By Jonathon Van Maren Like any young conservative who wants to become a writer someday, William F. Buckley was one of my heroes back when I attended university in Vancouver (where, incidentally, his wife Patricia hailed from). His resume was so impressive it was hard not to be awed: He founded the National Review, began…
By Jonathon Van Maren With the near-universal acceptance of the premises of transgender ideology by the media, it is sometimes difficult to discern the truth of a story due to the Orwellian language used by the press to convey “news story.” Consider, for example, this recent headline in the Seattle Times: “Faith-based shelter fights to…
By Jonathon Van Maren It seems as if I’m reporting this story every other day, but according to The Sun in the UK, another data set indicates that the number of children choosing to identify as transgender is spiking dramatically, with the UK Deed Poll Service noting that one child under the age of sixteen…
By Jonathon Van Maren January 14, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – It is a sad irony that I spotted the headline in the Irish Times, a newspaper which led the media charge in favor of legal abortion in Ireland: German man who survived abortion dies at aged 21. “Tim was not supposed to be born,” the Jan. 9 column, written by…
By Jonathon Van Maren First it was the so-called “right to die.” Once the suicide activists attained that, it became the right to be killed at the institution of their choice, regardless of whether or not others had any qualms about transforming their approach to medicine and repudiating the Hippocratic Oath. As is so often…
By Jonathon Van Maren The news that a new political party unambiguously calling itself “the Islamic Party of Ontario” may soon be an option at Ontario’s ballot boxes has triggered precisely the sort of commentary you would expect it to. Tarek Fatah highlighted some of the unsavory aspects of several of the would-be founders. Michael…
By Jonathon Van Maren Kudos to the Wall Street Journal for publishing one of the most comprehensive critiques of the transgender phenomenon and the horrible situation many families have found themselves in. The article, which can be found here, is behind a paywall, so here it is in full: A reader contacted me under a…
This latest press release from Parents As First Educators is certainly concerning, although not surprising considering the fact that Doug Ford has already stated that he has no intention of removing gender ideology from the sex-ed curriculum: January 10, 2019 The Return of the Wynne Sex-ed? Actually, it never left. Today, at the Superior Court…
By Jonathon Van Maren I take note of this only because Michael Coren, the former Catholic who uses nearly every column he writes for the CBC or the Toronto Star to bash Christians and social conservatives with his cloying, “oh-dear-me”-style prose, spends most of his time on social media lecturing social conservatives for having a…
By Jonathon Van Maren January 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The most typical response of LGBT activists to Christian concerns about the redefinition of everything—first marriage, now the biological realities of gender—is that people should mind their own business, because none of this has any impact on them. If only that were true. Consider the story of…