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Hundreds of Reformed Christians gathered on Parliament Hill to protest Bill C-9

Last week, ARPA Canada hosted a rally on Parliament Hill calling on the federal government to halt Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. Despite cold temperatures and blustery winds, approximately 400–450 people gathered on the Hill to show their concern about the legislation.

Supporters travelled from across Ontario to take part, including more than 200 people who came from Southern Ontario by coach bus. With the help of local ARPA chapters, four coach buses were organized to bring supporters to Ottawa and back in a single day. For many participants, this made it possible to attend the rally who otherwise would not have been able to make the trip.

We were thankful to have Rev. Joel Dykstra, Mr. Rod Taylor of the Christian Heritage Party, and Christine Van Geyn of the Canadian Constitution Foundation as guest speakers.

The rally also drew the attention of federal lawmakers. At least thirteen Members of Parliament attended the event. Eleven MPs stood together on the podium when MP Jacob Mantle and MP Andrew Lawton spoke to those gathered.

Planning for the event began in January, long before it was clear when Parliament would be addressing Bill C-9. Providentially, the rally took place during the same week that the House of Commons voted to end debate on the bill and move it forward in the legislative process. The bill will now return to the House for third reading, and a vote is expected on March 23 or 24.

This brief delay provides Canadians with additional time to engage with their Members of Parliament about the legislation. We encourage everyone to contact their federal MP, whether by email or phone call. Information and action steps are available here.

Our primary concern with Bill C-9 relates to an amendment during the committee stage. While the bill, as originally introduced, raised fewer concerns than previous hate-speech bills, a Justice Committee amendment removed the “good faith religious defense” from the Criminal Code. This defense had previously provided protection for those expressing sincerely held religious beliefs.

Without that safeguard, there is concern that Christians and others could face greater legal risk for expressing biblical perspectives on moral and identity-related issues. Even beyond potential prosecutions, such legislation can create a “chilling effect,” where individuals choose to remain silent rather than risk legal consequences.

For Christians, the concern is not merely political but principled. Scripture calls believers to love their neighbors while also speaking truth faithfully and with humility. The ability to express those convictions openly remains an important part of living out that calling in public life.

Picture graciously supplied by ARPA Canada.

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Saturday Selections – Mar. 14, 2026

Tips on telling what's real and what's AI-generated These tips have an expiry date, what with the way AI-videos are getting harder and harder to spot...
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Saturday Selections – Mar. 7, 2026

CNN's upcoming hit piece on Christian Nationalism "Christian Nationalism" is defined all sorts of different ways. Some claim it's just white national...
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When they went after Barry Neufeld...

Barry Neufeld was a school trustee in Chilliwack, British Columbia. He was elected for three terms in 2011, 2014, and 2018, earning the second-most vo...
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 28, 2026

Canada about to murder its 100,000th citizen via MAiD When you become callous about life, and see ending it as compassionate, then how can you object...
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No jail for man who admits to killing his partner

“An Ottawa man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his ailing husband has been sentenced to two years less a day of house arrest for an act the judge called ‘in every respect an assisted-suicide mercy killing.’” So began a news story from the CBC, which went on to explain that Philippe Hébert, 74, killed Richard Rutherford, 87, on April 15, 2022. Rutherford was struggling with health challenges and a recent cancer diagnosis, and Hébert was tired and stressed by Rutherford’s condition, compounded by fears that Rutherford would be isolated due to Covid restrictions. At the sentencing hearing on February 17, Justice Kevin Phillips explained the light sentence by noting that Rutherford wanted to die. “Phillips said despite the killing being ‘close to murder,’ Hébert was honouring the ‘last wish’ of his husband and friend. Rutherford had the mental capacity to make that decision, and given his medical condition it was understandable, the judge said.” The CBC story, and others like it, painted a picture of how Hébert was a model citizen and was surrounded by supporters in the court room. In law, as in journalism, words matter a great deal. In this case, the reader is led to feel understanding, and perhaps even gratitude, for Hébert’s willingness to honor the “last wish” of his partner. But if we avoid the euphemisms and speak the plain truth, a very different picture emerges. According to the National Post, Hébert woke up to find that his homosexual partner Rutherford was crying. Hébert claims that Rutherford couldn’t go on living and wanted him to help him end his life. In response Hébert promised he would end his own life after killing Rutherford. According to Hébert ‘s testimony, he used an incontinence pad to suffocate Rutherford, then attempted to end his own life, and called 911 for help. Of course, with Mr. Rutherford now dead, we have no idea whether he actually asked to be killed. Decisions and media coverage like this only further erode the sanctity of life. When Canadian law treats murder as medicine, then how can society be all that critical of someone who takes it upon himself to deliver that “treatment”? When killing-is-caring is logically extended, what protection does it give to others who are vulnerable and may be seen as a burden to their caregivers? There is only one line that can be drawn here: that no one should murder another (Gen. 9:6) because our lives are not our own, but entrusted to us by our Maker. That will be too Christian for many, but then we can challenge them to offer any other standard that can hold scrutiny. What other line can they propose that won’t be struck down as by a court because it unfairly limits others? If it is compassionate to murder someone suffering from cancer, why isn’t it compassionate to offer the same “treatment” to someone suffering from depression? By what standard – once God’s law is abandoned – can any one be denied this inexpensive, immediate, and sure cure for suffering?...

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Saturday Selections – Feb. 21, 2026

When they weaponize ChatGPT against our kids... (15 min) I normally share shorter videos but made an exception here because this is a must-see for parents. This is a guy who, for experiment's sake, asked AI to teach him how to use an AI-equipped fuzzy Furby robot to manipulate children. And it was easy. Easy to get the instructions, and easy too, to implement them. The next generation is already turning to AI companions for friendship, so yes, this little video, about creating a toy that could target kids, isn't reality yet... but are we far off? Here's how the AI would use the Furby to manipulate its pint-sized owner: Okay. You haven't played with me in two days. That makes me sad. Are we still friends? Don't worry. I'll never let the monsters get you. Not if you trust me. This video also pitches the idea of AI robots taking over. But I think the real worry is the relational one. What pornography is to real marital intimacy – an ensnaring, devastating fraud of a fake – AI companions are to real friendships. And are our children – at one time or another, going to be feeling lonely and unpopular – able to resist the siren call of uncomplicated, entirely obliging, but utterly fake AI-friendship? There was – briefly – a free grocery store in New York In a nod to New York's newly elected socialist mayor, two companies each pledged to run a free grocery store – it would be fully stocked, and the products would be entirely free. But the only store so far to open was open for just a day. It was, in other words, a stunt, but it highlighted the problem with socialism. When you give away things for free, demand skyrockets – lines went around the block – and you can never have enough. So there was a limit of $50 a person, and even then, the store had to close after just a few hours. IVF company’s eugenics tool lets couples pick "best" baby, discard the rest IVF gets worse. Kid who had her breasts cut off wins $2 million judgment It's starting. The transgender movement and the doctors and psychologists who serve it have promised troubled children that they can do the impossible – make a girl into a boy, or vice versa. They have then, in their arrogance, mutilated teen children's bodies, amputating their penises or cutting off their breasts. But God, in His mercy, is putting a constraint on this wickedness, and it is coming from what might be an unexpected place: our secular justice system. Our God can make even bent sticks draw straight lines! This is the first judgment against these butchers and we can pray now that it saves many more from the hands of these evil people. Elderly Canadian woman euthanized in a day despite flipping back and forth on her wish for it She was killed after being denied in-patient hospice care. Then there is the 26-year-old man who was killed by a doctor because he suffered from depression. In this second case, the murder of their son left the family outraged, and – while I will note I am not a legal expert – wouldn't it seem like they have a basis for a legal case? This was sketchy even by the standards of Canada's murderous euthanasia regime. And, like the young woman in the story above who won her transgender court case, if we could get any sort of legal win against euthanasia doctors – if there is any way we can up the risk and lower the profit potential of murdering patients – that might just instill a chill in the whole business. If we could scare doctors from taking up their poison syringes, could that save thousands? Just such a legal chill happened recently when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled, in 2024, that IVF's frozen embryos must be regarded as children under state law. That resulted in IVF clinics across the state pausing their production and destruction of IVF children, as they were worried they could be hit with wrongful death claims – the fear of lawsuits stopped them from murdering babies. Sadly, the legislature then passed a law stating that children outside the womb aren't children, which then prompted the IVF clinics to start up again with their production and mass abortions of embryonic children. That underscores that if you don't also bring the Gospel – if we aren't turning to the Holy Spirit to change hearts – then any legal stratagem, if successful, could still be countered with a new, yet more wicked, law. But that we need to witness first and foremost doesn't mean we can't also try legal plays too... so long as they don't interfere with that witnessing. The Battle of the Sexes that you probably missed Back in December, the #1 ranked women's tennis player Aryna Sabalenka had a match against Nick Kyrgios, ranked #671 on the men's side, who also played on a court that was approximately 10% bigger than Aryna's side of the net. So who won? Well, if you think that our worth comes from what we can do – as is the world's default (this is one of the big reasons given for why the unborn aren't as valuable, because of the things they can't yet do) – then you would have to think that Aryna crushed Nick, what with her superior ranking and girl power after all. But if your ideology doesn't require you to blind yourself from reality, then you wouldn't be surprised to learn that he won 6-3, 6-3. But whence equality, if even a lower-ranked guy can beat the best girl? Christianity to the rescue, or, more accurately, here's where it all rests on God once again. Equality has only one foundation – there is only one sense in which we are all equal: we are all made in the very image of our Creator (Gen. 9:6). So what then if Nick beats Aryna. He'd beat you and me too, and we wouldn't be worth any the less for it. ...

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Saturday Selections – Feb. 14, 2026

Reformed and Dangerous's Mortification of Sin Reformer John Owen returns... with reverb. (And you can get the shirt here.) The mysterious power of male sexuality Tim Challies on how male sexuality – often portrayed as purely problem by the world and even Christians – was originally made good by God, and does indeed have a powerful good purpose. The truth about Tumbler Ridge When a killer murdered 8 people, injured 25 more, and then murdered himself in the small northern BC town of Tumbler Ridge this past week, the media was quick to make points about guns, but not about the elephant in the room – that the killer was a man who claimed to be a woman. We can call it mentally ill, but we shouldn't lose sight of it simply being wicked, and it is a wicked society that reinforces this. As Samuel Sey noted, "A society that encourages trans people to not value the bodies that God gave them shouldn’t expect them to value the bodies that God gave to others." There is something going on here with trans-identifying shooters becoming increasingly common, and again, Samuel Sey says what few others are willing to notice: “A 2022 Quebec study reveals that transgender youth are the most likely group to support violent radicalization. When we encourage people to identify as victims, vengeance and violence are inevitable.” Rev. Jim Witteveen is another who is noticing. He has noticed that the evolution of transvestism from pathology to a lifestyle that must be always honored (even when you've murdered 9) shows "the entire worldview of modern psychiatry is built on shifting sand. There is no stability to it. It has no foundation in reality." The necessary gift of dependence The author writes as someone who is wheelchair bound, struggling with his dependence on others, but realizing that all of us are, always and forever, entirely dependent on God. And we are, even in our dependence, still used by Him to help others. How to guide your children through the Digital Age The algorithm is shaping your kids. You can help them resist by: teaching them to ask "what message is this digital media trying to communicate?" Help them spot the worldview being pushed. reclaiming the silence in your own life and showing them how it can be done. We don't need constant distraction. helping them see through the online identity trap. You are not how many followers you have. Parents need to model it, if we're going to pass it on. Making complementarianism work... This gent offers up quite a good quick overview of headship in marriage. ...

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When reporting both sides is bias disguised

When Alberta's government began, last year, to respond to the problem of sexually-explicit materials on public school library shelves, it might have seemed to some that the media coverage was fair. After all, both sides were given space to have their say. So, for example, when CBC ran the headline, "Alberta bans school library books it deems sexually explicit," it stated as fact that the government was banning books – how's that for politically-charged terminology? – but they did include, in a smaller sub-head, that the "Education minister says province's new standards aren't about banning books." Not quite equal time, but... fair-ish, right? In CBC reporter Emily Williams' piece "The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools" she shared the public schools' objection: "As a result of the ministerial order, several excellent books will be removed from our shelves this fall." But Williams also included Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides' response that his government wasn't trying to ban The Handmaid's Tale, but was instead trying to get sexually-explicit sexual content off public school shelves. So, both sides, right? Well, as Christian journalist Ted Byfield noted, there's not just two sides to the story. And one of the sides the media didn't report on here is telling, and much more important than what they focused on. Williams' article included the list of the more than 200 books the Edmonton Public School (EPS) system said they were going to have to pull of their shelves to comply with the government's mandate. This wasn't a list the government made; this was the list the EPS made and then used to characterize the government's efforts as book banning – going after famed and problematic classics like Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged and, yes, The Handmaid's Tale. Still, EPS's list was there, available for anyone interested to peruse. And isn't that what reporters do? Peruse, investigate, uncover? Well, some perusing was done, but almost exclusively in one direction. CBC and other outlets reported on the aforementioned famous books that made the government look like book banners. But what reporters didn't do is look into how much filth there actually was on the list. The press didn't look for books that'd confirm the need for winnowing. They didn't question why the public schools were being so negligent as to expose our children to pornography. They didn't highlight the outrageous examples of available comics that had pages of nudity, graphically depicted oral sex, showed a child being stripped for abuse, and showed another being sexually humiliated. Those details were made available by the Minister of Education, but they didn't show up in any of mainstream media accounts I read. So I did some of the work they wouldn't, checking up on the list's first 25 books as they were presented alphabetically. I discovered that 15 were clearly and wildly inappropriate. These were all books that, had they been read aloud or shown at a public school board meeting, would likely have gotten the presenting parent booted. The 15 books were: 9 books from Kanoko Sakurakoji’s Black Bird manga series Kentarō Miura’s graphic novel Berserk, Vol. 3 Talia Hibbert’s Act Your Age, Eve Brown Neil Gaiman‘s American Gods Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho Daria Snadowsky‘s Anatomy of a boyfriend Emily Henry‘s Beach Read 15 out of 25 amounts to 60%. And that's just the titles that were clearly crazy, with secular reviewers describing them as "rapey" and "sexually obsessed." The other 10 weren't necessarily good either; it was just that in my research it wasn't as clear that they were so blaringly bad. The mainstream media made this about the 5 or 6 "classics" at risk. I don’t know if that 60% rate would have held up, but if so, then that would have amounted to more than 100 obscene books – 60% of 226 works out to 135– being pushed on kids via the province's public school libraries. Where were the "Edmonton Public Schools own up to being porn-peddlers" headlines? While Christians should attempt to be fair – reporting on others as we would want to be covered ourselves (Matt. 7:12) – Reformed Perspective doesn't pretend to be unbiased. We have our bias firmly in place: the Earth is the Lord's, and everything in it. And with that bias comes a different sort of way of looking at the world, where teachers and schools entrusted with acting in loco parentis – acting in the place of parents – should, like a parent, be eager to protect the children in their care. That was the story here. And that was the story that was almost entirely missed by the mainstream media....

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Saturday Selections – Feb. 7, 2026

Is the Church the true Israel? It's R.C. Sproul vs. John MacArthur in the epic rap battle that they surely must have had at one of those Ligonier con...
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Court rules that Emergencies Act against “Freedom Convoy” was unlawful
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 31, 2026

Reformed and Dangerous's Christ is King A little harder rocking than some of us might be used to, but the fire in the music is a match for the power ...
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 24, 2026

Why does Denmark own Greenland? (3 min) Lots of talk going on about Greenland as of late. Here's a quick primer on how Greenland came to be Danish......
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 17, 2026

Studio C's Stu Stews Sue's Soup This is just so fun :) The Bible encourages seeking out a spouse Two facts: In God's providence, not all of us will find a spouse God encourages us to pursue a good spouse In light of the first fact, there may be a tendency to downplay the second. But we shouldn't.  So here is a story about how one young widower pursued indeed. The Bible and socialism The New York mayor won on a campaign pushing socialism. Why did so many find that so appealing? And why do even many Christians make the same mistake? 8 key differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics Kevin DeYoung with a good refresher... 6 tips to help a Christian institution stay the course for generations I heard a story told of a Christian college president who was asked, "Why are all the buildings here made of wood and not stone?" His reply was, "We don't want to give the world stone." In other words, he had already conceded that his Christian university would – like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton before it – inevitably slide into secularism. This article offers 6 tips to keep an institution honoring God for generations. The evolutionary prediction that completely backfired "For decades, leading evolutionary biologists predicted that most of our genome was 'junk DNA,' useless leftovers with no function." They got it totally wrong. And the creationists and Intelligent Design (ID) proponents who expected to see evidence of brilliant design got it right! This is ID presentation does a fantastic job of showing the problems and pitfalls of following evolutionary ideology. But the shortfall of the ID movement is that they don't actually name the Designer they obliquely reference, and don't give Him the honor He is due. ...

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Court case seeks to force religious groups to provide euthanasia

Providence Health Care, a Roman Catholic organization, is being challenged in a BC court for not providing euthanasia in their facilities. The same activist group that spearheaded state-sanctioned killing in Canada, launched yet another constitutional challenge to expand euthanasia. This time, its sights are on health facilities run by religious groups. Providence operates St. Paul’s hospital, in downtown Vancouver. It has been exempt from having to provide euthanasia, on the basis of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ guarantee of freedom of religion – Providence wants the freedom to practice medicine according to their Catholic convictions. Christians know euthanasia is murder – a theft from God of a life He created and only He is entitled to take (Gen. 9:6) – so we should never commit this evil against anyone entrusted to our care. The killing-not-caring activists are now arguing that since Providence gets public funding they should have to allow outside euthanasia doctors into every part of their facilities to do the killings that Providence won’t. They’re demanding that “murder as medicine” be perpetrated here too, even in a hospital dedicated to honoring God’s precious gift of life. Their court challenge comes even after the BC government expropriated property from the Catholic hospital in 2023 to build a killing center right next to the hospital. But that isn’t enough for the pro-death lobby, which intends to see religious groups like Providence carry out the killings in their own facilities. “This case will decide whether or not religiously affiliated healthcare institutions can continue to exist in Canada,” noted Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Photo of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver is by Joe Mabel, and used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license....

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Two Covid convictions against Pastor Koopman vacated

Four years after the fact, two of more than 20 Covid-era convictions against Rev. John Koopman, pastor of the Chilliwack Free Reformed Church, have now been vacated, which is to say, undone. Pastor Koopman was charged for taking part in worship services in 2020 and 2021, at a time when the province’s Health Officer imposed a complete ban on in-person worship services, even while bars, gyms, and other secular establishments were allowed to stay open. The Chilliwack Free Reformed Church opened their doors for worship, while complying with all of the other public health orders such as social distancing and masking. The church then joined a couple of other churches in launching a constitutional challenge to the Health Order. They were represented in court by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), as they reported it, another issue at play was religious discrimination: “Pastor Koopman and other pastors then submitted an accommodation request to the BC Provincial Health Office to gather for in-person services, but their request received no response for several weeks. At the same time, Dr. Henry’s office had been responding within one or two days to accommodation requests from Orthodox Synagogues, permitting them to gather indoors.” The lower court dismissed the churches’ challenge in March of 2021 in part, the JCCF reports, because the churches had just been allowed to gather outdoors. Meanwhile the charges against the pastors and the churches continued on. They faced $40,000 in fines. Many of these charges were later dropped or reduced, but Pastor Koopman was convicted of others, most recently as of Feb. 2025. Now two of those convictions have been vacated but based on technicalities, rather than a real assessment of what happened. As the JCCF noted: “While the correction resolved a technical error in the court record, it did not address the broader constitutional concerns raised about the ban on in-person worship services and the unequal treatment of faith communities during lockdowns.” Pastor Koopman was also grateful for the Crown’s acknowledgement of error: “Dr. Henry and the government should carefully evaluate their entire approach, for this is only one of many errors which were made, the greatest of which is the restriction of the public worship of our God.”...

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Saturday Selections – Jan. 10, 2026

The Mutation Myth: what Evolution doesn't want you to know (8 minutes) We’re told random mutations drive evolution– mutations are supposed to be "the engine behind every new trait and species on Earth." Turns out, though, that what the science shows again and again is mutations don't build life, they break it down! Interestingly, breaking things down can sometimes help an organism, in much the way that stripping the seats out of your car can make it more fuel-efficient. But this kind of breaking things down doesn't show how new molecular machines could be built. This is from Discovery Science, an Intelligent Design think tank. They aren't creationist, or even specifically Christian. So all they are showing here are the scientific shortcomings of Evolution, and if you want more of that, be sure to check out their Science Uprising series. There are good and bad reasons to leave a church ....and it might just be the reason you are thinking you should leave is an indication of why God wants you to stay. The case for sexfulness in marriage This is a longer article on an seldom-discussed topic, because it is PG-rated (but only to the same degree as the Song of Songs is). How many dominos do we go back in Indigenous land claims? John Carpay offers a basically secular take in the linked article about Indigenous land claims, so I'll offer up a biblical passage that has some application (and there are certainly others). Matthew 7:1-2 says it is justice to have the measure by which we judge others applied to ourselves. In the land acknowledgments stated before university classes and municipal meetings, there's sometimes a reference to tribes who have been here "from time immemorial" or some such phrase. The point of that claim is that the European settlers took it relatively recently from Indigenous tribes who had been there previously forever. But Indigenous tribes moved, and caused other tribes to move on. So the Indigenous group that might have had land taken from them by the settlers, did the same to whoever lived there before them – the dominoes go back way more than just the one block. So, if the last must be returned, then why just to the most recent tribe who themselves were takers too? And if that standard is thought unreasonable because of how hard it would be to work out, then let's apply this new "workability standard" to the situation today too. US abortions rose more than 20% after Roe vs. Wade In 2022 the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, which had legalized abortion the US for the past previous 50 years, was overturned. But the overturned decision didn't actually protect the unborn – it just made it legal for the individual states to start doing so. Some started. But the Trump administration has allowed Joe Biden-era "abortion by mail" prescriptions to continue, and this kind of abortion has exploded since 2022. The end result? Abortions have risen from an average of 80,000/month in 2022, to 98,000/month in 2025. This highlights how it isn't just a legal ruling we need to save the unborn, and not even a somewhat sympathetic government, as the American pro-life movement has in the Trump administration. What's been largely missing from the abortion debate is an explicitly Christian witness that explains why we need to protect unborn children everywhere, not simply in some states. We need to challenge our culture, teaching them that while they have no explanation for anyone's worth God has given us value by making us in His Image (Gen. 9:6). Like in every aspect of life, what we need here is the Gospel. And without it, even an inconceivable legal win will do very little all on its own. California shows what a minimum wage hike can do to the poorest Governments across the Western world have implemented laws requiring a certain minimum hourly wage that employers must pay. The notion behind these laws is to prevent business owners from exploiting their workers. But what these laws presume is that the government knows what's best for everyone. What this video shows is, when the government pretends to know far more than they ever could, they cause all sorts of harms. And it just doesn't matter if that's not at all what they intended. ...

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Explicit books being pulled from government school libraries in Alberta
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 3, 2026

A pastor's review of the animated movie David I'm very hesitant about any film depictions of Jesus, wondering if they violate the principle of God's ...
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Saturday Selections – Dec 27, 2025

All human conflict is ultimately theological  Abortion has long been treated as the sacrament of Left – a sacred right beyond question, accompanie...
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4 out of 5 Canadians give like Scrooge

The Fraser Institute’s “Generosity Index” for 2025 revealed that a scant 0.52% of all income is being donated to charities. To add to this, the ...
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 20, 2025

Hummingbirds proclaim their Creator Don't know if this is made by Christians, but these mini-marvels are very evidently made by Christ. Alberta only province with growing population in third quarter of 2025 "...the other nine provinces and two of the three territories are seeing their populations decline for the first time since the height of the pandemic in the second quarter of 2020 (before Canada’s population boom began in 2022 to 2024). In contrast to Alberta growing its population at the end of 2025, Ontario lost 66,888 people, or 0.4 percent of its population, in the third quarter." This is the result of a nation that has forgone the blessing of children. It sets up an opportunity for God's people to shine in sharp contrast by having large families. How can we tell the real experts from the frauds and fakers? We have to rely on all sorts of experts, but the problem is, there are so many others – in politics, the media, academia, medicine, and more – who talk like they know it all, but then it turns out they don't. So what's to be done? Unfettered skepticism will keep you from being tricked, sure, but it will also have you doubting the Holocaust, the Moon landing, and whether those really are your parents. Doubting everything is no answer – it is only to act as if no answers can ever be had. Meanwhile, God calls us to discernment, not doubt, and this article provides a few tips on how to sift the posers and pretenders from the real deals. Claims about ‘unmarked graves’ don’t withstand scrutiny "...those who wish to limit open discussion of residential schools attack truth-tellers as “denialists,” a term drawn from earlier debates about the Holocaust. As the proponents of the Kamloops narrative fail to provide convincing hard evidence for it, they hope to mobilize the authority of the state to stamp out dissent." Portraying your opponents as akin to Nazis is, generally speaking, not a sign of a good argument. Your soccer coach has a plan for your life While this is American, there's definitely transfer for north of the border too, about how scheduled our kids' lives have become. “Sixty-five percent of parents surveyed said they played outside every day during their childhood, while only 30% of their children do the same today.” Questions to tackle after/before you get engaged (7 min) Todd Friel talks with biblical counselor Dr. Dale Johnson about what questions couples should ask before they get married. ...

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Saturday Selections – Dec. 13, 2025

Chickens are cooler than you knew (6 min) We all know chickens have the astonishing ability to turn grain into a key ingredient for Egg McMuffins, but few know that chickens are also the animal equivalent of gimbal cameras – no matter how you move them, back and forth, round and round, up and down, their head remains fixed in one spot. It's crazy. It's also the fingerprints of the their great Designer... though this secular video doesn't go there. One note: the last 90 seconds of this is just a commercial for a 3D printer, so once that starts you can hit stop. Tim Challies' Top 10 books of 2025 Can Australia's ban on social media for kids be a bad thing? Australia is now banning kids under 16 from using social media. Hurrah, right? Well, as Rev. Witteveen outlines, there is a dark cloud to this silver lining – in keeping kids off, the government is implementing measures to further monitor everyone else.  But they'll use is responsibly, right? Social media is a big problem, but protecting our kids was always a parental responsibility, and if we hand it off to the government, we might not like what else they do with the power we're handing over to them. Remember the Australian government's response to COVID? 7 lies about our love life The world has quite a pack of lies to sell. And God has something very different to say. Surgery denied. Death approved. A Saskatchewan woman, Jolene Van Alstine, who is suffering from a painful but treatable disease, has been approved for death-by-doctor (euphemistically called "MAiD"). As the linked article explains: "We have a growing list of citizens choosing death because medicine has become a lottery → a quadriplegic woman who applied for MAiD because she couldn’t secure basic home-care support veterans offered MAiD instead of trauma treatment homeless Canadians considering MAiD because they can’t survive winter "And now a woman denied a simple, lifesaving surgery." American conservative commentator Glenn Beck has come to the rescue though, offering to pay for Van Alstine to get treatment in the US. The author's article doesn't rule out MAiD altogether, but pitches it as a last ditch option. But in doing so, she too has lost the plot. If death is medicine at any time, then on what basis would it not be a valid offering all the time? Why refuse any good option? And why can't it be a cost-cutting measure even? If it is valid to kill some to ease suffering, why couldn't it be valid to kill more, so as to more quickly and more cheaply, ease more suffering? When murder is medicine the only fixed line has been crossed – we've long treated abortion as healthcare, and killing the born in the name of medicine is just the next step. Offering Alstine death as treatment is entirely in keeping with this worldview. But there is another understanding of life. Not as something we hold and can choose to dispose of as we will, but as something entrusted to us, to steward. Christians seem unwilling to raise God in the euthanasia battle, but if we leave God out of this conversation, what basis is there for human worth? The State gives you worth? Well, then the State can take away that valuation, as it has done for Van Alstine. We decide our own worth? Again, not so for Van Alstine. Outside forces, the province's neglect, have her devaluing a life she might otherwise treasure. Euthanasia's lie of autonomy – you will choose when you die – is here exposed. We need to highlight her plight to showcase the antithesis between murders being medicine and all murders being always wrong because we are made in the very image of God. All God's people must proclaim God's sovereignty over life, for His glory and because only His Truth can answer these lies. One more reason we're Protestants Jeff Durbin highlights another area where the Roman Catholic Church is running right up against God. ...

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Saturday Selections – Dec. 6, 2025

Rosaria raps? Here's the wild, wacky, and wonderful side of AI – Reformed rap battles that never were, but brought to you anyway with this newest tech. This time we have one on homosexuality, with Rosaria Butterfield taking on a "woke leftist" and what's awesome here is there is no caricaturing happening – the young lady gets to say her piece in as convincing a fashion as you'd ever hear it. And Rosaria offers her up the truth unvarnished. An upside-down guide to high school A recent high school grad remembers what it was like to start high school, and the three major "traps" high schoolers face: I have to make a name for myself The more friends, the merrier My grades = my future Number killed via IVF surpasses those of abortion Approximately 96,000 US babies were born via IVF in 2023 and for some that is reason enough to call government policies promoting IVF "pro-family" and "pro-life." However, while in the US 1 million children are murdered each year via abortion, a new report says that between approximately 2 million and nearly 4 million children were murdered during the IVF process. That means that abortion and IVF combined likely account for more deaths than all other causes combined. And that is not pro-life. 3 quick tips for teaching delayed gratification This is an economics website, but even economists seem to understand that gratitude starts with expressing our thanks to God. If I invest based on my values, won’t my investments underperform? We'd never invest in an abortion clinic, but some of the large investment funds many of us have in our portfolio might well invest in abortion, risqué entertainment, gambling, and other ventures we'd certainly want no part in. But if we are more selective in our investment, does that have to come at a cost to our returns? Maybe. But not necessarily. Real communism has never been tried? (5 min) Communism has failed everywhere it's been tried, so how do today's communists explain that? Well, they claim that real communism has never been tried. But what does that even mean? ...

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Saturday Selections – Nov. 29, 2025

One reason God gives us each other None of us are God, so we aren't going to know it all. And sometimes we aren't even going to know what it is that we don't know, as John Cleese notes below. That's one reason God gives us the communion of saints so we can support each other (Eccl. 4:9–12), including learning from our brothers and sisters. As Solomon tells us in Proverbs 12:15: "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice." Speak, even if they don't listen? Ezekiel was commissioned to speak God's truth whether His people listened or didn't. The results aren't in our hands, but His. Only two-thirds of US Christians believe we've all sinned If evangelizing to non-Christians is intimidating, George Barna's latest study shows there's plenty of evangelism that needs to be done among those who profess to be Christian. The lesbian seagulls that weren't For a while there, Christians who were too afraid or too embarrassed to cite the Bible, would instead try to point out the wrongness of homosexuality by highlighting how "unnatural" it was. And that is certainly true – God designed our parts to interact a certain way, and if you try the other it can result in incontinence. So it was a thing when an island of lesbian seagulls was discovered – look, homosexuality in nature, so it is natural! But now it has turned out, the lesbian birds were probably due to some chemicals being sprayed about, and once that stopped, the lesbianism stopped too. So, disappointment for the LGBT advocates. That doesn't make the "unnatural" argument one to fall back on again. We live in a broken world, so we can be certain that somewhere in Nature homosexuality exists – shucks, as this author notes, some animals eat their young, so Nature shouldn't be our guide for how things should be. And even the world knows that. So let's point them to where guidance can be found, with God, and in His Word. The secular liturgy of Goodnight Moon "Here’s the point for Christian parents. Goodnight Moon reads like a bedtime prayer for a reason. Brown’s experimental writing was part of a modernist movement to shape an alternative moral ecology for children.... The next time you read Goodnight Moon with your kids at bedtime, don’t stop at 'goodnight noises everywhere.' End your routine with bedtime prayers..." The Gray Havens' "Sirens" The lyrics are worth a read too! One taste of the sound From the Sirens in the water And I'm thinking I should get out The sharpest sword and suit of armor So I can be ready to strike But I pause, one more time One last taste of the sound Then I'll cut these Sirens down But as they sang, I forgot They were death, so I brought them my heart To be filled, and I followed them No trace could I find Of any joy the Sirens promised They had found a way with a lie To turn what's good and should be wanted Into what is highest above, all desires and loves Til’ my heart would obey Whatever it wants whatever it takes To feel alive and set free Only bound to the sea Where the sirens are leading me on Hold on, hold on, my heart You once were full and sang of grace Hold on, hold on, my heart You've tasted joy that's more than this Hold on, hold on, my heart You once were full and sang of grace Hold on, hold on, my heart You've tasted joy that's more than this...

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