2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
There is courage in venturing out with the intention of returning home again.
Each trip was an act of course, I mused, the choice to leave our small waterway home, to ride in the wake of the much bigger boats who had visited our sinking city of late ...
A home on the waves and a creature all her own. She has carried me, doubts and all.
The sun gleams right through the hull of the ship, that small window that my grandmother had insisted on serving as the see-through beacon from side to side of the small sailboat's carcass ...
Looking like their own herd, I watch their dance, advancing into the deep blue sea for another day of catch and release, their small bows a kingdom unto themselves for all the day long.
I smile from my perch as I survey the tiny fishing boats that dot the harbour of my small town ...
Tree tapping time, writes Becca Groves, is like the first time your alarm goes off in the morning. There’s that day or two with a groggy yawn and a bit of denial because the sudden flow of sap racing up the trees is our sounding bell that winter hibernation is now over: farm life is about to ramp up to full speed.
As soon as the snow begins to melt and the temperature breaks above 32 degrees during the day, it’s time to begin the maple syrup harvest Because it will be this evening that my husband will come to me with a spoonful of pure maple syrup and together, we’ll taste our first well-earned, delicious har...
Peter Jon Mitchell, acting director of the Cardus Family program, sees a lot to like in the Ford government’s offer of tax rebates to make child care more flexible and affordable.
Without moving toward a government-run daycare system, it would make child care generally more affordable, recognize that parents have a right to choose the kind of care that works for their family, and it would be relatively cost-effective If parents choose not to use a paid child care provider, th...
As Quebec and Ontario grapple with the formation of their sex education curricula, some activists have noticed how pornography has permeated culture—including sex-ed. Culture Reframed, a free online parent program, seeks to build resilience and resistance in children and adolescents to hypersexualized media and porn.
However, the revised sex-ed curriculum is facing mounting opposition from many parents who say that it has little to do with providing students with up-to-date information or protecting them from sexual predators The Toronto District School Board elicited the wrath of parents several years ago when ...
Newfoundland Anglican minister Rev. Fred Marshall dreamed of drawing more local men into his church. God told him to build a wooden shed instead.
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Peter Jon Mitchell, acting Program Director of Cardus Family, writes that while no one disputes the personal and social benefits of paid employment, National Volunteer Week is a time to remind ourselves of the significant contribution from those who labour for love of neighbour.
Yet, it’s worth remembering during National Volunteer Week that we owe much of our wellbeing and quality of life in Canada to unpaid work that legions of volunteers perform National Volunteer Week reminds us that Canadians, regardless of employment status, contribute to creating vibrant communities ...
The water shifts, coming and going — a loss that takes something with it as it goes. The passage of time has not been kind, smoothing away the edges, erasing the very substance of the stone structure.
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Glory, majesty, symmetry. It's like the line that splits horizon from the lake allows the scenery to burst forth twice.
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How often have I passed by a simple puddle without seeing the reflection it offers? The secrets it keeps, fleeting as the sun rises to take it to itself.
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Alberta’s charter schools outperform their government-run counterparts yet local school boards have an effective veto over their existence. That makes as much sense, contributor Matthew Lau argues, as letting Harvey’s decide what’s served at the Golden Arches.
Charter school applications can be denied by the province, as two were in 2016 by the education minister because the charter schools were deemed too similar to what was offered in traditional public schools If parents had more ability to move their children out of the underperforming traditional pub...
Since early February, Canadians have been deluged daily with rhetoric and reportage about the SNC-Lavalin affair. But Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland argues that for all the words, no one yet knows why.
Pellerin’s “why” is directed specifically to the bizarre episode of Canada’s prime minister threatening defamation action against Canada’s Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition for his remarks about SNC-Lavalin If, God forbid for the Liberal Party of Canada, he does follow through and the matter ...
Prime Minister Trudeau expelled Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from caucus this week to staunch what he called a political civil war among federal Liberal MPs. But in the second of her two-part Convivium essay, Ruth Dick argues Canadians’ real focus must be law that lets the privileged plead their case behind closed doors.
Yet the process outlined above is evidently not what happens when a criminal defendant corporation wishes to appeal to the attorney general to overturn the Director of Public Prosecution’s decision to deny them a deferred prosecution agreement A powerful defendant might secure informal assurances fr...
Prime Minister Trudeau expelled Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from caucus this week to staunch what he called a political civil war within the federal Liberal party. But in a two-part Convivium essay, Ruth Dick argues what truly must change is the very law that ignited the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
Conversely, would we want prosecutors to go after people simply because they didn’t support the government’s politics? Would we want prosecutors to go after business competitors of the government’s corporate supporters on political say-so? You wouldn’t want a government, acting through its attorney ...