By Jonathon Van Maren Late last year, Dr. Jordan Peterson sat down with the Scottish Catholic Observer for a wide-ranging discussion on the culture wars raging across the West. When the interviewer brought up the censorship increasingly inflicted on pro-life groups in Europe, Peterson was unequivocal: “That’s just beyond belief to me, whether you are…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Chapter 2 of my 2016 book The Culture War, I examined the pandemic of sexually transmitted diseases that is currently sweeping North America—albeit unnoticed and unremarked on by most: The STD epidemic makes headlines occasionally, but not often—and certainly not in proportion to the prevalence of these diseases or the…
By Jonathon Van Maren The fight over Ontario’s sex education curriculum is going to end up boiling down to a single issue, where neither side can budge: Gender fluidity. On one side, you have LGBT activists who are demanding that children be taught that they can switch from boy to girl or vice versa, and…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – With Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s repeal of Kathleen Wynne’s 2015 sex education curriculum—it will be temporarily replaced with the previous (and also Liberal-created) curriculum while consultations with parents are held—LGBT activists have melted down. The accusations are typical: the Progressive Conservatives have been accused of “endangering children” in…
By Jonathon Van Maren It appears that Doug Ford intends to keep his promise on the Ontario sex education curriculum—and is responding to calls by organizations like Parents as First Educators to dispense with Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed right out of the gate. According to the Toronto Star, Wynne’s curriculum has already been tossed out: Students…
By Jonathon Van Maren In today’s era of state-run schools with sanctioned sex education, it is essential that parents remain vigilant in order to remain aware of what their children are being taught and exposed to. With dramatically spiking rates of children and teens who are claiming that they would like to physically transition into…
By Jonathon Van Maren If you want a good example of why parental involvement in the education of their children is essential, look no further than a story unfolding at the Whitney Young High School in Chicago, where a sex education program has been put on hold after concerned parents realized what was going to…
By Jonathon Van Maren If the progressive Left can claim one cultural victory that is nearly total, it is their infiltration and conquest of the public education system. Public schools across the Western world—especially Canada, the United States, and Great Britain—now serve as purveyors of post-modern ideology, replete with “social justice” classes and sex education…
By Jonathon Van Maren As many of you will remember, back in November I wrote about the uproar surrounding a school trustee in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Barry Neufeld had the misfortune of not only opposing the promotion of transgenderism in schools—which is different than discriminating against kids, which is of course what he’s been accused…
By Jonathon Van Maren Debates on the rights of parents as first educators as well as the rights of Christian and Catholic schools—presumably schools founded by similarly socially conservative faith traditions will eventually attract notice, as well—are raging right across Canada, from Ontario to Alberta to BC. Progressive politicians are discovering, to their shock and…