Paul Tuns: In his mandate letter to the finance minister, released on Dec. 16, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau instructed Chrystia Freeland, who also serves as Deputy Prime Minister, to “introduce amendments to the Income Tax Act to make anti-abortion organizations that provide dishonest counselling to pregnant women about their rights and options ineligible for charitable status.” The mandate letter means that Trudeau [...]
Oswald Clark Operation Rescue reports in its annual survey of abortuaries in the United States that the number of stand-alone facilities that commit abortions and the number of abortion pills distributed both rose in 2021. In a two-part report, Operation Rescue examined “The Status of American Abortion Facilities: Telemedicine’s Impact in 2021” and The Status of American Abortion Facilities: Chemical Abortions Gain [...]
Stalin was, of course, right about statistics; Pro-life Canadians are all too familiar with our country’s notorious social liberalism. Canada’s abortion policy is one of the most permissive in the world; our country was among the very first to dispense with the traditional definition of marriage; our scant protections against euthanasia erode further every year; and our laws don’t make minimal moral [...]
Sexual abuse in Louden County public schools LOUDEN COUNTY, Virginia -- Early this spring, in Louden County, a 15-year-old female student was sexually attacked in the girls’ washroom in her school, by a biological boy in a skirt, who claimed to be “non-binary.” The school board tried to cover it up to the point of moving the boy to another school, where [...]
Interim Staff On Dec. 10, Justice Robert Goldstein of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto ruled that there was a “reasonable doubt” that Bill Whatcott’s flyer and his actions fit the legal definition for the “wilful promotion of hatred” and acquitted the long-time pro-family activist. If convicted, Whatcott had faced a possible two-year jail term. Whatcott was charged with a hate [...]
By Andrew Lawton: I hold a somewhat unique position in Canadian politics as the only candidate, to my knowledge, to have the support of both the Campaign Life Coalition and Marc Emery in the same campaign. When I ran for Ontario’s PC party in 2018, I was given a green light by the CLC for my on-record pro-life stance. Emery, the infamous ‘prince [...]
Oswald Clark If Roe v. Wade is reversed, the abortion issue will likely be dealt with by state legislatures unless Congress passes a law that federalizes the issue. Over the past four years, 19 state legislatures considered bans on all or most abortions, including several that take effect if Roe is overturned. In 2021, 12 total abortion bans statutes were debated in [...]
JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS: General Stewart, you focus on the right to abortion, but our jurisprudence seems to -- seem to focus on, in Casey, autonomy; in Roe, privacy. Does it make a difference that we focus on privacy or autonomy or more specifically on abortion? SCOTT STEWART: I think whichever one of those you’re focusing on, Your Honor, particularly if you’re focusing [...]
Josie Luetke Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey On Nov. 24, Bill 48 was passed in Saskatchewan, establishing “access zones” of 50 metres from the property line of every hospital in the province, within which it will be illegal to protest (except in a labour dispute) or in any way try to dissuade someone from accessing or providing a “health [...]
Paul Tuns The Scott Moe government in Saskatchewan introduced and swiftly passed Bill 48, The Public Health (Safe Access to Hospitals) Amendment Act, 2021, that creates a so-called “safe access zone” of 50 metres around hospital property in which any non-union protests will be prohibited. The Bill passed on Nov. 24 and the law has a sunset clause to expire in two [...]
Let us dissent from the orgy of praise for House of Commons and Senate passing the odious conversion therapy ban, Bill C-4, without any debate or hearings, a parliamentary manoeuvre that requires unanimous consent. When private companies agree to cooperate, it is called collusion; when politicians agree to cooperate, it receives hosannahs as bipartisanship. Politics is an arena in which ideas are [...]
Paul Tuns Bill C-4, the Trudeau government’s sweeping ban of conversion therapy which was to help same-sex attracted and Canadians confused about their birth gender passed in both the House and Senate in early December without debate or committee hearings when both chambers gave unanimous consent to send the bill to a final vote. An earlier version of the government’s conversion therapy [...]
Millennials astray GLENDALE, Ariz -- An alarming study, “Millennials in America,” by researchers at the Arizona Christian University has found that among millennials (comprising about 78 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 37), 30 per cent identify as LGBTQ, including 39 per cent of those 18-24. Millennials comprise the largest population group in America. The study says that “the generation [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary In ancient Rome, the father dominated the family. As “paterfamilias” (head of the family), he had absolute rule over his household. If his children angered him, he had the legal right to disown them, sell them into slavery, or even kill them. Sons were preferred. The birth of a female, could be her death warrant. The father came first, [...]
Paul Tuns On Oct. 22, Federal Court Justice Catherine Kane found that the federal government’s Summer Job Program requirement that recipients declare themselves in favour of abortion in order to get funding was constitutionally valid. In December 2017, the Justin Trudeau government released new rules for companies and organizations that received Summer Jobs Program subsidies to hire students that required recipients to [...]