Peter Stockland

Peter Stockland is a former editor-in-chief of the Montreal Gazette and co-founder of Convivium magazine under the auspices of the think tank Cardus. He is also head of strategic communications for Ottawa’s Acacia Law Group.

Peter Stockland: The True Magic of Christmas

Commentary A bitter December cross-wind was biting as I crossed Rue Atwater and hurried through the darkness to ...

Viewpoints December 19, 2022
Peter Stockland: For Quebec, There Are Other Oaths of Allegiance That Would Work Better

Commentary My long-ago introduction to the Chicken Oath gives hope Quebec’s National Assembly will pluck up its courage ...

Viewpoints December 4, 2022
Peter Stockland: Trudeau Called for Dialogue During Indigenous Rail Blockade, but Assailed Convoy Protesters With Emergencies Act

Commentary Well, at least Prime Minister Trudeau is in a state of calm. Indeed he has, we’re told, ...

Viewpoints November 27, 2022
Peter Stockland: The Case of Tony Van Hee a Reminder That We Shouldn’t Live Life With Our Heads Down

Commentary Authorities snatching dissidents in broad daylight, then prosecuting them interminably until they are inexplicably tossed back, is ...

Viewpoints October 31, 2022
Peter Stockland: Extending the Authority of ‘the People’ Isn’t Always a Good Thing

Commentary Among my favourite unlikeliest of things is the reality of a Quebec election outcome proving Preston Manning ...

Viewpoints October 5, 2022
Peter Stockland: Pope’s Visit Should Not Be Used to Promote Intolerance of Catholicism

Commentary Philosopher Peter Kreeft is credited with the observation that by the late 20th century, anti-Catholicism had become ...

Viewpoints July 24, 2022
Peter Stockland: The Tide May Be Turning on Progressivism’s Ascension

Commentary To serve up a mangled metaphor that fits our topsy-turvy times, the tide might be turning on ...

Viewpoints July 15, 2022
Peter Stockland: The Abhorrent Treatment of MP Wagantall and Our Apathy in Not Even Asking ‘Why’

Commentary On June 3, Saskatchewan Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall joined some illustrious—or if you prefer notorious—House of Commons ...

Viewpoints June 5, 2022
Peter Stockland: Quebec’s Language Law: How Pointless Is Bill 96?

Commentary Canadians beyond the boundaries of la belle province likely see Bill 96 as an update of that ...

Viewpoints May 30, 2022
Peter Stockland: It’s Urban Mental Illness That Needs Media Attention, Not a Few Cases of Monkeypox

Commentary Having grasped the COVID pandemic’s lucrative lessons in making money from fear, mainstream media is now pushing ...

Viewpoints May 23, 2022
The ‘Strategic Narcissism’ of Invoking the Emergencies Act

Commentary An American three-star general and former national security advisor to President Trump has coined the term “strategic ...

Viewpoints February 28, 2022
Trucker Protests: The Deeper Problem Is Canada’s Entrenched and Divisive Media-Politico Class

Commentary Signs abound that Canada’s media-politico class is losing, however temporarily, its collective mind. The signs come daily, ...

Viewpoints February 12, 2022
We Have Drifted Too Far to Recover Reason

Commentary A perceptive Ottawa friend says the current Freedom Convoy Sturm und Drang in the nation’s capital can ...

Viewpoints February 8, 2022
Freedom Convoy Protest Reflects Canadians’ Democratic Spirit

Commentary No one should downplay, much less deny, the acts of idiocy that went on during the self-styled ...

Viewpoints January 31, 2022
Dwindling Working Class Signifies a Rent in the Social Fabric

Commentary During a recent class I took in pursuit of an MA in history, the discussion organically turned ...

Viewpoints January 23, 2022
Legault’s Tax on the Unvaccinated a Brazen Political Deflection Ploy

Commentary It’s impossible to choose the foulest aspect of Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s appalling, cynical vow that he ...

Viewpoints January 12, 2022
Quebec’s Latest Vaccine Passport Decree Another Act of Nonsensical Political Theatre

Commentary Ordinarily the Quebec government would win hands down the Purposeless Petulant Political Posturing Cup for its decree ...

Viewpoints January 8, 2022
As We Enter Another Year of COVID, Regaining Eroded Freedoms Must Be Our Focus

Commentary Anyone who still insists the COVID pandemic isn’t serious is being deliberately mischievous, obtuse, or needs to ...

Viewpoints December 27, 2021
What Will It Take to Bring Sanity Back to Quebec Schools?

Commentary Perhaps it will take Quebec schoolchildren imitating their counterparts of a century ago to restore sanity to ...

Viewpoints December 12, 2021
The Pitfalls of the Forced Apology Spin-Cycle

Commentary In a typically masterful essay from 50 years ago, the great British journalist and social critic Malcolm ...

Canada November 27, 2021
Facebook Censors Dissenting Opinion, Blames Advertising Policy

Commentary A recent episode prompts me to ponder the fact that Facebook is becoming a force for censorship ...

Viewpoints November 15, 2021
Vaccine Mandates: How ‘Moral Panic’ Has Diminished Our Civil Liberties

Commentary Call me a bit slow off the mark, but it wasn’t until toward the end of September ...

Viewpoints November 2, 2021
Ideology of ‘Mandated Consent’ Pushed by Media Doesn’t Keep People Informed

Commentary Looking at the phrase “informed consent” on a page, it’s obvious it contains two interdependent words. There’s ...

Viewpoints October 19, 2021
A Tory Leader Could Never Get Away With the Gaffes That a Liberal Leader Can

Commentary On the inaugural National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I asked some university students what percentage of ...

Viewpoints October 5, 2021
If Canada Is Committing Genocide, Why Does Trudeau Want to Lead it?

Commentary Without question, the most precise and perceptive analysis of the 2021 federal election came from an expat ...

Viewpoints September 21, 2021
Wilson-Raybould’s New Book Should Raise Serious Questions

Commentary If Justin Trudeau weren’t cloaked in the magic and mystery of the Trudeau name, would he still ...

Viewpoints September 14, 2021