Reading Time: 3 minutes Compares the government’s rule change to the reviled Indian Act for imposing ironclad status-quo thinking
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 end of the sexual revolution, the start of a new awakening?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Justin Trudeau must set a new standard for sexual propriety in great part because his father dismantled traditional values
Using student job funding to silence critics
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Liberals’ latest decision means summer employment is now a testing ground for ideological adhesion, obedience and purity
The soft tyranny of Quebec’s ongoing linguistic crossfire
Reading Time: 3 minutes Quebecers find themselves taking sides in language squabbles their better judgment says are irrelevant to life outside the political bubble
A museum opts for happy hippy love bugs instead of honesty
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibit mythologizes the 1960s by ignoring the dark ugliness masked by all those drug-addled smiles
The stone cold truth: marijuana clouds reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Contrary to decades of marijuana proponent propaganda, it’s not a drug like alcohol or caffeine. It’s very purpose is intoxication
Getting snowed under in a political Potter’s field
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fault isn’t with Quebec society. It’s with a political world that utterly rejects that it must bear responsibility when hundreds are stranded in a storm
The enduring value of good manners
Reading Time: 3 minutes The gesture that costs nothing more than a down payment on decency becomes noteworthy precisely because it asks for no return, even ask for thanks
Finding, within ourselves, the power to forgive
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new film Hidden Figures goes to the heart of racism in 1960s United States life and illuminates the path to justice through love
Tweeting to “mourn” celebrities a sad commentary of our times
Reading Time: 3 minutes Using social media to “mourn” the passing of celebrities you never knew makes it all about you, you, you