By Jonathon Van Maren Last week Friday, Ontario Minister of Education Lisa Thompson announced some of the much-anticipated changes to the provincial curriculum, and as expected, there is good news and bad news. Minister Thompson specifically addressed many of the concerns voiced by parents about the existing Wynne curriculum, as well as noting changes to…
By Jonathon Van Maren After living for over sixty years as a man named David, Katie Yeomans decided that being male was the source of his misery. He made the news when he decided to “transition” to female in 2015, and now he’s in the papers again. From The Argus: A transgender woman is demanding…
By Jonathon Van Maren File this story under pull your kids from public schools: Parents in Santa Anna, California, discovered recently that the LGBT agenda has now arrived in their school district, as well—and that school officials saw no need to inform them of what was going on. From the Family Research Council earlier this…
By Jonathon Van Maren In the United Kingdom, it has been a relentless stream of bad news for those who value freedom of speech for several years now. A 38-year-old mother was arrested in front of her children and locked up in a cell at the police station in Hertfordshire. A docker in Northern England…
By Jonathon Van Maren The legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia carries far graver consequences than most of the voting public realizes. While these policies are sold as merciful responses to those suffering horribly from terminal illnesses, the reality is a society in which the state creates two classes of people: Those eligible for assisted suicide, and…
By Jonathon Van Maren When George Frideric Handel’s Israel in Egypt premiered at the King’s Theatre in Haymarket on April 4, 1739, the audience disliked it. They disliked it so much, in fact, that when Handel put his new oratorio—the first of two he would write that consisted entirely of verses from Scripture—into the opera…
By Jonathon Van Maren The organization One of Us, a federation of forty member organizations from 19 nations within the European Union, gathered in Paris last month to launch their Cultural Platform under the high patronage of Professor Rémi Brague of the Institut de France. The conference, which was held on February 23 in Paris…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last August, following the stunning upset victory of pro-lifers in Argentina, who fended off the legalization of abortion by a mere handful of votes in the senate, I interviewed a prominent Argentinian pro-life activist to discuss how the pro-life movement mobilized millions of people and what their strategy was going forward. Earlier in…
