Cities
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Another Look at the Lending Market
June 21, 2019Anticipating next week’s Cardus study on pay day loans, and a vote by the city of Kitchener to regulate the sector, Convivium’s Rebecca Atkinson talks to Cardus Work and Economics Program Director Brian Dijkema about helping low-income Canadians gain fair and equal access to credit.
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Alberta's Show of Hands
May 3, 2019Premier Jason Kenney’s no-frills swearing in gives Father Raymond de Souza time to turn from politics to art and find beauty in the work of human hands.
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Trying to Find a Place in This World
December 27, 2018In the last seven years, Convivium contributor Haley Welch has moved many times: to new neighbourhoods, new provinces, and new countries. To move on (or away) is not equivalent to editing out the reality of that place from her story, she writes.
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The Shared Space of Faith And Science
February 23, 2018Milton Friesen, program director of Cardus Social Cities, will deliver a lecture this evening at McMaster University’s Divinity College on Religion And Science: Conspiring Together For God. As Milton tells Convivium’s Peter Stockland, he intends it as a catalyst to a much broader and deeper conversation about the institutional responsibilities of faith and science in Canada’s common life.
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Living A Different Answer
January 9, 2018Father Deacon Andrew Bennett, director of Cardus Law, celebrates Christmas with hundreds of Millennials who respond to old holiday questions with a new zeal for Truth
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Calling for the Common Good
December 8, 2017Today, we release the final piece in our series of Policy Options articles that have emerged as a response to our Spirited Citizenship: Care, Conflict, and Virtue round table in Ottawa last month, convened in partnership with the Angus Reid Institute to mark Canada’s Sesquicentennial.
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Start the Revolution Without Me
July 28, 2017Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts features a summer exhibition, Revolution, paying tribute to the 1960s. Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland drops by and finds the only thing missing is the whole truth about that often dangerously demented decade. Did they forget how to spell Charlie Manson's name?
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Canada: Intimations of Liberty
May 6, 2017Hearing the seductive, loon-like call of so-called postnationalists who claim Canada is without identity, political philosopher John Von Heyking insists the Fathers of Confederation would have seen the “ironic pose of non-identity as infertile soil for heartfelt protection of rights.”
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Building the Social City
March 21, 2017The networks of relationships needed to make a community not only liveable but also sociable can be vast and complex. But as Milton Friesen writes, they can also be entered into, appreciated and drawn upon by something as simple and convivial as shared conversation over grits and fried catfish.
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Door To Door
February 7, 2017Publisher Peter Stockland reflects on the virtue of common decency and how the act of just holding a door for one another can remind us of what truly matters.
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Is God Good For Cities?
January 30, 2017Milton Friesen, Program Director for Social Cities at Cardus, shares the importance of strong social fabric and the contribution that religious communities make to the health of their cities.
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Fire in Fort McMurray: A Proper Response
May 6, 2016 -
Changing Politics for a Changed Country
March 7, 2016 -
Sustainable Cities and Social Capital: Common Dilemmas and Hopes
February 17, 2016 -
Law, Design, and the Human Habitat: Part II
May 13, 2015 -
Law, Design, and the Human Habitat: Part I
May 12, 2015 -
Relatable Art and Invitational Work
October 24, 2014 -
My Kind of 'Christian Nation'
May 22, 2014 -
Turn your back to them
April 7, 2014 -
In Defense of Suburbia
January 31, 2014 -
Walking Away From Omelas
January 10, 2014 -
Cardus Daily's Greatest Hits of 2013 - Part 1
December 30, 2013 -
My 2013 Top Ten
December 26, 2013 -
Panem et circenses
December 10, 2013
