Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured, has embraced the recommendations of an expert panel that the government didn’t need to undertake any new legislative protections before opening up assisted suicide to the mentally ill.

‘Hunches’ will determine life or death in MAiD cases with mental illness, critics say

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In mere months, federal law will permit Canadians who are mentally ill to access the country’s already permissive assisted-suicide regime on the sole grounds that they are suffering from a mental disorder.

Quebec provincial flags are displayed outside a building across the street from the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Quebec in Quebec City Oct. 5, 2017.

Two more bishops named in class action against Quebec Archdiocese

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Two more bishops, including one still serving, have been named in a new list of offenders filed in the class action against the Quebec Archdiocese.

Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller

Archbishop welcomes call to delay MAiD for mental illness

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Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller says it’s a “sign of hope” that dozens of Canadian psychiatrists are opposing the federal government’s plan to introduce assisted suicide solely for mental illness next March.

Protesters at the March for Life in Toronto in 2019.

Angus Reid poll reveals complex views on abortion

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Newly released data from the Angus Reid Institute indicates roughly 52 per cent of Canadians are “completely pro-choice,” around eight per cent are “completely pro-life” and approximately 41 per cent consider themselves “somewhere in between.”

Food bank volunteers unload donations. At the Mississauga Food Bank, some clients have asked about assisted suicide.

Food bank director raises MAiD alarm

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As the CEO of the Mississauga Food Bank, Meghan Nicholls felt the pressing need to spread the word on how tough things are these days. 

B.C. hospice plan takes on MAiD 'tyranny'

B.C. hospice plan takes on MAiD 'tyranny'

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The Delta Hospice Society has launched an innovative, three-pronged counter-offensive against Canada’s ever-more-permissive assisted-suicide law.

Catholic educators Suzanne Stubbs and Michael Phaneuf with their Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medals.

Prince Albert educators honoured, surprised by Queen’s Jubilee medal

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Prince Albert Catholic School Division (PACSD) leaders Suzanne Stubbs and Mark Phaneuf were surprised and honoured upon finding out they would both be feted with a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.

A Brock University study halted by the pandemic is back on and is surveying Catholic school students and families to see how pandemic restrictions have impacted bullying behaviour.

Catholic schools taking part in bullying study

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A Brock University research team is renewing its five-year school bullying investigation launched in 2017 that was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Ecology comes first, ‘no ifs, ands or buts’

Ecology comes first, ‘no ifs, ands or buts’

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Twenty religious congregations have joined together to lobby Ottawa politicians on climate change and social justice. 

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, leaves after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris in this Feb. 28, 2020, file photo. Bibi has appealed for the protection of victims of blasphemy laws in her home country. She also said her family is struggling in Canada, because the government only supported them for one year.

Asia Bibi advocates for Pakistanis accused of blasphemy

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Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman who escaped death for alleged blasphemy and who now lives in Canada, has appealed for the protection of victims of blasphemy laws in her home country.

A number of bronze plaques were stolen from a columbarium at St. Peter’s Cemetery in London, Ont.

Charges laid in London cemetery burglary

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London police have charged a 35-year-old man in the theft of 43 bronze vases and multiple plaques from St. Peter’s Cemetery in the southwestern Ontario city.

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