2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
While there is certainly nothing wrong with having practical, experiential learning as part of a university course on social activism, hopefully students are not being encouraged, or even required, to participate in pointless protests for the sake of attaining a better mark in the class Students cou...
Crawford, who wrote the New York Times bestseller Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, was the featured guest speaker at Cardus's latest Hill Family Lecture Series, which took place as a component of the Building Meaning Project ...
When the legal system becomes the automatic proxy for settling social contention, hurry up and wait becomes the order of the day
In the middle of the last decade, the Quebec government imposed a program called Ethics and Religious Culture on all schools in the province, including home schools ...
Introduction from Publisher Peter Stockland
We want to sustain the pernicious myth of two generations that human sexual conduct is primarily recreational and only secondarily, to use the language of the Church, procreative and unitive Such restraint is articulated through the common decency, the common civility of traditional modes of right c...
There's no question the niqab oppresses women. The question is why Canadian society accepts it.
I fear if women in Canada are choosing to wear a niqab, then it speaks to the very failure of the ability of our culture to inculcate the great legacy of freedom to our citizens While Western culture, based on the Judeo/ Christian ethic, has evolved over time improving on the implementation of equal...
Rod Love, über-consigliere, RIP
The War of 1812 should be a happy memory, for it ended in what has been 200 years of peace and friendship between Canada and America The assignation of the various Thousand Islands—of which Wolfe Island, only named that much later, is the first and largest—was worked out after the War of 1812 to mai...
Alberta’s great journalist, educator, political warrior sits down with Convivium
As we did this, we realized that people acquired their values from four sources: first the family— a mother saying don't beat up your little brother; then the Church, which reinforced the family; then the school, which reinforced both the family and the Church; and finally the media, meaning literat...
In this text of his address to the annual Red Mass dinner hosted by the Thomas More Lawyers' Guild of Toronto in October 2014, federal Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney calls on assembled lawyers to defend conscience rights as a bulwark against the spirit of the age running roughshod over us
We could likewise point to other great liberation movements, including the American Civil Rights Movement, which brought the liberating power of conscience to public life Indeed, the first liberty listed in our Charter is found in section 2(a), freedom of conscience and religion, which is an echo of...
Growing up in a family filled with faith was the best possible preparation for this distinguished Canadian lawyer’s career
Now, how does this stress affect one's spouse, one's children, the staff and legal assistants, receptionists, the court runner and everybody else involved in this environment? As a manager for 18 years who observed these challenges, I know that without faith and a moral code, we would be lost How do...
Cracks in the secular are matched by those that could bring the Church down on our heads
Nevertheless, the long-term trends are clear, and they suggest that a society based on a denial of transcendent norms and an exaltation of individual autonomy is unsustainable; the core values of the secular order are corrosive of the relationships and institutions that make human flourishing possib...
150 years of Christian faith in southern Saskatchewan-Qu'Appelle Valley
In 1886, Father Louis Lebret, a French Oblate from Britanny, came to assist Hugonnard and opened the first post office in the rectory Father Hugonnard had the first Cross erected on a hill above the thriving mission in 1871 So, when Taché celebrated Mass at the new town of Fort Qu'Appelle on August ...
Arguing for the sanctity of life. Will the Supreme Court listen?
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada submits that killing is never the antidote for what is difficult about dying and asks this Court to affirm Parliament's choices as founded upon the Charter values of the sanctity of human life and inherent human dignity, so that when Canadian doctors face determi...
Marilynne Robinson is a 21st century successor to Flannery O’Connor and C.S. Lewis, with less shouting and fantasy.
Although the narrative voice is relocated in each novel, Robinson continues to explore the quiet strength of belief, the difficult beauty of forgiveness, and the wild and unpredictable intrusion of grace into the mundane rituals of family life Perhaps, stirring below the hard, brittle shell of the s...
F.H. Buckley's book on the necessity of government by conviviality
The same concentration of power has been going on in Canada and Great Britain, but the Canadian system of Westminster government is better equipped to check executive power than is the U.S Our Westminster parliamentary system protects liberty better because responsible government gives members of th...
Edward Feser’s effective response to wrong-headed scientism
There is much more to Feser's book than its impressive refutation of scientism, and readers who seek to understand how scholastic metaphysics deals with issues such as theism, the reality of universals, the power of natural reason and the normativity of natural law will find its reading quite reward...