By Jonathon Van Maren Just in case you had any doubt as to whether Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and her government of activist radicals were planning on demonizing Christians as a way of winning the next election, this headline from the National Post over the weekend should clear up any doubt: “Alberta Premier Rachel Notley…
By Jonathon Van Maren The porn plague is in the news again, and as usual, it isn’t pretty. A brief perusal of a few stories highlights the degrading impact of pornography on our society, and one overarching fact shines through: Porn wrecks everything. An Ottawa mom recently discovered that it is perfectly alright for adult…
By Jonathon Van Maren My column earlier this week detailing Brian Jean’s statements on social conservatives has clearly struck a chord—it was only up for a half hour when Jean staffer Vitor Marciano responded by tweeting, “How idiotic. Brian did his highschool at Prairie Bible and is a church going Baptist.” The Brian Jean Campaign then…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few people have asked me, every now and again, why I still bother to occasionally respond to Michael Coren’s incoherent attacks on Canadian Christians, considering that he isn’t taken much seriously and that the liberal denominations he champions are dying off at a rapid clip. My answer is two-fold: First…
By Jonathon Van Maren To express admiration for Winston Churchill is so cliché it has become banal. After all, who doesn’t admire the British bulldog who led Great Britain through the storms of the Second World War with a cigar clamped between his teeth and his indomitable growl breathing life into his fellow citizens? In…
By Jonathon Van Maren Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, the University of Toronto psychology professor and overnight YouTube sensation, is perhaps one of the most interesting commentators to surface in the past decade. His opinions are in such high demand these days that I’m not sure how he gets any sleep. Due to his wide-ranging fields…
By Jonathon Van Maren So true to form, United Conservative Party leadership candidate Brian Jean has decided to make public his commitment to choice in education for Alberta parents, once he realized that his opponent Jason Kenney had received popular support for doing the same thing. “From what we have seen in the social studies…
By Jonathon Van Maren There’s a reason that the suffragettes of days gone by may have founded first wave feminism, but were still resolutely anti-abortion: It’s because most of them believed, quite accurately, that abortion would end up serving as a way for promiscuous men to skip out on the natural consequences of sex. (That’s…
By Jonathon Van Maren In the weeks since my daughter Charlotte was born, I’ve tried to write a column about her arrival several times. Writing about the moment we discovered her existence was easy, but when our beautiful daughter officially arrived, my thoughts log-jammed. How could I possibly explain the feeling of seeing the doctor…
By Jonathon Van Maren Most watchers of the Canadian media scene would probably agree: The ongoing meltdown of Ezra Levant’s online commentary outfit, The Rebel, is an implosion nearly unmatched in severity and swiftness. It started with roving journalist Faith Goldy’s coverage of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which appeared overly sympathetic to…