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News and events from across the country.

‘Community is our bread and butter’

July 17, 2020

St. Michael’s College president and vice-chancellor David Sylvester lives and dies by the credo of Catholic education — education of the whole person in the context of a faithful learning community.

Charities need a lifeline to survive crisis

July 16, 2020

OTTAWA -- With the federal government facing an increasing deficit piled up by spending on COVID-19 relief measures, a Christian think tank says Ottawa must do more to help charities survive the effects of the pandemic.

Statues vandalized at Markham parish

July 15, 2020

York Regional Police are investigating an act of vandalism to statues outside of St. Patrick’s Parish in Markham, Ont.

Crisis could bring spike in refugee backlog

July 15, 2020

COVID-19 has almost completely choked off the flow of refugees to Canada, which has refugee sponsors worried about the backlog building up as they wait for travel restrictions to ease so they can start again helping new arrivals ease into jobs, apartments and communities.

Canadian Catholic diocese aims to repair defaced Stations of the Cross

July 7, 2020

A Canadian diocese said it will aim to repair six statues whose heads and arms were cut off in an act of vandalism.

St. Mary’s bears witness to Halifax’s past

July 5, 2020

For 200 years, St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica has been a fixture in the heart of downtown Halifax.

Diocese seeks status in farm labourers’ appeal

July 5, 2020

BURFORD, ONT. -- The Diocese of Hamilton wants a chance to speak up for migrant workers in an upcoming court case.

Migrant’s death hits community hard

July 4, 2020

BURFORD, ONT. -- With many of Scotlynn Group Inc.’s migrant farm workers either still in or just out of quarantine, few were able to attend a memorial Mass on June 28 for Juan Lopez Chaparro at Blessed Sacrament Church in Burford, Ont.

Probe into beheaded Sudbury statues stalled

July 4, 2020

The investigation into the beheading of eight Stations of the Cross statues at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in downtown Sudbury has hit a standstill.

Feds granted more time for changes to assisted suicide law

July 3, 2020

A Quebec court has agreed to allow the federal government to put off making changes to Canada’s medically-assisted suicide law until mid-December.