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British Columbia and Manitoba Strengthen Legislation Combatting Pornography
December 16, 2025As we’ve noted many times before, Canada has permissive pornography laws that are weakly enforced. Despite this reality, Parliament has considered several bills to protect… Read More
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Are MPs Targeting Religious Freedom?
December 5, 2025In a Justice Committee hearing at the end of October, Member of Parliament and Committee Chair Marc Miller stated: “In… Read More
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Health Canada Releases 6th Annual Report on MAID
December 3, 2025On November 28th, Health Canada released its 6th Annual Report on Medical Assistance in… Read More
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What do the results of the 2020 Conservative leadership race mean for Christians and social conservatives?
August 24, 2020By Levi Minderhoud Erin O’Toole is the new leader of the Conservative Party of… Read More
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Are COVID Restrictions the Cause of “Excess Deaths”?
August 21, 2020By Levi Minderhoud Soon after governments first introduced restrictions to combat the transmission of… Read More
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Grassroots Campaign to Expand Worship Services in British Columbia
August 19, 2020Read More
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Further reflections and clarifications regarding mandatory masks in church
August 12, 2020By André Schutten On July 23rd I released a 20-minute video on the ARPA… Read More
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CBC’s strategic attack on Redeemer University
August 4, 2020CBC is at it again. Last week, I explained how CBC’s reporting on a… Read More
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A Christian wedding videographer and the media’s homophobia narrative
July 29, 2020On July 20, Ms. Hamstra, who operates Caramount Pictures, replied to an email request… Read More
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State and church authority in a pandemic – An interview with Professor Koyzis
July 21, 2020In We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God, David Koyzis… Read More
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The Key to Authority is the Office of Image Bearer – An Interview with Professor David Koyzis
July 17, 2020ARPA’s John Sikkema interviews David Koyzis In We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and… Read More
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Parental Rights and Education in Alberta: A Timeline of Success
July 9, 2020Real progress in education! The past two years on the Alberta education front have… Read More
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Counting the Cost of COVID Part IV: Forecasting our Financial Future
July 8, 2020In the last two blog posts on the financial effects of COVID, I compared… Read More
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Counting the Cost of COVID Part III: Evaluating Canada’s Current Deficit
July 2, 2020Updated July 8, 2020 My previous blog post in this series compared Canada’s current… Read More
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Reflections from a Christian patriot on Canada Day
June 30, 2020Happy Canada Day! Canada Day (or, for those who remember, Dominion Day as it… Read More
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Ruth the Can Collector: The Case for Restoring Old Testament Gleaning Principles
June 25, 2020If Ruth the Moabite lived today, she would probably have resorted to collecting empties… Read More
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Counting the Cost of COVID Part II: Comparing to Past Crises
June 24, 2020Updated July 8, 2020 In the first blog post in this series, I delved… Read More
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The Importance of Partisan Political Activity
June 23, 2020*As ARPA’s British Columbia Manager, I’m going to discuss involvement in party politics in… Read More
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Churches as unifiers should not be penalized for their effective contact tracing
June 19, 2020By pastor Gerrit Bruintjes and André Schutten For the past month, many religious leaders… Read More
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BC Cuts Funding to Independent Distributed Learning Schools
June 18, 2020Updated July 14, 2020 The year 2020 seems to be a year of almost… Read More
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Counting the Cost of COVID Part I: A Christian Introduction
June 17, 2020Months after governments declared public health emergencies, COVID still dominates headlines and lifestyles. We… Read More
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Smithers Residents Launch Letter-Writing Campaign to Town Council
June 16, 2020You are ARPA. ARPA is you. This tagline from ARPA’s intro video means that… Read More
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Canada’s lack of strategy in targeting COVID-19 led to unnecessary crisis in long-term care homes
June 3, 2020Long-term care facilities house some of our society’s most vulnerable: those who need help… Read More
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As COVID restrictions drag on, the civil government needs guidance from the instituted church
June 3, 2020I’m always moved when I read the introduction to the Belgic Confession in the… Read More
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Funding for Victims of Human Trafficking Quietly Removed
June 2, 2020In the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, the Canadian federal government has quietly… Read More
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Still glorious and free? The duty of each Christian to stand on guard for freedom in an age of unprecedented lock-down
June 2, 2020Read More
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Over 400 Ontario Churches Call on Premier to Allow a Gradual Reopening
May 29, 2020Several weeks ago, I wrote about the Church of God in Aylmer, Ontario –… Read More
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Professing progressivism for emergency loans?
May 20, 2020What is our government doing by requiring small businesses to confirm that they do… Read More
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Criminal charges withdrawn against street preacher David Lynn
May 20, 2020The Crown withdrew its criminal charges against David Lynn today, almost a year after… Read More
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Federal Euthanasia Survey Results: Support for Stronger Safeguards
May 15, 2020Earlier this year, we encouraged you to fill out the federal government’s survey about… Read More
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A Good News Story for Victims of Sexual Exploitation
May 7, 2020Good news in Alberta! Bill 8: Protecting Survivors of Human Trafficking Act has recently… Read More
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What do greenhouses teach about COVID-19?
May 1, 2020Before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I had only ever heard the concept of… Read More
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Holding Church in your Car? Not in Ontario!
April 29, 2020This past Sunday, April 26th a small congregation met in the lazy little town… Read More
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March… No, wait… Convoy for Life!
April 28, 2020Marches for Life across the country have been cancelled due to the prohibitions of… Read More
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British Columbia shows restraint in COVID-19 response
April 24, 2020ARPA as an organization talks about sphere sovereignty a lot. Sphere sovereignty, famously articulated… Read More
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Book Review: The Victory of Reason
April 15, 2020God has blessed Canada. Canada, along with Western countries, is consistently one of the… Read More
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Is Corporate Worship “Essential”? Some Biblical Considerations for the Church’s Response.
April 8, 2020Essential services are a hot topic right now, as everyone wonders whether their place… Read More
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Society waking up to what it means to think of others
April 2, 2020Just a few short weeks ago, we shared with you our grave concerns about… Read More
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Letter to Government Officials – hope and humility
March 31, 2020The following letter was sent by ARPA Canada to Canada’s federal and provincial government… Read More
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A Tale of Two Pandemics
March 27, 2020Every day, COVID-19 numbers make top headlines. So, you probably have some idea of… Read More
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Official House of Commons Petition for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Medication
March 20, 2020For those who have followed ARPA Canada’s work for some time, you may recall… Read More
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Federal Government Introduces Bill to Ban “Conversion Therapy”
March 11, 2020The federal Liberal government, as promised in their election platform, introduced a bill this… Read More
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Ontario court lets off two pimps, declares prostitution law unconstitutional
March 2, 2020In 2014, Parliament passed the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (Bill C-36)… Read More