Amundson is an associate editor and writer for The Catholic Register.
June 8, 2026
Inclusion Canada is mobilizing over 90 disability and mental health bodies across all provinces and territories to sign on to a joint letter urging Prime Minister Mark Carney, federal cabinet ministers and the MPs sitting on the special joint committee studying medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to permanently abandon plans to expand access to individuals solely living with a mental illness on March 17, 2027.
June 4, 2026
Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, advanced out of the Senate on June 4 by a 45-13 vote, to be sent back to the House of Commons with no movement on providing protection for religious speech.
It was immediately evident to Greg Spagnoli that Jonathan Osorio, Cyle Larin and Tajon Buchanan each possessed a “diamond in the rough persona” during their respective playing tenures with the St. Edmund Campion Catholic Secondary School senior soccer team in Brampton, Ont.
June 3, 2026
Like many Canadians, Mark Joseph has felt an increasing unease about the number of churches, synagogues and other places of worship being vandalized and torched over the past five years.
June 2, 2026
An amendment to stop the expungement of the good-faith religious text defence from Canada’s hate speech laws was voted down 4-3 (one abstention) by the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights on June 1 during clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act.
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Encrypted messaging services, social media companies, VPN providers, civil liberty organizations, everyday Canadians, even the U.S. judiciary and foreign affairs committees, have increasingly sounded the alarm about Bill C-22, “an act respecting lawful access.”
June 1, 2026
The Canadian Catholic community finally had its voice heard May 28 during the fourth and final Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights meeting on Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act.
May 30, 2026
Matthew Harvey Sanders has long presaged the choice civilization must make between the golden path of artificial intelligence development leading to human flourishing and a dark road defined by existential dread and transhumanism.
May 28, 2026
Three soulful features immediately become evident when strolling through the picturesque streets of Caen on a Sunday afternoon.
May 27, 2026
There still appears to be space for large outdoor collective worship demonstrations in Quebec despite the passage of Bill 9 by the Quebec provincial government back on April 2.