By Jonathon Van Maren Despite the fact that many Liberal Members of Parliament desperately want their government to back off the abortion attestation they inserted into the Canada Summer Jobs Program, it seems that Employment Minister Patti Hadju is refusing to back down. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops posted a statement yesterday indicating that…
By Jonathon Van Maren Just as faith groups of every stripe here in Canada are beginning to realize that the Trudeau Liberals—and the Left in general—are overtly hostile to many of their values after the government demanded that organizations sign an “attestation” agreeing to a laundry list of progressive ideologies in order to access the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this month, Konrad Yakabuski over at the Globe and Mail shared some interesting insights on the cultural social conservatism of many new Canadians—an often-overlooked fact that explains quite a bit about recent political trends in this country: Canada has accepted about five million new immigrants in the past 25 years…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve now been in Russia since the beginning of last week, and will be flying home today. I’ve been doing research and conducting interviews here, and am looking forward to turning my pages and pages of notes into columns and essays to share some of what I’ve learned about the new…
By Jonathon Van Maren This story, released on March 12 by the BBC, illustrates some of the social costs of transgender ideology and is truly, truly heartbreaking: New guidance for staff caring for transgender people with dementia has been drawn up to ensure patients get dignified and compassionate health care in north Wales. It includes…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Canada Summer Jobs controversy just won’t go away, and those who championed the “abortion attestation” are getting noticeably frustrated that Canadians simply won’t understand that the Liberals understand what “in good conscience” means far better than the ignorant religious Canadians protesting what many consider to be compelled speech. Abortion activists…
By Jonathon Van Maren If you thought Justin Trudeau learned his lesson from the #peoplekind episode, or the fact that his “gender” budget didn’t budge his plummeting poll numbers, or the revelation that staggeringly low numbers of Canadians actually call themselves feminists, then you were wrong. The Liberal efforts to do away with all gender-specific…
By Jonathon Van Maren As I predicted, the Canada Summer Jobs funding controversy has not gone away—as John Ivison put it in the National Post put it, “it was merely resting.” Many organizations are now scrambling to figure out how to fund their programs after being denied funding due to their refusal to sign off…
By Jonathon Van Maren Sometime in early afternoon, the cold rain falling on St. Petersburg turns into light snow as my friend and I head through the city with a twenty-two-year-old student, a young man who recently attained a degree in Russian contemporary studies from the St. Petersburg School of Higher Economics with a specialty…
By Jonathon Van Maren It should be no surprise that Justin Trudeau has been a bit testy lately. After all, he’s had a no-good, rotten year—and people just don’t seem to understand his brilliance like they used to, even when Bill Nye the Science Guy came to Canada to bolster Trudeau’s standing in the smarts…