By Jonathon Van Maren Quebec MP Maxime Bernier, who narrowly lost the leadership of the Conservative Party to Andrew Scheer, has announced in a scathing press conference that he will be leaving the Conservative caucus to launch his own right-wing party, which for now appears to exist primarily in his own head. In a barrage…
By Jonathon Van Maren Back in May, I noted that a biological man claiming to be a woman had sued a spa in Windsor after female Muslim employee declined to accommodate his request for a waxing. The angry fellow claimed discrimination, asserting that his genitals were irrelevant to his gender, and that this employee should…
By Jonathon Van Maren A repulsive religious huckster in Toronto has been making the news recently, and for an awful reason: He tried to push his mistress into having an abortion, and used the name of God in doing so. From the Toronto Star: A religious leader and self-acclaimed “prophet” told a woman that God…
By Jonathon Van Maren August 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It would be difficult to find a place more lacking in diversity of worldview than the universe of late-night television. On nearly every single issue, the hosts march shoulder to shoulder in lock-step with one another: Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah,…
By Jonathon Van Maren After publishing a lengthy essay in The Atlantic questioning several of the brand-new orthodoxies of transgenderism, the pro-LGBT journalist Jesse Singal found himself the target of a vitriolic smear campaign that saw him damned as a dangerous bigot by furious trans activists. If I was a betting man, I’d say Janice…
By Jonathon Van Maren My friend and fellow blogger Patricia Maloney, who has been covering the story of live-birth abortions for several years now, published some of her latest findings last week: According to new data, livebirth late-term abortions are still happening in Canada. And the numbers are way too high. According to CIHI, There…
By Jonathon Van Maren WARNING: Article contains graphic descriptions. August 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Some days, it seems as if the transgender movement is actually trying to sound as unreasonable as humanly possible to ordinary people—that is, the sort of people who live their lives without once being offended at transphobic statements such as “only women can get pregnant.” There’s…
By Jonathon Van Maren Wonderful news this week out of Australia: The Senate has rejected the legalization of assisted suicide by the razor-thin margin of only two votes. From the Sydney Morning Herald: A private member’s bill that would have cleared the way for assisted suicide to be legalised across Australia has been defeated. The…
By Jonathon Van Maren August 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) –Last week, the senate of Argentina rejected the legalization of abortion by a mere handful of votes, sending shockwaves through the abortion movement and triggering wild celebrations from Argentinian pro-lifers who took to the streets by the thousands, waving the blue kerchiefs that had become the symbol of their movement. The…
By Jonathon Van Maren After a nine-hour drive north from Calgary through an Albertan landscape dotted with reed-filled ponds and muskeg and miles of bright yellow canola fields, my cousin and I turned down a jaw-rattling gravel road featuring a large, tan sign framed with stripped and varnished tree branches that let us know that…