Category Archives: Blog Post

Harper loses, and Red Tories move to split the Right

By Jonathon Van Maren It’s inevitable: Whenever a Conservative government loses power, the first instinct [...]

We’re Burning Babies

By Jonathon Van Maren “Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, [...]

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I watched the leaked Planned Parenthood videos so you don’t have to

By Jonathon Van Maren After almost a dozen Planned Parenthood videos, it seemed like some [...]

Philandering, Politics and Revolution: A Brief Look at the Trudeau Dynasty

By Jonathon Van Maren If one man can be said to have brought the Sexual [...]

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Harper on the Home Stretch

By Jonathon Van Maren We’re in the final stretch of one of the longest elections [...]

The United Church Isn’t Christian

By Jonathon Van Maren The United Church of Canada is currently dealing with a rather [...]

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One day on the Canadian campaign trail

By Jonathon Van Maren As the longest election period in decades heats up, I’ve been [...]

A brilliant synopsis of rap music

I don’t think I’ve ever seen it put better—The Onion has managed to corner the [...]

Explaining Donald Trump

By Jonathon Van Maren Donald Trump is, for many political observers, the candidate who came [...]

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The Mutual Hatred of William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal

By Jonathon Van Maren The bare-knuckle brawling of public intellectuals has always been a common [...]