I see it as coercion and wrote about this for the Financial Post, here. Canadians might assume family policies aim to help families. Certainly, in the last election campaign, “helping middle class families” was a phrase laid on thick — like BBQ sauce at a summer rib fest. But any government policy can just as […]
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Gender quotas don’t help business or women
Me in the Financial Post today about gender quotas. Kathleen Wynne is introducing them for Ontario but in other parts of the world quotas have not achieved what they were supposed to: A book about the Nordic experience released in May 2016 punctures those hopes and should be cause for reconsidering Ontario’s path. The Nordic […]
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Subsidized childcare as coercion or choice?
I see it as coercion and wrote about this for the Financial Post, here. Canadians might assume family policies aim to help families. Certainly, in the last election campaign, “helping middle class families” was a phrase laid on thick — like BBQ sauce at a summer rib fest. But any government policy can just as […]
Down Syndrome, so what?
This cute little video is making the rounds. Enjoy. A good reminder that if we are tempted to condemn eugenic thinking of past eras, we should probably condemn the eugenic thinking of the current one. (Most Down Syndrome babies are aborted.)
A woman for president
Sure, I’d take a woman for president, provided it’s the right woman. However, I agree with Barbara Kay here. Hillary Clinton is not that woman. Plus, it’s really counter-productive to think in terms of voting for a politician because they are fill-in-the-blank minority. Either you think Hillary’s ascension would represent a momentous shattering of a glass […]
“It takes someone strong…
…to make someone strong.” This is fair to cite when lauding Olympic moms. Can we also say this is true of any mother who keeps her baby through an unplanned pregnancy? I think so. Except we don’t applaud those moms quite so much, because if we did, we would necessarily be condemning the choice of […]
And then there was one
I can’t begin to describe the level of pain I feel when women go for IVF to create human lives and then, when they are successful, they abort. I cannot and never will begin to understand how it is that a woman who wanted children badly enough to subject her body to IVF treatments, gets pregnant, […]
Summer blogging
Some of you have asked if everything is OK since blogging is light. Thank you for the concern! Indeed, all is well. It’s summer and I’m trying at every possible opportunity to be outside, aka away from the computer. For example, I swam across Lake Okanagan on July 16. And I have the new bathing cap […]
If only humans were marsupials…
…perhaps this wouldn’t be quite so confusing. Kangaroos have a 28 day pregnancy but then the baby kangaroo travels into the pouch and continues growing there. Sometimes, as with the second picture, they stick there heads out to take a look around while their moms are taking a snooze. Pretty crazy!
Will medical advances persuade us more readily than human rights?
There was an interesting article in the National Post this week by Michelle Hauser. Hauser explored medical advances that will make it difficult to blindly accept our abortion status quo. Here’s a taste: And perhaps the most fundamental question of all: when common medical practice establishes that a 13-week-old fetus is worth saving through surgery, […]
The Innocents
If I get a chance, I’ll go see this movie, The Innocents. A positive review here. The Innocents, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a French-Polish-Belgian co-production based on the real accounts of a young French doctor working for the Red Cross in post-World War II Poland. The year is 1945. […]
How assisted suicide will change Canada
See my piece over at The Cardus Daily. What can we expect now that we’ve decriminalized euthanasia and assisted suicide? In short, there’s a serious risk of cuts to palliative care funding, we’ll see an increase in the rates of suicide (assisted and unassisted), and euthanasia will be performed without “explicit patient consent.” If our […]
Gender quotas don’t help business or women
Me in the Financial Post today about gender quotas. Kathleen Wynne is introducing them for Ontario but in other parts of the world quotas have not achieved what they were supposed to: A book about the Nordic experience released in May 2016 punctures those hopes and should be cause for reconsidering Ontario’s path. The Nordic […]
Supreme Court rules in abortion case (USA)
The Supreme Court of the United States struck down a set of Texas restrictions aimed at improving standards in abortion clinics, so that they would be safer for patients. I have a couple of off-the-cuff comments on this. One is that if Texas wants tight restrictions on abortion they should be allowed to have them. Where states […]
I sure do hope these folks are pro-life
RibFest, Ottawa. An annual tradition for many of us. And this year? A woman on a BBQ. Because pork and chicken are no different from human flesh. Thanks, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) My only comment: I sure do hope PETA is pro-life. Because certainly, if we care about chickens and pork, we […]
Canada needs more foster parents
I blogged the other day about how Canada needs more children. Canada also needs more foster parents. Fostering isn’t something I know very much about. I know that the Children’s Aid Societies have their hands very full. I also know that for some parents, getting involved in the bureaucracy and having an arm of the […]
Canada needs more children
21 days ago I forgot to cross-post this piece, which went up on National Newswatch. Not terribly popular to mention, but we do need more children and what’s more, Canadians say they’d like to have more. A Nanos Research survey released June 1 by Cardus Family reveals that Canadians want to have more children, but […]