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
Prentice has mishandled gay-straight alliances
By Peter Stockland
December 3, 2014
When the legal system becomes the automatic proxy for settling social contention, hurry up and wait becomes the order of the day
In the middle of the last decade, the Quebec government imposed a program called Ethics and Religious Culture on all schools in the province, including home schools
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Eros and Civility
Peter Stockland
December 1, 2014
Introduction from Publisher Peter Stockland
We want to sustain the pernicious myth of two generations that human sexual conduct is primarily recreational and only secondarily, to use the language of the Church, procreative and unitive Such restraint is articulated through the common decency, the common civility of traditional modes of right c...
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"Unfortunately, I Enjoy a Fight"
Peter Stockland
December 1, 2014
Alberta’s great journalist, educator, political warrior sits down with Convivium
As we did this, we realized that people acquired their values from four sources: first the family— a mother saying don't beat up your little brother; then the Church, which reinforced the family; then the school, which reinforced both the family and the Church; and finally the media, meaning literat...
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Parents need to be their children’s chief sex educator
Peter Stockland
November 27, 2014
Nothing ‘bizarre’ about parent interest in children’s developing sexuality
The chairwoman of Vancouver’s school board declared it “bizarre” last week that a group of parents is taking legal action to overturn policy allowing self-identified transgender students to use the washroom of their choice ...
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Give Hospitals Grassroots Treatment
Peter Stockland
November 24, 2014
But Simpson argued that a major source of our health care gridlock is the failure to actually save money by treating hospitals as almost-exclusively acute care facilities, and moving chronic care patients into long-term, community, or home care Alternative Level Care patients, as they're called insi...
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Give Hospitals Grassroots Treatment
Peter Stockland
November 24, 2014
The president of the Canadian Medical Association broke tradition last week by letting us in on two words that, he said, should get the attention of everyone who uses our health care system.
Christopher Simpson said, are “code gridlock ...
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The Value of Skilled Trades in Canada
Peter Stockland
November 21, 2014
There is a burgeoning realization, articulated by many at the Ottawa event but equally by participants at earlier regional Building Meaning roundtables across the country, that Canada is ripe to begin recognizing the work of skilled trades—and all forms of manual work—as valid and viable and meritor...
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The Value of Skilled Trades in Canada
Peter Stockland
November 21, 2014
Peter Stockland on Employment Minister Jason Kenney's message at the Cardus Building Meaning roundtable.
It’s an uncontroversial thing when Employment Minister Jason Kenney says he believes work is a good thing ...
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Ottawa 2014
Peter Stockland
November 11, 2014
There is a long road over flat country, And I know this belongs ...
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Lost in a Fog of Denial
Peter Stockland
November 10, 2014
Two generations after women became a massive part of the workforce and sexual harassment reared its head, we continue grappling—in Jian Gomeshi’s case, literally—for the right response Even if a smidgen of the allegations against Gomeshi are true—and it must be stressed that not one of them has been...
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Lost in a Fog of Denial
Peter Stockland
November 10, 2014
Two generations after women became a massive part of the workforce and sexual harassment reared its head, we continue grappling—in Jian Gomeshi’s case, literally—for the right response.
What is so on a personal level is even worse on an institutional level as we discovered this week when two Liberal MPs were summarily suspended from their caucus following allegations they each harassed female MPs from the NDP in different times, places and, presumably, ways ...
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A Manufactured Choice
Peter Stockland
October 31, 2014
During an interview on an Ottawa radio station yesterday, the executive director of the Institution for Marriage and the Family Canada, Andrea Mrozek, referred to such programs as “manufactured choice” that lets government “give” Canadians something it has decided they should choose Or—who knows?—in...
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A Manufactured Choice
Peter Stockland
October 31, 2014
Why Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proving to be one of the toughest opponents to beat.
Canada’s opposition leaders might have woken up today hearing a small inside voice asking if they now count among the crazy people for wanting to fight Stephen Harper ...
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Canada: Back to Normal
Peter Stockland
October 27, 2014
On Parliament Hill itself, the main wrought-iron gates remained closed to the public ...
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Canada: Back to Normal
Peter Stockland
October 27, 2014
Normalcy seemed to make a quick Canadian comeback last week when CBC Radio convened a media panel to discuss how well the media covered the Oct. 22 attack on Parliament Hill.
When our village solipsists feel free to turn the public conversation back to themselves again, you sense the world returning to its established order ...
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Canada Has Not Changed
Peter Stockland
October 23, 2014
Another ambient mystery already percolating even as police teams swarmed through cordoned-off downtown Ottawa hunting no-one-knew-what was: Will this change us? Will we be a different Canada the day after than we were in the minutes before the killing of Nathan Cirillo, the gunfire assault on our Pa...
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Canada Has Not Changed
Peter Stockland
October 23, 2014
Peter Stockland declares that we will not be changed by fear.
The question put to McKay was the obvious ambient mystery of the day: how on earth, after killing Cirillo in broad daylight, could that gunman have made his way onto Parliament Hill carrying a loaded long gun, then gotten past Parliamentary security into the building itself? ...
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Assisted dying: When what if becomes what is
Peter Stockland
October 22, 2014
This may seem a distant concern for a far off time dependent on the abstract whims of judges and lawyers breathing rarefied Ottawa courtroom air. It isn’t.
If tone and body language are at all reliable indicators, within the coming year, Canada’s Supreme Court will strike down current laws against assisted suicide ...
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The Core of the Euthanasia Clash
Peter Stockland
October 16, 2014
He said the trial judge made a political, not a judicial decision when she ruled that the risks of striking down the Canada's current euthanasia and assisted suicide laws were worth taking While the so-called Carter case was argued on the merits of discovering in the Canadian constitution a right to...
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The Core of the Euthanasia Clash
Peter Stockland
October 16, 2014
This week’s Supreme Court hearing on euthanasia was about life and death, of course, but it is equally about a powerful clash of institutions.
At least two elements make the Carter case so noteworthy in that regard ...
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At Sea and at Home
Peter Stockland
October 7, 2014
Yet very early in her 35-minute talk yesterday, the secretary of state, who logged more than a million miles visiting 112 countries in four years, began using Cardus language: the prudential need to renew underlying social architecture The key, Clinton stressed, is making it not merely an informatio...
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At Sea and at Home
Peter Stockland
October 7, 2014
Peter Stockland discovers that Cardus and Hillary Clinton may be on the same page about social architecture.
Any Cardus supporters attending Hillary Clinton’s speech to Canada’s self-proclaimed leading progressive think tank might have simultaneously felt at sea and at home ...
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Publisher's Letter
Peter Stockland
October 1, 2014
Faith and Curiosity
Rather, it's the joyful expression of faith driven by a curiosity, a wonder, a wanting to truly know what is in another's heart as much as what is on the other side of life. Richard Bastien argues in this issue that such despair can afflict even the beginnings of life through a culture-wide contrace...
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The Path Now Taken
Peter Stockland
October 1, 2014
Convivium publisher Peter Stockland takes a stroll from Montreal's past to its present, and finds a hole in a fence that keeps him on the path
In The Feel of the City, Kenny makes the case that Montreal was the ideological and physical 19th and 20th century force that pushed Canada into modernity with all its triumphs and tensions, progress and impoverishment Just as workers' bodies were metaphoric machines, so the physical space of a city...