Our Neighbours' Eyes
Peter Stockland
January 15, 2015
Soon afterward, a Jewish woman in our research department stopped me in the corridor ...
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Cartoonists ignored the virtue of prudence
Peter Stockland
January 14, 2015
Why knowingly provoke psychotically enraged young men bereft of hope who are actively being cultivated by our enemies as mobile weapons against us?
The tone of reconciliation in the new cover of Charlie Hebdo points to what seemed lost after last week’s murderous attack: recognition of the essential distinction between fear and prudence ...
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Christian Lawyers and Doctors Need Not Apply
Albertos Polizogopoulos
January 9, 2015
Despite several submissions from various lawyers and organizations—including myself on behalf of two groups of Christian physicians—that set out the legal basis for which the CPSO was required to protect the religious and conscience rights of physicians, the CPSO has released a draft policy which sp...
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2014 in Review: A Call for Civic Courage
Doug Sikkema
December 31, 2014
Because now that our trust might be scraped away, what we should find below it is not cynicism or gullibility, fear or cowardice, but a courage, bravery, and a firm resolve that civil society does not cower in the face of unjust forces which seek its undoing. ...
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He Came to Shoulder Our Burdens
Ray Pennings
December 24, 2014
And as we take a few days so that the staff of Cardus can enjoy some time with their families and loved ones, we do so not just as a politically correct adherence to a statutory holiday an employer provides to staff, but rather as a collective celebration of the hope that animates our work every day...
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Merry Christmas
Peter Stockland
December 22, 2014
Apparently there was a near riot in the lobby when the manager confronted a delegation of—get this—international chess grandmasters The journalist Tom Wolfe maintained, through both his reportage and later his fiction, that what the great 19th century novelists understood was all of human life is ab...
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Merry Christmas
Peter Stockland
December 22, 2014
Peter Stockland on the human need for humour as a form of daring humility.
Apparently there was a near riot in the lobby when the manager confronted a delegation of—get this—international chess grandmasters ...
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La Verdadera Libertad
Brian Dijkema
December 19, 2014
But it’s also raised a lot of important questions: will the easing of the relationship actually lead to the introduction of free markets in Cuba? And will those lead to democracy? It’s entirely possible, likely even, that Cuba will embrace the markets as a means to raise its GDP ...
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Transparency for the Common Good
Naomi Biesheuvel
December 18, 2014
"In fact, we're asking for the liberty to do good things in the public, to serve our neighbours, and to obey conscience: duty to something higher than ourselves ...
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Should there be room in secular Canada for religion?
Raymond J. de Souza
December 17, 2014
Father Raymond J. de Souza spoke at a luncheon hosted by the Canadian Club of Hamilton on December 11, 2014.
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How small things transformed Alberta politics
Peter Stockland
December 17, 2014
"You never know what will get people's attention, what they'll react to, what will make them mad."
The late, great Rod Love believed fervently that democracy turns on small things ...
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'More Connected, Yet More Alone'
Rhys McKendry
December 9, 2014
It’s a time when many gather with friends and family, when many give and receive gifts, when sales of the latest smartphone, tablet, and other personal computing devices soar It’s nice that Rogers seems to understand the value of quality family time, but I’m not convinced another addition to the ent...
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Battle Facts
Peter Stockland
December 5, 2014
Despite the reticence of military communicators to actually reveal much of anything about our participation in Operation Impact, a large truth emerged out of the flannel-mouthing and evading The occasion was an all-party media conference held by Justice Minister Peter McKay, Green Party leader Eliza...
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Battle Facts
Peter Stockland
December 5, 2014
A Department of National Defence briefing on Canada’s role in Iraq yesterday was almost comically short on fresh facts.
Despite the reticence of military communicators to actually reveal much of anything about our participation in Operation Impact, a large truth emerged out of the flannel-mouthing and evading ...