By Jonathon Van Maren When the debate over Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s bubble zone legislation first came up last year, I pointed out something that the media will never cover: Pro-life activists are routinely subjected to violent threats, physical intimidation, and assault. In fact, if pro-lifers publicized each instance and the media covered these incidents…
Obianuju Ekeocha, a Nigerian-born scientist who runs Culture of Life Africa, is a world-renowned pro-life activist. She joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about her new book, Target Africa: Ideological Neo-colonialism of the Twenty-first Century.
By Jonathon Van Maren Around the world, abortion activists are on the march, trying with all their might to push feticide as a fundamental right in countries that have long rejected the destruction of pre-born children. In Ireland, of course, pro-life activists are in a race against time before a referendum on May 25, when…
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 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…
John Barros joins Jonathon Van Maren to chat about what it is like to spend every day of every week outside an abortion clinic, begging women not to go through with their abortions. Barros sees the very best and the very worst of our culture–and has seen over 1,000 babies saved.
By Jonathon Van Maren R.C. Sproul, the well-known Reformed author, pastor, and founder of Ligonier Ministries, passed away at the age of 78 on December 14, 2017. A life-long advocate for classical apologetics, a renowned speaker, and the author of dozens of books, obituaries describing his life achievements are pouring in from every corner. I…
By Jonathon Van Maren Autumn is a strange time of year, when color erupts from every hillside in an explosion of death and beauty. As I drove the backroads to work the other day, the trees caressed by the Midas touch of approaching Winter seemed to dance and glow in the morning sun, and I…
By Jonathon Van Maren Pam Damoff, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Oakville North-Burlington, has an interesting and illuminating voting record. For example, in 2016 she voted against an amendment to her party’s euthanasia legalization bill that would “protect freedom of conscience for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and healthcare institutions to refuse to participate in euthanasia.”…
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…