2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Photographer Dave Andrews shares a shot, as envisioned in a dream he had back in the middle of Canadian winter, to celebrate Canada in the middle of an open field.
Taken in July 1, 1992, this first of a two part series we'll be releasing captures Andrews' son Owen perched in the middle of the space waiting for people to gather in the space cleared in the middle of the farm to mark community on Canada Day. ...
Cardus Family's Andrea Mrozek reports on Bill 89 and the gaps that Ontario's new child welfare law presents.
How then did the talk around removing children for conflicting views over gender identity arise? The new bill imports a list of rights from the Ontario Human Rights Code for consideration in child welfare cases The other serious risk of Bill 89 is that it doesn’t have the ability to do what it sets ...
Publisher Peter Stockland reflects on the politics of print in light of the Canada 2020 conference held in Ottawa last week.
As David Frum warned, we must see the resulting destruction of print journalism as arising from a political cause, not a technological one The nature of political power simply won’t allow it, which is why it’s a mistake to let a political problem be seen as a technological problem ...
Photographer Linda Couture leads the viewer into an experience of being suspended outside the finitude of one season and the welcoming of a new one.
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Editor in Chief Father Raymond J. de Souza reports on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent visit to the Vatican, delivering an insightful reflection on judgement, truth, and values.
Will Trudeau read Laudato Si’? Pope Francis is a pastor, not a public policy analyst, and the keenest insights of the encyclical are those which view the environment from an anthropological lens, one focused on the human person The imperial imposition of “our values” over the conventions and beliefs...
Convivium contributor Alan Hustak reports from Montreal on the construction plans slated for the mass grave of 6,000 Irish who died in the mid-19th century of famine.
A battle is brewing in Montreal that mixes faith, history and politics, and could pit the city Irish community against Hydro Quebec, Mayor Denis Coderre and even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Each year, on the last Sunday of May, hundreds of Montrealers place thousands of small white wooden crosses ...
Publisher Peter Stockland offers a compelling defence of how faith is inextricably tied to his identity and vocation as a journalist, thereby illuminating the public sphere and his place in it.
But if it is the case that faith is unwelcome in self-defined secular journalism, then I am one of the unwelcome faithful journalists In its own way, this strikes me as a very polite way of making exactly the point Neil Macdonald pushed more intemperately: Faith is universally welcome except in all ...
Photographer Peter Stockland takes Sacred Spaces viewers behind the scenes, encouraging them to view the world with the clarity of a child once again.
A reflection from photographer Peter Stockland: "It was day of bright spring morning sun, and I noticed the peculiar way the light reflected from the bare branches of the trees around a square in front of a church in Montreal ...
Convivium contributor Don Hutchinson, B.A., J.D. reports on the Pembina Hills school district decision to end their recitation of the Lord's Prayer in the face of a human rights complaint.
The constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion found in section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and corresponding state neutrality as discussed in the Saguenay case, conflicts with the School Ordinance guarantee, annexed to and thus part of the same Canadian Constitution, w...
Today Editor In Chief Father Raymond J. de Souza takes Convivium readers back to the Six Day War of 1967 that occurred this week in June 50 years ago.
Can what was lost after the First World War be reclaimed – a caliphate that will unite Muslims and restore Islamic sovereignty over Jerusalem? And it is not only about Jerusalem and Israel The creation of the State of Israel by the United Nations after World War II was a consequence in part of Zioni...
Cardus Senior Researcher Peter Jon Mitchell reflects on modern western society's discomfort with death and grief and the role that memory, faith, and religious communities can serve in the experience of public mourning.
He confides that after a recent loss in his own social circle, “I realized that I hadn’t the slightest idea how to talk to my children – or anyone – about death The rich confusion around death is evident, Wright argues, in that most people rarely consider how the variety of beliefs about life after ...
Analyzing data from the Cardus Education Survey, program director Beth Green fills Convivium readers in on the “distinct, positive advantages” of religious schools in Quebec. Find the link to the original research in the article.
We have found that government Catholic high schools in Quebec affect graduates’ religious involvement, but how does that look in practical terms? Controlling for factors like family background and socio-economic status, we find that graduates of these schools are more likely than graduates of other ...
Photographer Hayley Lockrem captures the essence of Canadian communities of faith, standing side by side, facing the future in faith and friendship.
The power of photographer Hayley Lockrem's photograph lies in her ability to capture an array of Canadians facing the future side by side, bound by a common commitment to their faith tradition and cultural heritage ...
In this final text from the Cardus’ What Makes a Good City forum, Andrew Bennett for reviving the spirit of urbi et orbi – the city and the world – by which religious traditions have made beauty and comfort integral to our urban lives.
What does a city look like that encourages and facilitates public displays of faith for all communities? What does a city look like when, instead of restricting building of places of worship, it actually encourages the Hasidic Jewish community on a festival like Simchat Torah, when they're celebrati...
In her submission to the Golden Thread Contest, Jenny Sullivan speaks of how faith radically changed through a personal encounter with a person whom she has never met.
However, John Paul II is and has been to me, as so many saints are and have been to people of faith, a model and a guide, showing to me through his life and his work how I too might enter more deeply into the mystery of the human person, how I too might grow closer to God by loving and respecting Hi...