By Jonathon Van Maren Last winter, I was sitting in the study of the great Albertan journalist Ted Byfield, who is now approaching ninety years old. We were chatting about the state of the culture, and the proliferation of identity politics. Byfield was a bit more upbeat than I was about where some of this…
By Jonathon Van Maren Many of you probably heard the seems-like-it-can’t-be-true story of the Children’s Aid Society in Ontario removing two little girls—ages three and four—from the home of Christian foster parents because those parents would not tell the girls that the Easter bunny is real. Now Derek and Francis Baars, who have since relocated…
By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this month, Chatelaine magazine released a massive survey on masculinity in the 21st century, replete with polling, photo shoots, and video interviews—including many insights on manliness from our very own prime minister, Justin Trudeau. If you’d like to discover for yourself how utterly confused our culture is about what masculinity…
By Jonathon Van Maren When my colleague and I arrived in the dining room of Redeemer University College in Ancaster, there were about 100 people already there, collecting cups of coffee and cookies from tables alongside the wall and taking seats at round tables spread around the room. The crowd was fairly diverse in age,…
By Jonathon Van Maren In keeping with my lifelong tradition of not watching the Oscars, I did not watch the Oscars again this year. I get slightly irritated by the conservatives who intentionally subject themselves to the generally smutty films being celebrated, and then work themselves up into a rage over how trashy the films…
By Jonathon Van Maren As most of you will know, Canada is the worst country on Planet Earth in regards to protections for human life in the womb, in that we have none whatsoever. Abortion is legal in this country from conception until birth, and abortion activists both claim that there are almost no late-term…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’m sitting in the Halifax Airport after two days in Cape Breton, where I was working with the staff and students at a little Christian school on how to respond to the spread of digital pornography. The school, incidentally, was twenty minutes down the road from Grand Narrows, the inspiration for…
By Jonathon Van Maren It will not come as news to the average American that there is a sizeable segment of elitist liberals who despise them, despise tradition, despise the values America was built on, and at times even rise from their routine contempt to despise those Americans who have not kept up with the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Whenever the Liberals are losing an argument badly, they fall back on a tried-and-true tactic: Demonize those they disagree with and demonize the Conservatives by association. During the debate yesterday on the Canada Summer Jobs Program, they consistently accused the Conservatives of being sympathetic to pro-life Canadians (which, as this kerfuffle…
John Barros joins Jonathon Van Maren to chat about what it is like to spend every day of every week outside an abortion clinic, begging women not to go through with their abortions. Barros sees the very best and the very worst of our culture–and has seen over 1,000 babies saved.