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Mary Boyd

Advocates turn up heat on poverty strategy

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Now that Canadians have had nine months to tell Ottawa what they want to see in a national poverty reduction strategy, people like Mary Boyd are hoping to increase pressure on the Liberal government to fulfill its 2015 campaign promise to set targets and measure progress on poverty nationwide.

Mary Dool

Mary Dool blazed her own trail in social work

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Mary Isabel Dool was never going to concede that only her brothers could have a vocation.

Jim Hansen

Jim Hansen a champion for special needs children

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Every September when the school year begins, new teachers at the Hamilton Catholic District School Board are shown a video with some powerful advice for the classroom: “Imagine you have 30 reflections of God sitting in front of you every day.”

Christian Elia

Rights league to intervene in religious freedom case

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The Catholic Civil Rights League has become an unlikely ally of a Jehovah’s Witness congregation in a case coming before the Supreme Court.

Serge Langlois

D&P has an offer that’s hard to refuse

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The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace is offering something for nothing until Oct. 20 — membership in one of Canada’s biggest and oldest social justice organizations.

Opponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in early June 2016.

Euthanasia should not be available to mental health patients, says CMHA

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Mental health patients should not be eligible for assisted suicide, says the Canadian Mental Health Association.

The Centre D’acceuil Heritage provides companionship and assistance to the French-speaking elderly in Toronto.

ShareLife cracks $14 million in fundraising

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Whether you are nine or 90 years old, everyone needs a best friend.

Dr. Nhung Tran-Davies (top left) and her family were sponsored by Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Enoch, Alta., when they escaped Vietnam in 1979. She has paid forward their favour some 40 years later by sponsoring the Alshablis, a Syrian refugee family. Her story of generosity will be highlighted in a film to be released by the UN this fall.

From one refugee generation to another

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EDMONTON - Dr. Nhung Tran-Davies will never forget the January day she saw the Alshablis, a family fleeing war in Syria, walk through the doors of Edmonton International Airport.

Mary’s Meals founder Magnus MacFarlance-Barrow poses with twin sisters Tianna and Audrina Alles of Oakville, who gave up their allowances this summer to the charity.

Little acts of love make big difference

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Mary’s Meals is about lots of little acts of love, said founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow.

Janelle Younge was a foster child who made something out of nothing with the aid of Hope for Children. It has distributed more than $3 million in scholarships and grants.

Children’s fund can turn hope into reality

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Janelle Younge was 14 when she called Toronto’s Catholic Children’s Aid Society. When the social worker arrived and saw bruises spread across Younge’s face and arms, she wanted the girl out of the house right away, before her father got home.

Fr. Michael Bechard

Clergy stand tall at counter protest

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When 500 counter-protesters shouted down between 30 and 40 anti-Islam activists in front of City Hall in London, Ont., on Aug. 26, Fr. Michael Bechard proudly stood with the majority wearing a dark suit with a Roman collar.

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