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Nearly 60% of violent crime cases now being stayed or withdrawn

“Justice delayed has become justice denied,” concluded a recent report from The Hub about the amount of time it is taking for criminal justice cases to be completed.

Digging into the most recent data available across Canada, the report found that the median amount of time it takes to complete a case – from first appearance to a final decision – has increased 60 percent increase in just eight years. It’s gone from averaging around 4 months – varying from 121 to 124 days – for the 8 years preceding 2016, to now being well over 6 months, or 198 days for 2023/24.

There are many costs to delaying justice with a big one being guilty people set free because they haven’t been offered a trial within the “reasonable time” promised in the Charter of Rights. The same report found that over the same time period, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of cases that have been stayed or withdrawn. That means no finding of guilt or innocence has been reached. As The Hub’s David Snow reports:

“Focusing on Canada outside Quebec , the proportion of criminal cases that were stayed or withdrawn increased from just under 35 percent in 2007/08 to 40 percent by 2019/20. The increase accelerated sharply after the pandemic, to the extent that more than 50 percent of criminal cases outside Quebec now end without a determination of guilt or innocence.”

This is particularly the case for violent crimes, where now nearly three in five cases are stayed or withdrawn.

As a result, fewer people are being found guilty, dropping from 63 percent to 46 percent. This isn’t because there are more acquittals. In fact, of the 228,425 adult court cases in 2023/2024:

• 105,371 were found guilty
• 118,265 were stayed or withdrawn
• only 2,442 were acquitted

God, who is perfectly just, calls us to image His justice. “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act" we are instructed in Proverbs 3:27-28. And as we read in Jeremiah 21:12, it must be done promptly. “Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed.” So the Charter of Rights’ call for trials in a “reasonable time” is good – we don’t want people who’ve never been convicted, languishing in jail for years on end before they even have a trial. Imagine if you are innocent, and you’re made to wait in jail for even “just” 4 months. This needs to be fixed.

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Saturday Selections – July 4, 2026

Lady Pastrix says we need a "Third Testament" If you have liberal Christian family or friends, this is worth sharing. They need to understand that if...
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More homeowners facing insolvency

Canadians have long been struggling with personal debt, but Scott Terrio, a manager at Hoyes, Michalos Licensed Insolvency Trustees told The Hub that ...
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Saturday Selections – June 27, 2026

Envy is a sin. Wealth isn't. If you could make everyone twice as wealthy, would you do it? This is an odd fellow, making a great point about how pove...
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Are you still able?

A nation-wide challenge to experience life without screens ***** It used to be different, not all that long ago. Carrie is a teen who always ha...
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Saturday Selections – June 20, 2026

Calvin vs Arminius: the predestination rock battle Though they never met in real life, what if John Calvin and Jacob Arminius would have gone head to head.... with a driving rock rhythm backing them? Thanks to AI, now we can know! What Christians need to know about Islam and the Quran (10 minute read) Muslims' sacred text has mistakes: "the Quran includes Mary in the Trinity (5:72–75; 116) and also confuses her with Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron (19:27–28)." Inside the climate cult: former climate activist Lucy Biggers Lucy Biggers helped get plastic straws banned, she interviewed Greta Thunberg, she pushed the Green New Deal, and she got 100 million views. I don't know if the former climate activist is now Christian but this interview highlights how secular ideology can blind people to reality – it can stop them from asking obvious questions. A time to dance? There's an old revealing joke about why Dutch Reformed folk are against premarital sex: "Because it might lead to dancing." Such was the opposition to dancing, more so in decades past, and still to a degree today. And not without reason. What reason? Well, a lot of the dancing done then and now is, in a word, sleazy. Dance programs on TV feature men and women in revealing outfits, and trying out moves that are sexually charged – bedroom material put out for public consumption. So no wonder that some good godly Reformed parents and grandparents didn't want the next generation engaged in these kinds of contortions. But is that what dancing has to be? No, it really doesn't. The Bible speaks specifically of how dancing can be done in God-honoring ways (2 Sam. 6:14, Ps. 149:3, Ps. 150:4, Eccl. 3:4). So there are both dances to avoid, and dances to embrace. And one good reason to dance is to teach young people rules of etiquette, like how a gentleman would approach the opposite sex and ask for a dance, and how a young lady might say yes to most such initial requests, but also feel very welcome to say no to a second. This would require some education and coaching – every kid is born knowing how to wag their booty – so if we're going to do this right and refined, they'll need to be taught. 5 myths about C.S. Lewis Even when these myths get it wrong about Lewis, they are still interesting, like that he never read a newspaper because if anything important happened someone was bound to tell him. Turns out not to be true, but it did still highlight how Lewis wasn't a reactionary – very unlike today's hot take culture, he responded to trends that went back centuries, not seconds. Something changed in 2010, and don't we all know it? There might be some hype to this – this is one man's testimony and should be taken as that – but doesn't it match with your own experience? Don't you, as an adult, feel stupider than you used to, more distractible than you used to, less able to concentrate on the sermon than you used to be? It's worth noting too, that he attributes to evolution what we can attribute to God's intent – that we learn relationally. I didn't post this to promote RP's July 13-22 screen-fast, but I can't help but mention it now. It's an opportunity to put away the tech for 10 days, if only to be able to assess its impact on you and your family. ...

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Saturday Selections – June 13, 2026

Brandon Lake's That's Who I Praise Here's a whole bunch of people having a whole bunch of fun praising God! I, Smartphone Nearly 80 years ago economist Leonard Read made the point that the central planning necessary for socialism to succeed is beyond anyone. No one can possibly know enough to be able to understand what everyone is capable of, and interested in producing, and then plan for what everyone wants and needs. He made his point with an essay called I, Pencil, about how even something as simple as a pencil is beyond the abilities of any one person to make and produce – as he put it, no one on earth knows how to make a pencil. So how then do pencils get produced... and without government planning? By everyone acting in their own self-interests, and in accord with God's law not to steal. The way this can, miraculously, produce what we want and need, and for prices far below what any government production would output, is sometimes credited to "the invisible hand" of the Free Market. But we know Whose hand it is, and, again, we know Who to attribute miracles to. In this new take on Read's I, Pencil essay, Lawerence Reed makes the same point about the production of something we take for granted today – the smartphone. Even among Christians, support for suicide is growing (10 min. read) That's both sad, but means we have yet another reason to argue against euthanasia with overtly Christian, God-glorifying arguments. What budding apologists can learn from Charlie Kirk "Let me offer a ten-second overview to this piece: If I were asked what the best books or resources are available for the eager young Christian apologist, I would simply point them to any number of excellent videos of the late Charlie Kirk interacting with often hostile and pugilistic critics, atheists and others." "Happy wife, happy life?" or, how passivity can destroy marriage Headship can be twisted two very different directions, and the one we most often hear warnings about is the domineering husband who treats his wife like his own personal slave. I'm sure that's a warning worth sounding, but in my denomination, at least in this generation, the opposite error seems the more likely. In response to domineering men of the past, many a male – and this is among those who believe in male headship – will let his wife's wishes dominate family life. It's sacrificial leadership with an emphasis on the sacrificial, even to the exclusion of the leadership. This bird is super cool Think you should be praising God more? Then watch the cool birds He made and it'll just happen. (Its head just stays stock still - crazy!) ...

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Saturday Selections – June 6, 2026

When a famous apologist dismisses the Bible... William Lane Craig is such an acclaimed apologist that many a conservative Christian has heard him praised. But when it comes to Craig's thoughts on the opening chapters of Genesis, Donall and Conall have some problems with him. Why wokeness is a Christian heresy "First... critical theory misunderstands who we are by assuming that the only relevant fact about us is where we fit within the various categories of oppression. We are the group we belong to, which serves a social role as either oppressor or oppressed. As such, this theory rejects any universals that unite humanity, including the image of God. "Second, the understanding of sin, or what’s wrong with the human condition, is limited to oppression. In this view, oppressors are guilty and the oppressed are innocent." Push for mandatory abortion for pregnant minors highlights what's going on behind the scenes One mistake frequently made in the abortion battle is that we forget what the other side wants. If we were debating Nazis, we wouldn't forget that they want to gas Jews. But when we discuss abortion, we regularly forget that the people we are talking to want babies murdered. We forget that the other side isn't just wrong, but is evil. I don't say that to foster hatred, or anger, but rather to highlight that this isn't some polite debate between two parties looking to each score their points. This is a spiritual battle that needs a spiritual response. We need to speak not just logic, but preach the gospel. When a monstrous wrong is called a right, people shouldn't get told to reconsider, but need to be called to repent. And if you have any doubts about the spiritual aspect of this battle, then read this article, where the evil is even more unvarnished, with a British Columbia (what is it about BC?) philosophy professor pushing for mandatory abortion for pregnant minors. Tim Challies: Go ahead, bring a knife to a gunfight "You may wish you had the sword of compelling argument, the rapier of sharp and thrusting wit, or the spear of the perfect put-down. However, God may not have gifted you in any of these ways. Yet there is always something you can do, and there is always some weapon you can wield. Don’t sit around pining for what you don’t have, but resolve to use what you do have...." End supply management – for the sake of Canadian consumers Why do Christians want a free market rather than socialism? Well, one good reason is, we know only God is omniscient, so the government simply doesn't have the capacity to know how much of everything should be produced, and who should get how much, and for what price. Meanwhile, Canada's supply management operates under just those presumptions. In the name of helping farmers, it limits what farmers can produce to deliberately drive up the price of their goods. And who pays that price? "According to a Fraser Institute estimate, supply management adds roughly $375 a year to the average Canadian household’s grocery bill. Because lower-income families spend a much higher proportion of their income on food, the burden falls most heavily on them." Another solid biblical reason to oppose socialism? We are called to "Do unto others as you would want done to you" (Luke 6:31). If it doesn't strike you as wrong that poor families are being forced to support farmers by being required to pay artificially higher prices, imagine if the same was happening to your own favorite goods: your car, your house, or your jeans. Have you thought about how helpful it would be for those goods' producers if they were making more money off of your purchases? So why not get the government to restrict production there too, so that prices will rise? Wouldn't such government intervention be good for every producer? So why not make it universal? Because it would hurt consumers enormously. And it would hurt producers too – anyone who had any inputs in their production process would be paying higher costs for everything, making their own goods less competitive on any international markets. It would hurt consumers and it would hurt productivity. So why would do we think it a good idea for eggs and dairy? A presuppositional rock song This could make a good final exam for our Christian schools – to graduate you must be able to understand and apply what this rock song is talking about. ...

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Saturday Selections – May 30, 2026

When John MacArthur visited a philosophy class In this clip John MacArthur starts off sounding quite arrogant – he says he sees everything clearly. but he isn't boasting about himself and his intellect. He's boasting about what he – and what we – have been given. And Christians should not be humble about the greatness of our God! "As a Christian, you and I share this in common: I see things clearly. I see the world clearly. In fact, I often wonder why I'm not on more programs giving the right answer to everything. It's all very clear to me. Everything is clear to me. I understand where the world came from, where it's going. I understand all of that. I understand why things happen the way they happen. I understand life and death and life after death and heaven and hell and morality and immorality. I understand it all. I understand why the world is the way it is. Why people act the way they act. Am I particularly intelligent? No. Am I particularly wise? No. I just have the mind of Christ here in this book." 4  reasons Christians should study evolution (10 minute read) "As a science teacher in Christian schools, I’ve noticed a predictable progression when students begin studying evolution. They start with a mocking attitude that 'evolution is stupid.' But when I present the details accurately, a bewildered hush falls over the class. Quizzical looks are followed by raised hands and vociferous objections. They sound betrayed. "Finally, as they discover biblical answers from the creation perspective, light bulbs turn on, and their perplexity is replaced with relief. They then are able to communicate their thoughts about origins more coherently and confidently. "We fall short if we tell Christian youth that the study of origins doesn’t matter or that it’s a side issue. We underestimate evolution’s threat to their faith..." What gives something value? As Christians we generally have a negative view of subjectivity – morality certainly isn't subjective. But whether chocolate or vanilla ice cream is best certainly is. Marx thought that a product's value came from the workers and how much effort was putting into building something. That makes some intuitive sense, because things that take a lot of man-hours to build – like a house – are more expensive than things that take very little human labor, like, say, a candy bar. But products can take a lot of man-hours to produce and still have no value at all – think Google Glass, or that phone Amazon tried to market years back. These are products that had hundreds and maybe thousands of people involved in making them, but no one wanted them. Despite the many man-hours, they weren't worth a dime. So what makes something valuable is dependent on what people think about it. Bitcoin is an example, valuable because people say it is. And diamonds too. This is important because it highlights how markets – the free exchange of goods – help us figure out what people will value. And government interference with markets makes it much harder to know what people value. By way of example, a story is told of how the Soviet Union, for efficiency's sake produced right boots in one factory and left boots in another. But then, one day the right boot factory burnt down, forcing the left boot factory to offer pairs of two left boots. And you know what? Demand didn't drop. Because if your choice in a wintery climate is no boots at all, or two left boots, you'll go with two left boots. So, from the Soviet government's perspective, they'd have no feedback telling them that people actually hate their product. "Sales" would seem to show that it is still popular indeed. The documentary hypothesis – an attack on the books of Moses dismantled A friend who went to Calvin Seminary was taught there that the books of Moses might not be by Moses, and were instead by 4 others – this was known as the documentary hypothesis or the JEDP theory (each initial standing for one of those four "editors"). I don't know that this registered with him as an attack on the Bible – it might have seemed just trivia at the time. But those behind the theory didn't see the Bible as God's Word. They saw it as a work of men, revised, edited, corrected and reworked. Some years later that friend now doubts what the Bible says about homosexuality and I wonder if his slip into liberalism is connected with what he swallowed about Moses so many years ago – after all, if he believed the Bible was edited then, why couldn't he edit out the parts he doesn't like now? But the JEDP theory was always wrong, and has become all the more clearly so now. This isn't an article for everyone, but it caught my eye because of my friend, and because this is from the folks behind "The Patterns of Evidence" film series, and relates specifically to their documentary The Moses Controversy.  Math from a Christian worldview? "Math can be a challenging subject to teach from the Christian worldview. But consider looking at it through the framework of Truth, Hope, Identity and Calling." This three-page resource could be a help to any Christian math teacher you know... and intriguing to anyone who might be math-minded. What if the Bible was right about sex? Christians, we need to be bold about the truth God has entrusted to us in His Word. When it comes to sex, as this video shows, it can be as simple as pitching the fruit of the Bible's sexual ethic vs. the fruit of the sexual revolution.  ...

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“Transition” victims decry conversion therapy law
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Saturday Selections – May 23, 2026

"Bury the workmen" by Covie, featuring Lance Thompson For some encouragement check out this new group – or maybe just new to me – singing about h...
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BC midwives allowed to now kill pre-born babies

On May 5th, the British Columbia government decided to celebrate International Midwives Day by authorizing midwives to participate in something antith...
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Saturday Selections – May 16, 2026

Athanasius vs. Arius, the rap battle Athanasius offers up a hard-rocking right.... "I've never seen a problem so solvable!" – parents hold the...
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Opposing rainbow crosswalk results in human rights trial

Ronald Reagan once shared a quip about the difference between his country and the totalitarian USSR. “Two Soviets… were talking to each other. And one of them asked, ‘What’s the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?’ And the other one said, ‘That’s easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering.” Here in Canada, we still have freedom of speech, but, it seems, no guarantee of freedom after speech. An Alberta woman is facing a two-week hearing before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for distributing flyers opposing the Town of Westlock’s plan to paint a rainbow crosswalk. Benita Pedersen created the flyers in June of 2023, in an effort to encourage other citizens to reach out to their elected officials and oppose the crosswalk. “Based on my personal experiences in interacting with parents and children, I have learned that the practice of ‘gender affirmation’ harms kids more than it helps,” she explained to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF). “When I composed the flyer, one of my objectives was to warn parents about the potential consequences of children pursuing the pathway of transgenderism.” She added that the way to solve problems is “by having open conversation.” Others disagree, and human rights commissions make it easy to shut down speech they don’t like. In this case, fellow citizen Laurie Hodge took offense and filed a human rights, stating that the flyer discriminated on the basis of gender, gender identity, and gender expression. Hodge has since become a member of the Westlock Town Council. The wheels of “justice” turn slowly. In October of 2025, the Director of the Alberta HRC referred the complaint to the province’s human rights tribunal, finding that there was a sufficient basis to proceed with the hearing. Human rights commissions and tribunals were under the public eye 15 years ago, in light of complaints against high-profile figures like Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, and against Maclean’s magazine. Complaints were made on the basis of hurt feelings. Even if there was no conviction, the process of responding to a complaint – involving tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills and years of hassle – was itself a punishment. The passage of a private member’s bill in 2012 to reform the Canadian Human Rights Act seemed to settle the commissions down. But the recent decision from the BC Human Rights Tribunal to fine school trustee Barry Neufeld $750,000 for speaking against “sexual orientation and gender identity” (SOGI), as well as this case in Alberta, suggest that the sleeping giants are awaking. Let’s not be caught sleeping ourselves. ARPA Canada took a lead in responding to the challenges 15 years ago, and continues to speak out today. We care so deeply about freedom of speech and expression not because our opinions are so important, but because God’s truth is. We love our neighbors, so we want and need to be free to share what God says is best for them and everyone. Find Pedersen's flyer at the end of the human rights complaint shared here....

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Saturday Selections – May 9, 2026

Morality is just preferences? In this exchange Andrew Wilson fully embraces the "devil's advocate" role, adopting his opponent's worldview fully, only to then drive it into the ditch. This isn't a "gotcha" moment (okay, maybe a bit of one) so much as, what other response can she have? Elders are competent to counsel Christians underestimate the wisdom God has given us in His Word. Christians also overestimate the wisdom of the world. We think we need to turn to the "experts" in matters of counsel, even though these are the folks who say that boys can become girls, sex before marriage is fine, homosexuality is just another lifestyle (and doesn't lead to incontinence), and life doesn't begin until you are born. Pop music seems to be getting sadder each year An analysis of the Billboard Hot 100 had "heartbreak" songs doubling from 30 percent in 2015 to 58 percent in 2025. As this article notes, that doesn't mean there isn't upbeat music being made – it's that what's moody is more popular these days. The dying advice of Ben Sasse Ben Sasse was welcomed onto 60 Minutes because he is a former US senator and he is dying and very willing to talk about it. And that includes sharing where, or rather with Who, his hope is found. Jonathon Van Maren shares his dying advice, well worth hearing: "He wishes he had honored the Sabbath more. He didn’t skip church but was consistently tempted to excuse work in the afternoon. 'I wish I’d treated the Lord’s Day differently over the course of my life.' He added that he wishes he had guarded better against 'digital intrusions into the Sabbath.' "Family dinnertime should be prioritized. 'Dinnertime is precious,' he said. 'Man, lock up your devices and keep them away from the table and prioritize that time.' "....People should live in 'thick communities'—especially, if possible, near family. 'Family compounds,' Sasse said. 'Like, have more cousins and figure out how to live thick with them. There are so many times when we optimize around things that are not nearly as important as family thickness. Boy, I wish we lived down the block from my folks.' If he had more time, he said, he would be brainstorming how to create a family compound with his own children and their families." 5 myths about Heaven A couple of the big ones tackled are that Heaven is our home where will live forever more, and nothing we do here on earth really matters because it will all be forgotten. For more, Real Talk did a great podcast on Heaven with Dr. den Hollander. Crowder's Grave robber Can a dead man respond to God's call? No, he needs to first be made alive! ...

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Federal spending increases under Carney

To make a diamond dazzle, a skilled jeweller will slip a black cloth under it. The federal government pulled a similar tactic with its Spring Economic Update, setting the current state of the economy in the context of the ongoing instability in the world. In spite of trade disruptions with the USA, conflict in the Middle East, and fragile global supply chains, the government was keen to showcase that Canada’s economy grew by 1.7 percent in 2025 and is expected to have the second-fastest growth in the G7, next to the USA. But a careful examination shows a less dazzling picture. The deficit for 2025 is a staggering $66.9 billion, with no end to deficits in sight. The federal government is already $1.3 trillion in debt, and is on track to pile up $309 billion more in total debt by the end of this decade. Our cost to service all our debt is projected to increase from $54 billion this year, to $81 billion by 2030-31. History backs up the instruction from Proverbs 22:7 that “the borrower is a slave to the lender.” Just like family debt handcuffs a household from pursuing opportunities they might otherwise want to pursue, the same is true for countries. We severely limit what we can do when we have to pay billions, not even to pay off the debt, but just to pay the yearly interest.  But the federal government emphasizes that we are doing better than most G7 countries. After 9 consecutive budget deficits under Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Carney promised: “what we will do is to focus on reducing spending, if I’m elected…. The essence of this is to spend less, and invest more.” When we hear our government wants to spend less to allow for more investment, we might conclude that means spending cuts will be accompanied by tax cuts to leave the private sector with more of their money. They can then invest those newly available funds in their businesses. But that’s not what Carney means by “spending less.” His plan is to have the government spend much more overall, but label some of it “investing.” Neat trick, but let’s not fall for it. His new Economic Update reveals a plan to increase spending by $83.2 billion more than the Trudeau government planned from 2025/26 through 2029/30....

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Radicalized and Reformed? Someone we know tried to kill the president.

The news traveled in Reformed circles like wildfire on a Saturday evening: the young man who tried to kill President Trump and members of his cabinet was one of our own. 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, who traveled across the country by train from California to Washington DC with a plan to murder dozens, was a long-time member of Grace United Reformed Church in Torrance, California. How could a young man raised in the church and living under his parents’ roof have become so radicalized that he would attempt such a heinous, violent crime?  Allen’s written manifesto, sent out to family members and friends moments before his attack, gives some clues of what type of news and opinions he had been consuming: “I am a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do reflects on me. And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” National Public Radio reported on statements Allen’s sister made to the Secret Service and Montgomery County police. She said he was involved with a “No Kings” anti-Trump protest recently, and was influenced by a group called “The Wide Awakes,” a self-described “open source network who radically reimagine the future… Disruptive, visionary, accountable… We believe liberation is a game and all of us can play now and forever.” It should be noted, however, that “The Wide Awakes” also declare that “we can emancipate ourselves without violence.” No doubt we will learn more about the type of influences that radicalized Allen as he stands trial on two charges related to the assassination attempt. We can wonder how someone who sat under faithful preaching of the Gospel could ignore all the teachings of the Bible and turn to violence and hatred. Because Allen seemed to believe terrible things about President Trump and members of his cabinet, he apparently thought he needed to take justice into his own hands, without a trial, without a judge or jury. From his manifesto: “Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.” Today’s social media and online world is full of conspiracies, outright lies, and malignant forces. Algorithms are designed to feed us more and more of whatever we’ve shown an interest in, and we may find ourselves over time believing the lie instead of the truth. May we guard our hearts and minds, and those of our children, and look for ways to encourage others in our church family to free themselves from harmful influences. Photo of Cole Allen is from an April 25 post to TruthSocial.com/@realDonaldTrumpDonald, the US president’s own Truth Social account....

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Teachers lead the way in adopting, and sometimes restraining, tech
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Saturday Selections – May 2, 2026

Original Sin rock battle What I absolutely love about these rock/rap battles is that it's no straw man being presented here: Pelagius gets to make hi...
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Vote the 2026 Your Turn contest fan favorite

Voting for the 2026 Your Turn contest fan favorite has concluded. Find the winner and links to all the contenders here....
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1 in 7 dog owners would give up partner to prolong Fido’s life
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Saturday Selections – April 25, 2026

Why Johnny can't read: not enough phonics Phonics is a part of the solution, but two other key ingredients are, first of all, more parental involvement – to become readers, your kids need to be read to. Parents, whether you homeschool or don't, God has appointed you as your children's teachers (Deut. 6:4-9). Secondly, we need to end the public system, where the State and teachers' unions take on a role God gave to us, pretending to know our children better than we do. Imagine if instead of one school system, individual schools had to compete for students: they'd have to market their results, and parents could then choose from among a menu of schools what was best for their particular child. Instead, governments across North America have decided they know what's best for everyone, and have inflicted learning experiments on children in state-wide and province-wide fashions. Then, if the experiments fail, it isn't just a few children that are impacted but children en masse who are hurt. Wealth "gap" in Canada mostly an age gap The world touts any wealth inequalities between groups as a reason to forgo the 10th Commandment and envy what our rich neighbors have. Envy is, in this scenario, painted as virtuous, because their envy is motivated by a wish to help the less fortunate with the money our neighbor has. But what if we noticed that most of the rich are also old? And most of the poor are poorer because they are younger, and most will be better off in time? That would undercut the momentum to pillage the rich, wouldn't it? Why more legal suicide? Because otherwise suicidal people will kill themselves. The Left doesn't reason, they just emote, such that they don't even need to make sense. Their latest argument for expanded access to euthanasia? Well, "as the National Post succinctly put it: 'Canada told mentally ill must be euthanized lest they kill themselves.'”  Actress Christina Applegate shows that liberals know it is a baby  Pro-life Christians often approach the issue of abortion like it's a matter of education, rather than proclamation – that it's due to an information deficit, rather than being a sin problem. But that forgets what the devil does. Sure, he uses miseducation too, but always to pursue his sinful ends – as this article shows, abortion is very much a spiritual issue Appreciating the Irreducible Complexity of the human foot We are amazed at the brilliant engineering of the Roman arch, but what of the foot that has 3 separate arches integrated in its design? We are indeed wonderfully made (Ps. 139:14)! The secret religions in your favorite movies (4 min) Expressive individualism – your feelings should be your guide as to what is good, and true, and right – is being pitched at our kids. But what does Jesus say about following our heart (Luke 9:23)? (This one ends abruptly, like there were another 5 seconds cut off, but by then her point is made.) ...

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9 in 10 Canadian women in their 20s who “practice a religion” are now childless

Canada is now among South Korea, Japan, Italy, and a small number of other “ultra-low fertility” countries, with a total fertility rate below 1.30 children per woman. As of 2024 (the most recent year where we have data), our fertility rate dropped to 1.25 children per woman. A fertility rate of 2.1 is needed to keep a population stable, while a fertility rate of 1.25 would halve the population in two generations, and leave just a quarter behind in just three. Earlier this year, Statistics Canada provided a report with more detail. Among other startling findings, they found that 9 in 10 women in their 20s do not have children. This decreases to 43.2% of women in their 30s and 23.6% in their 40s. The average age of mothers at the birth of their first child has increased to 31.8 years. In spite of these low numbers, 66% of women in their 20s who don’t have children say that they would like to in the next few years. This intention held relatively constant among those who were university graduates or not, employed or not, and married or not. In other words, while most young women say that they would like to have children, the vast majority are not receiving or pursuing this blessing in their 20s. They also found that women who “practice a religion” are more likely to have children, though that is only noticeable after the age of 30. Only 11.1% of “practicing” women in their 20s have children, which is actually lower than “non-practicing” (11.9%). How “religious” are these practicing women? The study defines practicing a religion as “participating in religious activities in the year preceding the survey, excluding events such as weddings or funerals.” That’s a very low bar, so, this category includes a lot of people who might not be making God their priority. But imagine what could happen if all God’s people did make Him and what He says our first priority? God’s first words to humanity were to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28). This flies in the face of the prevailing worldview of today, focused on doing what works best for me. When this is combined with contraception and abortion, the result is sex but very few children. Increasingly, the decision to welcome the gift of children, when God provides them, is one of the most counter-cultural choices to be made. But it is also the lifeline for future generations and the means by which God’s kingdom comes. Imagine what would happen if Christ’s church welcomed the gift of children, while the world continued with this trajectory....

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Saturday Selections – April 18, 2026

The universe is God's canvas Art is hard to define, but an artwork can tell us a lot about the artist... or the Artist. Survivor - they had to live without phones! Even if you've never watched Survivor, you probably have an inkling about what this TV game show is about – it pits a group of castaways against each other to see who can outlast the rest. But there is a difference from when it started – one of the biggest shocks for contestants today might be living without their smartphones for a month. In this article, one of the contestants highlights how she was happy without it, and yet felt pulled back into that screen world when she returned. But, As Trevin Wax highlights, some in the next generation are taking leadership to free themselves and others from this ball and chain. How Mark Carney could help Canadian NHL teams compete "...league commissioner Gary Bettman... likes to pretend taxes aren’t part of the reason that eight of the 12 teams competing for the past six Stanley Cups hail from states with 0 percent income taxes..." This article is just about hockey, but the point made is true for every business competing with companies in other, lower-tax, jurisdictions – government taxes hurt our competitiveness, which hurts what we can produce, which hurts our businesses and everyone employed by them. So, let's lower taxes for hockey players... and everyone else too. How to love your wife through the rough patches Good advice... The legacy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth 20 years later His documentary was presented in university classes with religious fervor, not just in science, but even in the arts and humanities – kids got hit with it in English class. And, 20 years later, the catastrophic worldview it pitched is still a matter of fervor, not fact. I can only imagine A great song from a pretty good movie. ...

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Saturday Selections – April 11, 2026

Climate Doom Archive: the polar bear The polar bear has long been a symbol of the global warming catastrophists, but as the folks at the Climate Discussion Nexus detail below polar bears are doing just fine. Australians aren't having kids Since it takes two to tango that means it takes an average of two children per woman to keep a population stable (and just slightly more than that – around 2.1 – to account for children who don't make it to adulthood). But Australia has averaged less than two children per woman since about 1975... and it's now near 1.4. Canada is worse at about 1.25 and China leads the depopulation dive at just about 1.0. God's cultural mandate, given before the Fall (Gen. 1:28) but repeated to Noah and his sons (Gen. 9:1) applies to more than just child-bearing but certainly includes it. "Be fruitful and multiply" gives Christians good reason to counter this demographic downward trend by, in obedience, trying for 3 or more. The silent killer: comfort "The danger lies in making comfort a priority – living an easy, carefree life that avoids stress, grief, or restriction... When comfort becomes our aim, we lose sight of the fact that the Christian life is often marked by disciplined effort, not stress-free living." New free creationist journal New Creation Studies is a new publication brought to you by some of the same people behind the great (and free) documentary Is Genesis History? Get married young (10 minute read) Marriage can get crowded out as an ambition because of career, income, education, or even travel goals. But what if we made the big things in life our big priority? 1,000 IVF frozen babies vs. 2 newborns: who would you save? It's a dilemma that's been pitched many times: if a hospital was on fire and you could only save a newborn baby, or let's say two – one tucked under each arm – or a nitrogen canister that contained one thousand frozen IVF babies, which would you save? The presumption underlying the question is that how most would act – saving the two crying, squirming, already-born babies – proves that embryonic babies aren't valuable. But, as Ben Shapiro shows below, that's not so. What he doesn't do, is show where human value does comes from. The world has no basis for it. If we are merely star dust, or just another animal, or just chemicals in motion, then why would any of us be any more valuable than that rock over there, also star dust, or another animal like, say, a chicken? Or why would we say our human-type walking bags of chemicals are all equal, but that equality doesn't extend to the chemical reactions going on in that fizzy can of Coke? The only basis for human worth, and for human equality, comes from being made in the very Image of God (Gen. 1:26-27). That is the only thing we all share equally and it is what gives us our worth (Gen. 9:6). ...

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