Rory Leishman
Stop the human-rights censors
Over the past 15 years, there has been scant public concern over the disposition of Canada’s human rights commissions to silence white racists, anti-Semites and obscure Christians. Only now are most Canadians finally beginning...
Honouring Canada’s freedom fighters
This year’s Remembrance Day marks the 90th anniversary of the conclusion of the First World War—a fitting time to ponder anew the significance of the supreme sacrifices of all the members of the Canadian...
Canadian doctors beware: “human rights” commissions dicatate your morals
Canadian physicians who uphold the natural family and the sanctity of all human life should beware: According to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, they have no legal or constitutional right to go on practising...
Compassionate conservatism
Just as most liberals fancy themselves as more idealistic and compassionate than conservatives, so most Canadians fondly suppose that Canada is morally superior to the United States. Yet as recent political events on both...
Canadian Federation of Students: dictating an alternate to freedom?
Academic freedom used to be a hallmark of the Canadian university system. Apart from a few fascists, communists and other cranks on campus, everyone recognized that the free and vigorous expression of controversial ideas...
“Human rights” commissions: A travesty of justice in Canada
While the Canadian Human Rights Commission has bowed to widespread public opposition to proceeding with a complaint against Maclean’s magazine brought by the Canadian Islamic Congress, less powerful and prominent Canadians should beware: For...
Freedom of the press under human rights attack
The decision of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal to investigate Maclean’s magazine for publishing an article that some Muslims have found offensive is just the latest in a long line of violations by...
Beware the Canadian “human rights” thought police
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 is not the case...
In Praise of Judicial Deference
With a compelling dissent in Friday’s five-to-four ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. vs. D. B., Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein confirmed his distinction as one of the few appeal court judges...
Canada must toughen its immigration qualifications
While many Canadians have been gulled into thinking that Canada has an essentially sound set of immigration policies, James Bissett, former director-general of the Canadian Immigration Service, knows better.
In a paper published by the...
Judicials activists at work in Canada
Under the traditional principles of the common law as affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada, journalists are no less subject than other citizens to the law of libel. Is that fair and reasonable?...
The Duty of Congregants
On Feb. 13, the members of St. John’s Shaughnessy Church in Vancouver set a good example for all faithful Anglicans, by resolving to leave the Anglican Church of Canada rather than remain under...
The resurrection of the son of God
For Christians, today is Holy Saturday, the day on which the first disciples and closest followers of Jesus Christ were in utter despair, having witnessed the crucifixion and death of the man they had...
Sound strategy for conservatives
Beleaguered conservatives would do well to ponder the sage policy advice advanced by David Frum in his latest book, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again.
While Frum hopes and believes that future generations will render...
Fantino warns of terrorist threat
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino has undertaken to set the record straight in an illuminating autobiography entitled: Duty: The Life of a Cop, which he wrote with the editorial and research assistance of...
