2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Whatever the majority of established Canadians might think about the arrival of Muslim women in veils, and however much the prime minister might protest the position is based on the principle of equality for women, the government is simply wrong to attempt to dictate the fundamental haberdashery cho...
“Canada has not happened,” Rex Murphy told his Manning Centre audience. “It has been built. And you are the inheritors.”
Such was the case last weekend when the Calgary-based Manning Centre for Building Democracy gave the stage at its annual networking conference in the national capital to Rex Murphy, that proud and famous son of Newfoundland ...
In recent months, I've had the good luck to sit through a Supreme Court hearing in a morning and in the visitors' gallery of the House of Commons for an afternoon Does democracy really benefit from having its primary outcomes determined by a Court that functions, as it must, like a court? Or is ther...
Let's dare to imagine what robust, critical STEM education in Christian schools might look like, so that the world of science no longer looks at them, scratches its head, and utters the words of C.S The results of the Cardus Education Survey suggest that, compared to their counterparts in Catholic a...
One of the few who seemed to get that was Prime Minister Harper himself, who surprised many by refusing to say in the Commons whether he has ruled out use of the so-called notwithstanding clause to override the Supreme Court ruling Yet, they claimed, there’s plenty of time to pass the new legislatio...
In advancing religious freedom as a central element of Canadian foreign policy it is important that we as Canadians have an awareness of the role that religion plays in societies around the world Bennett: The importance of training diplomats has been recognized by a number of countries including Can...
Transplanted Calgarian Pierre Poilievre brings a western sensibility to the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
The upshot is that even a transplanted Calgarian such as Poilievre — dubbed the Canadian Sniper by Toronto Star columnist Tim Harper — brings a western sensibility to the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper ...
The anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks is a good reminder about the importance of advancing religious freedom around the world. Dr. Thomas Farr makes the connection himself in his compelling testimony to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons from back in 2015. We reprise his testimony in Convivium today.
Let me conclude by addressing what Canadian international religious freedom policy might do to mitigate the threat of Islamist terrorism in the Middle East, in particular ISIL What has not changed since 9/11 is the root cause of Islamist terrorism: a radical and spreading interpretation of Islam nou...
"Most people don't understand that the sacrament of marriage is ministered by the couple itself," says Peter Stockland. "The spouses are the ones who are responsible."
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On a purely pragmatic level, federal Labour Minister Kellie Leitch must be pleased that the mere threat of back-to-work legislation got CP Rail trains running on time Monday Less than 24 hours after about 3,000 members of the Teamsters went on strike against CP Rail, the company and the union announ...
The idea has quickly taken hold that the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a law prohibiting doctors from assisting at suicides. It did not, says Peter Stockland
The belief has grown since last Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada decision that we will have legalized doctor-assisted suicide by next year ...
The composite worst of all three bad things was the logic by which nine justices of the Supreme Court of Canada accepted that a) the State must limit its protection of human life, b) that killing is acceptable with the right provisos, and c) that the health care system is a perfectly acceptable plac...
Just what is it about how we speak that has the ability to move another person at some times, but not at others? In most accounts of rhetoric, the lion’s share of attention is given to the power and ethos of the speaker and to the extension of that speaker into a carefully crafted speech So might it...
Campbell of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruled the Barrister’s Society (NSBS) was acting outside its jurisdiction and violated religious freedom as set out in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms But wasn’t Justice Campbell concerned about implied endorsement of TWU’s covenant by the State or ot...
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In this issue of Convivium, Andrew Bennett, Ambassador for Canada's Office of Religious Freedom, recounts this tale from his October 2013 visit to Turkey, during which he met with all the different religious communities and had conversations with the ecumenical patriarch, with the Jewish community i...