By Jonathon Van Maren If one man can be said to have brought the Sexual Revolution to Canada, it is the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. He was, in fact, essential to bringing liberalized divorce, decriminalized abortion, and laxer attitudes about sexual morality in general to Canada—because he trumpeted his Catholicism wherever he went,…
Jonathon Van Maren speaks with with Lord George Weidenfeld of the British House of Lords, and Steve Maman of the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq. Lord Weidenfeld, a Holocaust survivor, shares how a conversation with Pope John Paul II and a long-standing debt of gratitude to Christians spurred him to act. Steve…
By Jonathon Van Maren We’re in the final stretch of one of the longest elections in Canadian history, and the leaders are starting to look pretty tired. When I went out to a Harper campaign event on August 27, the prime minister was jovial, joking off-the-cuff and seemingly at ease. This morning in a Brantford…
In all of North America, there is one place that has an abortion rate as high as Russia: New York City, where seven out of ten pregnancies end in abortion. Pro-life pioneer Chris Slattery of Frontline Crisis Pregnancy Centres has been trying to put a dent in those numbers for years in the face of…
Dr. Tom Flanagan, an academic of the conservative “Calgary School” and one of the architects of Stephen Harper’s rise to power has often been trashed by the media and the politicians alike for his controversial views. One thing is certain: His insights into Canadian politicas is second-to-none. He joins Jonathon to talk about the successes…
Steve Jalsevac, the co-founder of LifeSiteNews.com, has been working behind the scenes in the pro-life movement for decades, and has witnessed time and time again the stunning betrayal of pro-lifers by the churches. He joins Jonathon to talk about what went on behind closed doors, and how backroom deals between politicians and church officials created…
Rob Anders is a long-standing Member of Parliament who joined the rising Canadian conservative movement years ago. He is a stauch social conservative, and joins Jonathon to discuss how social conservatives can make their voices heard in the political process.
Os Guinness is an English author and social critic. Born in China, Os is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. He was a witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, and returned to England in 1951, where he received a B.D. (honours) from University of London in 1966 and a…
By Jonathon Van Maren The United Church of Canada is currently dealing with a rather amusing problem: One of the ministers, it seems, is an atheist. (Only one? many of us wondered aloud.) This is only slightly more predictable than the very straight-faced news coverage the “problem” received: An ordained minister of the United Church…
Jonathon talks to Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation about #BlackLivesMatter, racism, the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, and abortion.