http://www.cardus.ca/contributors/pstockland en Copyright 2012 Cardus Thu, 24 May 2012 11:23:37 -0400 Cardus Thu, 24 May 2012 11:23:37 -0400 http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/05/plus-ca-change/ On today's 100th day of protests by Quebec students, Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau offers a scabrous depiction of his province. Citing former Laval University professor and labour re... Tue, 22 May 2012 13:47:00 -0400 On today's 100th day of protests by Quebec students, Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau offers a scabrous depiction of his province. Citing former Laval University professor and labour re... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/05/responding-to-the-wreckage-around-me/ At the annual spiritual exercises of the Catholic fraternity to which I belong, we spent the weekend oscillating between questions and Christ. Not, I must quickly add, the sophomoric, pseudo-theologic... Wed, 16 May 2012 18:27:00 -0400 At the annual spiritual exercises of the Catholic fraternity to which I belong, we spent the weekend oscillating between questions and Christ. Not, I must quickly add, the sophomoric, pseudo-theologic... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/05/an-offense-against-charity/ It always amazes me how Christians clamouring to be heard in the public square are so often convinced they are best understood with both feet in their mouth. Within a month, we've had two cringe-induc... Thu, 10 May 2012 16:08:00 -0400 It always amazes me how Christians clamouring to be heard in the public square are so often convinced they are best understood with both feet in their mouth. Within a month, we've had two cringe-induc... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/05/conrad-black-deserves-trumpets/ Doubtless Conrad Black would prefer to forego the brass band and welcoming speeches on the tarmac when he comes back to Canada, a free man, in a few days. It's a pity. He deserves them. And more. Much... Wed, 02 May 2012 13:44:00 -0400 Doubtless Conrad Black would prefer to forego the brass band and welcoming speeches on the tarmac when he comes back to Canada, a free man, in a few days. It's a pity. He deserves them. And more. Much... http://www.cardus.ca/convivium/article/3255/ 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 masquera... Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400 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 masquera... http://www.cardus.ca/columns/3202/ Word arrives that newly re-elected Premier Alison Redford is being described as a political centrist in the image of Peter Lougheed. There is a word for that kind of word. It is nonsense. If Redford ... Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Word arrives that newly re-elected Premier Alison Redford is being described as a political centrist in the image of Peter Lougheed. There is a word for that kind of word. It is nonsense. If Redford ... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/04/what-we-call-politics/ Partisans of Alberta's Wildrose Party will understandably be tempted to fall into "we wuz robbed" syndrome. They should resist. Mightily. The result of Monday's provincial vote was win-win for conserv... Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:13:00 -0400 Partisans of Alberta's Wildrose Party will understandably be tempted to fall into "we wuz robbed" syndrome. They should resist. Mightily. The result of Monday's provincial vote was win-win for conserv... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/04/sit-down-shut-up-you-lost/ Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente writes thousands of excellent words a month. Almost all bring the fresh scent of common sense. Many are contrarian in a way the makes me wonder how they ever be... Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:41:00 -0400 Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente writes thousands of excellent words a month. Almost all bring the fresh scent of common sense. Many are contrarian in a way the makes me wonder how they ever be... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/04/conscience-rights-are-charter-rights/ Have Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith's in-born libertarian instincts cost her a majority government in the Alberta election? According to a Calgary Herald-Edmonton Journal poll reported in today'... Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:41:00 -0400 Have Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith's in-born libertarian instincts cost her a majority government in the Alberta election? According to a Calgary Herald-Edmonton Journal poll reported in today'... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/04/losing-canadas-humanity/ Within 14 months, Quebec doctors will almost certainly begin intentionally killing their patients across the province. They will deliberately inject the dying, the depressed, and the distraught with l... Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:48:00 -0400 Within 14 months, Quebec doctors will almost certainly begin intentionally killing their patients across the province. They will deliberately inject the dying, the depressed, and the distraught with l... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/03/according-to-doyle/ Whenever Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle gets my Irish up by straying into politics, I pray that Clancy will lower the boom boom boom on him. But if political Doyle deserves the fate of fictional ... Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:49:00 -0400 Whenever Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle gets my Irish up by straying into politics, I pray that Clancy will lower the boom boom boom on him. But if political Doyle deserves the fate of fictional ... http://www.cardus.ca/convivium/blog/3147/ Convivium was delighted to host Minister Jason Kenney, Cardinal Tom Collins, and Cardinal Oswald Gracias for an evening banquet on Monday.... Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Convivium was delighted to host Minister Jason Kenney, Cardinal Tom Collins, and Cardinal Oswald Gracias for an evening banquet on Monday.... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/03/look-at-those-cavemen-go/ As Canada's media and political exhibitionists scandalize themselves with tales of robo-dialed phone calls, real robotics overhead have humanity on the further edge of wonder. This August, barring cat... Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:59:00 -0400 As Canada's media and political exhibitionists scandalize themselves with tales of robo-dialed phone calls, real robotics overhead have humanity on the further edge of wonder. This August, barring cat... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/03/the-acid-erosion-of-political-trust/ Our real problem is that it's never enough for it to be what it is, is it? It always has to instantaneously expand from something gone wrong to yet another full-blown scrape us screeching off the ceil... Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:00:00 -0500 Our real problem is that it's never enough for it to be what it is, is it? It always has to instantaneously expand from something gone wrong to yet another full-blown scrape us screeching off the ceil... http://www.cardus.ca/convivium/article/3066/ Even on his death bed, the anti-theist crusader could not see the power that being changed can give.... Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Even on his death bed, the anti-theist crusader could not see the power that being changed can give.... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/02/private-lies-and-public-causes/ Rex Murphy makes the point in the first issue of Convivium magazine that we should all breath deep and turn down the rhetorical heat way down. Murphy, famous for his acerbic commentaries on CBC Radio ... Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:32:00 -0500 Rex Murphy makes the point in the first issue of Convivium magazine that we should all breath deep and turn down the rhetorical heat way down. Murphy, famous for his acerbic commentaries on CBC Radio ... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/02/straying-from-our-triangles/ I blogged here recently about the way small magazines are challenging the pusillanimous acquiescence of mainstream media before the Internet onslaught. My post should have acknowledged that some of th... Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:50:00 -0500 I blogged here recently about the way small magazines are challenging the pusillanimous acquiescence of mainstream media before the Internet onslaught. My post should have acknowledged that some of th... http://www.cardus.ca/columns/3092/ Politicians given enough rope will invariably hang themselves, figuratively speaking of course. Such is the case with Parti Quebecois justice critic Veronique Hivon, whose clamor for legalizing euthan... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Politicians given enough rope will invariably hang themselves, figuratively speaking of course. Such is the case with Parti Quebecois justice critic Veronique Hivon, whose clamor for legalizing euthan... http://www.cardus.ca/blog/2012/02/morning-and-midnight-in-montreal/ Even the best morning radio isn't meant to be the wakey-wakey equivalent of the evening CBC show Ideas, or similar thought-provoking programming. So the crew at CBC Montreal's Daybreak deserve a break... Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:19:00 -0500 Even the best morning radio isn't meant to be the wakey-wakey equivalent of the evening CBC show Ideas, or similar thought-provoking programming. So the crew at CBC Montreal's Daybreak deserve a break... http://www.cardus.ca/columns/3084/ Peter Stockland joins other Globe and Mail pundits discussing the limits to raising children.... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Peter Stockland joins other Globe and Mail pundits discussing the limits to raising children....