Progressing Backwards
Peter Stockland
January 22, 2013
George, set out in five easy steps the recipe that activists cooking up all manner of "social progress" have used in Canada during the past 40 years: ...
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Lance Armstrong's Increasingly Popular World
Peter Menzies
January 21, 2013
Is the employee who finally caves to peer pressure and mails it in because "everyone else is doing it" any less of a cheater? Or the job promotion candidate who casually undermines a rival with eyebrows and muttered questions about supposed personal life choices or imaginary drinking habits? ...
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Identity Cooking
Julia Nethersole
January 18, 2013
Convivium contributor Julia Nethersole reflects on the power of food to set a framework for honest and open dialogue.
It is perhaps for this reason that two out of three of my top meals have taken place at my own dining table ...
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The Liberal Future
Ray Pennings
January 17, 2013
In the next few months, Liberal voters will elect Ontario's next Premier, Quebec's Opposition Leader, and the leader of the third party in Canada's Parliament That said, the Liberal party has been a dominant party influencing federal politics more than any other throughout the twentieth century ...
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Theology Matters
Brian Dijkema
January 16, 2013
Burney argues that theology gets in the way of resolution of the problems facing aboriginals in Canada: "If one side is approaching it from a practical standpoint, and the other comes at it from a constitutional or what I would call an almost theological standpoint, it's very difficult to come to an...
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Avoiding What's in Front of Us
Peter Stockland
January 15, 2013
No matter that more than 50 Quebec medical doctors and some of the province's most senior academics and intellectuals signed one of those submissions The last hurdle to the legislation was yesterday's release of an "expert legal opinion" claiming that legalizing "medical aid to die" is within Quebec...
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Learning to Speak of Beliefs
Peter Menzies
January 14, 2013
Some of these trends are long-term, others less so but their impact on society goes beyond mere language and deeply into culture, including faith backgrounds which inform people's most deeply held beliefs which in turn have a lot to do with how people perceive the world around them ...
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Needed for Rebooting Conservative Aid Policy: Less Fox, More Foxes
Robert Joustra
January 11, 2013
Foreign policy isn't the natural bedrock of Canada's conservatives in the way it has been for America's Republicans, until very recently ...
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Less than Exemplary
Brian Dijkema
January 10, 2013
The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) wants to strike this Friday ...
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More than a Sports Story
Ray Pennings
January 9, 2013
After spending the longest part of his career as a marginal major leaguer who did not live up to the hyped potential he had as a teen (he was featured on the cover of Baseball America at 18), Dickey mastered the rarely-mastered knuckleball pitch with over 360,000 practice throws (many against a wall...
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What Parliament Thinks but Cannot Say
Peter Stockland
January 8, 2013
For as Simpson emphasizes in his column, using his own words but clearly reflecting increasingly acceptable thought in Ottawa, the true victims of these political shenanigans are aboriginal Canadians themselves ...
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A whole lot of decisions to be made
Brian Dijkema
January 7, 2013
But there are simply too many variables, too much complexity, too many things going on for one person to effect significant change ...
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Window Taps
Peter Menzies
January 4, 2013
I even remember putting my skates on for the first time upon arrival in Calgary and skating on an outdoor rink just like the one that taps on my window ...
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Pressing Upon the Imagination of the Cynical
Robert Joustra
January 3, 2013
It's hard not to feel cheated at Christmas, a supposed revolution of rest and revitalization, which in truth is often characterized as frenetic and feverish.
And amidst winter flurries of tweets and threats about fiscal cliffs and Mayan Armageddon, Hadfield has been rounding the world every 90 minutes or so, tweeting from the inky black of "international" space (@Cmdr_Hadfield), giving Canadians—and the world—the Christmas gift of wonder So enters Canada...
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The Great Lie of Managerialism
Peter Stockland
January 2, 2013
It's a huge and impossible lie, improbable to anyone who has ever witnessed to Satan's single great lie from the Old Testament: "Ye shall be as gods On the penultimate evening of 2012, I boarded a VIA train at Belleville, Ontario to make my way home to Montreal ...