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Typhoon teaches students to be globally aware

November 24, 2013

A typhoon half a world away is a lesson in global responsibility and the golden rule for students at Senator O’Connor Catholic Secondary School in Toronto’s east end.

Church beefs up presence in prison ministry

November 24, 2013

On any given day more than 160,000 Canadians over 18 are in jail, though only 38,000 of them have been convicted of a crime. Despite a decline in crime rates, the rate at which Canadians are jailed rose by five per cent between 2001 and 2011, according to Statistics Canada.

Religious argument can lose euthanasia debate

November 23, 2013

The Catholic argument against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia need not be based on religious precepts, and if it is presented in explicitly religious terms it will probably lose, said students from the University of St. Michael’s College after watching Dr. Donald Low’s plea for assisted suicide recorded eight days before he died.

Canada to quadruple emergency aid to Philippines

November 18, 2013

TORONTO - In a crowded church basement, surrounded by boxes of emergency supplies donated and packed by parishioners, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a quadrupling of Canada’s aid to the typhoon stricken Philippines.

Praying for the persecuted

November 15, 2013

TORONTO - If you are what you pray for, Toronto is now one with the thousands of Christians around the world who suffer for their faith.

Stronger ethics needed in public health

November 15, 2013

TORONTO - People working in the public health field need to think more about the ethical dimensions of what they are doing, a St. Michael’s Hospital scientist argues in a commentary published this month in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Everyone needs advance care directives

November 15, 2013

TORONTO - Doing the right thing is important. But who gets to do it matters almost as much, medical ethicist Fr. Mark Miller told about 70 people gathered for a Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute lecture.

Euthanasia discriminates against disabled

November 13, 2013

TORONTO - Demand for doctor-assisted suicide isn’t about dying, it’s about disability, the director of a Quebec disability rights organization told a national anti-euthanasia symposium in Toronto Nov. 8.

Canadians join rush to aid devastated Philippines

November 12, 2013

Updated 11/12/13 TORONTO - As pictures and reports of the devastation in Tacloban City, Philippines, reached the world’s newspapers and computer screens Nov. 9, Toronto Filipinos were attending the Saturday 5 p.m. Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church.

Housing-first strategy for homeless extended until 2019

November 10, 2013

TORONTO - Experts on homelessness are giving the federal government credit for settling on the right approach to helping some of the most vulnerable people in Canada.