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
Publisher's Letter
By Peter Stockland
June 1, 2013
Book of love
Klein managed to manage Alberta back to economic health without the education, knowledge, deep reading or direct experience in the financial sector displayed by Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, academic Roger Martin or our own Cambridge-trained economist Father Raymond J Did Ralph Klein accept the invitation to,as it were, make book on his own relationship with God? Some say yes
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Vocabulary of Difference
Peter Stockland
May 29, 2013
A witty fellow sent me an e-mail at the start of this week's Bridging the Secular Divide conference pointing out the paradox of it being held in Montreal ...
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The Question Asked Too Late
Peter Stockland
May 21, 2013
Indeed, having known Fife for so long, I am willing to bet some portion of $90,000 that this is exactly the question he asked and began doggedly pursuing the moment he first heard that the senator had repaid in full all misallocated funds owing: "Where in the (ahem) world does (ahem) Mike (ahem) Duf...
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Conrad Black and Crossing Toward Truth
Peter Stockland
May 14, 2013
At our Cardus Convivium dinner last week in Calgary, where Black was the marquee attraction, he asserted, responding to a question, his innocence in the criminal case brought against him by the U.S At our Cardus Convivium event in Toronto on May 3 when we hosted Governor Mark Carney, I had the good ...
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A Goose on a Roof
Peter Stockland
May 9, 2013
On a particular occasion in Calgary, we were running through the neighborhood of Elbow Park and I was cajoling her to try to keep an even pace when I realized she had stopped in her tracks at a street corner half a block behind me ...
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Stone, Tablets, and Miracles
Peter Stockland
April 30, 2013
Still, even the most casual reader of business or technology news could be forgiven for expecting such a forecast to be made with full frontal irony in mind It seems the new CEO of Blackberry was being anything but ironic when he declared this week that tablet computing will be all but dead in five ...
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Airports and . . . Train Stations? Where Freedom is Put Out to Pasture
Peter Stockland
April 23, 2013
Those who find such a claim slightly excessive should spend extensive time travelling, as I do, by VIA Rail and then return to air travel via one of our major landing strips I drove past my local VIA Rail station, and it looked to me as though they were unloading off the back of a truck something th...
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Fear Going On
Peter Stockland
April 16, 2013
At the same time, it does seem a very different threshold was crossed mere metres from the finish line of the Boston Marathon A woman in our running group at the Paris marathon a few years ago said: "I've run marathons, and I've given birth ...
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Not Ideology but Character: Long Live Maggie Thatcher
Peter Stockland
April 9, 2013
I watched from a few feet away—and silently cheered madly—as she ate Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney alive during an impromptu press conference on the tarmac at Mirabel Airport when the two clashed over South African sanctions I remember watching the eyes of the Canadian delegates there and, ...
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A Quiet Battle in an Echo-ocracy
Peter Stockland
April 4, 2013
In addition to guiding two pieces of legislation through Parliament to help combat human trafficking legally, Smith is active in a network of safe houses set up across the country to give victims a place they can go for security, shelter, food, clothing, and eventually education Unfazed by the inces...
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Publisher's Letter
Peter Stockland
April 1, 2013
Time and eternity
This mysterious shading of the finite and infinite, of time and timelessness, was a chiaroscuro thematic during the papal conclave that brought us Pope Francis, and it is in the April/May issue of Convivium as well "The conclave refuses to accommodate itself to the world outside, even if the fruit o...
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If I Speak, But Have Not Respect
Peter Stockland
March 26, 2013
When Tiger bottomed out at 58th place in the world standings, and was stuck in the muck of his own making, John emphatically declared him "finished" as a force in golf In golf, there are hackers, there are inept fanatics (hi, mom!), there are very good amateur players (Peter Menzies, call the Cardus...
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The Connorian Oeuvre: A Tribute to Stompin' Tom
Peter Stockland
March 19, 2013
Long before "The Hockey Song" propelled him to Canadian earworm status, I was an apostle of Stompin' Tom Connors and a fierce advocate of the late, great Prince Edward Islander's elevation to poet laureate Can you name one literary artist in Canadian history who would have the sheer guts—never mind ...
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Small Mercies: An Interview with Robert Reynolds
Peter Stockland
March 12, 2013
Robert Reynolds: It's true it doesn't get rid of it, but I feel the clause is unconstitutional because it prevents people from using public premises for any religious purpose Cardus: I understand, though, that while Paula Celani has won the case on the ticket, the ruling doesn't force a change in th...
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'There's also another line of authority in Canada'
Peter Stockland
March 5, 2013
(The Cardus Daily's Peter Stockland spoke to Toronto lawyer Phil Horgan, national president of the Catholic Civil Rights League, about two events last week that brought freedom of speech to the forefront of public debate Cardus: The Supreme Court's decision last week in the William Whatcott case is ...
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'People are facing violence and death for having a particular faith'
Peter Stockland
February 19, 2013
Janet Epp Buckingham: One real priority is to improve the sensitivity and awareness within foreign affairs of different religions and the role that religion plays in various conflicts, highlighting the ways that religious minorities are facing violence and persecution Cardus: I got a message from so...
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'He Has No Longer the Strength'
Peter Stockland
February 11, 2013
Cardus: Do you think that he would have compared what his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, went through with his incredible Polish toughness and refusal to concede for one moment? Would he have seen that as much as we admired John Paul II for his toughness, he did become a visual symbol of a Church t...
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This is Ultra-Tolerance
Peter Stockland
February 5, 2013
What struck me in contrasting that long ago episode with Eddie's response was not the juxtaposition of strength against weakness but the difference in the vocabulary available then to my mother, an ordinary citizen, and now even to an advice columnist in Canada's national newspaper Rather than upbra...
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When Yoga Chases out the Blue Collars
Peter Stockland
January 29, 2013
Now, of course, the private property fetishists and anti-union nasty boys will join in shrill chorus to counter that people are entitled to make whatever profit they can from land they legally own; that the economic sclerosis caused by Stanford's masters in Big Labour is properly to blame for the lo...
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Progressing Backwards
Peter Stockland
January 22, 2013
George, set out in five easy steps the recipe that activists cooking up all manner of "social progress" have used in Canada during the past 40 years: ...
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Avoiding What's in Front of Us
Peter Stockland
January 15, 2013
No matter that more than 50 Quebec medical doctors and some of the province's most senior academics and intellectuals signed one of those submissions The last hurdle to the legislation was yesterday's release of an "expert legal opinion" claiming that legalizing "medical aid to die" is within Quebec...
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What Parliament Thinks but Cannot Say
Peter Stockland
January 8, 2013
For as Simpson emphasizes in his column, using his own words but clearly reflecting increasingly acceptable thought in Ottawa, the true victims of these political shenanigans are aboriginal Canadians themselves ...
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The Great Lie of Managerialism
Peter Stockland
January 2, 2013
It's a huge and impossible lie, improbable to anyone who has ever witnessed to Satan's single great lie from the Old Testament: "Ye shall be as gods On the penultimate evening of 2012, I boarded a VIA train at Belleville, Ontario to make my way home to Montreal ...
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Publisher's Letter: Thanks to YOU! Happy Birthday to Us
Peter Stockland
January 1, 2013
We not only got Convivium off the ground with our preview issue in October 2011 but also got such great support from across the country that we met our first year benchmark for memberships and our budget objectives as well ...