CHP TALKS

David Cooke, National Campaigns Manager for Campaign Life Coalition and former Executive Director of CitizenGO Canada, discusses Bills C-6 and C-7 with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel. He tells how concerned citizens can advocate for justice with their MPs and Senators and talks a little bit about his new book, Four Pillars: Building the Church in an Age of Decline.

CHP Leader, Rod Taylor and Deputy Leader, Peter Vogel, review the year behind and project a glimpse of CHP activities in 2021. They discuss the rescheduled CHP Convention, candidate training plans, a projected Spring Leader’s Tour and the not-so-unlikely prospect of a federal election sometime in the coming year.

CHP Canada Staff join us on CHP TALKS to review events of 2020 and to extend Christmas greetngs to all our members, friends and supporters. Greetings come from  Rod Taylor (CHP National Leader), Peter Vogel (Deputy Leader and Development Director), Vicki Gunn (Executive Director) and George Zekveld (CHP National Administrative Assistant). We wish every one of you and your families very special Chr...

Dr. Ann Gillies speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel about the dangerous myths surrounding sexual identity and gender expression, and the counselling of those who are seeking to reduce in themselves the actions and feelings of unwanted same-sex attraction. With 25 years of counselling experience, Dr. Gillies brings a fresh professional perspective to this emotionally-charged topic. On Bill C-6,...

CHP TALKS: Mark Donnelly Sings ‘O Canada’ at BC Freedom Rally Mark Donnelly is well-known and much appreciated for using his great voice to lead the singing of ‘O Canada’ at the opening of hockey games for the Vancouver Canucks from 2001 until a few days ago. On Dec. 4, 2020, he was severed from his role by team owner, Francesco Aquilini who announced it on his Twitter feed. The reason for his sud...

 Tanya Gaw and her organization, Action4Canada, are hard at work educating Canadians on the danger of allowing provincial politicians and public health officers to restrict freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of assembly and freedom of conscience. She speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel on the need for Christians to protect and defend our God-given rights against the intrusions of th...

Angelina Ireland speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel about the battle to preserve life and the high standards of palliative care in BC. Angelina is the President of the Delta Hospice Society, which operates the Irene Thomas Hospice in Delta. They have come under attack by the BC Government which has used high-pressure bullying tactics to attempt to coerce them to provide MAiD (Assisted Suicide)...

Chris Cowie is Chair of the Waterloo Regional Crime Prevention Council. He is a past President of the Ontario Association of Community Correctional Residences. He has worked with young offenders and has collaborated with the Community Justice Initiatives organization. He spoke with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel on the topic of Restorative Justice.

 Dr. Irving Hexham is a Full Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. He spoke with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel on the impact of Christianity on Western culture, highlighting his research into the “embedding” of Christianity into Germany’s politics and government institutions following WW II. Dr. Hexham’s life story and academic accomplishments, his writings and research are ref...

Joe Boonstra, longtime CHP member and a survivor of the Nazi occupation of Holland, speaks with Rod Taylor about his remembrances of the occupation, about the risks his family took in protecting Jewish people in their home, the liberation of his village by Canadian soldiers and the importance of defending freedom today.

RCAF veteran Jack Dekok speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel about the liberation of his town in Holland by Canadian soldiers and his subsequent immigration to Canada and service in the Royal Canadian Air force. Jack and his wife, Mary, have been married for 55 years.

Judi Johnston Vankevich, well-known as the Manners Lady and as a gifted entertainer, speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel on the importance of manners in politics and in Canada’s cultural heritage. She emphasizes the need to inspire and encourage young people to get involved in politics at all levels and to bring godly principles to bear in every sphere. 

Dan Stuart of Houston, BC and Dee Kranz of Prince George, two CHP candidates in the provincial election talk with Rod Taylor (also a Northern BC candidate) and with Peter Vogel, CHP Canada’s Deputy Leader and Development Director about the BC election, now winding down with only two more days until voting on Saturday, October 24.

Laura-Lynn Thompson, CHP-BC Leader and MLA candidate in Abbotsford South, speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel about the BC Election, her campaign in Abbotsford South, the need and opportunity for representing sound moral principles during this campaign and her response to the ridiculous question posed to some of the other party leaders in the televised leaders’ debate. 

CHP Talks: October 8, 2020. Aeriol Alderking, CHP-BC candidate in Abbotsford-Mission, speaks with Peter Vogel and Rod Taylor about her candidacy and her concerns. Government-instigated sterilization of indigenous peoples and other minorities is a big concern.

Oct.1, 2020: Joseph Quesnel, noted journalist and commentator on Indigenous issues, joins Peter Vogel and Rod Taylor to give a bit of a history lesson and to discuss how Canada can move forward with modern treaties and revision or replacement of the Indian Act. Joseph is of Metis background and has written extensively on this topic for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, the Drum / First Perspe...

Sept. 24, 2020: Popular TV Host Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel about her recent election as Leader of the Christian Heritage Party of BC and about some of the issues driving political debate in the province. With Premier Horgan’s calling of a snap election, Laura-Lynn is moving quickly to find and equip candidates who are willing to represent Life, Family and Free...

Sept. 17, 2020: Journalist Renae Jarrett speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel on the importance of using every opportunity, whether in speaking, writing or other avenues of influence to raise issues and alert our fellow-citizens to the issues and dangers around us. Ms. Jarrett has over twenty years experience as a journalist and has been published in the National Post, the Christian Herald and t...

September 10, 2020: Shafer Parker, of Faith Beyond Belief, speaks with CHP Leader, Rod Taylor  and Deputy Leader,  Peter Vogel on the topics of religious and non-religious worldviews, their impact on the culture and the importance of concerned Christians living out their beliefs and bringing those beliefs into the public square . . . with a focus on parental responsibility and adherence to sound b...

September 3, 2020: Lynette Bloedow is the owner of Christian Roots Canada and author of a new book on Canada’s scriptural heritage: The Legacy of 25 Scriptures on Parliament Hill . She speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel about her book and her work in educating Canadians on the spiritual foundations of Canada’s laws and justice.

August 27, 2020: Former MP Rob Anders speaks with CHP Leader Rod Taylor and Deputy Leader Peter Vogel about the calculations that went into the recent Conservative Leadership contest that resulted in the election of MP Erin O’Toole to lead the CPC into the next election. Mr. Anders explains the regional impacts of the ranked ballot as implemented and the challenges for social conservatives going f...

August 20, 2020: Dr. Heidi Janz, Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta’s John Dosseter Health Ethics Centre, speaks with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel about the barriers facing people with disabilities in Canada today. Dr. Janz is a committed Christian and chairs the Council of Canadians with Disabilities’ Ending-of-Life Ethics Committee. She also speaks about the undercurrent of ‘ableism’ i...

August 13, 2020: Major (Ret'd) Russ Cooper, President of C3RF (Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms), speaks with CHP Canada Leader, Rod Taylor and Deputy Leader, Peter Vogel about Canada's porous borders, the judicial activism that is undermining Canada's laws (like the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States) and the false narrative of Islamophobia (M-103)...

Former CHP Leader, Ron Gray, discusses Education and the Culture and the need for Christian alternatives to today's atheistic secular indoctrination centres.

Noted historian and documentary film-maker, John Robson, discusses the importance of the Magna Carta and how it differs from Canada's Charter. This episode is full of Mr. Robson's unique and fascinating views of history and the development of parliamentary government and social institutions in Western democracies.