Politics

First they came for the pro-lifers

Talk Turkey Josie Luetke I must confess that when I found out about the Canada Summer Jobs program adding an attestation to their application to exclude pro-life groups from getting funding, I did not think anything could be done about it. I complained on Facebook and signed Campaign Life Coalition’s petition, but just accepted that this would be yet another [...]

2018-03-22T17:30:05-04:00March 22, 2018|Columnist, Josie Luetke, Pro-Life, Religion|

Granic Allen wins PC leadership debate

Tanya Granic Allen was declared the winner of the Feb. 15 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership debate on TVO after she took on the legacy of former leader Patrick Brown, focused on policies, and directly challenged the record of presumptive frontrunner Christine Elliott. Punditis declared Tanya Granic Allen the debate winner because she articulated a clear vision of her agenda and spoke [...]

2018-03-22T18:41:56-04:00March 2, 2018|Announcements, Features, Politics|

Pro-life, parental rights candidate shakes up Ontario PC race

Tanya Granic Allen Tanya Granic Allen, a 37-year-old mother of four children and former president of the parents’ rights group Parents As First Educators, announced on Feb. 8, that she intended to run for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership. In an email to PAFE supporters, Granic Allen resigned from the parental rights group in order to run. “I’m stepping [...]

BC trustee targeted for opposing trans agenda

Barry Neufeld Chilliwack school board trustee Barry Neufeld is vowing to remain in his job and “be a lonely voice for impressionable children” after a human rights complaint was filed against him and the province’s education minister called for his resignation after he condemned the sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum. Neufeld questioned the so-called SOGI 123 curriculum which teaches [...]

2018-03-09T20:24:05-05:00February 23, 2018|Politics, Sex Education, Society & Culture|

B.C. okays full coverage for abortion pill

The NDP government of British Columbia announced it will offer the abortion drug Mifegymiso to all residents at no cost. Health Canada gave approval to the abortion drug Mifegymiso in 2015, but permitted its prescription under limited conditions including restricting the gestational age of the preborn child, permitting only doctors to distribute it, and requiring doctors undergo training. Those restrictions have all [...]

2018-02-23T15:08:58-05:00February 23, 2018|Abortion, Politics|

Reaction to Trudeau’s summer jobs policy

Editor’s Note:  There was a great deal of commentary and response to Justin Trudeau’s pro-abortion, pro-LGBQT ideological litmus to receive Canada Summer Jobs program funding. Below is a sampling of reaction to the government policy.  “The language is overbroad ... it infringes the fundamental right of freedom of religion and conscience in a way that is not justifiable.” University of Saskatchewan law [...]

2018-02-23T11:14:41-05:00February 23, 2018|Human rights, Politics, Religion|

Ontario bubble zones come into force Feb. 1

In December, Ontario Attorney General Yasir Navqi’s office notified Campaign Life Coalition and other pro-life groups that the Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, 2017, would come into effect on Feb. 1. The law, passed in October, establishes a minimum bubble zone prohibiting pro-life speech and assembly within 50 meters of the property of eight existing free-standing abortion facilities and 150 meters [...]

2018-02-23T11:10:55-05:00February 23, 2018|Abortion Law, Human rights, Politics, Society & Culture|

Trump addresses Washington March for Life

President Trump addresses Washington March for Life More than 100,000 people participated in the Jan. 19 March for Life in Washington D.C., which for the first time in its 45-year history saw the sitting president address them. The theme for the 2018 March was “Love saves lives.” March for Life president Jeanne Mancini told LifeSiteNews: “Choosing life is not always [...]

2018-02-23T11:42:39-05:00February 21, 2018|Politics, Pro-Life|

Trump proclaims Jan. 22, 2018, ‘National Sanctity of Human Life Day’

Editor’s Note: Donald J. Trump made this proclamation on Jan. 19. President Donald Trump  Today, we focus our attention on the love and protection each person, born and unborn, deserves regardless of disability, gender, appearance, or ethnicity. Much of the greatest suffering in our Nation’s history – and, indeed, our planet’s history – has been the result of disgracefully misguided [...]

2018-02-20T21:06:10-05:00February 21, 2018|Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

On the side of history

Governor-General Julie Payette mocked people of traditional religious faith in speech at a science convention last October. As a transcript of the ubiquitous and intractable reality of human evil, the Christian doctrine of original sin seems convincing enough. Some awareness of it might at least have spared us the sadistic horrors of the social experiments of twentieth-century totalitarians, as it [...]

2018-02-20T20:23:20-05:00February 21, 2018|Announcements, Features, Politics, Religion|

Patrick Brown resigns amidst sex scandal allegations

Tenure will be remembered for flip-flops and division Patrick Brown [Editor's Note: Since this article was published in the print edition, interim leader Vic Fedeli and Monte McNaughton have announced they would not seek the permanent leader's position. The Ontario PC Party announced that the deadline to become a member of the party and be eligible to vote is Feb. 16. [...]

2018-02-23T12:59:29-05:00February 2, 2018|Announcements, Features, Politics|

Government maintains ideological litmus test for Summer Jobs program

Trudeau suggests pro-lifers out of step with society Justin Trudeau In December, the federal government announced changes to the Canada Summer Jobs program which now requires employers to sign an attestation of support for what the application process called Charter rights and underlying values, including reproductive and LGBQT rights. In January, the Trudeau government faced a backlash from religious groups [...]

2018-02-03T08:26:19-05:00February 2, 2018|Announcements, Features, Human rights, Politics, Society & Culture|

Summer jobs depend on agreeing with state religion

Law Matters John Carpay The fascist disease of ideological coercion continues to spread in Canada’s body politic. For a charity to receive federal government funding through the Canada Summer Jobs program, the charity must now express agreement with Canada’s state religion, including support for legal abortion, transgenderism, and LGBTQ ideology. The Canada Summer Jobs program exists to create summer employment [...]

An ideological litmus-test

At America’s founding, the moral character of slavery was not in doubt. The contradiction of self-evident truths of man’s God-given rights being held in tandem with an iniquitous institution that violated those right by treating people as property was a scandal even then. Laws proposing slavery’s eventual abolition were discussed, and bans on slavery in new territories were proposed; its eventual elimination [...]

2018-02-03T08:20:23-05:00February 2, 2018|Editorials, Human rights, Politics, Society & Culture|

Trudeau apologizes to LGBQT2

November 28: Justin Trudeau apologizes for past governments' discrimination against several thousand federal employees who lost their jobs because there were homosexuals. On Nov. 28, Justin Trudeau gave a 20-minute speech in the House of Commons to apologize to lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, and two-spirited Canadians who lost their government jobs from the 1950s to 1980s. Trudeau declared “it [...]

2018-01-29T07:40:16-05:00January 20, 2018|Politics|
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