Canadian News

News and events from across the country.

Jesuit trip immerses travellers in India

March 16, 2014

Walk through the tea estates of Darjeeling and meet the families who have spent generations harvesting the leaves that may end up steeped in Canadian cups. Meet the children of the lowest caste who, with classical musical instruments, literally play their way through school and then out of poverty.

Alberta bishops apologize for Church’s role in residential schools

March 16, 2014

EDMONTON - Alberta’s Catholic bishops have apologized to those who experienced physical and sexual abuse in Indian residential schools run by the Church.

MusiCounts helps school keep the beat

March 15, 2014

TORONTO - Jean Vanier High School kickstarted March Break this year with Luke Boyd, a Canadian rapper known onstage as Classified, performing and preaching the importance of music at school.

Steubenville Toronto already sold out

March 15, 2014

TORONTO - Toronto’s inaugural Steubenville conference has already sold out, months in advance.

Muslims share same sentiments with Catholics on assisted suicide

March 14, 2014

TORONTO - There’s about one million Canadians who know suicide is wrong, assisted suicide turns doctors into murderers, the state has an obligation to protect life until natural death and that not everything in medicine depends on the freely chosen wishes of the patient. These people are not Catholic. They’re Muslim.

‘Political trickery’ has PQ eyeing majority

March 14, 2014

OTTAWA - The Quebec election call may have killed euthanasia Bill-52, for the time being, but the Parti Quebecois’ (PQ) divisive Charter of Quebec Values has put the separatist party in line for a majority government better able to push a more secular society.

Former Toronto executive named to Vatican council

March 13, 2014

Getting the Vatican’s financial house in order will be no small task for the newly appointed members of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, the lone Canadian on the 15-member council told The Catholic Register.

Pope Francis is a hit with Canadians

March 12, 2014

The better they know him the more Canadians like Pope Francis.

Vincent DeMarco lived life by four Fs

March 12, 2014

TORONTO - A philanthropist who never flaunted what he had and lived by four F words is how Fr. Bill Scanlon describes Vincent DeMarco.

Minimum wage debate not going away for Catholics

March 9, 2014

TORONTO - When hundreds of labour-sponsored protesters showed up at Toronto’s Eaton Centre to chant for a $14-per-hour minimum wage, the Liberal government at Queen’s Park had already decided to increase the lowest legal wage from $10.25 to $11 come June 1. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne also declared that no longer would inflation eat away at the minimum wage because yearly increases would be tied to the consumer price index.