Canadian News

Pro-lifers expect charitable status to be revoked in federal budget

Quinton Amundson · October 31, 2025

The Department of Finance has declined to clearly state whether pro-life non-profits will retain or lose their privileged charitable status in the 2025 federal budget to be tabled Nov. 4.

Faith, not fame, drives Blue Jays coach

John Knebels · October 31, 2025

Each time Toronto Blue Jays first-base coach Mark Budzinski steps onto the field during this year's riveting World Series, he does so as a man who knows that faith, not fame, defines his life.

Churches bring homeless Out of the Cold

Faith-based programs prepare for increased need as long, cold winter returns

Luke Mandato · October 31, 2025

Blue Door’s Mosaic Interfaith Out of the Cold program has opened its seasonal housing services across faith-based sites in York Region in the face of a weakening economy and rising homelessness, all while winter looms closer.

Tammy Peterson delivers message of hope to Catholic students

Sheila Nonato · October 30, 2025

A year and a half after her stunning Catholic conversion and miraculous healing from terminal cancer, Canadian podcaster Tammy Peterson’s story of faith, hope and transformation continues to inspire.

Secret euthanasia houses raise alarm

Residence in Victoria joins one already established in Toronto

Terry O'Neill · October 30, 2025

The furtive establishment of a stand-alone, private euthanasia house in Victoria, B.C., has sparked criticism from pro-lifers and exposed yet another way in which medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is spreading throughout the country.

Bill C-218 supporters fight expanded MAiD

Bill would open procedure to those with mental illness

Quinton Amundson · October 29, 2025

With the second reading debate for Bill C-218 expected before the Christmas recess — MPs last scheduled sitting day is Friday, Dec. 12 — advocates against expanding the Canadian assisted suicide regime are urging the successful passage of this legislation tabled by Conservative Tamara Jansen in June.

Campaign cares for patient offered MAiD

Fund supports disabled man ‘repeatedly pressured’ to end his life

Quinton Amundson · October 28, 2025

A grassroots fundraising campaign launched Sept. 30 by Life Care Network is aiming to give a 50-year-old man with a rare neurological disease the care he says he is being denied.

Cardus think tank expands into Quebec

Anna Farrow · October 28, 2025

In this its 25th year, the Christian think-tank Cardus is expanding its reach into Quebec.

Budget must address food insecurity, advocates say

Quinton Amundson · October 28, 2025

It took 38 years for Toronto food banks to experience over one million client visits in a single year.

Vatican set to return Indigenous artifacts

Quinton Amundson · October 27, 2025

The Vatican is poised to return a collection of a “few dozen” cultural treasures from its Anima Mundi ethnological museum to Indigenous communities across Canada before the end of the Jubilee year.