Peter Stockland
Peter Stockland is a Cardus Senior Fellow and Publisher of the Catholic Register.
Bio last updated April 4th, 2022.
Articles by Peter Stockland
The Fraught Line Between Faith and Politics
By Peter Stockland
April 17, 2015
The violation of necessary State religious neutrality by the Saguenay municipal council, the Court agreed, constituted unjustifiable discrimination against resident atheist Alain Simoneau Much as people of religious faith are conditioned to seeing bad news coming from the Supreme Court of Canada, the Saguenay decision is, generally speaking, a good decision, well-framed, and, it seems, worth welcoming.
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Publisher's Letter: Hosanna and Huzzah
Peter Stockland
April 1, 2015
While it is reasonable to expect Loyola to teach about other religions from a "neutral" perspective, the Court said, the refusal to allow the Montreal Jesuit school to manifest its own identity while teaching about Catholicism contradicts the Ethics and Religious Culture program's own stated goal of...
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Progress in the Face of Reality
Peter Stockland
March 30, 2015
Not surprisingly, both as a study presented by a "progressive" institute and as a general observation of life, more "young" Canadians than "older" Canadians support the agenda of the Broadbent Institute This led to the question posed by the title of the report: "Could a Progressive Platform Capture ...
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Distractions and Counterfeits
Peter Stockland
March 27, 2015
In "The Serpent and the Centre," Sharpless, a 20-something New Yorker, is as concerned as Gavin Miller and Matthew Crawford by the dislocating falsehoods and the amphetamine diffusion of attention from hyper-technological urban life It's a theme attended to in Comment's superb interview between my C...
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No steps back, no steps forward
Peter Stockland
March 19, 2015
The Supreme Court of Canada says Montreal's Loyola High School had its Charter religious freedoms violated by the Quebec government's refusal to allow it to teach a program from a Catholic perspective ...
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Happy are those
Peter Stockland
March 18, 2015
Indeed, during his research and writing for the definitive two-volume biography of John Paul II, it became clear to Weigel that the future saint developed, early in life, an interior capacity for tenacious resistance to the "tyranny of the possible": doing solely what the world limits us to rather t...
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Spring in the Capital
Peter Stockland
March 11, 2015
Whatever the majority of established Canadians might think about the arrival of Muslim women in veils, and however much the prime minister might protest the position is based on the principle of equality for women, the government is simply wrong to attempt to dictate the fundamental haberdashery cho...
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Remembering Lougheed's contribution to Canada
Peter Stockland
March 11, 2015
“Canada has not happened,” Rex Murphy told his Manning Centre audience. “It has been built. And you are the inheritors.”
Such was the case last weekend when the Calgary-based Manning Centre for Building Democracy gave the stage at its annual networking conference in the national capital to Rex Murphy, that proud and famous son of Newfoundland ...
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A Confused Sense of Urgency
Peter Stockland
February 26, 2015
One of the few who seemed to get that was Prime Minister Harper himself, who surprised many by refusing to say in the Commons whether he has ruled out use of the so-called notwithstanding clause to override the Supreme Court ruling Yet, they claimed, there’s plenty of time to pass the new legislatio...
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Not even Supreme Court justices are above the law
Peter Stockland
February 25, 2015
Transplanted Calgarian Pierre Poilievre brings a western sensibility to the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
The upshot is that even a transplanted Calgarian such as Poilievre — dubbed the Canadian Sniper by Toronto Star columnist Tim Harper — brings a western sensibility to the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper ...
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No Mere Bad Habit
Peter Stockland
February 16, 2015
On a purely pragmatic level, federal Labour Minister Kellie Leitch must be pleased that the mere threat of back-to-work legislation got CP Rail trains running on time Monday Less than 24 hours after about 3,000 members of the Teamsters went on strike against CP Rail, the company and the union announ...
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Court's assisted-suicide ruling raises prospect of 'kill at will'
Peter Stockland
February 11, 2015
The idea has quickly taken hold that the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a law prohibiting doctors from assisting at suicides. It did not, says Peter Stockland
The belief has grown since last Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada decision that we will have legalized doctor-assisted suicide by next year ...
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A Truly Bizarre Lapse
Peter Stockland
February 7, 2015
The composite worst of all three bad things was the logic by which nine justices of the Supreme Court of Canada accepted that a) the State must limit its protection of human life, b) that killing is acceptable with the right provisos, and c) that the health care system is a perfectly acceptable plac...
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Nova Scotia and TWU FAQ
Peter Stockland
February 2, 2015
Campbell of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruled the Barrister’s Society (NSBS) was acting outside its jurisdiction and violated religious freedom as set out in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms But wasn’t Justice Campbell concerned about implied endorsement of TWU’s covenant by the State or ot...
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"My Faith is Me"
Andrew P.W. Bennett with Peter Stockland
February 1, 2015
Completing his second year as Canada's Ambassador for Religious Freedom, Andrew Bennett tells Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland he couldn't do the job without the religious faith he brings to daily life
One question that I get asked quite often is, "In religious freedom, how can you go ahead and defend the rights of different religious organizations that may have a prejudicial view against people with a same-sex orientation?" My response is always the same: It is perfectly justifiable from the pers...
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What Changed was the World
Peter Stockland
February 1, 2015
Shortly after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer—and following the death of his mother, Virginia—journalist, author, policy advocate, elected senator-in-waiting, political candidate and co-founder of Alberta's Wildrose Party Link Byfield sat down to chat with Convivium's publisher, Peter Stockland
Now I'm in the business of alternative health and the first thing about alternative health is if I want an IV, a vitamin C IV, and I did for six weeks or so, I go pay $200 every time I plunk my butt in that chair and someone sticks that needle in my vein C: CN patched it up again and people kept cut...
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Link Byfield's political battles improved Canada
Peter Stockland
January 28, 2015
The mere fact of losing a battle does not mean the battle was futile
In brief remarks at an evening honouring him last September, Link Byfield acknowledged he and most present has lost crucial political battles over the years ...
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Our Neighbours' Eyes
Peter Stockland
January 15, 2015
Soon afterward, a Jewish woman in our research department stopped me in the corridor ...
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Cartoonists ignored the virtue of prudence
Peter Stockland
January 14, 2015
Why knowingly provoke psychotically enraged young men bereft of hope who are actively being cultivated by our enemies as mobile weapons against us?
The tone of reconciliation in the new cover of Charlie Hebdo points to what seemed lost after last week’s murderous attack: recognition of the essential distinction between fear and prudence ...
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Merry Christmas
Peter Stockland
December 22, 2014
Apparently there was a near riot in the lobby when the manager confronted a delegation of—get this—international chess grandmasters The journalist Tom Wolfe maintained, through both his reportage and later his fiction, that what the great 19th century novelists understood was all of human life is ab...
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Merry Christmas
Peter Stockland
December 22, 2014
Peter Stockland on the human need for humour as a form of daring humility.
Apparently there was a near riot in the lobby when the manager confronted a delegation of—get this—international chess grandmasters ...
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How small things transformed Alberta politics
Peter Stockland
December 17, 2014
"You never know what will get people's attention, what they'll react to, what will make them mad."
The late, great Rod Love believed fervently that democracy turns on small things ...
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Battle Facts
Peter Stockland
December 5, 2014
Despite the reticence of military communicators to actually reveal much of anything about our participation in Operation Impact, a large truth emerged out of the flannel-mouthing and evading The occasion was an all-party media conference held by Justice Minister Peter McKay, Green Party leader Eliza...
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Battle Facts
Peter Stockland
December 5, 2014
A Department of National Defence briefing on Canada’s role in Iraq yesterday was almost comically short on fresh facts.
Despite the reticence of military communicators to actually reveal much of anything about our participation in Operation Impact, a large truth emerged out of the flannel-mouthing and evading ...