The Year of Smashing Statues
December 31, 2020
Along with COVID-19 and a sanity-challenging American election, 2020 made rampant the demolishing of monuments. Gavin Miller warns iconoclasm is more than vandalism: it threatens civil life.
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One Man’s Reading List
December 30, 2020Calum Anderson offers his “great” alternatives to what he considers the weak fare pushed by too many universities. Do Convivium readers agree? We’d love to see your alternative reading lists. Send them to convivium@cardus.ca.
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10 Highlights of the Year for Cardus
December 28, 2020Daniel Proussalidis and Monica Ratra write that while 2020 was a forgettable year for many reasons, Cardus initiatives throughout the year provided memorable highlights for the organization and our supporters.
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Hope Born Anew
December 24, 2020In the darkness that can envelop even the Christian Church, Peter Stockland writes, the season Christmas reminds us that Christ’s hope, faith, and truth illuminate the world.
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Santa Serves the War-Torn, Too
December 21, 2020Saint Nicholas lives in the spirit of all who give gifts and life to those in the darkness of violence and poverty, Susan Korah writes.
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A Christmas of Spiritual Longing
December 15, 2020An Angus-Reid/Cardus poll shows 85 per cent of Canadians abiding by COVID lockdown rules. But human need for family and friends means government can’t take compliance for granted, Ray Pennings warns.
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Newspapers Must Face the Facebook Music
December 14, 2020Print journalists’ pleas for the government to keep social media from eating their lunch are as fact-free as claiming the Pyongyang Times is a bulwark of democracy, Peter Menzies argues.
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Baby Steps to Push Back Polarization
December 11, 2020Josh Nadeau reports on a study showing families becoming crucibles for toxic political contempt when they could be sources of pluralistic tolerance for divergent views.
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Your Child is Not Your Go-Go Gadget
December 9, 2020Diminished expectations during COVID Christmas make it the perfect time to remember, as Rev. Dr. Cole Hartin writes, that our children are not instruments for parental self-fulfillment.
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Saying “Non” to Potpourri Pluralism
December 7, 2020There’s much wrong with increasingly closed secularism in France and Québec yet both societies understand diversity requires strong ground rules, Robert Joustra argues.
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When Believers Become Invisible
December 4, 2020COVID-19 has revealed an uncomfortable reality, Jonathon Van Maren points out: closure of churches isn’t State persecution but widespread ignorance of what goes on inside them.
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Religious Persecution’s Red Letter Day
December 2, 2020Canadian churches turned red recently hoping to open Canada’s eyes to violence against believers, Susan Korah reports.
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Great Reset? Or Grand Unravelling?
November 30, 2020Prime Minister Trudeau has mused that COVID-19 will allow for Canadian society to “re-set” on a number of fronts. Peter Menzies says we’ll have to avoid coming apart at the seams first.
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Why Not a Notwithstanding Pause for MAiD?
November 27, 2020Don Hutchinson argues the Trudeau government should consider the Constitution’s Section 33 opt out rather than rush to pass expanded medically assisted dying legislation under a court-imposed deadline.
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Addressing Canada’s MAiD Concerns
November 25, 2020Medically assisted death advocates inside and outside Parliament are gung-ho to expand it. But Cardus’ Ray Pennings says national poll numbers show Canadians want MPs to curb their enthusiasm.
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