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
A Publisher Who Took a Stand
By Peter Stockland
September 26, 2014
The subject of his praise was Link Byfield, former publisher of Alberta Report magazine, policy activist, and politician "You integrated faith with things the world tries to keep separate," the former Reform Party leader and now silver eminence of the conservative movement said this week
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Democracy's Finest Hour?
Peter Stockland
September 19, 2014
All, of course, were very much on the mind of Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko when he addressed the Parliament of Canada this week They did so not as a result of any kind of noblesse oblige on the part of tenderhearted Canadians already here, but because they accepted, very early, the necessity...
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Democracy’s Finest Hour?
Peter Stockland
September 19, 2014
Peter Stockland on Scotish, Ukrainian, and Canadian democracies.
All that really needs to be said is being said about the necessity of democratic politics being the default politics for the human condition ...
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Publisher's Letter
Peter Stockland
August 1, 2014
Dressing Up
Finding something we can work with and benefit from may be the perfect modus operandi for fostering faith in common life, not least for contradicting, and even resisting, the Bossy Boots State when it presumes to dictate what we should wear or how we should share ...
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Correct Thinking: Everyone Comfortable, All the Time
Peter Stockland
June 26, 2014
Ezra publicly found fault with the decision of Nanaimo's democratically elected councilors to tear up a signed deal with a Christian leadership group and prohibit it from using city property to it hold its video-link Leadercast conference The indefatigable Ezra Levant has again dug up another under-...
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Correct Thinking: Everyone Comfortable, All the Time
Peter Stockland
June 26, 2014
The indefatigable Ezra Levant has again dug up another under-reported story for Canadians, this time out of Nanaimo City Council, no less. Alas, while the Sun TV host is irrepressible at scouring the nation for nuggets ignored by the mainstream media,
Ezra publicly found fault with the decision of Nanaimo’s democratically elected councilors to tear up a signed deal with a Christian leadership group and prohibit it from using city property to it hold its video-link Leadercast conference ...
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Birds Do It
Peter Stockland
June 4, 2014
When I come out on the porch, by contrast, through some shimmering signal shot through Creation, the robin evidently knows a stranger is at hand and flies around the yard in ways clearly designed to lead a designated predator—me—away from her nest ...
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Birds Do It
Peter Stockland
June 4, 2014
Peter Stockland on what robins can remind us about life and death.
Outside our back door there is a tree and in the overlap of its coniferous branches is a small, obscured, protected space where a robin has built a nest ...
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Publisher's Letter
Peter Stockland
June 1, 2014
Summer and sacrifice Convivium Jun / Jul 2014 Peter Stockland
It is, of course, the acme of unfashionability in this particular political season to think of gratitude going the other way as well: from Canadians so blessed to live in this country towards politicians such as Jim Flaherty who serve and sacrifice to fulfill those blessings Jim Flaherty was but one...
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The Public Square Must Be Controlled
Peter Stockland
May 9, 2014
Dismiss this if you like as the churlishness of a Westerner who has lived many years in Quebec, but Justin Trudeau reminds me of a one-eyed inebriate playing whack-a-mole The problem, alas, is not that the Liberal leader failed to use his head this time in his laudable, on-target opposition to the Q...
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The Public Square Must Be Controlled
Peter Stockland
May 9, 2014
Peter Stockland on Justin Trudeau's recent announcement regarding pro-life party members.
Setting aside my reflexive loathing of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as a prime minister, I praised his son—despite the many sins of the father—for his immediate and pointed rejection of Quebec’s odious Charter of Values ...
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Welcome home, Quebec
Peter Stockland
April 15, 2014
Implicit, except for the moment when he wandered off script and suggested even factory workers would benefit from learning English, is the reality that Quebecers are comfortable in Canada precisely because they have the security in Quebec and Canada that sovereigntists promised them for decades coul...
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Welcome home, Quebec
Peter Stockland
April 15, 2014
Peter Stockland on the demolition of the sovereigntist movement in Quebec.
The combined popular vote for the two parties that campaigned against the whole idea of sovereignty and staging another referendum was almost exactly the same percentage as pre-campaign polls that showed two-thirds of Quebecers rejected the option ...
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Publisher's Letter
Peter Stockland
April 1, 2014
Beauty and the Priest
This is the face of the Church – of Christian life; indeed of the whole life of religious faith – that Pope Francis is asking us to open our eyes upon anew He actually retired from active ministry last year but then – welcome to Quebec – came back rather than have the church stand empty on the weeks...
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Justin Case
Peter Stockland
February 24, 2014
Cardus: My impression from watching the convention is that the federal Liberals are a lot like the Latvians—not quite ready for the gold medal hockey game but surprisingly feisty and with a lot more game than most people thought JM: Cardus is a Christian-based think tank, and I don't know that we've...
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Justin Case
Peter Stockland
February 24, 2014
Federal Liberals spent the past weekend at their biennial convention in Montreal. Cardus’s Peter Stockland sat down with Scarborough-Guildwood Liberal MP John McKay to get his assessment of the last big party gathering before the 2015 federal election.
John McKay: I’m not sure we need to be ready for the gold medal game in February, 2014 ...
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Corporate Faith
Peter Stockland
February 13, 2014
Yet when the Supreme Court of Canada hears arguments next month in the dispute between Loyola High School and the government of Quebec, the implications will be at least as far reaching as TWU's bid to marry an evangelical Christian ethos with accreditation of our next generation of lawyers It is al...
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Corporate Faith
Peter Stockland
February 13, 2014
Peter Stockland shares his thoughts on the implications of the Supreme Court decision regarding Loyola High School's religious rights.
Yet when the Supreme Court of Canada hears arguments next month in the dispute between Loyola High School and the government of Quebec, the implications will be at least as far reaching as TWU’s bid to marry an evangelical Christian ethos with accreditation of our next generation of lawyers ...
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Publisher's Letter
Peter Stockland
February 1, 2014
Hunger for religious faith re-grounds us in a seriousness proper to grow wise in, even if only that so much grass lies round.
The Chinese Church may not be basking in the Four Winds of Happiness – living out religious faith still requires a delicate dance with the Communist dragon – but it is feeding the increasing hunger for the Word A student of Buddhism for 40 years, Carolan lives anew the meaning of the Lenten ashes fr...
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Journalistic Ambiguity Not Worth A Tweet
Peter Stockland
January 16, 2014
In the world of journalist as creator and interpreter of grand ambiguities, however, a factual zero is but a peephole through which to spy a coruscating cascade of "what ifs?" and "is it possible thats?" and "how will we respond whens?" and, ultimately, "where do we draw the line against this madne...
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Journalistic Ambiguity Not Worth A Tweet
Peter Stockland
January 16, 2014
Peter Stockland on journalistic ambiguities.
Cardus Daily blogger Albertos Polizogopoulos did a majestic job yesterday of knocking the stuffing out of the pseudo-legal folderol surrounding York University’s purported reasonable accommodation debacle ...
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Abundant Hope for The Walking Dead
Peter Stockland
January 9, 2014
The surface plot of TWD revolves the question raised by the paradox of the title: If the dead walk, can they be considered truly dead? Similarly, entering the gates of Costco gives rise to the query: if shopping involves filling up a cart the size of a hot tub with more food than was eaten in severa...
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Abundant Hope for The Walking Dead
Peter Stockland
January 9, 2014
Peter Stockland delves into the difficult question, "What is the possible meaning of life when the purpose of life has become simply more?"
No one, in any episode for the first three seasons at least, ever goes to Costco ...
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Home and Heart
Peter Stockland
December 19, 2013
What happens, though, when the very notion of home is in the hands of a race of perpetual Phileas Foggs? If it was a stunning feat for a Victorian to leave home and travel around the world in 80 days, what can home possibly signify to moderns whose feet rarely touch the ground? ...