TORONTO: The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is warning the City of Toronto that their recently passed “bubble zone” law is an unconstitutional limit on the right to protest. The Toronto bubble zone passed a council vote on May 22 after hours of debate. The law will create optional 50-metre bubble zones that prohibit protests around certain places: places of worship, schools and childcare centres. The law will allow these places to request protesters be barred from city property around their facilities, including barring them from sidewalks, grass and roads.
“The right to protest is a fundamental right of Canadians. This new bylaw will prohibit public protests on matters of public interest and will unjustifiably infringe on the right to freedom of expression,” said CCF Litigation Director, Christine Van Geyn. “While many Canadians disagree with and are upset with some of the protests we have seen in Toronto lately, there is no right not to be offended. In a democratic and pluralistic society we should expect to be faced with people we disagree with. This builds resilience in our society.”
The Toronto bubble zone is part of a recent trend which has seen bubble zones popping up in different parts of the country in response to protests that cover the political spectrum. There are similar bubble zones in Calgary, Vaughan and Oakville. The Calgary bylaw is already subject to a legal challenge brought by the Canadian Constitution Foundation.
“While we await the outcome of our challenge to the Calgary bylaw, Toronto should be aware that their bylaw is similarly constitutionally vulnerable and will almost certainly be subject to a legal challenge,” concluded Van Geyn.
Whatcott thoughts on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Cabinet and Alberta’s future
Dear Friends,
I must say after the election, my expectations of Canada entering an era of prosperity and freedom under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s manifestly unwise leadership was non-existant. In fact my response, like many Albertans was to join the pro-independance Alberta Prosperity Project and advocate for Alberta sovereignty or (my personal preferance) Alberta becoming a 51st state.
One only needs to look at Mark Carney’s family to see his lack of wisdom and evidence of poor leadership. His daughter Sophia at age 13 decided she wanted to “transition” to become a boy and Carney being the leftist he is, obliged and took his daughter to the UK’s discredited Tavistock Clinic and the picture above says it all. Carney’s daughter is now 24 years old and she doesn’t know what she is. Her self declared pronouns are “they/them.” Canada’s national media eager to portray Carney as moderate, brilliant, and the man who alone was competent enough to deal with Trump decided to keep this information off limits to the Canadian voting public.
I believe Carney’s decision to help facilitate his daughter’s so-called transition is pertinent for Canadians. This lack of dedication to reality and Carney’s obvious ignorance of what this means for his daughter’s long term health will undoubtably reflect in poor and ideologically driven decision making in the PMO’s office. Indeed, based on Carney’s choices for cabinet and his early indicators of what he plans for our resource sector, I think Carney’s ideology and detachment from reality is already apparent for those who care to look and pay attention.
“Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”2 Thessalonians 2:11,12
Here is the Mark Carney government’s own words. The Liberals falsely claim the federal Conservatives would roll back abortion access, but that is factually untrue. Still one can see the Liberals fancy themselves as being more committed to baby killing than the Conservatives. God will not bless Canada until we repent of killing the unborn, the disabled, and many other vulnerable human beings through abortion and euthanasia.
Many Christians abandoned the unborn and other important moral issues and decided getting rid of the Liberals was Canada’s path to salvation. Unfortunately the Conservative candidate Pierre Pollievre was as committed to legalized abortion on demand as Carney is. As it is God did not give those particular Christians their hoped for saviour, Pierre Pollievre. Enough Canadians appear to have voted for Carney and a Liberal government that is fanatically committed to funding abortion and marginalizing the voices of Canadians with traditional values, not to mention a government that remains committed to leaving our national resources in the ground and deficit spending, that we should be looking like a gender queer version of Venezuela with no babies and maybe very few old people, by the time our next election comes around.
“The Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that He spoke by His servants the prophets. Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.“ ….. …… .2 Kings 24:2-4
Anyways, to get a sense of where Canada is heading under Mark Carney, I decided to look at a few of his cabinet picks, rather than listen to any words coming out of his mouth. I believe Mark Carney, just like Justin Trudeau, is a habitual liar and you really can’t believe anything that he says.
Evan Solomon and his actress wife Tammy Quinn poses with Justin Trudeau at a party.
Evan Solomon is the new MP for Toronto Centre (the riding that hosts Toronto’s homosexual district and the notorious unGodly Pride Parade). Solomon is one of a number of prominent Jews appointed by Carney to his inner Cabinet. Solomon is being awarded the newly created portfolio Minister of AI.
Evan Solomon was the host of Power and Politics on CBC back about ten years ago. I listened to Solomon a few times and like everyone on the CBC he was pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, a climate alarmist, pro-gun control, pro-censorship, etc….
Here is a 27 second clip of Evan Solomon promising to fight for transvestites.Poor Evan can’t figure out that men pretending to be women are still men
Anyways, notwithstanding these unassailable (by CBC standards) jounalistic qualities, Evan Solomon managed on getting himself fired by the CBC. Apparently, Evan used the connections he gained by interviewing the rich and powerful as a CBC host, to engage in a profitable side hustle of brokering high end art deals without disclosing what he was doing to his employer. When CBC found out, Evan Solomon was fired. No doubt Mark Carney knows why Solomon was fired as Carney purchased some of the art that Solomon was dealing in when he was a CBC host. Anyways Carney doesn’t seem too bothered with Solomon’s far left views or shady business ethics. Carney appointed him to his Cabinet.
I thought Trudeau’s and Carney’s tolerance of pro-Hamas/anti-Israel rallies in Montreal and Toronto, as well as their commitment to bringing in thousands of unvetted Gazan refugees would cost the Liberals support in Canada’s Jewish community. However, Canada’s Jews have largely chosen to remain loyal to the Liberal Party.
There is one notable exception, that being Roman Baber. Roman is an independant minded Russian Jew, who is a red Tory in some ways.
Roman Baber is his own man, he isn’t fully on my side as he supports killing unborn children, but the red Tories and Liberals hate him too, as he won’t worship at the altar of Sodom or go along with their destructive social engineering policies.
If there was no CHP or pro-life PPC candidate to vote for, I honestly would struggle if I was in Roman’s riding whether to vote for him or not. Roman supports killing pre-born babies, but to his credit unlike most pro-abortion politicians who ignore Campaign Life’s questionaire and refuse to respond; Roman respectfully answered Campaign Life’s questionaire and is honest he supports murdering babies on demand. Of course being honest about supporting baby murder and being respectful to a Canadian pro-life group who wants to let Canadians know where their policians stand on moral issues does not absolve one of moral blameworthiness. But Roman also to his credit is vocally against Wynne’s/Ford’s perverted, pro-sodomite/pro-trans, sex ed curriculum.
Where Roman really shined in my books and where he put himself in a league of earning more respect from me than what I have for many conservative Evangelical Pastors, is the man took an absolutely courageous stand against Premier Ford’s coercive vaccine mandates and lockdowns. In fact Roman got himself demonized by the legacy media and kicked out of the provincial Conservative Party as a result of writing an open letter condemning Ford’s lockdowns. Many Christians knew the lockdowns, mask mandates, and coercive vaccine mandates were wrong, but they went along with it anyways. The pro-abortion Jew, Roman Baber on the other hand stood for freedom when it was unpopular to do so, and at great personal cost to himself.
Roman ran in our federal election in the heavily Jewish and historically Liberal riding of York Centre and to my surprise Roman with his honest and public articulation of actually conservative views with the exception of abortion (though I suspect being a pro-abort helped him in York Centre, especially with the urban Jewish voters), beat the Liberal Jewish Cabinet Minister Ya’ara Saks.
Gregor Robertson in his 50’s with his 30 year old Chinese Communist Party connected ex-girlfriend Wanting Qu
To be honest Evan Solomon seems almost benign compared to Gregor Robertson, the former woke Mayor of Vancouver. If Carney was sincere when he said he wanted to get energy projects built then putting Robertson in his cabinet is a strange choice.
Just like Julie Dabrusin and Steven Guibeault, Gregor Robertson is a long time and vocal enemy of oil sands development and pipelines, at least for Canada. All of the Liberals seem cool with China having pipelines and abundant, cheap energy. Prime Minister Carney himself has investments in pipelines, coal, and natural gas plants in China, United Arab Emerites, India and what not, while calling for Canada’s oil sands and pipelines to be regulated and taxed out of existance in the name of reaching “net zero.” Gregor Robertson used his position as Mayor to relentlessly attack the Kinder Morgan pipeline. As Mayor he also passed regulations to ban the use of natural gas, forcing Vancouver residents and businesses to heat their homes and water with much more expensive electricty.
Robertson claimed he wanted to make Vancouver the “Greenest City in the world.” I doubt he accomplished that. I worked sanitation in Vancouver’s East Side during Gregor’s reign and the actual pollution was appalling. I worked ten hour shifts off of the back of a garbage truck, picking up thousands of needles, garbage, human feces, discarded clothes, etc…. and the area looked as bad when we finished as when we started. The job paid well, but seemed hopeless. Gregor liked it that way. He called Insite, Vancouver’s taxpayer funded “safe” injection site, “crucial to this city.” My garbage truck literally drove behind Insite and they were the source of nearly 100% of the used needles I picked up off the ground and their clients were the source of most of the garbage and human feces we had to pick up.
Gregor did manage on making Vancouver one of the most expensive cities in the world. In addition to making already expensive energy costs more expensive, property taxes went up 141 % when he was mayor. In addition to that Robertson absolutely ignored and enabled a massive money laundering operation in Vancouver as corrupt Chinese business tychoons, communist party officials, and fentanyl traffickers purchased homes and in some cases just left them vacant as a way to park their money. This one act, more than his so-called “green” energy policies and tax and spend economics drove Vancouver homes beyond the reach of the vast majority of Canadians.
Gregor Robertson marching in Vancouver’s Homosexual Shame Parade.
In addition to championing pseudo-environmental policies that would destroy Canada’s resource industry Gregor was also a vocal champion of legalizing hard drugs. It was under Gregor Robertson’s tenure as Mayor that Fentanyl became the number one cause of death for young people in his city, causing more fatalities than homicides, suicides, accidents and natural causes combined. Gregor Robertson refused to consider law enforcement options, nor would he name China as the source of Canada’s opiod epidemic. Gregor advocated legalizing hard drugs and taxpayer funded so-called “harm reduction.”
Strangely, with Gregor’s rather public track record of housing unaffordability, close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, not to mention his opposition to Canadian energy and his advocacy for legalized hard drugs; Carney appointed Gregor Robertson to his cabinet as Minister of Housing.
Julie Dabrusin marching in the Toronto unGodly Pride Parade
Perhaps the biggest indicator Mark Carney is moderate on nothing and is keeping the Liberal Party aligned with the hard left, it would be his decision to make Julie Dabrusin his Minister of Environment and so-called Climate Change.
Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed Julie Dabrusin (L) as Environment Minister and Steven Guilbuilt (R) was moved from Environment to Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
Julie Dabrusin like Evan Solomon is urban, far left, and Jewish. Her voting record as a member of Parliament is terrible. Of course she supports abortion on demand and marches in unGodly Pride parades, but her voting record and advocacy is more radical than that. Dabrusin was a strong advocate for Trudeau’s coercive vaccine mandates, supported using the Emergency Measures Act to crush non-violent Freedom Convoy protesters, voted for Trudeau’s euthanasia program and supported euthanasia for people who did not suffer serious health problems, other than being diagnosed with mental illness. Dabrusin supported Trudeau’s internet censorship bill, so-called hate speech bills, his program legalizing hard drugs in BC, and supported (along with Pollievre) sending mom, dad and the Christian counsellor to prison for the so-called crime of conversion therapy. Dabrusin supported Trudeau’s handgun ban, and is a vocal supporter the her government’s plan to confiscate firearms from lawful gun owners. Dabrusin’s opposition to the oil sands and pipelines is absolutely antithetical to the interests of Alberta and will have a profoundly negative impact on all of Canada’s economy.
This is Julie Dabrusin in 2020 speaking about the need to destroy major oil sands projects and thereby destroy Alberta’s economy. Dabrusin claims she is saving the planet from so-called climate change by opposing oil sands development and pipelines. The reality is Dabrusin and her Liberal government has had zero impact on the world’s climate and they will have no impact on the climate either good or bad under Mark Carney.
Prime Minister Trudeau’s, Dabrusin’s and Guilbeault’s so-called “climate” policies have had a very tangible effect on Alberta’s quality of life and it appears under Mark Carney these pseudo environmentalists will continue to have a profound effect.
Downtown Fort McMurray in 2025.
When I arrived in Fort McMurray in June 2010, I walked into a $120,000 a year bus driving job within one hour of driving into the city limits. I didn’t know anyone, I had no connections. I simply handed my resume’ to Diversified Transportation and pending a drive test and proof of a reasonably clean driver’s abstract, I was hired on the spot to drive workers to and from their jobs in the oil sands.
My story was not unique. Tens of thousands of low income men and women from across Canada, some fresh out of prison with no job skills, others came from parts of Canada suffering from high unemployment, others came highly skilled and/or with post secondary degrees but wanted an even better life for their families; they all came to Fort McMurray and quickly attained middle class or upper class lifestyles for themselves and their families.
When I arrived in Fort McMurray there were no homeless encampaments. There was a homeless shelter downtown. Some locals suffering serious mental health or substance abuse issues found their way there from time to time and single men travelling to Fort McMurray looking for work who were broke would sometimes use the shelter until they got a paycheque, but the place was never full. No one had to remain there for very long if they did not want to. There were lots of work options, even for the marginal. For the extremely marginal who couldn’t or wouldn’t work, there were no waiting lists for subsidized housing back then. I remember a fellow from my church who seemed able bodied enough to me applied for disability and got it and then he applied for a subsidized apartment and got one and was able to move in to it the same week he applied. It seemed the people in charge of subsidized housing in Fort McMurray wanted him badly as a tenant to justify their existance as they had no one else to give the unit to.
After a few years of Liberal “climate policies” the weather more or less remains the same, but the abundant work and generous, easily accessable, government programs are gone. Tent cities have sprung up, long term homelessnes and unemployment is a thing, businesses have vanished, and thousands of people who were once prosperous and who call Fort McMurray their home are now living on the edge.
Dabrusin is a strong advocate of the policies that created this misery in Alberta and Mark Carney has made her his Minister of Environment. Carney’s words during the election are irrelevant, his actions clearly indicate he has no plans to build energy infrastructure. Mark Carney remains committed to speech restrictions, modern economic theory, and net zero. We are to own nothing and be happy or at least own nothing and keep our mouths shut.
“Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil. Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners. And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city. If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.” Isaiah 1:4-9
The Prophet Isaiah prophecied Israel’s destruction at the hands of a foreign army around 750 BC because of their idolatry and sin. Just over a century later the judgment was carried out by the Babylonians. Jerusalem was burned to the ground and those who survived were carried off to captivity just as the prophet warned. Can Canadians learn anything from the prophecies of Isaiah?
I honestly believe we in Alberta and we in Canada got to this place as a result of turning our backs on God. In our state of unbelief, we have embraced quite a long list of practices that are contrary to God’s will for us. Unbelief does not mean an absence of religion. God created us and indeed we are spiritual. Even professed atheists will believe in something, whether it is New Age, Communism, self, or Net Zero. We will hold to something as an article of faith.
Dabrusin, Carney and Solomon may scoff at the claim that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and that He sits at the right hand of God and that He will return to judge the living and the dead. I know these claims are true. I can even point to history and ancient source documents written by a Roman historian who was alive when Jesus walked the earth to bolster my belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yet, the Carneys, Solomans and Dabrusins of this world will dismiss my belief as nonsense and may even find some of the values formed because my belief in the resurrected Christ to be so obnoxious they would feel the need to pass laws to silence and suppress those values.
Yet, all three of them have faith. I think Dabrusin, like Solomon would describe herself as a non-religious Jew. Mark Carney calls himself Catholic, but his personal life, writings, and political actions seem more agnostic or diestic, rather than explicitly Christian. Mark Carney’s book “Value(s): Building a Better World for All.” references Pope Francis, but does not mention God. Carney supports abortion on demand, gender ideology and globalism. It does not appear that a genuine belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ impacts Carney’s thinking. Neither Carney, nor Dabrusin, nor Solomon seem terribly religious in the traditional sense, yet all three practice religion and their religion has dogmatic articles of faith.
I found this picture of Julie practicing the tenets of a religion practiced by her, Carney, Solomon and likely everyone else in Carney’s cabinet.
Carney, Dabrusin and Solomon believe as an article of faith “trans women are real women.” Unlike Christianity that can make an apologetic based on history and archeology, gender theory is based on absolutely nothing, except the bullying and cancelling of those who choose not to worship at the altar. Their apologetic is little more than the subjective claims of the gender confused that they feel like they are the sex other than what they are born, and spurious claims that we have to believe the claims of this religion or it’s cross dressing practitioners will commit suicide and it will be the unbeliever’s fault.
“Climate change is an existential threat. We all recognize that, and there’s increasing urgency around it.” Mark Carney
Climate alarmism, like gender theory is a religion. The adherents of this religion like to chant “the science is settled” and not a few scientists and academics are adherents to this cult, but the science is far from settled. Those of us who follow this cult closely know much of the “consensus” is coerced. Scientists who dissent are cancelled, they lose their research grants and their careers are ruined. Many of the most apocolyptic claims are fraudulent at worst and are often provably wrong with time.
During the 2003 drought in Alberta I remember a meteorologist on Edmonton CBC showed a map that was yellow from the Rockies to Northern Ontario. She claimed the 2003 drought was evidence of “man made climate change” and if drastic action wasn’t taken immediately she predicted Canada would be a “desert from the Rockies to the Canadian Shield.” The CBC meteorologist’s bold claim caught my attention and I was skeptical. But her prediction stuck with me and I filed it in my mind. A few years later I also filed in my mind the climate cult priestess Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s dire warning in 2019 that the world would end in 12 years due to man made climate change.
I waited the ten years from the summer of 2003 to the summer of 2013. Canada’s carbon dioxide emmissions did not decrease, and the CBC meteorologist’s claim of a permanent desert did not come to pass. In fact I was in south east Saskatchewan during the summer of 2013 (right in the middle of what was supposed to be the meteorologist’s alleged desert) and many of the canola and wheat fields were under water. I looked at one field near Stoughton SK, and two red necks were out in the canola field with a motor boat water skiing. When I turned on CBC Saskatchewan that summer no mention of their meteologist’s apocolyptic prediction of the entire prairies becoming a desert was made, but the widespread and severe flooding was according to CBC “evidence of man made climate change.”
Few know about the East Anglia climate scandal today. The legacy media went into overdrive to downplay the academic misconduct uncovered when hackers leaked the e-mails of climate scientists working in East Anglia in 2009 and ultimately buried the story. The fact is so-called climate scientists were caught manipulating data to make climate change seem worse than what it was and they manipulated data to make warm periods in times past, such as the midieval warm period disappear. Christians should not lie about our faith to gain converts. We don’t have to. We know the power of the Cross can change hearts and minds independant of our manipulation and persuasion. If the East Anglia scientists were so confident in their “settled science,” why did they have to manipulate their data to make their “science” seem more settled?
The fact is climate change and Net Zero is a religion and many Canadians believe it with a religious ferver. Religious belief is not without consequence. False belief can have serious consequences. The belief trans women are real women has real consequences. A vulnerable, homeless, deaf woman in Toronto who was forced to share a room with Christopher Hanbrook who claimed he was a trans woman to get access to the women’s shelter where she resided and who was subsequetly raped by him is a victim of this religious belief.
The climate religion has massive consequences that is affecting the lives of billions of people around the world. The religious tenet that we have to get rid of affordable and reliable energy sources (oil, coal, natural gas) and replace them with expensive and unreliable sources (wind, solar) to save the planet led to a massive blackout in western Europe recently that cost the economies of Spain, Portugal and France billions of dollars in damage, plunged tens of millions of people into darkness, and resulted in the loss of nearly a dozen lives. In spite of this warning sign that Europe needs reliable energy sources to function, the far left Spanish government remains committed to phasing out all of their nuclear and natural gas options and are hell bent to go all in on solar panels and wind turbines. Like true doctrinaire adherents of their religion, the leftist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez accused “private energy operators” who were warning the government to not close nuclear power plants when no reliable energy alternative is available of causing the black out, rather than considering the obvious problem that their grid is unable to be reliable when it is entirely at the mercy of the fluctuations inherent to wind and sunshine energy production.
Mark Carney, like Pedro Sanchez is a loyal adherent to the religion of net zero. Canadians and Albertans in particular will continue to suffer financially as our God given resources are left in the ground and we are forced to rely on more expensive and less reliable sources of energy to heat our homes and run our economy.
In the near to medium term, I don’t have a positive prognosis for Canada. Zealots of man made ideologies/religions can ignore evidence and cause alot of damage before reassessing their dogmas. At the most extreme Mao murdered tens of millions of his fellow Chinese through completely unnecessary starvation as he expropriated farms, collectivised agriculture and imposed a massive industrialization on his people in the name of his “Great Leap Forward.”
Provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan who have a more conservative population and fewer adherents to Mark Carney’s religion can try to mitigate some of the damage inflicted by Ottawa by pursuing greater autonomy. The complete breakup of Canada is a real possibility. In rural areas of Alberta support for separation is running at up to 60%, and the anger and outright hatred towards the federal government is palpable. Support is lower in the big cities of Calgary and Edmonton, but separatists are making inroads. City News Calgary reported a Leger poll showing support for separation is at 30% in the city, which is higher than at any other time since Alberta became a province.
This separatist movement is not something I rejoice about. It is born out of the religious and Malthusian mindsets of Mark Carney and his predecessor Justin Trudeau, and their contempt for conservative western values. Trudeau never showed magnanimity or even slight concern for the west, in regards to the damage his policies were doing to our way of life. Carney lied during the election and said he would show concern, especially when many eastern pundits realized they need pipelines and energy infrastructure to secure their economic wellbeing.
At one point during the election Carney said in Kelowna he would declare a national emergency, and potentially trample on constitutional rights to insure pipelines are built and Canada becomes an independant energy superpower. A few days later in Quebec, Carney promised a French language radio program he would never impose a pipeline the provincial government didn’t want (the majority of Quebec taxpayers are actually open to a pipeline). Both positions can’t be genuinely held by the man. Clearly his Cabinet picks and his own book and lifetime of work promoting ESG and globalist causes tells us the direction Carney will take in regards to Alberta’s (and indeed all of Canada’s) need for energy and natural resource development. Making a promise that Carney had no intention of keeping was fine to win the election. For the radical left the end justifies the means after all. But this lie might be the last one that will work for Carney in terms of hijacking Canada’s governing intitutions to advance his globalist agenda.
One positive trend I see amongst the freedom and independance movements is an openess to God. The rally I attended in Edmonton opened and closed with prayer. We need prayer now more than ever. An Alberta separation without God will create a utopia no more desirable than Mark Carney’s utopia of a non-binary, net zero, Canada. It would really be nice if the people of Toronto, Ottawa and Vacouver rose up and cast off their woke leaders and came to a realization that freedom of speech, economic freedom, freedom of religion, property rights, and resouce development, were fundamental to Canada’s well being. It would take a miracle for Canada’s urban elites to come to such a realization, but with God such a miracle could happen. If such a miracle did happen the push for separation would likely subside in the west. As it is all indicators are Carney’s government will likely continue to push the country towards energy poverty, massive deficits, and a further erosion of fundamental freedoms. In this scenario Alberta needs to do what it has to do to defend the interests of its own people.
In Christ’s Service, Bill Whatcott
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to Him that He might be repaid? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.” Romans 11:33-36
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The Leaders’ Debates Commission published its final decision yesterday, and guess what: I’ve been excluded from the TV debates.
It was all rigged from the start of course.
We knew it when they changed the criteria from the 2021 election two months ago.
If you recall, on the basis of the previous criteria, I would automatically have been allowed to participate, since the PPC got 4.9% of the vote in the 2021 election, and one of the criteria was to have received at least 4% in the previous election.
But that criteria was removed and replaced with new ones that made my participation much less likely.
According to the Commission, the PPC does not have enough support in the polls to justify inviting me.
Frederick, populist parties and politicians everywhere are being deliberately targeted and excluded by the globalist establishment.
This week, the French populist leader Marine Le Pen, who is favourite to beat Macron in the coming election, was barred from running on dubious fraud charges.
In the US, the establishment did everything they could to keep Trump away from the White House, including try to kill him.
In Romania, a populist presidential candidate was also barred from running a few weeks ago.
In Germany, the second largest party in last month’s elections, the populist AfD, is being unfairly shunned by all the others.
And here in Canada, they rigged the rules to exclude me from the debates and deprive the PPC’s 840,000 voters of a voice.
It’s more important than ever that we reach voters through podcasts and social media, instead of relying on the legacy media.
As I tour the country, I continue to do 2 or 3 podcast interviews every day, in addition to my daily press conference and events with local supporters.
And our social media team are flooding the web with memes, clips, and posts about our bold platform.
That’s how the People’s Party communicates with the people in a populist
I just got out of what appears to be my last hearing in Practice Court for this seemingly never ending “hate crime” trial. To give some history for those who may not know. In 2016 I applied to march in the Toronto Homosexual Pride parade as an openly Christian man and desired to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the participants.
This parade after all is funded by three levels of government (you and I pay for it) and it is supposed to be “inclusive.” In fact two of Pride Toronto’s “values” as stated on the front page of their website is “Diversity” and “Inclusion.” What could be more diverse than an open Christian sharing the Gospel with Toronto pride participants right in their parade?
And yes, Christians should go and share the Gospel at the Toronto Homosexual Pride parade and everywhere else where lost souls can be found.
“Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to the whole creation.” Mark 16:15
Sadly, notwithstanding the parade’s alleged commitment to “inclusion” and “diversity,” the parade was not accepting of Bible believing Christians like me, so I had to apply as a Gay Zombie Cannabis Consumer to get in.
“To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the Gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.” 1 Corinthians 9:21-23
Bill Whatcott (rainbow tutu) and his crack Christian commandos were accepted by the Toronto Homosexual Pride parade in 2016, once they self identified as the Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association.
Anyways, once we got into the parade, we proceeded to deliver 3000 “Zombie Safe Sex” packages to the parade participants. I am no longer able to show you the Gospel flyer contained in the “Zombie Safe Sex” package, as the Ontario Attorney General is alleging the flyer is a “hate crime.” Mass Resistance decided to put the flyer up on their website in the United States where free speech enjoys greater protection. You can see my flyer there if you are so inclined and decide for yourself if it is criminal hate speech. The flyer contained the Gospel of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, criticism of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party’s homosexual activism, a testimony of a former transvestite who regained his manhood, as well as warnings about the health risks related to homosexual behaviour.
Here is one example of what the Ontario Attorney General is alleging to be criminal activity. Not the two naked sodomites with their wangs hanging out. Rather the “zombie safe sex” package that my brave activist handed to one of the sodomites and that he is clearly fascinated with. My activist is not use to being in parades with naked dudes and she appears to be trying to look dignified as the sodomite fumbles with his “zombie safe sex” package and chatters away to her.
Anyways, by all accounts our crack Christian commando Gospel infiltration of the Toronto homosexual pride parade was a smashing success. We got out all 3,000 “Zombie Safe Sex” packages containing valuable Gospel and health information for lost homosexuals.
On the way out I also got a photo op with Mr. Leatherman Toronto.
The 2016 Toronto homosexual pride parade was a somewhat spiritual event, but not very sensitive to the feelings of Christians. Note the sodomite on the left who decided to march with an image of our Lord on his crotch.
Homosexual Activist Lawyer Doug Elliott (left) and Ontario Deputy Premier George Smitherman (right) announce a $104 million class action lawsuit against Bill Whatcott in the Parliament Hill press gallery.
Notwithstanding, disrespectful displays and signs mocking Christians being allowed at the Toronto Pride Parade year after year, and notwithstanding homosexual activists crashing and cancelling Christian events when it suits them; it seems the homosexual activists are a vindictive and humourless bunch, and not really inclined to embrace the concept of free speech when a Christian pulls one over on them.
Within days of Pride Toronto realizing I utilized their taxpayer funded parade to spead the Gospel and accurate health information on the risks of the homosexual lifestyle while disguised as a gay zombie, homosexual activist lawyer Doug Elliott, with the Deputy Premier of Ontario and a gaggle of homosexual activists decended on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to announce a $104 million class action lawsuit against me and anyone connected with me. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier Kathleen Wynne, the Liberal Party, as well as all the parade participants, were named as “victims” in the class action lawsuit.
After threatening me with jail if I didn’t give up the names of my helpers and wasting a pile of time and money for two years trying to extract blood out of a stone, the homosexual activists decided to drop their lawsuit as I wasn’t speaking and I didn’t have any money to give them. The homosexual activists/Ontario government opted to go after me in 2018 by issuing a Canada Wide Arrest Warrant, charging me with “Wilful Promotion of Hatred.” At the time the Attorney General was seeking 18 months in prison upon conviction.
I turned myself in, spent a few days in jail, and was flown to Ontario, where I went on trial and was eventually found “Not Guilty.”
I thought that was the end of the matter, but the Ontario Attorney General actually appealed my acquittal and The Ontario Court of Appeal ordered me to go on trial again! My side appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada to reverse the Court of Appeal’s decision but they refused to hear my case.
I was put on bail again, and had to linger in Ontario for a few months unemployed, going to court, and applying for legal aid as my legal fees for this next trial will be as expensive as the last trial ($100,000 or so). Over the years I was able to raise tens of housands of dollars for my lawyers, but barring a miracle there is no way I could afford a lawyer for this trial.
The Attorney General argued and the Ontario Court of Appeal agreed that a second trial is needed to consider my “historical discredible conduct.”
Bill Whatcott (pink hair, short shorts, wearing a t-shirt that reads “The Flying Spaghetti Monster is Gay” gets a hug from the organizer of the Vancouver Pride parade in 2014, after delivering 2500 “Gospel Condoms” (no condom all Gospel) to Vancouver Pride participants.
The above is an example of what the Attorney General thinks is “discredible conduct” that I engaged in “historically.” Bringing up these past missionary endeavours and flyers that go back as far as 25 years and actually have nothing to do with the 2016 Toronto Pride parade flyer, is supposed to help make the case I am a hate criminal and my latest Gospel flyer is criminal hate speech.
The Ontario Court of Appeal also decided the first trial judge erred by declining to admit Nick Mule’ (the guy in the video video below) as an “expert.” Mr. Mule’ was paid a pile of taxpayer’s money to write an “expert” paper that was supposed to help the court understand that I committed “microagressions” against the parade participants and that my flyer was going to cause “minority stress” and lead to bad health outcomes, if I was not criminally convicted and stopped.
Full disclosure, I only listened for a few minutes and skipped to a few random parts of this guy’s lecture. If one does as I do, they will realize very quickly Mr. Mule’s “expertise” is on all things homosexual, and no doubt he would want me in jail for my flyer. But really, why is Nick Mule’s opinion more relevant than Joe the welder’s opinion on my flyer?
Anyways, on Monday, August 12, I learned my new trial dates and the dates I need to travel to Ontario and be in court again.
I will be in person in the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto for the week of June 23-27, 2025. If any friends wish to join me in court this week, I would be grateful. My legal team will be arguing I should have a right to a jury trial, as the Prosecutor is still arguing for substantial jail time (6 months to one year) and I will have a criminal record showing an indictable offense if I am convicted.
I will be in the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto for the week of October 27-31, 2025. My friends are welcome to attend this hearing also. My defense team will be arguing against the Attorney General’s attempt to introduce my past flyers and missionary work as evidence of “discredible conduct” that is relevant to my new trial.
Finally, my trial will commence the week of March 2, 2026 and is expected to last two weeks. The trial will take place in the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto and of course I am required to attend in person. The trial is open to the public and my friends are welcome to attend.
This One Simply Will Not Survive A Constitutional Challenge
Meanwhile the BC Human wRongs tribunal gets payed to put people through the meatgrinder of Court
…………………………………………. BC Civil wRongs tribunal latest outrage ABBOTSFORD, BC: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the BC Human Rights Tribunal is being challenged before the BC Supreme Court for imposing a $10,000 penalty on private speech. In January 2025, the Tribunal fined British Columbian Kirstin Olsen $10,000 for privately expressing concerns about her friend’s decision. Her petition against the Tribunal was filed in the BC Supreme Court on March 21, 2025.
Kirstin Olsen and Theresa (Terry) Wiebe had been close friends for several years. Wiebe identifies as transgender. From 2014 to 2018, Olsen allowed Wiebe to move a motorhome onto her property and live there. In 2017, Wiebe informed Olsen that she had begun hormone therapy and was planning to have a mastectomy. Wiebe asked Olsen if the surgery would impact their arrangement, but Olsen declined to give an answer. Based on concerns about her own mother’s breast cancer and mastectomy and the complications that could arise from such a surgery, Olsen told Wiebe that she was uncomfortable with Weibe getting a mastectomy and that she did not support the decision. Olsen and Wiebe continued to be on friendly terms, and Olsen continued to allow Wiebe to live on her property for $200 per month. Olsen even paid for Wiebe to return to BC from the Yukon after Wiebe had been hospitalized due to what appeared at the time to be a complication from hormone therapy. After Wiebe had gotten into a number of arguments with other people on Olsen’s property, however, Olsen asked Wiebe to leave in 2018. Olsen’s reasons for asking Wiebe to leave had nothing to do with Wiebe’s transition. Soon after, Wiebe filed a discrimination complaint against Olsen with the BC Human Rights Tribunal. In January 2025, the Tribunal released its decision.
While the Tribunal found that the eviction was not related to Wiebe’s transgender identity, the Tribunal decided that Olsen’s comments expressing concern about the decision to get a mastectomy were discriminatory. For “injury to dignity,” the Tribunal ordered Olsen to pay Wiebe $10,000 . Nowhere in the decision did the Tribunal consider the impact of the fine on Olsen’s freedom of expression – protected by section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In her petition to the Court, Olsen also points out that her comments were not directed in any way toward Wiebe’s gender identity. On the contrary, Wiebe and Olsen had remained on friendly terms even while Wiebe had undergone a gender identity transition and hormone treatments. “It is very concerning to see a government tribunal policing private communications between friends, and imposing a $10,000 penalty, without giving any heed to the fact that Canada’s Charter guarantees freedom of expression,” stated constitutional lawyer Marty Moore. “A comment of concern for a friend is very different than evicting someone from their home on the basis of their race, religion, sex or other protected personal characteristic. The BC Human Rights Tribunal should focus on combatting genuine cases of discrimination rather than policing speech.”
The US has condemned the prison sentence handed to veteran French conservative politician Marine Le Pen, who was found guilty of embezzlement and banned from running for president.
On Monday, a Paris court ordered Le Pen, the former head of the National Rally (RN) party, to serve four years in prison, of which two will be suspended, and banned her from holding office for five years. If not overturned, the verdict would effectively bar her from the 2027 presidential election.
The prosecution accused Le Pen of misusing the EU funds intended to pay for her aides when she was a member of the European Parliament. According to the newspaper Le Monde, the prosecutors argued in court that Le Pen and other RN politicians diverted the money to pay for the party’s activities in France. Le Pen has described the verdict as politically motivated and promised to launch an appeal.
US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce drew parallels between the case in France and the criminal prosecution of President Donald Trump under the Biden administration.
“Exclusion of people from the political process is particularly concerning, given the aggressive and corrupt lawfare waged against President Trump here in the United States. We support the right of everyone to offer their views in the public square, agree or disagree,” she added.
Bruce noted that, in his speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, Vice President J.D. Vance criticized Germany and other American allies in Europe for what he argued were attempts to restrict political competition. “Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There is no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t,” Vance said.
RN President Jordan Bardella has accused the authorities of seeking to eliminate Le Pen from the 2027 election. “They are depriving millions of voters of their choice and therefore of their freedom,” he said.
Le Pen ran for president three times, placing second in 2017 and 2022
Yesterday, 25 March, was the holy day formally called The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and commonly referred to as Lady Day. It commemorates the day that the angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary in Nazareth and told her that she was “blessed… among women” and “hast found favour with God” and would conceive and give birth to the Christ, the Son of God. The account can be found in St. Luke’s Gospel, the first chapter, verses 36-38. St. Luke does not provide the calendar date on which Gabriel visited the Blessed Virgin but he does say that it was in the “sixth month” (v. 26), i.e., of Elizabeth’s pregnancy with John the Baptist. Elizabeth conceived shortly after her husband Zacharias had received his visitation from Gabriel while serving in the Temple. Zacharias was of the “course of Abia” the Temple service of which occurred twice in the year, once in the week of the Day of Atonement. That this was the week in which the visitation took place can be inferred from indicators in the text that the Temple was very well attended that day. Also, there is an ancient legend that Zacharias was serving as High Priest on Yom Kippur that is difficult to reconcile with St. Luke’s account but can be explained as an embellishment on the correct detail of it having been Yom Kippur or at least the week thereof that the event took place. Yom Kippur falls in late September to early October, making October the month of John the Baptist’s conception, and March therefore, the sixth month of it. Although the earliest mention of the celebration of the Annunciation goes only back to the sixth century, the fact that the Church regarded it as having occurred on 25 March since the earliest centuries is easily demonstrated. St. Hippolytus of Rome, whose years were 170 to 235 AD, wrote that our Lord was born eight days before the Kalends of January.[1] That is 25 December by our way of reckoning dates.[2] Nine months to the day after 25 March.
There is a type of Protestant who thinks that any amount of honour and attention bestowed on our Lord’s mother takes away from that which is due to Christ Himself. The Annunciation, the Gospel account of it, and its celebration reveal the foolishness of this way of thinking.
Consider the salutation of Gabriel to the Virgin: “Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” (Lk. 1:28)
The first observation to be made about these words is that the honour bestowed upon Mary here, that she is “highly favoured” or as William Tyndale rendered it “full of grace”, the Lord is with her, and she is “blessed…among women” come from the mouth of an unfallen angel speaking on behalf of God. It could hardly, therefore, detract from the honour due to her Son.
The second observation is that this is the first three lines of the Ave Maria. These are drawn directly from the inspired words of Scripture. The next two lines of the Ave Maria, are Elizabeth’s salutation when Mary visits her immediately after the Annunciation (Lk. 1:42). The only things added to the Scriptural text in the Ave Maria prior to the Sancta Maria portion are the names Mary and Jesus. Remember that the next time you hear someone claim these words are idolatrous.
Now consider the Christological significance of the Annunciation. Objections to honouring Mary often contribute to poor Christology. Some Hyper-Protestants, in their zeal to throw out anything they consider to be tainted with “papist Mariolatry”, object to the title “Mother of God” or “Theotokos” and in doing so embrace the sort of thinking associated with the fifth century Nestorius of Constantinople that was condemned as heretical at the third ecumenical council. Ironically, of course, Nestorius himself had no problem with honouring Mary. His problem with “Theotokos” was that he thought it suggested that Mary was the source of Jesus’ divinity. This is the same problem Hyper-Protestants have with “Mother of God.” “Mary is not the Mother of God” they will say “She is the Mother of Jesus” just as the fifth century Nestorians called Mary the “Christokos” (Christ-bearer) rather than “Theotokos” (God-bearer). The reason these arguments are condemned as heretical is because they introduce division into the Person of Christ. Jesus Christ is One Person. Mary is the Mother of that Person. That Person is both God and Man. Therefore Mary is the Mother of God. This obviously does not mean that Jesus gets His deity from her. The Person Jesus has always existed with and in His Father and the Holy Spirit as God. That Person became Man but was always God. In becoming Man, He gained a Mother. This is a completely unique instance of a Person existing before His Mother, but that does not alter the fact that she is His Mother, or that Mother is her relationship to Him as a Person, and since He that Person is God as well as Man, she is the Mother of God.
Now before you conclude that I have gotten away from my main point think of this question: When did the Incarnation take place? When was the Hypostatic Union formed? When did the Eternally-Begotten Son of God add a complete but anhypostatic[3] human nature, subject to the consequences of the Fall such as mortality except for the taint of sin itself, to His Own Eternal Person and become Man?
The answer, of course, is Lady Day, the day of the Annunciation. The Incarnation did not take place at Christ’s birth on Christmas. By that time His human life had already been growing for nine months. Jesus’ humanity was never not-united to His deity and His Person but was created already in union with Him. Otherwise His humanity would not have been His but someone else’s that He took in a manner similar to possession. The Incarnation, therefore, and Jesus’ conception are one and the same event. Gabriel’s message to the Blessed Virgin was:
Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. (Lk. 1:30-33).
After inquiring as to how this was possible and receiving the answer that it would be by the power of the Holy Spirit, her response was “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.” (Lk. 1:38) In these words she in submissive obedience consented to being the God-bearer and the miracle was accomplished.
Mary’s response was a significant theme in the writings of the earliest Church Fathers. St. Irenaeus wrote:
In accordance with this design, Mary the Virgin is found obedient, saying, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to your word. Luke 1:38 But Eve was disobedient; for she did not obey when as yet she was a virgin. And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin… having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race; so also did Mary, having a man betrothed [to her], and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race…And thus also it was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith.[4]
This same comparison had earlier been made by Justin Martyr.[5]
While the Hyper-Protestants may rage against this comparison and find in it evidence that “Romanism” had begun to creep into the Church as early as the second century it rests upon Scriptural authority. Mary and Eve are joined in the first and the last books of the Bible.
In the curse on the serpent in Geneses 3:15 reads “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Who is the woman in this verse?
On the one hand it is obviously Eve. She was the only woman present at the time. On the other hand it has to be Mary because it was Mary who gave birth to Christ, the seed that crushed the head of the serpent even as he bruised His heel on the Cross. So which is it? Clearly both.
Turning to the final book of the Bible, we find in the twelfth chapter of Revelation a woman spoken of again, this time at great length. She is never named but is just called the woman. She has an enemy, however, who is “a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.” (Rev. 12:3) In the chapter he has an army of angels and fights against St. Michael the Archangel and his angels. St. Michael is victorious and the dragon and his angels are cast out of heaven. When this happens the dragon is identified as “that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.” (Rev. 12:9) The same serpent upon whom the curse was pronounced in Genesis 3. Here he is shown, just as Genesis says, to be the enemy of the woman, making war on her and her seed. For the woman “being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered” (Rev. 12:2) and the dragon “stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” (Rev. 12:4). Here is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis. To make clear that the child is Jesus Christ the next verse reads “And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.”
Since she gives birth to Jesus Christ, this woman is clearly the Blessed Virgin Mary. As in Genesis 3:15, however, she is also Eve, because it is here in Revelation that the conflict between the woman and the serpent begun in Genesis 3 comes to its final close. This is Mary as the New Eve. Eve, of course, was the wife of Adam, whereas Mary the New Eve is the Mother of Jesus Christ, the New Adam. Note however the first and the last verses of the chapter. In the first she is clothed with the sun, stands on the moon, and has a crown of twelve stars. This alludes to the visions of Joseph in the book of Genesis. The final verse speaks of the dragon making war on the “remnant of her seed” who “keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Mary, the New Eve, is not merely Mary as an individual, but Mary as representative of the people of God. The sun, moon, and stars are the symbols of Israel. It is the Church that has the testimony of Jesus Christ. The Church, according to St. Paul in Romans, is the “olive tree” of Israel, with some branches removed for unbelief, and “wild” branches (Gentile believers) grafted in. The Church is described as the bride of Christ of the New Testament. Mary is literally the Mother of Jesus Christ, but as the New Eve she figuratively represents the collective that is the bride of Christ.[6]
The early Fathers clearly had strong Scriptural support for their teaching that the Blessed Virgin was the New Eve, whose obedience played such an integral role in the restoration of that which had fell into ruin through the disobedience of the first Eve. Perhaps we should pay more attention to their interpretation of the Scriptures and less to those whose determination to honour only Christ has become an obsession that would condemn even the Protestant Reformers[7] for honouring her with the honour that the Scriptures give her.
We beseech thee, O Lord, pour thy grace into our hearts; that, as we have known the incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an angel, so by his cross and passion we may be brought unto the glory of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.[8]
[1] St. Hippolytus of Rome, Commentary on Daniel, 4.23.3.
[2] The Romans reckoned backwards from the Kalends of the next month, we reckon forwards from that of the current month.
[3] Without personal identity distinct from the Eternal Personhood of the Son of God. Since Jesus’ human nature was created already united to His Eternal Person it never actually existed in a state of anhypostasia. The term that denotes the actual state of Jesus’ human nature as it has existed from the moment of its creation in union with His deity in His Eternal Person is “enhypostatic.” “Enhypostatic”, “in the person”, is the only state in which Jesus’ human nature has ever actually existed since it was created already in union with His Person. Since “enhypostatic” describes the human nature as united with the divine in Christ, “anhypostatic”, “without person”, is used to speak of the human nature by itself in contexts where it would be difficult to make sense without speaking as if His human nature had existence by itself prior to the Hypostatic Union. The importance of these distinctions and this highly specialized, even for theology, terminology, is their usefulness in avoiding the error of Apollonaris, who taught that Jesus’ human nature was lacking a component which His divine nature made up for (the Logos, he taught, took the place of a human nous or mind), the error of thinking of the Incarnation as either a sort of possession or a fusion of two persons, one divine one human, into one, or the error of thinking of Jesus’ Person as a composition formed by the union of the divine and human natures. In the Incarnation an Eternal Person added a second, created nature to His eternal nature and that second nature was created as His and never belonged to any other person distinct from His Eternal Person. See Eric Mascall, Christ, the Christian and The Church: A Study of the Incarnation and its Consequences (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2017).
[4] St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, translated by Alexander Roberts and William Rambaut in Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1, edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, III.22.4.
[6] Note that the imagery of Rev. 12:1 is also that of a queen. The woman is seen in heaven wearing a crown of stars. The queen of heaven. It is significant to observe that in the books of Kings, the queens are consistently mentioned, unless they figure into the narrative in some other way, as the mothers of their sons rather than the wives of their husbands. The queen mother rather than the queen consort was the more prominent idea of the queen in the Old Testament. Here, and not in the worship of Astarte condemned by Jeremiah, we find the origin of the Regina Coeli title for Mary. Let the Hyper-Protestants fume all they like, it will not change the fact.
[7] The Protestant Reformers, at least the Magisterial Reformers, especially the English and Lutheran, but not excluding the Swiss, all had a Mariology that would be considered way too High by many contemporary Protestants.
[8] Collect for the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, Book of Common Prayer. —Gerry T. Neal
