Can Alberta heal the deadly malady that threatens all conservatism?

The most irksome problem facing the conservative movement in both United States and Canada is the conflict between what are often referred to as the “Fiscal Conservatives” and the “Social Conservatives.” It is at present particularly acute in my own province of Alberta where the controversy has split the political Right severely enough to break it in two, resulting in the unthinkable phenomenon of a socialist government in a terrain renowned for its conservative traditions.

How come all the MeToo complainants are female? Where are the men?

"When a girl goes out on her first date." my wife once remarked, "she has two concerns. First, that the boy might become sexually aggressive, because that could mean there was something wrong with him. Second, that the boy might not become sexually aggressive, because that could mean there was something wrong with her." Even in our day, that is, sex posed problems. But you'd have to look pretty hard through all of history to find anything to equate with what's going on today. For we have reached the era of the "#MeToo" movement in which, as usual, the quest for freedom has led to bondage, and the people in bonds are all women.

Is a massive youth exodus from the church really occurring?

The continuing attempt of Alberta's minister of education to force the province's Catholic schools to stop teaching Christian morality in their sex-ed courses and teach the government's version of morality instead makes immediately relevant what appears below. It is a chapter from a book I am currently writing. It's on the rooted determination of bureaucracies to silence any Christian voice in the shaping of education policy, and how they co-opted an unwitting media to help them do it. It goes a long way back, but it is certainly working. We are losing young people from the faith in frightening numbers, not in the universities, but in the high schools.

Should Christians begin moving resolutely into politics?

Preston Manning, the man who thought up, started, built and initially led the western Canadian political rebellion at the turn of the 21st Century, a rebellion that wound up winning three consecutive federal elections, has written another book. Only this isn't really a book. It's more like a manual on how practicing Christians can survive and thrive in modern politics. And not just Christians, some of their fellow travellers as well.

Explained: Why females increasingly outnumber males in university

I have attached a video to this column that was made by Stuart Wachowicz, former director of curriculum for the Edmonton Public Schools. It is of vital interest to any parent who has a son or sons in the school system. Mr. Wachowicz is a man of extraordinary common sense for an education bureaucrat which probably explains why he no longer is one.

His message is straight forward. The reason that university enrolments are now running at sixty-six percent female is that the public school system right across the western world is so heavily biased against males that most young men are effectually doomed to an inferior status. Such a charge may sound preposterous, but Mr. Wachowicz, with the help of another former executive in the Edmonton system, proves it conclusively.

Hail to the pure light of tolerance, openness and asininity

Things have been relatively tranquil these past two months on what might be called the "sex-ed issue," which simmers just below the boiling point in three Canadian provinces and innumerable American states. The controversy centers on the intense campaign of the so-called "gay lobby"  to coerce the general citizenry to accept, endorse, admire, cheer and otherwise celebrate forms of sexual conduct that 15 or 20 years ago were widely viewed as perverted if not depraved.

25 guilty as massive hushed-up Muslim-run child sex ring exposed in UK

"What a sad thing it is," a friend wrote to me last fall, "to see so many young people leaving the church." But are they? Whenever the point arises, someone invariably replies: "Yes, but they return when they are older." There have been an impressive number of studies on this question, but they all reach a chilling unanimity. Few of the departees do come back. Nearly all are gone for good. Moreover, the exodus begins in the high school years, not in university. The supporting data are alarming. Examples:

Reflection on the recent ‘holiday’: Did this Christmas thing actually happen?

"What a sad thing it is," a friend wrote to me last fall, "to see so many young people leaving the church." But are they? Whenever the point arises, someone invariably replies: "Yes, but they return when they are older." There have been an impressive number of studies on this question, but they all reach a chilling unanimity. Few of the departees do come back. Nearly all are gone for good. Moreover, the exodus begins in the high school years, not in university. The supporting data are alarming. Examples:

Old political maxim: If a problem’s impossible let it cease to exist

It seems a rule for all governments, both of the Left and Right, that when they are confronted with a problem they conclude to be insurmountable, their solution is to pretend it isn't there. But most of the time it is there, and the consequence of their refusal to face reality can be altogether disastrous.

Eggen sets a trap for Kenney and Kenney doesn’t take the bait

Now that the opposition is united and in Jason Kenney has a leader who will soon, we trust, win a seat in the Legislature, Alberta politics is starting to become very interesting indeed. We're swiftly coming down to two parties, one on the Left and one on the Right, but the challenges facing them are quite different.

Alberta’s education minister lets slip his disdain for parental rights

The landslide victory of Jason Kenney in the leadership contest for the new United Conservative Party has wide implications for Alberta and for Canada, a fact that will begin unfolding rapidly over the next few months. But it also has similarly wide implications for Alberta's NDP government and its inner politics. Two developments in that sphere over the week of the Tory leadership contest are noteworthy. In both of them Premier Rachel Notley got badly smacked.

In her first head to head clash with Kenney, Notley loses badly

The landslide victory of Jason Kenney in the leadership contest for the new United Conservative Party has wide implications for Alberta and for Canada, a fact that will begin unfolding rapidly over the next few months. But it also has similarly wide implications for Alberta's NDP government and its inner politics. Two developments in that sphere over the week of the Tory leadership contest are noteworthy. In both of them Premier Rachel Notley got badly smacked.