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London euthanasia doctor engulfed in controversy

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:04:29 +0000

Declared alive patient dead, approved MAiD at Tim Horton’s Gianna Baklinski: A 45-year-old man was “assessed” outside a Tim Horton’s franchise, approved for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), and killed by euthanasia. The physician responsible, Dr. James MacLean, is still practicing as a doctor. MacLean is a doctor from London, Ontario. In June of 2023, he [...]

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New Blue Party slams anti-life, ‘left-wing’ Ford government

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:35:46 +0000

Paul Tuns: Over the past two months, the New Blue Party of Ontario has ratcheted up its criticism of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government. On May 14, an email blast from former PC and New Blue MPP Belinda Karahalios, titled “Clear and Terrible: The PC Record on Life Issues,” condemned the Ford government’s record on [...]

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YouTuber announces abortion of Down syndrome child

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:17:23 +0000

Paul Tuns: Popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, aborted their unborn baby because of a Down syndrome diagnosis, after which they complained about the backlash they faced online. Ridgway, who runs a YouTube account called McJuggerNuggets with 4.34 million subscribers, posted a message on Instagram on June 3 saying, “This week, my wife [...]

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Newfoundland government reverses anti-parent policy

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:30:38 +0000

Interim Staff: A Newfoundland and Labrador email message to residents in the province dated June 19 informed parents that they would not have automatic access to the medical records of their children ages 12-15 unless the child gave express permission to share that information. Days later, Newfoundland Premier Tony Wakeham said the policy would be [...]

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Pro-life MP Wagantall resigns

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:22:01 +0000

Paul Tuns: On June 17, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) announced she was stepping down as MP effective in August and later that day gave her last speech in the House of Commons in which she noted Canada had no abortion law and highlighted her own pro-life work. Wagantall began by praising her husband, Marty, [...]

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Canadian Anti-Hate Network defunded

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:24:50 +0000

Kesiah Beere: Over the past seven years, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) has received roughly $1.1 million from the federal government through Canadian Heritage and Public Safety Canada programs. Funding from those two departments expired at the end of February and March 2026 respectively with no expressed intent of renewal. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is [...]

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Seductive AI

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:08:55 +0000

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Encounter Broadside, $12.99, 46 pages) Glenn Harlan Reynolds, founder of InstaPundit, has written a short, stark warning, Seductive AI in which he argues that artificial intelligence presents a threat to human beings well short of an extinction-level event. He says that superhuman, sentient, artificial general intelligence (AGI) could “conquer the world” through [...]

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CLC scores legal victory over banned signs

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:02:48 +0000

Kesiah Beere On June 11, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in favour of applicants Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and Maeve Gainey in a lawsuit against the Parliamentary Protective Services (PPS). Justice Calum MacLeod held that PPS’s order requiring CLC and Gainey, then Maeve Roche, to remove images depicting abortion victims from Parliament Hill [...]

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Life at the Bottom

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:12:19 +0000

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass: 25th Anniversary Edition Theodore Dalrymple (Bloomsbury, $26.50, 225 pages) British psychiatrist and author Theodore Dalrymple (real name Anthony Daniels) published Life at the Bottom a quarter century ago and a new edition was warranted, not just because Rob Henderson (Troubled) writes the foreword, but because [...]

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Rage against the machine

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:57:32 +0000

Paul Tuns, Review: Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis, $42, 348 pages) Paul Kingsnorth, a former Wiccan-practicing environmentalist who became a rural-living conservative has written an important book looking askance at what most people would consider progress. Against the Machine is a critique of techno-optimism, an expose of the soul-destroying [...]

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A decade of death

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:34:26 +0000

Without any fanfare, Canada passed a somber and chastening milestone last month: the 10th anniversary of its legalization of euthanasia. During this time, at least 100,000 euthanasia deaths have been reported—and, given the systemic evasion of official procedures and protocols that are endemic to this depraved practice, the real number of voluntary and involuntary liquidations [...]

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Canada surpasses 100,000 euthanasia deaths

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:29:50 +0000

Paul Tuns: Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, reported that in April “Canada surpassed 100,000 reported euthanasia deaths since legalization in June 2016.” According to the Sixth Annual Report released last year, from legalization in 2016 until December 31, 2024, there were 76,475 reported euthanasia deaths in Canada – about 45 each [...]

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Parliamentary committee advises indefinite exclusion of mental illness from MAiD

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:26:55 +0000

Paul Tuns: On June 17, the tenth anniversary of the legalization of euthanasia in Canada, Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance (AMAD) issued an 88-page report recommending the federal government “indefinitely exclude” people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime. In 2021, Parliament expanded Canada’s [...]

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And then there was this, June 2026

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:11:33 +0000

Congressman challenges abortion activist Brandon Gill, a 32-year-old member of U.S. House of Representative from New Mexico grilled an abortion activist who appeared before a judicial hearing in April. Jessica Waters is a representative of the abortion industry whose research focuses on “reproductive rights law,” “abortion regulation” and “state control of reproductive decision-making.” Gill [...]

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EPC seeks intervenor status

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:44:59 +0000

Interim Staff: The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) is seeking to intervene in the “emergency relief” court case that was launched by Dying with Dignity to have the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approve Medical Assistance in Dying for Claire Brosseau who is living with mental illness alone. On May 4, Dying with Dignity said in [...]

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