Susan Martinuk wonders when Canadians are finally going to wake up to the fact that this country’s ballyhooed universal-access, single-payer health-care system is a failure whose rationing of service and interminable wait times lead directly to pain, suffering and medically-preventable deaths.
David Kilgour: faith, hope and love in politics
By Susan Korah, Catholic Register SpecialIt was as if the Earth stood still on its axis for a moment. That was when a family friend broke the news to me. On April 5, the Hon. David Kilgour, the distinguished Canadian politician and ambassadeur extraordinaire of global human rights, had boarded his last flight, and gone home to his father in Heaven.
Abuse scandal Lépine’s Cross to bear
By Peter StocklandAs Archbishop Christian Lépine moved through the last days of Lent toward Easter 2022, he acknowledged the worst Cross to bear in his 10 years leading Montreal Roman Catholics has been the scandal of clerical sexual abuse.
Delta Hospice Society set to rise again
By Charles LewisIn some corners of this country there are people for whom the fight over euthanasia will never end. They are in a minority but they are tough and courageous and determined.
Reforms view trafficking via victims’ lens
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterThe Government of Alberta is upping its efforts to combat human trafficking and support survivors by adopting 18 of the 19 calls to action outlined in a final report from the Alberta Human Trafficking Task Force.
Day-care deal leaves many behind, critics say
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic RegisterOntario has signed a five-year, $10.2-billion deal with the federal government to cut child-care fees in the province in half by the end of the year, fulfilling the Liberal government’s promise to bring in $10-a-day child care across Canada.
Call to Action ‘an exercise of love’
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic RegisterAt this pivotal moment in Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples, author and educator Kevin Lamoureux is encouraging those in the Church working to move beyond feelings of guilt to be part of the solution.
Archdiocese to resettle refugees fleeing Ukraine
By Susan Korah, Catholic Register SpecialThe Office for Refugees of the Archdiocese of Toronto (ORAT) is in discussion with Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Church officials to coordinate a program that would see Toronto parishioners host Ukrainian families fleeing the war in their homeland.
Teens make their case to lower the voting age
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterJacob Colatosti, a Grade 12 student at Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School in Hannon, Ont., is one of 13 young Canadians who filed a court challenge in December to overturn Canada’s minimum voting change law.
Rights league looks for more media responsibility
By Terry O’Neill, Canadian Catholic NewsThe executive director of the Catholic Civil Rights League is urging media to be responsibile in its reporting in the wake of the historic meetings at the Vatican between Pope Francis and representatives of Canada’s First Nations.
Military training re-oriented Lépine’s future
By Peter StocklandMontreal Archbishop Christian Lépine says his early encounter with military life convinces him God’s power is vital to stopping the bloody conflict in Ukraine, which has now led to allegations of war crimes by invading Russian forces.