Interim Staff: The Jason Kenney government announced that women on Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) or income support will be eligible for a new prenatal benefit beginning in May. On March 10, Premier Kenney, along with Jason Luong, Minister of Community and Social Services, announced eligible women will be able to receive $100 per month starting in the second trimester [...]
Paul Tuns: A report published by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) is being used to pressure countries, described as "laggards" in the media and by left-wing politicians, to increase access to contraception. The EPF's "Contraception Atlas" ranks countries on contraception access, counseling and online information and gives each country a numeric grade. Key to getting an "excellent" [...]
Trudeau foreign aid praised by pro-abortion group The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research outfit formerly tied to Planned Parenthood, issued a report, “The Impact of Canadian International Assistance for Family Planning, 2020–2021,” which applauded Ottawa’s funding of “sexual and reproductive health and rights” (SRHR). The report said Ottawa’s foreign aid for abortion and birth control has had “profound and measurable benefits.” The [...]
Rory Leishman: Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau promised that the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would enhance the constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. Instead, the opposite is true: Canadians today are demonstrably less free than they were 40 years ago. As evidence, consider the unprecedented, freedom-stifling provisions of Bill C-4, the notorious legislation adopted in December by Parliament with [...]
Oswald Clark: The process to amend the Vermont state constitution is lengthy and arduous. The state house and state senate must pass bills approving a constitutional amendment in back-to-back sessions and then the state voters must approve it in a referendum. In 2019, both houses of the state legislature passed the Right to Personal Reproductive Autonomy which would recognize abortion as a [...]
Interim Staff: Supporters of Calgary preacher Artur Pawlowski, who is in jail awaiting a bail hearing on a “mischief” charge, are holding daily protests calling for his release. Pawlowski is charged with mischief over $5,000 and interrupting the operation of essential infrastructure under Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act for his role in the Coutts, Alberta, border crossing demonstration. Rebel News reported that [...]
John Carpay: Fifty-two years separate the Trudeaus, father and son, in their use of emergency powers. But apart from the two prime ministers sharing the same last name, the events surrounding the government’s use of emergency powers in 1970 and in 2022 have nothing in common. In 1970, Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act to deal with bombings, kidnappings and murders [...]
Oswald Clark: According to data released by the Texas Health and Human Service Commission, the number of abortions committed in the state fell by more than half in the first month that the so-called heartbeat law took effect in September 2021. The heartbeat law, which took effect on Sept. 1, prohibits abortion after a heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks gestation. [...]
Paul Tuns: The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario released data showing that the number of euthanasia deaths in the province increased more than 30 per cent in 2021 compared to the previous year. The Chief Coroner reported 3102 deaths by euthanasia in 2021, up more from 2378 in 2020. For the month of December, there was more than a 50 [...]
Oswald Clark: In January, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 84, announced that he would retire following the current session that is expected to end in June; the Court will be giving its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the state of Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The retirement will therefore not affect [...]
Abortion leading global cause of death WASHINGTON -- Worldometer is a database that keeps track of statistics on health, the global population, and other metrics in real time based on data obtained from the World Health Organization. It has released its 2021 causes of death for a number of health categories globally. If you watch the news, you would be forgiven for [...]
Interim Staff: Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said that on March 9 his country will declare itself the pro-life capital of Latin America with a solemn act pronouncement. Giamattei has already instituted pro-life laws including the Public Policy for the Protection of Life and the Institutionalization of the Family for 2021-2032, which guarantees the right to life. Guatemala also bans any organization “that [...]
Commentary By Donald DeMarco: An important factor that has been ignored in the ongoing discussion concerning the constitutionality of abortion is the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble. While this important statement is part of the Constitution, it does not specify on how the government should operate, but it does allude to its goals thereby providing a context for what the Founding Fathers were aiming [...]
Rory Leishman: Jesus admonished: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” What, though, should a faithful Christian do if Caesar decrees a law that conflicts with the natural and divine law of God? Sir William Blackstone addressed this issue in his magisterial Commentaries on the Laws of England. The natural and divine law, [...]
Paul Tuns: While supporting vaccinations for COVID, Pope Francis has urged pharmaceutical companies to pursue ethical vaccines that do not utilize cell lines derived from aborted fetal tissue in either the manufacture or testing of their treatments. Even before Health Canada approved a vaccine in Canada, Campaign Lifte Coalition urged the government to only approve ones that were sourced from ethical research [...]