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....
A first-hand account of homosexual parental abuse
London author Dawn Stefanowicz has published a compelling memoir entitled Out From Under: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting. In this compelling book, she presents...
Dutch show the way on immigration
In an epochal parliamentary election last week in The Netherlands, Geert Wilders led his recently formed, anti-Islamist Freedom Party (PVV) to a significant breakthrough...
Corruption, war at root of poverty
What’s wrong with sub-Saharan Africa? Despite billions upon billions of dollars in foreign aid over the past four decades, most of the people who...
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...
The fall and rise of Canada’s traditional values
Brian Lee Crowley is apprehensive about the future of Canada. In a remarkable new book, Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding...
Progress in the war on drugs
So far this year, London police and RCMP officers have conducted more than 80 raids on illegal marijuana growers within the city, and seized...
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,...
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...
U.S. leads world in giving
Compared to the people of the United States, we Canadians are far more generous in supporting the poor, the sick, the needy and other...
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...
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...
Abandon embryonic stem cell research
In the aftermath of the recent breakthrough in somatic cell reprogramming that has rendered embryonic stem cell research virtually obsolete, all of us—scientists and...
Social chaos awaits unless Parliament restores restraint
Thursday marked the 40th anniversary of the passage through Parliament of the most calamitous legislation in Canadian history – an omnibus set of amendments...
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...
