Paul Tuns: On Feb. 18, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered Barry Neufeld, a former Chilliwack, British Columbia school trustee, to pay $750,000 to a teacher’s union for his insistence that there are only two genders. The BC HRT decision ruled that Neufeld made discriminatory comments against LGBTQ teachers over a five-year period in his social media posts. The Tribunal’s decision said, [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: The United Kingdom put an end to a clinical trial that would have tested the effects of puberty blockers on children as young as 10-years-old. On Feb. 20, the National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. announced the halt of a proposed clinical trial of puberty blockers on minors after the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) voiced [...]
Interim Staff: On March 18, the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a Superior Court decision in favour of the City of Hamilton which censored a Christian Heritage Party of Canada advertisement defining a woman, that was intended for bus shelters in the southwestern Ontario city. In January 2023, CHP Canada attempted to purchase advertising space in bus shelters in Hamilton for a [...]
Paul Tuns: On March 5, the Ontario Superior Court heard arguments in the case of Campaign Life Coalition and Maeve Roche v. Parliamentary Protective Services (PPS) over the latter’s 2023 prohibition against CLC using signs with abortion victim photography during a press conference on Parliament Hill. In May 2023, CLC had a scheduled press conference the day prior to the National March [...]
Administration dithers on abortion pill review Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: While American pro-lifers have generally supported Donald Trump as a president and candidate despite the fact he says he does not want a federal law banning abortion, there has been a shift in the movement’s leadership that patience is running short with the Trump administration. Donald Trump points to numerous pro-life policies that [...]
Thousands of youth march for life in Paris On Jan. 18, about 10,000 people gathered in front of the ‘iconic’ Invalides palace in Paris, France. (The palace includes the Cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides; the resting place of Napoleon Bonaparte; and was commissioned as a hospital and retirement home for disabled soldiers by King Louis XIV in 1670.) The National Catholic Register described the [...]
Russell E. Kuykendall, Review: The Omnipotent Child: How to Mold, Strengthen, and Perfect the Developing Child, Fourth Edition by Thomas P. Millar MD (New Westminster, B.C.: Palmer Press, 2005. 241 pp.) Version 1.0.0 In his first edition of The Omnipotent Child in 1983, the child psychiatrist Thomas Millar took on the still-popular approach to child-rearing: Dr. Benjamin Spock’s The Common Sense Book [...]
John Carpay: Benjami Franklin wrote 250 years ago that “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” For decades, the trend in Canada has been towards an ever-increasing body of laws and regulations, so many that even the most diligent and conscientious businessman, school principal, manufacturer and manager of a [...]
Victor Penney: Sports and smut. I’m not a fan of the combination. In general, mixing anything with sexual perversion is a horrible idea, but not everyone feels the same way, at least on the surface. On Jan. 15th, for example, Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the National Hockey League, was asked about his opinion of Heated Rivalry, the sexually explicit hit series [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 17, Heartbeat International announced that more than 8,000 lives have been saved through the Abortion Pill Rescue Network (APRN) in what it called “a significant milestone in its effort to provide immediate medical care to women who regret beginning a chemical abortion.” APRN connects women who have taken the abortion pill to licensed medical professionals who can prescribe [...]
Rory Leishman: On Jan. 26, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights delayed consideration of Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. That is not sufficient: Parliament should defeat this freedom-stifling bill altogether and also repeal the anti-hate law provisions in the Criminal Code. Government should not stifle the expression of any political viewpoint, no matter how vile. Experience [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: In 2025, two Peruvian municipalities passed ordinances giving legal rights to wild stingless bees from the Amazon. According to the Earth Law Center, which campaigned for the ordinances, among the “inherent rights of the bees and their ecosystems” now recognized under law are “the right to exist and thrive, the right to maintain healthy populations, the right to [...]
The pro-life movement in Canada strives to secure legal protection for the unborn; it seeks to establish robust defenses for those menaced by the prospect of euthanasia and the temptation to assisted suicide; and it advocates for sane policies regarding marriage, family, and the recognition of both sexes. The issues and controversies which our threefold campaign impels us to engage are myriad; [...]
Interim Staff: On Feb. 5, three months before the 2026 National March for Life in Ottawa, Campaign Life Coalition unveiled the theme, “Follow Me.” During the announcement video, Josie Luetke, CLC director of education and advocacy, said “‘Follow Me’ is, first and foremost, an invitation to be disciples of Christ—and to be fishers of men,” explaining, “Because as a pro-life movement, we’re [...]
Reflections on why we march Donald DeMarco: The word “life” has several shades of meaning. In this article I call attention to just two of its meanings. The first is the life that is the focus of the various marches for life. It refers to the sacredness of life. All human life, including the life of the unborn, is invested with an [...]