For the next month, you’re going to see relentless calls for conservative politicians to march in Pride parades across North America. Those who refuse will be called homophobic, even if they are simply the sort of people who prefer not to attend sexually-charged events featuring nudity and simulated sex acts. In fact, children are often…
By Jonathon Van Maren Here’s how the CBC covered the arrest of a Canadian—Bill Whatcott—for “hate speech” against the LGBT community: An Alberta man has been charged after allegedly handing out “anti-gay material” at Toronto’s annual Pride Parade two years ago.Toronto police say they received complaints about the alleged incident in 2016. They say a…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few years back, my friend JJ McCullough published a rather unpopular column, noting that although Pride parades have become a litmus test for one’s level of tolerance these days, there are plenty of people—himself included—who simply find them distasteful displays of indecency. The media and progressive politicians like to gang…
By Jonathon Van Maren Despite her plummeting poll numbers, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s government is continuing to implement their social engineering plans in Alberta, perhaps in an attempt to fundamentally reshape the government’s relationship with Albertans prior to their presumed defeat at the hands of United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney next year. This time,…
By Jonathon Van Maren Scott Gilmore, an occasional writer for Maclean’s, is so obviously not a conservative that his byline states that he “is a member of the Conservative party, and is married to a Liberal cabinet member.” This must be stated explicitly, because there is literally no other way to tell that Gilmore possesses…
By Jonathon Van Maren So Pride Month has come again to Canada, when drag queens and nudists prance the streets and any politician who might find himself not entirely in lockstep with the LGBTQ Alphabet Soup crowd—or perhaps simply doesn’t care for scenes of public indecency—finds himself relentlessly harassed by the Media McCarthyites with strident…
By Jonathon Van Maren In his most recent reincarnation, formerly Catholic columnist Michael Coren is now in the strange position of being a sexual progressive, but late enough to the game that he doesn’t have anything new to say. Having gone the way of many Christians who find their principles too feeble to withstand the…