Updated 05/03/13

TORONTO - Toronto’s two large, acute-care Catholic hospitals have written off more than $174,000 in treatment costs for more than 800 refugee patients no longer covered by federal health insurance, The Catholic Register has learned.

Income-splitting the way to tax fairness for families

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OTTAWA - Canada’s tax system discriminates against single-income families, but that can be remedied by introducing income-splitting into the system, a new study shows.

High visibility assisted suicide in Swiss clinic should not prompt change to laws

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OTTAWA  - The highly publicized assisted suicide death of a Winnipeg woman in a Swiss clinic April 25 should not prompt Canada to change its laws, says Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

COLF calls for end to feticide

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OTTAWA - The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) is calling for an end to female feticide through sex-selective abortion, the theme of this year’s National March for Life May 9.

Catholic Missions the lifeline to Canada’s mission territory

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TORONTO - When the Oblates in 1857 found an Innu community in the isolated interior of Labrador, they were shocked to hear the rosary being recited, said Sr. Sheila Fortune, a Sister of St. Joseph.

Cardinal Collins appeals to CRTC to keep Vision TV on basic cable

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GATINEAU, Que. - Toronto's Cardinal Thomas Collins has urged the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to not to let the faith community get “rolled over.”

Canadian brother murdered in Haiti had worked in trying regions

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Marianist Brother Richard E. Joyal, who was murdered in Haiti after withdrawing money at an ATM in late April, was a dedicated missionary who had worked in trying circumstances around the world, according to fellow members of the Society of Mary order.

Donation ensures Cornerstones’ future

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TORONTO - A half-million dollar donation from an alumnus is allowing the University of St. Michael’s College to continue offering its SMC ONE: Cornerstone program to its first-year students.

Fired sportscaster developing new Internet channel for freedom, faith

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OAKVILLE, ONT. - Two years after Rogers Sportsnet fired anchor Damian Goddard after he penned a tweet in support of traditional marriage, he says the incident has made him the man he is today, and he’s launching a new online venture to prove it.

Seeing the homeless among us

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TORONTO - Ever since installing its Homeless Jesus sculpture outside its front door, Regis College has been getting second looks.

Middle class ‘going down the tubes’

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TORONTO - For 25 years the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition has gathered religious leaders at Queen’s Park to discuss the poor in Ontario. In their 26th year, ISARC dedicated its spring meeting to the middle class.