Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: In opposition to using the armed forces for humanitarian missions, U.S. radio host Rush Limbaugh used to say the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. And he said that 20 years before political correctness and woke ideology became not merely influential within defense and foreign policy ranks, but goals in themselves for [...]
Paul Tuns: Cathay Wagantall's private member's bill, C-311, the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, was defeated on June 14 by a vote of 113 votes for and 205 against. The Conservatives voted in favour of C-311, while the Bloc Quebecois, Green Party, Liberals, and NDP voted against it. Wagantall's bill, if passed, would have added pregnancy as an aggravating circumstance for the [...]
Interim Staff: Former one-term MP John Oostrom died on March 4 at the age of 92. The pro-life MP had a short political career, but one in which he clearly stood up for his pro-life beliefs. Oostrom, was born in the Netherlands, the eldest of 13 children. As an adult, he moved to Canada with his parents and 12 siblings in 1952. [...]
Rory Leishman: Garnett Genuis is an admirable, pro-life MP. However, with the best of intentions, he has come up with a misconceived proposal for amending the Canadian Human Rights Act that would inadvertently increase the powers of Canada’s human-rights oppressors to harass pro-lifers. At issue is private member’s bill C-257, which Genuis introduced in Parliament last year, that would add “political belief [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) trustee Wendy Ashby apologized after calling Christian males “the most dangerous creature on the planet” in a tweet, but only after facing parental backlash. The controversy continued for more than three weeks before Ashby finally resigned her position on the WCDSB. On April 24, 50 concerned parents erupted in protest calling for Ashby’s resignation [...]
Paul Tuns: People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier announced on May 17 that he was seeking a return to Parliament by running in the Portage-Lisgar by-election to be held June 19 and in his announcement speech appealed directly to socially conservative voters in the rural Manitoba riding by vowing to table at the first available opportunity his the Protection of Preborn [...]
Interim Staff: New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs announced he would review Policy 713, the province’s public school Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity policy, arguing that the current policy denies parents their right to know if their child wants to change genders. The current policy, implemented by the Ministry of Education in 2020, states, “Transgender or non-binary students under the age [...]
Paul Tuns: The NDP launched an online petition calling for "abortion services" to be made "accessible to every Canadian," suggesting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government was insufficiently pro-abortion. The petition stated, "Many Canadians seeking abortion services can’t access them – this must change," claiming, "in Canada many individuals seeking abortion services can’t access them," with "only one hospital in six [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 9, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) moved that Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women), be read the second time and referred to a committee, with the Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois condemning the Conservatives for what they claim is an attempt to reopen the abortion issue. If passed, Bill C-311 would [...]
Paul Tuns Two NDP members of provincial parliament in British Columbia and Ontario have introduced private member's bills in support of drag shows for children. In Ontario, NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam tabled Bill 94, the Keeping 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Safe Act, 2023, which, if passed, would allow the Attorney General to temporarily designate addresses where drag shows are taking place as "community safety [...]
Paul Tuns: According to data obtained from Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information, researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run with Life, has found that more than 1500 babies born-alive after a failed abortion have been left to die over the past 23 years and Campaign Life Coalition has renewed calls for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate [...]
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Interim Staff: Justin Trudeau’s federal government tabled its budget on March 28 and among the items announced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is $36 million in new funding to promote abortion in Canada, in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars already spent by provincial healthcare systems to commit at least 87,000 abortions annually and $700 million annually to commit and [...]
Paul Tuns: Beginning April 1, British Columbia taxpayers will pick up the tab on most prescription contraception. In her Feb. 28 budget, provincial Finance Minister Katrine Conroy said that the provincial health plan would cover the full cost of most birth control pills, and all hormonal and copper intrauterine devices, Depo-Provera (an injectable contraceptive), Nexplanon (an implant contraceptive), and the morning-after pill [...]
Paul Tuns: Dave MacKenzie resigned his Oxford seat in southwestern Ontario in December 2022, leading to a highly competitive race to replace the long-time MP in what is considered a safe Conservative riding. Among the candidates seeking the party’s nomination was Gerrit Van Dorland, a Parliament Hill staffer green-lit as pro-life by Campaign Life Coalition as pro-life and endorsed by former Conservative [...]