By Jonathon Van Maren It’s inevitable: Whenever a Conservative government loses power, the first instinct of “progressive conservatives,” whatever those are, is to announce that social conservatives should be sent forthwith into political exile, never to return. In other words, the response of liberals who like fiscal policies that allow them to keep more of…
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Jonathon chatted with Hyeonseo Lee, a North Korean defector and activist who now lives in South Korea, where she is a student. She escaped from North Korea, and later personally guided her family to freedom from the country through China and Laos.
By Jonathon Van Maren “Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load–little children. Babies! Around us, everyone was weeping….. Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp …. Never shall I forget…
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By Jonathon Van Maren After almost a dozen Planned Parenthood videos, it seemed like some of the legal debris the National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood were frantically flinging at the spokes of the Center for Medical Progress had finally succeeded in slowing down the torrential outpouring of revelations that was leaving the abortion crowd…
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Jonathon Van Maren sits down with Andrew Lawton of the Andrew Lawton Show to talk about Election 2015–what went right for the Liberals, and what went so terribly wrong for the Conservatives.
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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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