Peter Stockland is Director of the Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal and a Senior Fellow with Cardus. Prior to becoming director of the Centre, he was vice-president of English-language magazines for Readers’ Digest Magazines Canada Ltd. He is a former editor-in-chief of The Gazette newspaper in Montreal, a former editorial page editor of the Calgary Herald newspaper and has worked as a journalist throughout Canada during his 30-year career in the media. He currently runs his own communications company, Prima Communication, in Montreal where he lives with his wife, Linda. In addition to his journalism career, he is also a fiction writer who has published in numerous magazines across the country. An excerpt from his novella Where the Lions Are was published last fall by Siren Song Press.