Healthcare

50 years fighting for life, making a difference

Canadian Physicians for Life takes doctors "to the trenches" to make a difference

Quinton Amundson · October 16, 2025

Each day in her role as executive director of Canadian Physicians for Life (CPL), Nicole Scheidl is energized and inspired by “seeing the impact of the education we’re doing” and “talking to physicians in the trenches actually making a difference.”

St. Joseph’s brings health home in Waterloo

St. Mary’s Health @ Home meets changing needs in community

Luke Mandato · June 5, 2025

St. Joseph’s Health System has launched St. Mary’s Health and its first service, St. Mary’s Health @ Home, an initiative designed to renew Catholic care in the Region of Waterloo while aiming to meet the changing needs of the community for generations to come.

Care home slowly working its way out of limbo

Luke Mandato · April 11, 2025

Interim staff at St. Joseph’s at Fleming are continuing their work to bring the Catholic long-term care home back to its former condition following the resignation of its board last fall.

MAiD remains a StatCan blind spot

Quinton Amundson · March 17, 2025

Statistics Canada’s 2024 Health of Canadians snapshot, released March 5, contains some positive news for the country. However, there is a gaping lack of mention of one particular health issue: euthanasia.

Ottawa Hospital to stop offering daily Mass

Luke Mandato and Anna Farrow · September 25, 2024

Catholics in the nation's capital region are worried that what began as a temporary suspension of daily Mass at The Ottawa Hospital, one of the city’s prominent hospital centres, has become permanent.

Bigger role for Catholic health in Alberta?

Restructure taps into partners like Covenant Health

Quinton Amundson · September 14, 2024

The restructuring of care in Alberta is underway and it could see partners like Covenant Health take a more central role in the province's health system.

Toronto palliative care forum seeks a ‘narrative of hope’

Quinton Amundson · May 27, 2024

Amplifying advocacy and pastoral care efforts, bolstering educational resources and championing life-affirming legislation are among the recommendations emerging from an international interfaith symposium on palliative care staged in Toronto late last month.

Cyberattack on largest US Catholic health care system part of rising criminal trend

Gina Christian · May 13, 2024

The largest Catholic health care system in the U.S. reported it experienced what it called a "cybersecurity incident" May 8, resulting in "a disruption to clinical operations." The cyberattack is part of a rising and dangerous criminal trend targeting the entire health care sector.

Activists seek right to home birth

Many women prefer intimacy over hospital setting, proponents say

Agnieszka Ruck · April 26, 2024

COVID-19 and life issues have brought bodily autonomy and the right to accept or refuse medical treatment to the forefront in recent years.