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Normal will not be on tap when students return to class this September. Distancing, masks and other safety measures will remain in place as we continue to deal with the pandemic.

Nothing about this year will be normal

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Anyone who believes this coming school year will be normal is kidding themselves or is a politician preparing for an election.

Members of a rescue team clean debris from a house in Les Cayes, Haiti, Aug. 15 following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake the previous day.

Haiti: A nation caught in grip of chaos

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When the 2010 earthquake hit Haiti, Jesuit Fr. Jean Francky went with his brother novices out onto the streets of Dumay, on the outskirts of Port au Prince. That night, the young religious men began digging through rubble with their bare hands.

Anne Jamieson, left, and Donna Strickland

Vatican appointments in August feature two Canadian women

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Vatican appointments in August feature two Canadian women – Anne Jamieson and Donna Strickland.

Our Lady of the Way Church, converted from a quanset hut used to house American troops building the Alaska Highway, stands out against the northern lights in this Libby Dulac painting.

Faith flows through artistic passion

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Nestled amidst the evergreens in the village of Haines Junction in Canada’s Yukon, a tiny church known as Our Lady of the Way has been a source of creative and spiritual inspiration for artist Libby Dulac.

Patience Commanda in her red jingle dress. The red dress, and the hand painted over her face, commemorates missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Missing Indigenous women spawn hope

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When Ojibwe jingle dress dancer Patience Commanda decided to use her art form to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), she never imagined she would receive hope in return.

Abu Kigab drives for a layup in NCAA action for Boise State, where the Sudanese-Canadian stars.

Basketball star mines father’s drive to be best he can be

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Basketball standout Abu Kigab’s tenacious drive to be the best athlete he can may be proof that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Healing and reconciliation will come when there is true respect for Indigenous people, an acknowledgment of their humanity and the power of their culture to help all people.

Healing Indigenous communities

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Indigenous elder and lay minister Rosella Kinoshameg reflects on the Gospel of Matthew’s parable of the treasure discovered hidden in a field as she looks to find healing and meaning in the wake of the latest trauma to hit Indigenous communities in Canada.

A memorial to the 215 children whose bodies were found in Kamloops stands outside the rectory at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica.

Anger — and remorse — spreads wide following Kamloops discovery

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As 10,000 people marched in sorrow and in anger from Queen’s Park to Nathan Phillips Square, Vivian Timmins just had to be there — because Timmins is a residential school survivor.

Fr. Herman Falke at work in his studio and, at right, some of the Stations of the Cross he has created.

Fr. Falke turns the everyday into art

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Fr. Herman Falke has had his hands busy working on what he says is an “intentionally complicated” wood carving.

Small family farms were once the norm across this country, but are increasingly being replaced by large-scale industrial farms. Yet there are families like the Blacks of Markdale, Ont., Mike and Patty and their four boys John, James, Chris and David, who continue to keep the family farm alive. They continue to be an important source of nourishment in their communities, providing food for hundreds of local families.

Resilient community farms provide ‘living’ nourishment

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Winter is not just weather and neither is spring. Our long, grey season of COVID discontent and loneliness is not quite over, but outside our windows and outside our cities spring is relentless.

Lauretta Frederking, right, Brescia’s principal and new president, chats with a student.

Social justice at the core of new Brescia president

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The new president of Brescia University College is a political scientist who wants to liberate social justice from politics and an educator who wants to free teaching from the classroom. Lauretta Conklin Frederking has been named the 13th principal and the new president of Canada’s only Catholic women’s college. The London, Ont., college was founded by the Ursuline Sisters in 1919. Its 1,500 students also attend Western University.

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