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…
By Jonathon Van Maren August 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It has been several months since Ireland voted to repeal the 8th Amendment, and many pro-lifers are still struggling to understand how, exactly, the result came about. How did so many people who oppose abortion on demand vote to repeal protections for pre-born children? Why did so…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few updates from the frontlines of the culture wars around the world: **** Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary continues to attract the ire of progressives. Earlier this year, his government passed a “Stop Soros” package to blunt the influence of Soros cash, and now they are insisting that state-funded…
Dr. Michael Wagner joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss his book Standing on Guard for Thee: The Past, Present, and Future of Canada’s Christian Right, covering Canada’s transformation from a Christian nation to the one that it is today.
By Jonathon Van Maren LGBT activists are not giving up their vindictive campaign to punish Colorado baker Jack Phillips for declining to create a gay wedding cake—not even after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in in his favour back in June. Scarcely six weeks after his legal victory, Phillips is already back…
By Jonathon Van Maren Many of us were wondering what Trinity Western University was going to do in the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada’s June ruling, in which the justices stated that provincial law societies have the right to refuse accreditation to TWU because of their “community covenant” asking that students agree to…
By Jonathon Van Maren If I had to recommend only a handful of commentators to follow, Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday would make the cut every time. Incisive, brilliant, and often surprising, his writing is a must for anyone who wants a Burkean conservative take on a wide range of issues. Consider this…
By Jonathon Van Maren As most of you know, last week the senate of Argentina rejected the legalization of abortion, triggering a wave of outrage from abortion activists and wild celebration from the thousands of Argentinian pro-lifers packing the streets of Buenos Aires. Abortion activists began chucking fire-bombs and trashing whatever they could get their…