By Rory Leishman In a tragic case stemming from the gender-identity craze that has engulfed much of North America and Western Europe, the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled on March 19 that the father of a transgender child must remain in jail pending trial in April on charges of criminal contempt of court. In court documents, the father is designated C.D., his [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary An embarrassing number of “Catholics” have tied themselves in academic knots attempting to convince people that they can both express their religious faith and at the same time negate it while offering a coherent political strategy. John Milloy is a former Liberal Ontario MPP and cabinet minister. He currently serves as the director of the Centre for Public Ethics [...]
By Andrew Lawton Saskatchewan Conservative member of parliament Cathay Wagantall’s private member’s bill to criminalize sex-selective abortion is noble, but it should be approached with caution. The bill confronts a horrific reality, but also poses moral challenges to the pro-life movement. “Above all, I’m bringing this bill forward in defense of pre-born Canadian girls and boys who are aborted simply due to [...]
By John Carpay At an April 8 news conference, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney referenced pro-life convictions as the basis for continuing with, and tightening further, his lockdown restrictions on social and economic life. Since politicians imposed “two weeks to flatten the curve” more than 13 months ago, Kenney has repeatedly referred to the “moral responsibility to protect lives.” He and other premiers, [...]
Paul Tuns Last month, Cardus, a Hamilton-based think tank, released a Family Policy Brief by Jon Peter Mitchell and Andrea Mrozek that examined “policy options to better serve families.” Mitchell and Mrozek note that “strong, stable families are irreplaceable and are foundational to a healthy society,” and that “our best social policies do not replace or attempt to replicate the family but [...]
Paul Tuns Analysis Richard Decarie’s leadership bid for the Conservative Party of Canada was nixed by their Leadership Election Organizing Committee in February 2020. This spring he tried to run for a position on the party’s National Council, but the party executive claimed it did not receive his nomination form before the deadline, disqualifying him and another pro-lifer from Quebec from running [...]
Portuguese court nixes euthanasia law LISBON -- Portugal’s Constitutional Court ruled on March 15 that a recently passed assisted suicide law is unconstitutional. In January, Portugal’s parliament passed a euthanasia bill that permitted euthanasia in cases of psychiatric suffering, disability, or when patients refused care for treatable illness. President Marcelo de Sousa said the bill was “excessively imprecise” and refused to sign [...]
The Interim Staff In February, Amazon, the online bookseller responsible for more than half of all books sold in the United States, banned the sale of the print and e-book versions of Ryan Anderson’s 2018 book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. The book was removed from Amazon, as well as from Amazon subsidiaries Kindle, Audible, and AbeBooks. Initially [...]
Paul Tuns The Trudeau government deducted $140,216 from Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer to New Brunswick over “the province’s lack of coverage under its health insurance plan for abortion services outside the hospital setting.” According to the 2019-2020 Health Act Annual Report, the federal government’s report to Parliament, tabled on Feb. 22, Ottawa reimplemented a cut made to the health transfer that was [...]
Interim writer, Joe Campbell, Light is Right “I got bumped,” he said, stepping out of his car. Although I looked, I could see no evidence of damage or injury. “Where?” I asked, looking more closely at both vehicle and driver. “At work.” “It’s good it wasn’t serious.” “It was serious enough.” “You have accident insurance.” “This was no accident.” “Someone [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey By Josie Luetke This past year has been a hard one for me, and, unsurprisingly, for most of the rest of the world. At my lowest moments, I considered whether there was a conflict between my professional life in the pro-life movement and my personal life. I was urging people to choose life whilst [...]
By Paul Tuns When the pandemic spread from Red China to Europe and then North America, there were news stories predicting either a baby boom as couples spent more time together or a baby bust as families worried about their future economic prospects. Most demography experts predicted the latter, putting further downward pressure on declining fertility rates in most of the western [...]
By Paul Tuns On March 11, the House of Commons voted to permit Canadians suffering from mental illness to be killed by euthanasia and a week later, the Senate approved the Liberal government’s amendments to their own legislation, Bill C-7. With the help of the Bloc Quebecois, the Liberal government forced closure of debate on C-7, Justin Trudeau’s euthanasia expansion bill. The [...]
By Interim Staff Health Canada has approved four vaccines against COVID-19: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. Moderna and Pfizer COVID injections utilized abortion-derived cell lines in their testing process but not their development or production, whereas the AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines utilized abortion-derived cell lines in their development, production, and testing. Last May, the Canadian Conference of Catholic [...]
By John Carpay Pastor James Coates spent more than a month in the Edmonton Remand Centre, after being arrested and jailed on Feb. 16, 2021. He and his Grace Life Church are charged with failing to comply with Jason Kenney’s unscientific and unconstitutional health orders that restrict the freedom of Pastor Coates and his church to worship God as God calls them [...]