John Henry Newman once wrote that mankind’s most vivid and proximate experience of God is the phenomenon of conscience. He argues that the feelings that accompany moral action yield a “picture of a Supreme Governor, a Judge, holy, just, powerful, all-seeing, (and) retributive.” The Abrahamic religions, grounded as they are on the Decalogue, affirm this deep and universal intuition: God is a [...]
Paul Tuns: A medical student expelled by the University of Manitoba over pro-life and pro-gun social media posts has won a court case overturning his expulsion. In February 2019, Rafael Zaki, a Coptic Orthodox student at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine, posted three items on his Facebook page: two supported the U.S. Second Amendment to bear arms and [...]
Sarah Gangl: Health Canada’s recent report on g (MAiD) in 2020 reveals a dramatic increase in deaths in Canada, rising 34.2 per cent over 2019. A staggering 7,595 reported deaths in Canada last year can be attributed to assisted killing, accounting for 2.5 per cent of all deaths nationally. In total, Canada has officially counted 21,589 medically assisted deaths since the legislation [...]
Biden Administration erases women WASHINGTON D.C. -- Gender neutral language takes over the U.S. government in President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget proposal in the replacement of traditionally female terms to be “more inclusive.” The public health sub-section titled Reduces Maternal Mortality Rate and Ends Race-Based Disparities in Maternal Mortality begins with gender-specific terms such as “women” and “maternal,” but continues on to [...]
Paul Tuns: Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed House Bill 2574 on June 15 which allows what is euphemistically called “natural organic reduction,” but which is more colloquially known as “human composting” to dispose of the bodies of the deceased. The law goes into effect in July 2022, making the state the third to allow the decomposing of the body of deceased human [...]
“This Canada Day, let’s cancel the cancellers” Christopher Dummitt The Hub (June 28) But it’s possible to deplore the legacy of residential schools and still be put off by the sickening glee with which some activists (and sadly, some actual historians) jumped on the news of the discovery to advance their pre-set ideological attack on Canada and the western world, and its [...]
Donald DeMarco The task of the commencement speaker is a curious one. After all, what more can students learn inside of an hour that they have not learned over the long haul of four years? However, the show must go on in spite of its rich potential for inducing boredom. Humorist Garry Trudeau has stated that, “Commencement speeches were invented largely in [...]
Johnny Tzoganakis: Despite all the focus on COVID-19, in Canada there has recently been an uptick in another disease: syphilis. Saskatchewan has been recently struck with an outbreak of the disease, with 903 reported cases in 2020 and 537 so far in 2021 (as of May). While the other provinces by and large have not had any recent outbreaks (excepting Alberta), the [...]
Paul Tuns: At its annual meeting in Nashville on June 15, messengers (voting members) at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) voted for a resolution opposing abortion and calling for maintaining the Hyde Amendment which prohibits federal funding for abortion. The SBC said the Hyde Amendment is necessary to “to prevent taxpayers from being complicit in the moral evil of abortion” and the [...]
Rory Leishman In a pastoral letter issued on May 1, the Archbishop of San Francisco, Cardinal Salvatore Cordileone, has spelled out with admirable clarity why no faithful Christian cleric should allow a politician who aids and abets in committing the evils of abortion to take part in Holy Communion. Having earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in [...]
Paul Tuns: Senate debates C-6 On June 22, the House of Commons passed the Trudeau government’s Bill C-6, the so-called conversion therapy ban, in a 263-63 vote. Independent MP Derek Sloan (Hastings—Lennox and Addington) joined 62 of his former Conservative colleagues voting against the bill, which was supported by the Liberal, NDP, Bloc, and Green caucuses and nearly a third of the [...]
Interim Staff: On June 29, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) announced “that the Federal Court has struck down a discriminatory federal government decision against Mill Stream Bible Camp, operated by BCM Canada International.” The JCCF represented Mill Stream Bible Camp in court in April, challenging the Trudeau government’s denial of the children’s summer camp’s application for Canada Summer Jobs Program [...]
Paul Tuns The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scrambling to tackle their demographic crisis. On May 31, CCP officials announced at a Politburo meeting that the limit on children would be lifted to three by 2025, a gradual relaxation of the two-child policy implemented in 2016 after ChiComms determined that the one-child policy inaugurated in 1980 and enforced with coercive sterilization and [...]
Human 2.0: how to upgrade yourself We are hearing a lot today about transhumanism. What is it and what are its long-term implications? One definition says that it is a “philosophy favouring the use of science and technology, especially neuro-technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.” In other words, taking artificial intelligence (AI) and the human [...]
Interim Staff On May 12, NDP MLA Jennifer Bowes (Saskatoon University) introduced a private member’s bill, An Act to Provide Safe Access to Abortion Services, which, if passed, would create anti-free speech bubble zones of up to 150 meters around facilities that commit abortion in the province of Saskatchewan. Bowes said a law is necessary to prevent harassment and intimidation of women [...]