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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.

Calgary City Soul: A Story of Urban Thriving

Faith-based organizations nurture people's most deeply held beliefs, sanctify their lives' most vital relationships, and comfort their deepest pains and most profound sorrows. Do we have room for this in our cities' plans?

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Calgary City Soul: A Story of Urban Thriving

Faith-based organizations nurture people’s most deeply held beliefs, sanctify their lives’ most vital relationships, and comfort their deepest pains and most profound sorrows. Do we have room for this in our cities’ plans?

My Third Third

Then, oh so deliberately, we walked up the hill in an intimate silence that looked like respect and felt like fear. For a moment, I thought we might hold hands. There but for the grace and all that.

The North

While avarice has fuelled much of humanity’s steady and often destructive march into the forest, there is yet majesty in the courage and ingenuity such adventures reveal about the human spirit and the “people who aren’t afraid.”

Ha Ling’s Peak

Last June was the first Father’s Day that passed for me without my father, and possibly the last one that I would spend with my son. So I thought it would be a good idea to climb a mountain.

Empty Time is Unproductive

For a while, sometimes, worrisome responsibilities scurry away from the light, replaced by nothing but big sky above.

Millennia old, one generation deep

While it’s the self-appointed mission of older people to conserve the cultural and social values that give our lives meaning and comfort, the young carry a burden to improve upon—even to correct—the world as it stands.

Burqas and our worldview vacuum

The debates raging in the west about burqas and state-controlled fashion betray how hopelessly confused we’ve become about who we really are.

Grown men cry too

It caught me by surprise, sobbing when my kids left for university. Were the tears for them or for me?