical Assistance in Dying. “The Commission notes that MAiD is in increasing demand and occupies an important place in the public sphere in Quebec,” the report states. The report covers April 1, 2024 to March [...]
Oswald Clark: The Charlotte Lozier Institute issued its annual report on pregnancy care centres, and it reports that in the United States 2775 pregnancy resource/help centres provided $452 million in medical care, support, educational services, and material goods to mothers and family in 2024. The 2025 report, titled, “Pregnancy Centers: Rising to the Occasion with Unwavering Care,” and produced with Heartbeat International, [...]
Oswald Clark: In November, Planned Parenthood issued an “impact report” detailing the closure of 43 of its abortuaries in 2025, which it blamed on the loss of Title X funds and Medicaid reimbursements after Congress passed, and President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, a ban on federal taxpayer funds being used to pay for abortions. In their report, “The [...]
Canadians divided on abortion, euthanasia, not so much on divorce, contraception Paul Tuns: On Oct. 16, Research Co. released the results of their online poll on what behaviours Canadians find morally acceptable from abortion and euthanasia to marital affairs and gambling. With the exception of pedophilia, there was significant support for most immoral behaviours and majority support for many of them. While [...]