Canada's Barbaric Curse

We Murder Babies


Tim Challies

We were driving across Africa’s dusty plains—he, a man who has never left his nation and I, a traveler far from my own. We bounced along rutted, unpaved roads and passed by villages with access to little more than the most rudimentary infrastructure. As we chatted about his life and mine, he asked me what’s meant by that little euphemism he has seen in Western media: “a woman’s right to choose.” As I explained it, his face registered first shock, then disgust, then judgment. He made it clear that in his assessment Canada must be a nation that is hopelessly backward and shockingly barbaric.

Recent news stories tell that in regions of Malawi, girls who menstruate for the first time are forced to have sex with a paid sex worker in a rite meant to mark their transition from childhood to womanhood. If the girls refuse, custom dictates that some great misfortune could befall them, their families, or their villages. And so, a local “hyena” is hired and he carries out the awful three-day ceremony. This is a horrifying custom that legitimizes sexual assault and carries a grave risk of passing along sexually transmitted diseases. Thankfully, it’s a custom the government is attempting to eradicate and, through official action and changing social mores, it is going into decline.

In Canada, we murder babies. We don’t say it like that, of course, but it’s the horrifying truth behind what we term “abortion.”

Letter From Canada (About Organic Food)

Marni Soupcoff: Stanford study shows organic food no safer or healthier than conventional food

Marni Soupcoff  

Sep 5, 2012 12:16 PM ET 
Last Updated: Sep 5, 2012
National Post

When a new study by doctors at Stanford University found that organic foods are not any healthier than conventional foods, Canada’s organic growers must have been at a loss.

What could they possibly say to the dreary news that paying big bucks for organic products actually provides no positive physical or nutritional benefits? Would the growers be humbled or embarrassed? Would they graciously admit the evidence that their products are no better for consumers than the less pricey non-organic varieties?

Well, what do you think?