By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve now been in Russia since the beginning of last week, and will be flying home today. I’ve been doing research and conducting interviews here, and am looking forward to turning my pages and pages of notes into columns and essays to share some of what I’ve learned about the new…
By Jonathon Van Maren This story, released on March 12 by the BBC, illustrates some of the social costs of transgender ideology and is truly, truly heartbreaking: New guidance for staff caring for transgender people with dementia has been drawn up to ensure patients get dignified and compassionate health care in north Wales. It includes…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Canada Summer Jobs controversy just won’t go away, and those who championed the “abortion attestation” are getting noticeably frustrated that Canadians simply won’t understand that the Liberals understand what “in good conscience” means far better than the ignorant religious Canadians protesting what many consider to be compelled speech. Abortion activists…
By Jonathon Van Maren If you thought Justin Trudeau learned his lesson from the #peoplekind episode, or the fact that his “gender” budget didn’t budge his plummeting poll numbers, or the revelation that staggeringly low numbers of Canadians actually call themselves feminists, then you were wrong. The Liberal efforts to do away with all gender-specific…
By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier today, my friend and I headed through Red Square and descended the steps into the Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin, one of the key architects of the Russian Revolution—and a man considered so indispensable that he was never buried. Instead, his corpse was embalmed and placed in a sarcophagus where people…
By Jonathon Van Maren Author’s Note: I’ve been traveling with the Danish journalist Iben Thranholm and several others here in Russia and have been working on several stories, columns, and interviews that will be published later this month. This is simply a travelogue of some of my observations so far. My first one can be…
By Jonathon Van Maren As I predicted, the Canada Summer Jobs funding controversy has not gone away—as John Ivison put it in the National Post put it, “it was merely resting.” Many organizations are now scrambling to figure out how to fund their programs after being denied funding due to their refusal to sign off…
By Jonathon Van Maren As a rule, I don’t like it when pro-lifers immediately compare any current tragedy to abortion, simply because I think that there are many different types of injustice and people are obviously going to have different emotional reactions to different tragedies, depending on a wide variety of factors. I work in…
By Jonathon Van Maren Sometime in early afternoon, the cold rain falling on St. Petersburg turns into light snow as my friend and I head through the city with a twenty-two-year-old student, a young man who recently attained a degree in Russian contemporary studies from the St. Petersburg School of Higher Economics with a specialty…
By Jonathon Van Maren It should be no surprise that Justin Trudeau has been a bit testy lately. After all, he’s had a no-good, rotten year—and people just don’t seem to understand his brilliance like they used to, even when Bill Nye the Science Guy came to Canada to bolster Trudeau’s standing in the smarts…