By Jonathon Van Maren Scanning the news today, I see that my friend Andrew Lawton, a popular former radio host on London’s AM980, is under attack. As many of you will know, he was appointed the Progressive Conservative candidate for London West by PC leader Doug Ford just over a week ago, and since then…
By Jonathon Van Maren On July 21, 2017, Elle Magazine published a glowing profile of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the progressive champion of abortion rights. He was going to war against pro-life protestors outside abortion clinics, the writer gushed—and he had been fighting for the abortion industry his whole life. “He’s been…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Chapter 8 of my 2016 book The Culture War, I detailed how the gay rights movement carefully strategized ways of pushing organizations, churches, and people who disagreed with their agenda to the “fringe” in public perception. In part, this involved persuading the public that same-sex marriage was a human right,…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 7, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In a barn-burner speech to thousands of Albertans who gathered in Red Deer over the weekend to vote on the policy platform for the new United Conservative Party, Jason Kenney declared war on Rachel Notley and her NDP government. He denounced the carbon tax, promised the return of…
By Jonathon Van Maren In these often discouraging times, it is especially important to take note when Christians secure legal victories here in Canada. In March, for example, an Ontario judge excoriated the Children’s Aid Society for removing two little girls from the home of loving Christian foster parents because those parents refused to tell…
By Jonathon Van Maren On May 23, 2014, a twenty-two year old man named Elliot Rodger left his California home and murdered six people, stabbing three and shooting three others. He wounded an additional fourteen people. He then uploaded a video to YouTube describing the reasons behind his “Day of Retribution,” emailed a document titled…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is a singular irony that both federal and provincial left-wing parties like to claim that Canada’s assortment of conservative parties have a nefarious hidden agenda: They want to re-open the abortion debate. In fact, Conservative politicians, for the most part, want nothing of the kind—abortion is an issue that most…
By Jonathon Van Maren On April 11, I noted that abortion activists in El Salvador were making a massive push to relax restrictions in that country, and that even the government’s health ministry had indicated support for changing the country’s strict pro-life laws. LifeSiteNews is now reporting that the abortion activists have failed: A massive…
By Jonathon Van Maren If you had asked any Canadian conservative five years ago if Alberta would be the main battleground in the war over the rights of Christians to pass their values and their beliefs on to their children, they would have laughed. And yet, here we are. The Alberta NDP wants to transform…
By Jonathon Van Maren Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to live in a place that is less insane than the West, and what it must be like for people who do live outside the West to watch once-great nations like the United States of America fall prey not just to bad ideas,…