John Tory is a Tory in name only
According to a recent poll, Ontario Progressive Conservative party Leader John Tory is trailing badly in his own riding of Don Valley West. For...
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...
A Rising Tolerance for the Wrong
Dear All:
The London Free Press has decided not to run the following column that was slated for publication on Tuesday, October 24. I...
“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...
HRCs: Canada’s thought-police
In subjecting Catholic Insight magazine to investigation on baseless charges of homophobia, the Canadian Human Rights Commission is once again trampling upon the very...
Freedom of the press attacked
In a flagrant attack on freedom of the press, the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) has filed three human rights complaints against Maclean’s magazine and...
SPECIAL: A Letter From Rory Leishman: a critic apologizes to him
Editor’s note: This is the latest in an ongoing saga involving Rory Leishman, whose column has been featured here at PTBC since 2006, and...
Perverse sex education
Sensible parents of school-age children in Ontario won a significant victory last week by rising up en masse and persuading Premier Dalton McGuinty that...
Canada’s real poverty problem
The Conference Board of Canada ranks Canada’s record on poverty as “among the worst of developed countries – and slipping.” That’s appalling, if true....
An exemplar of true generosity
Anyone who dares to present a reasonable challenge to some received nostrum of conventional thinking should beware: They are liable to come under vicious...
New York Times: Best way to avoid AIDS is abstinence and monogamy.
It seems to be open season on Pope Benedict XVI in the secular media. Last week, newspapers around the world mocked him for suggesting...
The best novel for atheists and Christians
Is there still any reason to worship God at Christmas?
Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens think not. In their view, Darwinian science has done away...
Border controls should be eliminated
The Pont de l’Europe linking Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, used to straddle one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world. Today,...
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...
Shameful neglect of the mentally ill
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as an especially compassionate people, but you would never know it from the way so many of...
