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
Debating the end of debate
By Peter Stockland
June 12, 2012
In calling for the counter protests, an official with the CAW's women's program insisted such action was essential to "once again tell (the caravan proponents) that our reproductive rights are not up for debate More seriously, we see in the current debate over euthanasia a revivifying of the old, and we thought extinguished, ideology of eugenics
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Religious rights are not human rights?
Peter Stockland
June 5, 2012
That's why it is so key to understand, as the young woman in the Bill 13 video clearly does not, that contempt for the rights of others is always a very bad idea. As Bill 13 was being passed in the Ontario legislature today, a parent's rights group was circulating the following video: "You Deserve t...
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Melt, baby, melt
Peter Stockland
May 29, 2012
He also loves newspapers, which is why he returned to Postmedia to try to save it from the catastrophic incompetence of its previous owners It failed to include the truth that, at a time of intense content competition among all media forms, some Postmedia papers are being pressed to rake in almost 4...
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Plus ca change
Peter Stockland
May 22, 2012
"The two (sides) of Quebec are corruption and revolution," he quotes Breton Citing former Laval University professor and labour relations specialist Rejean Breton, Martineau renders Quebecers as infantile, self-obsessed fantasists suckling upon the Nanny State ...
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Responding to the Wreckage Around Me
Peter Stockland
May 16, 2012
In the words of Father Julian Carron, who led our exercises: "There will be no faithfulness unless there is the question to which Christ is the answer At the end of the spiritual exercises for our fraternity, Father Carron had a concrete suggestion: Start over, every day, until it is not I who live,...
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An Offense Against Charity
Peter Stockland
May 10, 2012
Alas, even as perspicacious a Christian as my whipper-snapper colleague Brian Dijkema got drawn into the rush to defend William Swinimer, the Nova Scotia high school student who became last week's 15-minute martyr for refusing to remove a T-shirt that said "Life is wasted without Jesus That's been a...
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Conrad Black deserves trumpets
Peter Stockland
May 2, 2012
Yes, Conrad Black was forced by former Prime Minister Jean Chretien's virulent act of vindictiveness to relinquish his Canadian citizenship more than a decade ago Mulcair caught breath from slagging Conrad Black long enough to point to the case of a convinced criminal named Gary Freeman who has been...
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Publisher's Letter: Statist Schoolmarms
Peter Stockland
May 1, 2012
The families at the centre of the Loyola case are determined to fight as far as they can to protect their Charter freedoms and ensure their kids are not victimized by State-imposed secularism masquerading as comparative religion.
No one knows yet, of course, whether the appeal court justices will uphold the decision of a lower court and rule that the government of Quebec violated the religious freedom of Catholic parents whose children attend the Montreal private school Elation at the Loyola parents' win in Superior Court wa...
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What we call politics
Peter Stockland
April 25, 2012
Because of its place on the political spectrum, because it was born from deep conservative dissatisfaction with the previous Progressive Conservative government, Wildrose has the chance to give Albertans a vigorously effective opposition for the first time in a very, very long time It is true that P...
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Sit down. Shut up. You lost.
Peter Stockland
April 17, 2012
But if time and attention were afforded the proponents of these "social" changes, how can those necessities be denied the opponents who maintain society has suffered because of the transformation? How can there be no equivalent political time for them to press their case? It doesn't make sense Smith...
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Conscience rights are Charter rights
Peter Stockland
April 10, 2012
Premier Alison Redford last week attacked the Wildrose platform for promising to protect conscience rights by letting health care professionals and marriage commissioners go to court for legal exemptions from, say, performing abortions, dispensing contraceptives, or officiating at same-sex weddings ...
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Losing Canada's humanity
Peter Stockland
April 3, 2012
When the first patients die in Quebec next year, Canada dies with them It is Canada as a nation where the rule of law, arising from our universal acceptance of the sanctity of human life, prevails ...
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According to Doyle
Peter Stockland
March 27, 2012
What that reminds us is that while John Doyle is fighting the true fight in contending that TV has surpassed the novel as our "most important vehicle for sociological and psychological truth," cinema actually laid a licking on book-bound literature first Whenever Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle ...
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Look At Those Cavemen Go
Peter Stockland
March 13, 2012
Indeed, a recent article I read on the upcoming Curiosity expedition emphasized how much Mars itself has become a solar system Holiday Inn: no surprises ...
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The acid erosion of political trust
Peter Stockland
March 8, 2012
Yet what ho? The NDP is reportedly set to use Opposition time in the Commons today to press for a debate on increasing the powers of Elections Canada so that all telecom companies that provide campaign services to federal parties must be registered and all users verified ...
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Publisher's Letter: Will Christopher Hitchens Matter?
Peter Stockland
March 1, 2012
Even on his death bed, the anti-theist crusader could not see the power that being changed can give.
In companion essays, Farrow, professor of Christian thought at McGill, and Zucchi, chairman of McGill's history department, maintain that the Quebec government is forcefully imposing a strict secularist religiosity on all strata of life in the province, threatening the very ideal of religious freedo...
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Private lies and public causes
Peter Stockland
February 28, 2012
So, too, the private justification of public lies produces not only the articulation of absurd political untruths but also the inability over time to recognize the corruption of that interior place where falsehood must first be challenged ...
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Straying from our triangles
Peter Stockland
February 22, 2012
A prime example of that fighting spirit is the entry into the North American print market of a magazine called Intelligent Life, a sumptuous, oversized style, culture, and travel magazine published by, of all outfits, The Economist As writer Ian Leslie argues in an Intelligent Life column, the loss ...
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Morning and midnight in Montreal
Peter Stockland
February 13, 2012
What you cannot miss in Montreal today, of course, is that much of the urban core is situational squalor that leaks off the streets and pools underground at the Metro turnstiles ...
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It's not the cake's fault
Peter Stockland
February 7, 2012
Blaming the cake for what happens when we refuse that free gift makes as much sense as blaming the cutting board on which it sits Kyle Bennett, Comment magazine's reviews editor, stirred up a fuss among readers last week with an essay scalding makers of a popular board game for designing it to provo...
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Small becomes all
Peter Stockland
January 31, 2012
"Newcomers—almost four and a half million, a third from Asia, more than half from Mexico and Latin America—have created in Los Angeles a massive religious infrastructure similar to the network of Catholic parishes and Jewish synagogues that once anchored life in immigrant landing zones such as New Y...
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Bring Back the King
Peter Stockland
January 24, 2012
Having been a small child in the last years before Canada dumped its red Royal Mailboxes into the dustbin of history, I have always considered the British Crown a useless necessity Yet anyone who has brush history knows aed up against the leasts a matter of fact that for more than 400 years, the Bri...
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The events before us
Peter Stockland
January 17, 2012
In fact, we can affirm that reality is positive because (any given event) is not the last word of Christ ...
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Heaven is Chesterton meeting Steve Jobs
Peter Stockland
January 3, 2012
In fact, he was a thinker and writer of enormous depth and breadth—from the book on Aquinas to the essay on the pleasures of lying in bed—who took supremely seriously the human need to engage with the small and easy things that comprise the good Great progress is best measured, I think, in the splen...