Peter Stockland

Don’t squander time

August 28, 2014

The subject was sausages. Specifically, another round of breakfast-table jibes about my habit of cooking sausages in the microwave.

Resist being neutered

July 11, 2014

Should we be jubilant or alarmed that a Jewish kid from Calgary was the one who stood up for Canada’s Christians against a blatant act of political discrimination? Equal parts both.

No comfort in words

June 19, 2014

On the very day Quebec legalized medical killing this month, I committed an act of euthanasia.

Les glorieux Catholic

May 21, 2014

A colleague and good friend of mine is an intractable Leafs fan, meaning he is generally unaware that NHL hockey exists after the palest first quarter moon of April.

Making real connections

May 7, 2014

Victor Boutros was on Parliament Hill unraveling the misapprehended connection between violence and poverty.

Beware the ‘inevitable’

April 23, 2014

In her parting words to Quebecers, politically humiliated former Premier Pauline Marois reminded us of that shining moment when she arose from her personal Eden to quick-march us to the New Jerusalem.

Belief, no, but faith?

April 11, 2014

Trust an atheist cell biologist turned journalist turned activist turned best-selling author to pinpoint the damage of pushing faith from public life.

School fights Quebec

March 27, 2014

In the name of neutrality, seven Supreme Court of Canada justices peered down from their red leather bench at 27 lawyers armed to the teeth with briefs and bristling with arguments in a courtroom full of spectators ripe for the legal fight.

For God or country

March 13, 2014

Crowds at Parti Quebecois whistle stops during the provincial election have been chanting: “We want a country!” They’re perfectly entitled to both the desire and its democratic expression, of course, even as Quebec Liberal leader Philippe Couillard is equally justified in asking rhetorically: “Don’t we already have one?”

My Quebec is for all

February 27, 2014

It was one of those almost-invisible gestures that defy a seemingly impregnable political fixation.