Reading Time: 5 minutes Religious Sisters of various congregations are active in humanitarian work in their monasteries and beyond
Author: Peter Stockland
Prior to joining Cardus, Peter Stockland was vice-president of English-language magazines for Readers' Digest Magazines Canada Ltd. He was also a former editor-in-chief of The Gazette newspaper in Montreal, a former editorial page editor of the Calgary Herald newspaper. He's worked as a journalist throughout Canada during a 30-year career in the media.
The questions left unasked about Indigenous deaths
Reading Time: 5 minutes Including: how was it possible for these deaths to occur without anyone noticing?
We have to understand that MAiD still means homicide
Reading Time: 4 minutes A former veteran Mountie and local coroner has a sure-fire way to protect health care workers from being made to administer MAiD
Caught in the crosshairs of cancel culture trolls
Reading Time: 4 minutes Cancel culture slaughters reputations, leaving its victims to endure financial uncertainty, isolation, bewilderment and pain
What happens when a hospice rejects medical assistance in dying?
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘This is about the B.C. government destroying a sanctuary for dying patients who want the choice to stay in a facility where MAID is not offered’
Faith leaders oppose changes to MAID law
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Imposing the intentional taking of human life as a solution to human suffering is unacceptable for a civilized society’
The past isn’t a script set down in stone
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vandalizing public spaces under the delusion that such acts make yesterday a better today is sad-sack politics that fosters democratic weakness
Don’t let COVID-19 permanently change Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The speed of the spread and the rise of the body count prove something menacing has us at its mercy. How we deal with it is crucial
Finding a workable path to Indigenous reconciliation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Taking shortcuts becomes a fast track to ending the conversation and starting the shouting. We need to build a workable partnership
Palliative care suffers because of MAID
Reading Time: 3 minutes “It is easier and cheaper for the government to provide euthanasia rather than continue with palliative care”