Project offers long-distance helping hand
Doctors work to gain trust for COVID vaccine in northern Canadian Indigenous communities
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.
Capturing the northern spirit
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.
A priest’s farewell to ‘Tuk’
EDMONTON -- At 85, most priests would be content to mark six decades of priesthood with quiet retirement. But not Fr. Don Stein.
Mission work is not just about humanitarian aid in developing countries. There are missions that exist in our own backyard.