By Jonathon Van Maren November 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It was with great delight that progressive media outlets announced Twitter’s “pro-trans move”: The social media giant was formally banning “deadnaming” or “misgendering” transgender people. “Deadnaming,” it turns out, refers to mentioning the previous name of a transgender person: so mentioning the name “Bruce Jenner” would…
By Jonathon Van Maren After several years of consistent lobbying, the Canadian mainstream press has finally managed to persuade the Trudeau government to give their failing industry precisely what they desperately wanted: A bailout. And not just any bailout, either: A bailout of $595 million, which, if you’re counting the cash that our government gives to…
By Jonathon Van Maren Anti-porn activists often face this accusation: You’re right-wing prudes. You just hate sex. But what many fail to realize is that there have been many left-wing thinkers—even far left-wing thinkers—who saw porn for precisely what it is: Exploitation, dehumanization, and victimization. They are intellectuals who, regardless of how much and how often I disagree…
By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this month, the Globe and Mail drew attention to a little-known but brutal part of Canada’s past: The eugenics-inspired attempts to abort First Nations babies and sterilize indigenous women. In some cases, indigenous women were even told that if they aborted the baby in their womb, they would increase their…
By Jonathon Van Maren I was planning to write a column today on Andrea Long Chu’s brutal op-ed in the New York Times on this weekend on living with gender dysphoria, bluntly titled, “My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy,” but I see that Ryan T. Anderson (author of the seminal work When Harry Became…
By Jonathon Van Maren Abortion activists like to claim, as loudly as possible, that it is impossible to reverse a medical abortion. If you have taken the abortion pill, they assert, it is simply game over—there is no way to undo what you have done, and no chance to change your mind. This assertion, like…
Renate Lindeman of Down Pride joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss how abortion is being used to target the Down syndrome community–and why we need to fight to project the beautiful people who are a part of it.
By Jonathon Van Maren November 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A long-form article in the most recent issue of Politico has been attracting a lot of discussion in conservative circles over the past several weeks. Titled “How the GOP Gave Up on Porn,” journalist Tim Allen posits the thesis that conservatives—or at least, conservative politicians—have essentially…
By Jonathon Van Maren Fantastic news from UK Right to Life on the latest attempt to force legal abortion on Northern Ireland earlier today: A radical abortion bill brought forward by Diana Johnson MP has failed to pass through the Commons at its Second Reading today after opposition was raised by a number of MPs led by…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Alberta NDP may come to rue the day they decided to target religious Albertans, as the rumblings of discontent grow louder and social conservatives begin to organize–in many religious communities, for the very first time. Education Minister David Eggen, who is loathed like no other politician in recent memory by…