By Jonathon Van Maren As soon as I landed at Schipol Airport, I mapped my way to Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in the heart of Amsterdam. It is inside that beautiful old church, host to royal weddings and one of the grandest pipe organs in the Netherlands, that Admiral Michael de Ruyter is buried. De…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It is a popular pastime of Democrats to point triumphantly to the moral shortcomings of assorted Republicans (Roy Moore being only the most recent and egregious of examples) and scoffing at the idea that the Republican Party is “pro-family values.” Some journalists have even pointed to polling that seems to indicate…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As organization after organization falls to the marching militants of today’s gender ideology, it is sometimes hard not to get exasperated. No matter how prestigious the institution, and no matter how innocent the pastime, the gender ideologues show up and demand that their recently-concocted gender fluidity theories be fully implemented. This…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Finally an Albertan newspaper is highlighting the dangers of Bill 24 rather than simply dancing to the tune played by Rachel Notley and the NDP. The Calgary Herald, in an article titled “Couple warns their daughter could have died under new GSA law,” revealed why it is so insidious to use…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Many of you have been following the case of British Columbia’s Trinity Western University for quite some time. With Canadian law societies claiming that law students from a university with Christian principles would be too warped and bigoted by those principles to practice law in Canadian society, the case winding its…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Across the Western world, demographers are warning about the collapsing birthrate. From Canada to the USA to Europe, not a single Western country is currently replacing their own populations—a reality that has many nations topping up their depleted work forces by importing immigrants from non-Western nations. The tension caused by that…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As Canada’s sexual ideologues continue to wage war on the reality of gender differences, the usual victims are paying the price: Young people. As it turns out, many high school students are not enthused about the idea of using the same bathroom as the opposite sex, and there’s nothing that the…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Many of you have probably already heard the story of the teaching assistant at Wilfred Laurier University who was sanctioned earlier this month for daring to show her class a video featuring part of a debate—because that debate included University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan B. Peterson. Her outraged supervisor, after comparing…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Perhaps nothing is so dangerous as a truly desperate politician, willing to do anything and gamble anything to hang on to power. Alberta’s NDP Premier Rachel Notley is one such politician. Education Minister David Eggen is another. The thing about Notley’s Bill 24—which would make it illegal for parents to be…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Canada’s progressive politicians have always had an underlying disdain for Christians, but as that disdain becomes more open and part of their legislative agendas, it is rapidly turning into open war. It started with Justin Trudeau’s new Governor General Julie Payette mocking people of faith in a speech, comparing those who…
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