Peter Menzies

 

Peter Menzies writes on culture, media and communications. While he now works in the cultural industry and advises tech companies, he has in the past served as vice chairman of telecommunications for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). He was publisher and editor-in-chief of one of Canada's major daily newspapers, the Calgary Herald.

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Writings

Great Reset? Or Grand Unravelling?
Nov 30, 2020
Convivium Article
COVID's Contagion of Disbelief
Nov 18, 2020
Convivium Article
Masks Speak to Common Humanity
Oct 30, 2020
Convivium Article
The Perils of Facing Down Facebook
Sep 15, 2020
Convivium Article
When Mass Kneeling Replaces Faith
Jul 27, 2020
Convivium Article
No Diving Allowed
Jun 15, 2020
Convivium Article
Shadow and Light in the Post-COVID Church
Apr 30, 2020
Convivium Article
Counting Out Majorities
Mar 2, 2020
Convivium Article
What About Western Canadians?
Oct 10, 2019
Convivium Article
#SOMUCHMUD
Sep 19, 2019
Convivium Article
Nature of Light
Sep 17, 2019
Sacred Spaces
No Competition, Please. We’re Canadian.
Aug 14, 2019
Convivium Article
Losing Our Way on the Internet
Jul 11, 2019
Convivium Article
Where Weather Waters Faith
Jun 21, 2019
Convivium Article
Charter Freedoms and Digital Hate
May 23, 2019
Convivium Article
Alberta Comes Home
Apr 29, 2019
Convivium Article
The Land of Living Skies
Oct 29, 2018
Sacred Spaces
Journalists Hurting Journalism
Sep 18, 2018
Convivium Article
Post-Truth Possibilities
Mar 23, 2018
Convivium Article
Convivium Readers Respond: Media Defined Faith
Jul 14, 2017
Convivium Article
After the Flood
Jan 28, 2016
Convivium Article
Calgary City Soul: A Story of Urban Thriving
Jun 14, 2013
Comment Article
Garden-Variety Work
Apr 29, 2013
Convivium Article
First Human Beings
Apr 22, 2013
Convivium Article
Ralph Klein and the Commonfolk
Apr 2, 2013
Convivium Article
In Defence of Star Gazing
Mar 13, 2013
Convivium Article
When the false moustaches and wigs fall off
Mar 4, 2013
Convivium Article
16 Days in February
Feb 21, 2013
Convivium Article
Fight Some of Your Own Fights
Feb 5, 2013
Convivium Article
Broken Hearts Mend
Jan 28, 2013
Convivium Article
Lance Armstrong's Increasingly Popular World
Jan 21, 2013
Convivium Article
Learning to Speak of Beliefs
Jan 14, 2013
Convivium Article
Window Taps
Jan 4, 2013
Convivium Article
My Third Third
Jan 2, 2013
Comment Article
Means Something to Me
Dec 17, 2012
Convivium Article
Talking Points
Dec 10, 2012
Convivium Article
Twitter's Blissful Chaos
Dec 3, 2012
Convivium Article
Grade Eight Debate
Nov 26, 2012
Convivium Article
Real People, Real History
Nov 19, 2012
Convivium Article
Under 30
Oct 9, 2012
Convivium Article
What People Forget About Freedoms
Oct 1, 2012
Convivium Article
The Pathetic Family
Sep 25, 2012
Convivium Article
Peter Lougheed: The Candle for His Generation
Sep 18, 2012
Convivium Article
The Man the Hour Demands
Sep 7, 2012
Convivium Article
What's left to be progressive about?
Aug 27, 2012
Convivium Article
Hats & Higher Powers
Aug 21, 2012
Convivium Article
Who's Serving Whom?
Aug 13, 2012
Convivium Article
This Was Never Going to Happen
Jul 31, 2012
Convivium Article
Sneaking in the Back
Jul 23, 2012
Convivium Article
The Highway of Death
Jul 11, 2012
Convivium Article
What Else Lives to 100?
Jul 5, 2012
Convivium Article
Social Liberal, Fiscal Conservative
Jun 18, 2012
Convivium Article
Death and Getting Better
Jun 4, 2012
Convivium Article
What have future generations ever done for me?
Jun 4, 2012
Comment Article
An Absurdly Large Country
May 28, 2012
Convivium Article
The Soul of a City
May 1, 2012
Convivium Article
Making this up as we go along
Mar 9, 2012
Convivium Article
Tweeted Sunday after going to church
Mar 7, 2012
Convivium Article
Children and tears
Jan 4, 2012
Convivium Article
A Greeting Once Rich
Dec 23, 2011
Convivium Article
Brotherhood and everlasting history
Dec 6, 2011
Convivium Article
Sheering the Wool off Going Local
Oct 27, 2011
CPiP Article
Common Life
Oct 18, 2011
Convivium Article
Calgary City Soul Phase 2: Final Report
Oct 7, 2011
Research Report
The North
Jun 9, 2011
Comment Article
Ha Ling's Peak
Apr 15, 2011
Comment Article
Empty Time is Unproductive
Sep 3, 2010
Comment Article
Millennia old, one generation deep
Feb 12, 2010
Comment Article
Fearful Symmetry, by Brian Lee Crowley
Nov 20, 2009
CPiP Article
Burqas and our worldview vacuum
Nov 13, 2009
Comment Article
The Fall and Rise of Empires
Jun 15, 2009
CPiP Article
Grown men cry too
Sep 5, 2008
Comment Article
John Lennon, Josh Hamilton, and the postmodern F word
Jul 25, 2008
Comment Article
Q&A with Peter Menzies, "National Commissioner, CRTC"
Jul 4, 2008
Comment Article
50 things I love in the world of business
Jun 1, 2008
Comment Article
Journalism with an edge
Mar 1, 2008
Comment Article
Common Ground: An Endangered Species
Apr 1, 2007
Cardus Audio
Calgary's Culture of Aspiration and the Buffalo Hunters
Dec 15, 2006
Research Article

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