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Saskatchewan churches urged to guide reconciliation in wake of Boushie case

February 20, 2018

OTTAWA – In the wake of the Colten Boushie case, churches can facilitate reconciliation by reaching out to both of the families and communities, says a Catholic Indigenous leader.

All options on table in fight over summer jobs funding policy

February 20, 2018

OTTAWA – Legal action is not off the table for charities and groups that have asked the government for accommodation of their Charter rights in the Canada Summer Jobs controversy.

Northern Spirit Games bring play and learning together

February 20, 2018

“Your two jobs today are to play and to have fun.”

Canadians get jump on World Youth Day preparation

February 20, 2018

World Youth Day is still 11 months away, but Canadians have already had a taste of what to expect on the pilgrimage to Panama.

Report: Aboriginal communities most affected by high imprisonment linked to poverty

February 19, 2018

EDMONTON – Poverty is a main cause of imprisonment and largely affects Canada’s Aboriginal community, according to a new research paper by the coordinator of pastoral care for the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

Longueuil diocese takes on cathedral’s $300,000 debt

February 19, 2018

The future of an historic cathedral in Quebec has been secured by a transaction that saw the local bishop trade away a former convent and his diocese assume the cathedral’s $300,000 debt.

Sr. Elizabeth Kass, advocate for deaf community, dies at age 84

February 15, 2018

EDMONTON – Sr. Elizabeth Kass is being remembered as a fearless woman who spent decades ministering to her fellow members of the deaf community, culminating in what she called the answer to her prayers — the ordination of Canada’s first deaf priest.

Fight over forced referral policy on assisted suicide not over yet

February 15, 2018

The Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada is asking the Ontario Court of Appeal to take a second look at their case against the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.

Catholic mom Tanya Allen Granic puts sex ed into Ontario PC campaign

February 15, 2018

OTTAWA – A Catholic mother of four has thrust Ontario’s controversial sex-ed curriculum into the campaign to select a new leader of the province’s Progressive Conservative Party.

A leap into drastic change in environmental policy

February 14, 2018

Development and Peace has signed onto a political manifesto that reflects in part the teaching of Pope Francis in a call for drastic change in environmental policy.