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July 28, 2021

Project offers long-distance helping hand

Linda Tutt gives the thumbs-up as the St. Albert conference of SSVP’s North of 60 Project prepares a sea-can container for delivery to a northern community.

It began with Sr. Fay Trombley of Catholic Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception.

Published in Canada
March 13, 2021

Doctors work to gain trust for COVID vaccine in northern Canadian Indigenous communities

Dr. Alun Ackery joined St. Michael’s Hopsital colleagues Dr. Laura Hans and Dr. Suzanne Shoush in administering thousands of COVID vaccines in remote Indigenous communities in Northern Ontario this winter. They had to overcome a number of logistical issues as well as gain the trust of the local population.

Just a little jab is no big deal for most of us, but getting COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of the most vulnerable took a trio of St. Michael’s Hospital doctors way above and way beyond — 1,200 kilometres above and beyond to the fly-in community of Neskantaga First Nation in Northern Ontario.

Published in Canada
December 11, 2020

Capturing the northern spirit

he old Holy Name of Mary Mission in Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., is bathed in the northern lights. The church is side by side with the new church.

Situated in one of Canada’s coldest and most geographically isolated regions, the area encompassed by the Diocese of MacKenzie-Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories is a nature lover’s dream.

Published in Features
March 20, 2020

A priest’s farewell to ‘Tuk’

Fr. Don Stein’s Holy Week trek to Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., will be part of a farewell visit to see the Arctic people one last time.

EDMONTON -- At 85, most priests would be content to mark six decades of priesthood with quiet retirement. But not Fr. Don Stein.

Published in Features
April 11, 2018

Priest's mission to the Great White North demonstrates need for more clergy

St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church of the Mackenzie-Fort Smith Diocese in Dettah, NT, a town of 236 people.

Mission work is not just about humanitarian aid in developing countries. There are missions that exist in our own backyard. 

Published in Call to Service