News and events from across the country.
May 10, 2013
OTTAWA - This year’s National March for Life May 9 framed abortion as a human rights issue, damaging especially to women and girls, and drew the largest crowd ever.
OTTAWA - A major demonstration against euthanasia in Quebec City planned for May 18 could mark a turning point in the province’s plans to introduce euthanasia as a form of health care, some pro-life leaders believe.
May 9, 2013
OTTAWA - An unborn baby is a child under the law if the child is likely to be born alive, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
HAMILTON, ONT. - Surprised, grateful, humbled and excited.
May 5, 2013
TORONTO - At 19,811,345 square kilometres the Byzantine-rite Romanian Eparchy of St. George the Martyr based in Canton, Ohio, has likely become the largest Catholic diocese in the world.
A federal government attempt to kill off the Health Council of Canada has Catholic health care advocates upset and disappointed.
May 3, 2013
TORONTO - Hoping to win over more young people to mission life, Scarboro Missions is betting that a one-year commitment compared to three will be its lucky number.
Updated 05/03/13 TORONTO - Toronto’s two large, acute-care Catholic hospitals have written off more than $174,000 in treatment costs for more than 800 refugee patients no longer covered by federal health insurance, The Catholic Register has learned.
OTTAWA - Canada’s tax system discriminates against single-income families, but that can be remedied by introducing income-splitting into the system, a new study shows.
May 2, 2013
OTTAWA - The highly publicized assisted suicide death of a Winnipeg woman in a Swiss clinic April 25 should not prompt Canada to change its laws, says Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.