By Jonathon Van Maren My inbox is beginning to fill up with emails from the candidates vying for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, after Patrick Brown was abruptly toppled in the face of sexual misconduct allegations last month. Nearly all of the leadership candidates seem focused on rebuilding the coalitions that…
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By Jonathon Van Maren For some reason, Canada has become one of the most hostile nations to the conscience rights of physicians in the Western world over the last several years. Many jurisdictions have legalized assisted suicide—but nowhere else has there been so much pressure and coercion to both force physicians to refer for procedures…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As religious communities wait with bated breath for the Supreme Court of the United States to deliver a ruling on Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case that will determine whether bakers and other creators are permitted to refuse to use their talents in the service of an event…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Justin Trudeau has now come out—very briefly—to say that his interruption of a young woman during a town hall meeting to correct her use of the word “mankind” to “peoplekind” was a bad joke, attempting to interrupt the global gale of mocking laughter he managed to incur. I joined in the…
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By Jonathon Van Maren In Chapter 8 of my 2016 book The Culture War—“Who Killed Religious Freedom?”—I described how the Sexual Revolution succeeded, in part, due to assistance from liberal churches that were either willing to offload unpopular theological teachings in exchange for social acceptance, or thoroughly infiltrated by those who wished to use the…
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World-renowned apologist and author Dr. Frank Turek, who has debated the likes of Christopher Hitchens, joins Jonathon Van Maren on The Bridgehead to discuss how to best reach out to an increasingly secular–and hostile–culture.
Dr. Ted Fenske is a Clinical Professor with the Division of Cardiology at the University of Alberta, Staff Cardiologist at the C.K. Hui Heart Centre, and Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation for the Northern Alberta Program. He has fellowship training in echocardiography and has been the Principal Teaching Physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. After reading…
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By Jonathon Van Maren If the progressive Left can claim one cultural victory that is nearly total, it is their infiltration and conquest of the public education system. Public schools across the Western world—especially Canada, the United States, and Great Britain—now serve as purveyors of post-modern ideology, replete with “social justice” classes and sex education…
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By Jonathon Van Maren On January 28, a solemn ceremony was held in the little town of Wimereux, France, the home of the military cemetery where Canadian military doctor and poet John McCrae was laid to rest after his death from pneumonia exactly one century before. It was cold and windy, one attendee reported, but…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Next year, it will have been a full half-century since our consumerist, throw-away culture decided that it could adopt a “Return to Sender” attitude towards children, as well, with Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s decision to decriminalize abortion in 1969. Since then, we have been reaping the whirlwind. More than four million children…
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