News and events from across the country.
February 15, 2017
OTTAWA – Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) is welcoming the launch of a national consultation as one of the first steps in developing a Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy.
OTTAWA – Toxic emotions can destroy a parish and destroy a family, says Henri Lemay, a veteran of the Catholic charismatic renewal in French-speaking Canada.
A lifetime of ecumenical commitment has been transposed onto a couple of younger commitments to ecumenism.
February 14, 2017
OTTAWA – Church groups calling for the scrapping of the Safe Third Country agreement in response to U.S. President Trump’s refugee policies are likely to remain disappointed.
OTTAWA – Conservative MP Arnold Viersen hopes Canada will launch a public health campaign against online violent pornography that will be as effective as the one against cigarette smoking.
OTTAWA – There was no way a snowstorm was going to get in the way of this celebration. After all, 78 years of marriage isn’t something that can be celebrated very often.
February 10, 2017
As their U.S. brethren bask in finding an ally in the Trump administration, pro-lifers in Canada understand they still have much work to do in turning the tide in favour of life north of the border.
After being closed for more than a decade, the Cathedral of the Transfiguration north of Toronto has quietly re-opened its doors.
February 9, 2017
Catholic colleges and universities in Canada and the United States have condemned the Trump administration’s policy of closing America to refugees, banning all travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and building a wall along the Mexican border.
February 8, 2017
As the storm over the fate of refugees intensifies in the United States, Canada’s churches are deliberating whether or not to take the federal government to court to pull Canada out of its Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S.