In mid-February, Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan will celebrate Family Day. But what can such a holiday mean in an age when marriage is no longer understood to be the fertile, permanent union of man and a woman; when the very words “mother” and “father” are avoided for being too-sex-specific; and when our culture, mired in Soviet-era levels of [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Last fall, film critic Christian Toto wrote a column asking why conservative creators – authors, filmmakers, musicians and comedians – have a hard time getting their work promoted to the audiences they’re trying to reach because conservative news media is so unenthusiastic about covering and promoting their work. “The Left maintains a strong, [...]
Interim Staff The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Mike Del Grande, granting him leave to appeal a lower court ruling that rejected his constitutional and administrative law arguments to overturn the board’s sanctions against him for speaking out against the LGBTQ ideology in Catholic schools. In 2020, Del Grande spoke against adding “gender [...]
Interim Staff: Renfrew County Catholic District School Board (RCCDSB) has upheld the suspension and expulsion of student activist Josh Alexander, 17, from St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ont. The decision means Alexander will not be able to graduate from high school. A publication ban prevents the reporting of the proceedings or the reasons for their decision. Alexander was suspended in [...]
Paul Tuns: Following pressure to not change its medical standards that would severely restrict the conscience rights of doctors, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) backed down from a proposal to require doctors to make an “effective referral.” Currently, doctors and nurses are not required to participate in or be complicit in abortion, euthanasia, birth control, or so-called gender-affirming [...]
Interim Staff: The Department of National Defence said it will not tolerate members of the Canadian Armed Forces vandalizing or removing feminine hygiene products in the mens’ washrooms of its facilities. True North reports that it has received first-hand accounts and photographs of damaged or removed tampon dispensers and disposal units in male washrooms following an edict last year that went into [...]
What Jordan Peterson and Alexander Solzhenitsyn have in common Donald DeMarco There is an old Russian saying that a lie can get around the world faster than one can get his boots on. The lie, being a half-truth, can travel faster than the truth which is weighed down by its complexity. In addition, the pleasant lie is more appealing than the naked [...]
Paul Tuns A private member’s bill, Motion 36, that called upon the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide universal access to contraception, was defeated by a vote of 61-23 on Nov. 30. The motion, introduced by NDP MPP Jennifer Stevens (St. Catharines) in March 2023, stated, “That, in the opinion of this House, the Ministry of Health should expand the Ontario Health [...]
Paul Tuns The Vatican has once again muddied the waters of Catholic moral teaching with the release of Fiducia Supplicans – On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings, which was widely reported on the front pages of newspaper and the leads of many news broadcasts as the Roman Catholic Church officially sanctioning the blessing of same-sex unions. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of [...]
Paul Tuns Dec. 6 tweet from Veterans 4 Freedom According to a directive issued by Employment and Social Development Canada, beginning Dec. 15, all federally regulated workplaces, government offices, and military bases must provide menstruation products in men’s bathrooms as part of the government’s program to promote “inclusivity.” Feminists have lobbied for free feminine hygiene products to battle what they [...]
For centuries, there was no question at all. Apart from some outliers who departed from prevailing norms—one thinks of Thomas More, in the early 16th century, giving his daughters a classical education—the societal conventions surrounding the place of women in society were not in dispute. In the 18th century, however, radical utopians reimagined the roles that women might play in the world [...]
Joanna Alphonso Numerous records have been broken in women’s competitions over the past few years. This sounds like amazing news – women reaching new heights of power and skill. Except these new records have been set by men who identify as women. Here’s a record of the times that female-identifying males beat women in various competitions in 2023. Tiffany [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 24, Dan Quayle (not the former U.S. vice president) opted to be medically killed after he was unable to access timely chemotherapy for an aggressive form of esophageal cancer. On Oct. 7, he had been told that chemotherapy might prolong his life by a year. He was kept waiting for chemotherapy for ten weeks in Victoria General Hospital. [...]
10. Women facing biological men in competition After the trans-identified Lia Thomas, a biological male, competed and won the 500-yard collegiate freestyle swimming competition in 2022, governing bodies of various sports have been forced to consider their policies of permitting biological males to compete against girls and women. World Athletics, formerly the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which governs track and field, began [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements I knew something was up when my eldest daughter texted me: “Dad, how often do you think about the Roman Empire?” I replied quickly – and honestly. “At least every other day.” “That’s what I thought,” she wrote. “I know why you’re asking this,” I responded. It had begun just a few days [...]