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Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

A new survey co-commissioned by the Angus Reid Institute and Cardus found 62 per cent of Canadians are concerned that socially and financially vulnerable citizens will choose euthanasia instead of seeking out adequate and quality health care.

There is one apparent gain from incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threat against Canada and Mexico: it has thrust the drug addiction and access issue back to the forefront of the national conversation.

Revitalization is in the air for the Diocese of Calgary Prison Ministry.

November 28, 2024

The Halo Effect

Taxing churches could remove billions in economic benefit, Cardus study shows

A little over one year ago the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) was attracting scorn for a discussion paper declaring that statutory holidays such as Christmas are a manifestation of the “discrimination against religious minorities in Canada” and “grounded in Canada’s history of colonialism.”

The recent mood swing against immigration, in a nation of immigrants whose people have always been welcoming to the outsider, is disappointing to those who work with migrants, but the hope is this will not endure.

According to late 2022 polling of 1,079 Canadians by the U.K. firm Lord Ashcroft Polls, 68 per cent of adult respondents declared that “growing political and ideological polarization” is one of their deepest concerns for the future.

Amsterdam today, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary tomorrow? 

Regulators of Ontario’s euthanasia program have identified 428 cases of non-compliance by assisted suicide providers since 2016, but none of those violations were reported to the public or law enforcement. 

From the childlike sketches he drew in his bedroom while on timeout to his professionalized work on behalf of the French-language digital weekly newspaper Le Droit, art has remained a core passion for Archbishop of Moncton Guy Desrochers.