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The Truth in Media and Journalism is reprinted from the Notes for an address by Rory Leishman to the Christian Legal Institute, London, Ontario, May 5, 2014 What passes for [...]

At this year's Red Mass in Toronto for Catholic lawyers, judges and legislators on Sept. 18, Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, Archbishop of Toronto chose for his text the beheading of John […]

The article discusses an announcement on May 27, 2021, that researchers using ground-penetrating radar had discovered an estimated 251 unmarked graves on the grounds of a former Indian Residential School near Kamloops, British Columbia, seven churches in Canada Columbia, seven churches in Canadian churches and to have desecrated dozens more with red and orange paints.

With the unprecedented, seven-to-two ruling in R. v. Labaye on December 21, 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada took judicial activism to a new extreme, by legalizing group sex in […]

The article discusses screening of the pro-life movie "Unplanned" at King's University College at Western University in London and how a plan to show students the pro-life film exposes academic infidelity. It mentions that archbishop Joseph Naumann has lauded the film and its story on ultrasound-guided abortion of a 13-week-old baby in the womb. It mentions that the 44 dissident professors also maintained that for the purpose of truth-seeking through respectful dialogue and disagreement.

"New age? Dark age? Twenty years of Pope John Paul II." Under this headline, Toronto's independent Catholic New Times of September 27, 1998, printed an attack on the Holy Father […]

Time and again, the Parliament of Canada has rejected the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide, most recently in an overwhelming vote by the House of Commons in 2010. In [...]

As word spread on January 8 that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus had finally succumbed to cancer, faithful Catholics and Evangelicals throughout the English-speaking world united in mourning the passing of […]

Fifty years ago, the overwhelming majority of Canadians--Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical and secular--understood that fornication, adultery, sodomy, abortion and assisted suicide are immoral. What has happened in the meantime ? How […]

Over the past twenty years, there have been mounting public attacks on faithful Christians in North America who still dare to uphold the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality. One of […]

Shortly before Christmas, the British Office for National Statistics released data from the 2011 Census of England and Wales, indicating that only 59.3 per cent of the population still regard [...]

Among Catholic politicians, Congressman Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee for Vice-President of the United States, is an exemplar of faithfulness. When, in the nationally televised debate with Vice-President Joe Biden, [...]

Despite the impending repeal by Parliament of restrictions on freedom of expression in section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, Canadians who uphold the traditional tenets of Judeo-Christian morality [...]

In a recent study, Statistics Canada projected that within 20 years, there could be as many as 3.3 million Muslims residing in Canada, up from 884,000 in the 2006 census. [...]

All of Canada's leading academics profess to uphold academic freedom, yet many condone the bullying, intimidation and censorship of pro-life demonstrators. The same cannot be said about members of the [...]

THE TROUBLE WITH CANADA ... STILL A Citizen Speaks Out WRITTEN BY William Gairdner PUBLISHED BY Key Porter Books, 2010 ISBN: 9781554702473, Softcover, pp. 534; PRICE: $24.95CDN William Gairdner is [...]

Most Canadian academics and journalists are so in thrall to a perverse system of value relativism that they can no longer tolerate even the expression of public support for the [...]

While Pope Benedict XVI is not without fault in his dealings with the sex-abuse crisis afflicting the worldwide Catholic Church, his shrillest critics in the media are not offering any [...]

In a rare and commendable ruling on Feb. 25, a three-judge panel of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal upheld the finest traditions of the Canadian judiciary by striking down an [...]

Faithful Catholics should brace themselves and their children for tougher times ahead as atheistic politicians become ever bolder in their attacks on freedom of conscience and religion. BRITAIN In England, [...]

A great many faithful Christians in Canada think they are still free to practise their religion without interference from the government. But, alas, that is no longer true. Consider the […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shortly after obtaining power, Hitler decreed that members of the German Evangelical Church would hold a national election for church leaders on July 23, 1933. To the everlasting […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With both leading Liberals and Conservatives now calling for elimination of the censorship powers in the Canadian Human Rights Act, Parliament might soon get rid of this menace […]

The Ontario Human Rights Commission is truly evil. By threatening to prosecute physicians under the Ontario Human Rights Code for refusing to participate in abortion-on-demand, it has perpetrated one of […]

Iris Robinson, a British MP based in Northern Ireland, has provoked a storm of controversy, by reaffirming what used to be a commonplace truth--that government has "the responsibility to uphold […]

Thanks to a recent ruling of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, faithful Christians are free to publish their opposition to same-sex marriage in an Ontario newspaper or magazine. However, that [...]

Over the past 40 years, pro-lifers in Canada have endured one defeat and disappointment after another. Yet the best have never despaired: despite every setback, they have retained complete confidence […]

In subjecting Catholic Insight magazine to investigation on baseless charges of homophobia, the Canadian Human Rights Commission is once again trampling upon the very human rights and fundamental freedoms it […]

During the weekend of October 28, thousands of I pro-lifers in Britain marked the 40th anniversary of the legalization of abortion with massive protest demonstrations. At an evening rally in […]

Opponents of capital punishment have been quick to underline the significance of the unanimous decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal to quash the long-contested murder conviction of Stephen Truscott […]

In an exchange with reporters on May 15, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty repudiated the admonition of Pope Benedict XVI that Catholic politicians are no less obligated than all other people […]

In a public lecture at London, England, on March 28, 2007, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, observed that "the freedom of religion is much more than the freedom […]

In politics, as in so many other endeavours, the best is often the enemy of the good: Consider, in this respect, the 1860 presidential election in the United States. For […]

Truly, there is sometimes more honour in defeat than in victory. A case in point is the loss of Dianne Haskett in the November 27 federal by-election in London North […]

On September 18, the Harper government outraged liberals and socialists by appointing a Catholic, Mr. Justice David M. Brown, to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Most of his critics […]

It is a measure of the decadence of the Liberal Party of Canada that one of the foremost candidates to succeed Paul Martin as leader is a morally benighted Harvard […]

In a remarkable ruling on Maundy Thursday, a three-judge panel of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal unanimously quashed the rulings of a Saskatchewan human rights board of inquiry which found […]

In the context of defending the alleged equality right of homosexuals to same-sex "marriage" during the election campaign, Liberal party leader Paul Martin declared: "I believe a right is a […]

In nominating Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court, President George Bush lauded him as a "scholarly, fair-minded and principled" judge who has "a deep understanding of the proper […]

I'm ruling last December on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court of Canada claimed that the protection of freedom of religion afforded by s. 2(a) of the Canadian […]

Is Canada still a civilized country? Many Canadians like to think so, but they are deluded: the hard troth is that the public life of Canada is now so morally […]

Opposition Leader Stephen Harper cannot have it both ways: promise to uphold the traditional legal definition of marriage, while insisting that homosexual couples should have essentially the same obligations and […]

On the day after the visit to Canada by George Bush, Prime Minister Paul Martin confided to a Liberal fundraising dinner in Toronto that he had told the United States […]

Within the next few months, the Supreme Court of Canada will hand down a decision on the so-called gay-marriage issue. The result is a foregone conclusion: following the outrageous precedents […]

Paul Martin has to be one of the most pitiable prime ministers in Canadian history. Unlike his lacklustre predecessor, Jean Chretien, he appears to be a serious Catholic, yet he […]

The Apostle Paul asked: "If the bugle gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare for battle?" That's a good question for members of the Episcopal Commission for Social Affairs of […]

Conscientious Canadians who uphold the traditional teachings of the Holy Catholic Church on basic moral issues should take note of the ever-more-menacing fate awaiting Chris Kempling. He is the high […]