By Jonathon Van Maren Across the Western world, demographers are warning about the collapsing birthrate. From Canada to the USA to Europe, not a single Western country is currently replacing their own populations—a reality that has many nations topping up their depleted work forces by importing immigrants from non-Western nations. The tension caused by that…
By Jonathon Van Maren As Canada’s sexual ideologues continue to wage war on the reality of gender differences, the usual victims are paying the price: Young people. As it turns out, many high school students are not enthused about the idea of using the same bathroom as the opposite sex, and there’s nothing that the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Many of you have probably already heard the story of the teaching assistant at Wilfred Laurier University who was sanctioned earlier this month for daring to show her class a video featuring part of a debate—because that debate included University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan B. Peterson. Her outraged supervisor, after comparing…
By Jonathon Van Maren Perhaps nothing is so dangerous as a truly desperate politician, willing to do anything and gamble anything to hang on to power. Alberta’s NDP Premier Rachel Notley is one such politician. Education Minister David Eggen is another. The thing about Notley’s Bill 24—which would make it illegal for parents to be…
By Jonathon Van Maren Canada’s progressive politicians have always had an underlying disdain for Christians, but as that disdain becomes more open and part of their legislative agendas, it is rapidly turning into open war. It started with Justin Trudeau’s new Governor General Julie Payette mocking people of faith in a speech, comparing those who…
By Jonathon Van Maren Autumn is a strange time of year, when color erupts from every hillside in an explosion of death and beauty. As I drove the backroads to work the other day, the trees caressed by the Midas touch of approaching Winter seemed to dance and glow in the morning sun, and I…
By Jonathon Van Maren Only a decade ago, the gender ideology that progressive educators now insist is sacrosanct was taught nowhere but a few fringe university departments. Even those advocating for gay marriage often insisted that transgenderism was not part of the package they were promoting, and the idea that children could tell adults they…
By Jonathon Van Maren Debates on the rights of parents as first educators as well as the rights of Christian and Catholic schools—presumably schools founded by similarly socially conservative faith traditions will eventually attract notice, as well—are raging right across Canada, from Ontario to Alberta to BC. Progressive politicians are discovering, to their shock and…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve been waiting a long time to see a politician stand up and defend social conservatives against the relentless smear machine of the progressives, who love to scapegoat Christians as a way of distracting from their abysmal economic records and plummeting political popularity. With Jason Kenney’s leadership victory this weekend, Rachel…
By Jonathon Van Maren Tonight is a very bad night for Rachel Notley, for David Eggen, and for the rest of the accidental NDP government that many Albertans just can’t wait to get rid of: Jason Kenney, possibly the most formidable conservative politician in Canada, has won the leadership of the United Conservative Party by…