Articles Tagged ‘Population’
Written on 19 Nov, 2012 at 9:03 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns LifeSiteNews.com reports:
The UNFPA’s 2012 annual report, which declared birth control a “human right,” was released this week.
It states that UN general comments are “the authoritative interpretation of the standards” that “help translate the right to family planning at the abstract…level into policies and programs.”
Not only is birth control -- many of which are abortifacient -- declared a human right, but the United Nations Population Fund report states that religious objection to birth control is a violation ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Sep, 2012 at 9:34 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns The Silent Spring will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its publication next week and at Taki's Magazine Kathy Shaidle looks at the author, Rachel Carson, and her deadly legacy:
The fact that noble, selfless humanitarians such as Rachel Carson are typically smug, self-satisfied misanthropes has been a truism since Dickens invented Mrs. Jellyby. Yet in the case of the DDT ban, good intentions didn’t pave another liberal road to hell. They bulldozed the way for an ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Aug, 2012 at 20:57 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Interim Staff We have coverage of Melinda Gates promoting birth control for the developing world and insisting it is uncontroversial in the August Interim. The irony is that Gates would not have to repeatedly call contraception uncontroversial if it weren't already controversial. She sees it as substantively different from abortion, but that doesn't mean it is not without issues (many contraceptives are abortifacient, her favoured organization for delivery is the notorious International Planned Parenthood Federation, and it is tied ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Jan, 2010 at 7:21 in
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In our day and age, the reality of climate change cannot be doubted: it is experts’ grave concern, the popular politicians’ top priority, the famous film stars’ fashionable cause.
Last month, the leaders of the world gathered in Copenhagen to avert an impending ecological disaster – an effort (so we are told) that may already be too little, too late. Indeed, it is impossible to question the reality of global warming, when concerns about it have reached a fever-pitch: climate change ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jan, 2010 at 15:39 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Features, Population | Author:
Paul Tuns
Green activists promote one-child policy,
contraception as keys to save planet
The National Post’s Diane Francis promoted the idea of a global one-child policy in her Dec. 8, column. The article ran at the beginning of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and in it Francis, the editor-at-large of the Post’s Financial Post section, said the real environmental issue is not global warming but overpopulation. Her ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Sep, 2009 at 15:11 in
Abortion, Human rights | Author:
Samantha Singson Amnesty International is slamming yet another Latin American country for its pro-life laws. In a recently released report , Amnesty called Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions a “cruel, inhuman disgrace” and charged that the new law has led to an increase in maternal deaths. As in the cases of Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Peru, Amnesty’s latest report on Nicaragua incorrectly argues that international law requires countries to permit abortion, and, according to critics, it misrepresents the facts which actually show ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 5:29 in
Paul Tuns | Author:
From the editor's desk Last month, the National Post reported that one in five schools in the Toronto public school system is at least 40 per cent empty and that the board hopes to save $10-15 million by consolidating or closing some of those institutions. West Toronto Collegiate cancelled its Grade 9 program this year because there were too few students enrolled in first-year high school. As Toronto District School Board chairman John Campbell ... (Continue reading)
Over the last few months, numerous groups and media outlets have noticed that the world’s population is aging –alarmingly so in the developed world – yet few identified the solution to the problem.
From the business pages of the daily papers to financial advisers, from the International Monetary Fund to the C.D. Howe Institute, alarm bells have been ringing about the rapidly aging populations of Canada, the United States, Japan and Europe. The developing world is also aging, though not as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 May, 2009 at 18:29 in
Rory Leishman | Author:
National Affairs Rory Leishman
Jonathon Porritt, a so-called "green" adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, argues that it is "irresponsible" for families to have more than two children. How can anyone take this man seriously? Britain has a total fertility rate of just 1.66. That's far below the rate of 2.1 children per woman that is necessary just to sustain the existing population. Britain also absorbs about 130,000 immigrants ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2008 at 10:24 in
Politics | Author:
Russ Kuykendall
Why “Reflections on the Revolution”?
It’s a direct reference to Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke’s prescient 1790 critique of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment that informed it. Burke foresaw the mob rule that culminated in Robespierre’s Reign of Terror. He warned that if the democratic principle were allowed to run without check or limit, the French would lose freedom ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jul, 2007 at 10:51 in
Population | Author:
Oswald Clark Economics Reporter
Statistics Canada has released a report, “Labour Force Projections for Canada, 2006-2031,” which finds that as babyboomers begin to retire, there will be a major decline in the workforce participation rate.
While sunny-eyed optimists point to the part of the study that says the number of workers will continue to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 May, 2007 at 10:00 in
Features, Society & Culture | Author:
Commentary by Paul Tuns Interim Editor
If demography is destiny, this country is in trouble
In March, Statistics Canada released a report on Canada’s population that provided a very sobering picture. Well, it would be sobering, if Canadians woke up to the reality that we are not having enough children and that in doing so, we risk ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 13:46 in
Population | Author:
Doreen Beagan Atlantic Canada Correspondent
School enrolment figures in P.E.I. have dropped dramatically in recent years. Some rural schools are down more than 40 per cent and there are almost 25 per cent fewer students in Grades 1-3 than in 2001.
“The declines have come quicker and broader than expected. The drop in the younger grades is particularly worrisome,” says ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 12:33 in
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Paul Tuns Editor On Dec. 21, federal Health Minister Tony Clement named the board for Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, an oversight agency established by the federal government to regulate reproductive and experimental technologies, such as in-vitro fertilization and stem cell research. This was done when it passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act in 2004. Immediately, proponents of embryonic stem cell research and their media allies criticized the appointments to ... (Continue reading)
