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November 24, 2022

‘They have the right to be children’

“All children should have the right to grow within their family, the right to study and also the right to education, says Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny. Talking about human rights for children is a Catholic response in a cruel world that sees more than 36 million children worldwide displaced from their home.

In far off places, I’ve seen children under armed guard, fenced in, sitting in the dust, holding themselves up on the edges of human existence — exiled to places where any notion of the rights of children seems fanciful, even sadly comical.

Published in Features
December 1, 2016

Editorial: Canada's pledge to end child poverty was an empty promise

In an annual report released by Campaign 2000, there are estimated 1.3 million Canadian children living in poverty, with the majority of them from indigenous communities.

There can hardly be a voter or politician who doesn’t believe Canada’s shamefully high rate of child poverty should be promptly reduced and eventually eliminated.

Published in Editorial