By Jonathon Van Maren In Anthony Esolen’s recent book Out of the Ashes, he mourns the passing—and heralds the return—of a time when communities existed—real communities, where the baker came outside each morning and helped children across the street for school even though no one had ever asked him to, when people trusted each other,…
By Jonathon Van Maren As many of you will know, I have been following the progress of Motion 47, which had the Canadian Standing Committee on Health examining the impact of pornography on sexual violence and on society in general. With over 80% of men regularly consuming pornography and now nearly half of women, it…
By Jonathon Van Maren In his review of my book The Culture War, which traces our culture’s descent from the Greatest Generation to the Millennial Snowflake Blizzard, lawyer Andre Schutten noted that he hoped I’d turn my last chapter on the way forward into an entirely separate book that looked more closely at how Christians…
By Jonathon Van Maren Ever since Margaret Atwood’s novel A Handmaid’s Tale has been turned into a much-acclaimed TV miniseries depicting a dystopia run by “Christians” who obviously know nothing about Christianity (which doesn’t get noticed, because TV critics know nothing about Christianity, either), Canadian literature has suddenly been a far hotter topic than usual.…
By Jonathon Van Maren It’s happened again—this time on the London Bridge, an English icon. Terrorists smashed a white van into a crowd of people, and then emerged with 12-inch long hunting knives and began to stab people. There were also stabbings near Borough Market, and three suspects are still at large. This is all…
By Jonathon Van Maren Neil Macdonald, one of those smug, elitist drones bestowed upon us by our government-funded state broadcaster to tell us what’s best for us, has just written a column that should win scores of awards in the categories of cluelessness and snottiness. Macdonald, who happens to be the brother of the far more…
By Jonathon Van Maren NDP Member of Parliament Niki Ashton must have been absolutely outraged when she saw the Toronto Star yesterday. There, right in the first paragraphs, were these lines: Niki Ashton’s drive to win the NDP leadership now has an added tag line: Baby on board. The Manitoba MP announced Monday that she…
By Jonathon Van Maren It’s a very good day for social conservatives in Canada. After a decade of being pushed to the fringes, commentators across the board were stunned by their show of strength during today’s leadership race. I was driving and thus forced to listen to CBC Radio One when the first ballot results…
By Jonathon Van Maren After more than a decade of being forced to the fringe of the Conservative Party of Canada under the leadership of Stephen Harper, social conservatives are displaying their strength, numbers, and dedication—and nowhere has it been more noticed than the Conservative Leadership Race. Maxime Bernier directly contradicted the Harper line and…
By Jonathon Van Maren In the first in-depth essay article on what killing in Canada is like—“How to End a Life”–Toronto Life Magazine has given us a fascinating and stomach-turning look into the world of medical practitioners trained to save lives but now tasked with ending them. Nicholas Hune-Brown, the author of the essay, clearly…