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OTTAWA - Lost in the “fight for the middle class” in the federal election campaign is the plight of Canada’s poor, said Joe Gunn of the Citizens for Public Justice.
St. Michael's bids a fond farewell to Michael Burgess
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - One of Michael Burgess's final requests was to have St. Michael's Choir School participate at his funeral Mass. With hundreds of mourners packing Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church on Oct. 5, that request was granted.
All God’s children deserve to be treated reverence, cardinal tells health care workers
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Catholic health care workers must always remember that their patients are “a child of God” to be treated with special reverence from beginning to end, Cardinal Thomas Collins told the Catholic Health Association of Ontario.
Ontario teachers still waiting on sex-ed curriculum guidelines
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - With classes well underway, teachers are still awaiting many of the teaching supplements to instruct them on how to teach Ontario’s new sex-ed curriculum through a Catholic lens.
Quebec day care more apt to produce criminals, study shows
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Boys enrolled in Quebec’s universal child-care program are more likely to partake in criminal behaviour than boys from other provinces, a new study has found.
Saskatchewan doctors denied conscience rights
By Mary Deutscher, Canadian Catholic NewsSASKATOON - Saskatchewan doctors concerned about their loss of conscience rights are saying they will now be discriminated against for expressing conscience concerns on certain procedures.
Leaders need political will to combat global warming
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - World leaders need to exercise some political will to ensure there are binding agreements on climate change, says a Filipino cardinal.
School community unites around family devastated by crash
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterVAUGHAN, ONT. - The St. Joachim Separate School community is coming together to console each other after two of its students were among four family members killed in a traffic collision Sept. 27.
Bishops sign on to interfaith declaration on climate change, poverty reduction
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
Challenges loom for north with status change
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Six northern Canadian dioceses face immense financial, social and personnel challenges that could become more pronounced due to a looming change in status from missionary to normal dioceses, according to their bishops.
Vaccination objections on the rise in Ontario
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterA 50-per-cent increase in the percentage of parents making religious or conscientious objections to getting their kids vaccinated could translate into an extra 10,000 unvaccinated children in Ontario’s public and Catholic school systems, a new study shows.