News and events from across the country.
March 2, 2013
TORONTO - If food be the music of love and of life, why should the elderly be stuck with Muzak? Why another bland tray of dietician-approved starch, protein, carbohydrates, fats and fibre?
March 1, 2013
OTTAWA - A growing group of Quebec physicians is rallying opposition to a plan to include euthanasia as part of health care under the euphemism “medical aid in dying.”
TORONTO - When Chaminade College School football coach Pat Diodati met James Bodanis, he immediately knew playing football would pay off for the then Grade 9 student. Convincing Bodanis of that, however, proved to be less instantaneous.
Joyce de Gooijer is on the lookout. As the first lay director of the Volunteer International Christian Service (VICS), de Gooijer is eager to increase the organization’s recruits through improved public awareness.
February 27, 2013
OTTAWA - A Supreme Court of Canada decision in the case of William Whatcott has disappointed religious freedom and free-speech advocates.
February 22, 2013
OTTAWA - The NDP and its leader Thomas Mulcair are under fire for accusing Evangelicals of being anti-gay and opposed to Canadian values and Canadian law.
TORONTO - The teachings of the Second Vatican Council may be more than 50 years old but they shouldn’t be regarded as irrelevant on today’s post-secondary campuses, said Cardinal Thomas Collins.
February 21, 2013
Charter changed relationship between courts, religion
Senate is next obstacle for end to anti-free speech clause in rights act
February 20, 2013
HAMILTON, ONT. - Fr. Daniel Miehm has been appointed the new auxiliary bishop for the Hamilton diocese. Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana announced the appointment by Pope Benedict XVI Feb. 20.