By Jonathon Van Maren On April 6, 1994, the Rwandan Civil War was in its fifth year, but all was quiet. The Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) had been in conflict for years, but international pressure had finally resulted in a ceasefire in 1993, with Juvenal Habyarimana, the second president of Rwanda…
By Jonathon Van Maren Back when he was running for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Doug Ford was crystal clear: “gender identity theory” was a liberal ideology that had no place in schools. Additionally, curriculums were being used by progressives as a way of teaching their ideology to other people’s children.…
By Jonathon Van Maren November 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Over the past decade, attacks on Canada’s Christian communities by LGBT activists have escalated significantly. In Alberta, Education Minister David Eggen is threatening to defund and possibly shut down religious schools that do not accept Gay-Straight alliance clubs. Canada’s Supreme Court recently ruled against Trinity Western…
By Jonathon Van Maren Transgender ideology is sweeping through some high schools like wildfire—including one school in particular in the UK, where seventeen students have come out as trans. In response to this, one teacher approached the Daily Mail and gave an anonymous interview revealing that most of these children are autistic, as well as…
By Jonathon Van Maren There was good news for Ontarians from the Progressive Conservative Party Convention this weekend, but to read the media responses, you’d think that Doug Ford’s voters had formally endorsed the Spanish Inquisition. Journalists who hadn’t even heard of gender ideology until a few years ago now seem to believe that only…
By Jonathon Van Maren Every so often, the left-wing media provides a perfect example of why they should not be taken seriously—and showcases, for all to see, their willingness to engage in nasty smears for the purpose of scoring cheap political points. North99, a Toronto non-profit that creates “progressive content and opinion with the goal…
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner joins Jonathon Van Maren for a discussion about Confederate statues, the Civil War, and what the past can teach us about the present in these troubled times.
By Jonathon Van Maren November 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Eight months ago, the pro-life organization Live Action uploaded a three-minute video clip of a young woman giving an extraordinarily powerful testimony about being raped and becoming pregnant. Jennifer Christie explained to the Iowa legislature that she’d been brutally raped while on a business trip, her bruised body flung…
By Jonathon Van Maren On Facebook, Roxanne Van Herk of Alberta posted a powerful rebuke to those who have been cheering the NDP attacks on private Christians schools—and dismantles the arguments being made in favor of shutting down the private schools that still hold to the principles they were created to promote: News came today…
By Jonathon Van Maren November 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – If you have been wondering just how far the media will go in accepting the ludicrous premises of the transgender movement, consider this recent headline from Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star: “Transgender woman gets 18-month sentence for sexually assaulting daughter.” You could be forgiven for initially thinking, upon…