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Report ignores ‘actual’ religious discrimination, civil rights league charges

Report ignores ‘actual’ religious discrimination, civil rights league charges

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OTTAWA – A government report on religious discrimination has overlooked Ottawa’s own failings, including its conduct in the Canada Summer Jobs controversy, according to the president of the Catholic Civil Rights League.
The #MeToo movement has created a powerful offensive to combat sexual assault and harassment. Catholic groups have long been involved in both helping victims heal and in changing attitudes.

Picking up the #MeToo pieces: Catholic groups help with healing

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Women have come together and said Me Too. Men and women have come together and said Time’s Up. Now, it is time to ask What’s Next?
Bubble zone street signs cite Bill 163 outside abortion clinics in Ottawa.

Bubble zones around abortion clinics in effect

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Ontario’s new 50-metre, protest-free bubble zones around abortion clinics officially came into effect Feb. 1.
The judges found that while objecting doctors may have to change the way in which they practice medicine, by switching to hospital or group-based practice or by practicing in areas unlikely to elicit a request for assisted suicide such as sports medicine, the policy does not banish them from medicine.

Doctors who object to assisted suicide must give referrals, court rules

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A doctor’s conscience takes a back seat to a patient’s right to have medical procedures such as assisted suicide and abortion, Ontario’s Divisional Court ruled Jan. 31.
“We are disappointed with the ruling, but the constitutional questions have not yet come before the court,” says Blaise Alleyne, President of Toronto Right to Life (TRTL) in a statement.

Pro-life group refused injunction on Canada Summer Jobs attestation

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OTTAWA – A Toronto pro-life group has failed to get an injunction against the pro-abortion attestation required in the Canada Summer Jobs application.

Gasperino, 90, and Elena, 88, will be the oldest married couple that will receive blessings from Bishop Robert Kasun on Marriage Sunday, Feb. 11, at Blessed Trinity Parish in Toronto.

A couple that prays together, stays 70 years together

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Gasperino De Gasperis is a tough, but gentle soul, while his wife Elena is a regular spitfire. After 70 years of marriage, they still make each other laugh.
Emilie Callan, middle, served as a host of the National Youth Forum organized by Salt and Light TV in Nov. 2017.

Canadian delegates chosen for pre-synod youth meeting at Vatican

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The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops have announced the names of two Canadian young adults who will be attending as delegates at the Vatican's pre-synod meeting.
Henry Morgentaler challenged the constitutionality of the federal abortion law and won in R v Morgentaler in 1988. In 2008, Morgentaler was awarded the Order of Canada partly "for his commitment to increased health care options for women". He died at 90 years old, May 2013.

Canada's bishops keep up abortion fight 30 years after Morgentaler decision

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OTTAWA – Thirty years after Canada’s abortion law was struck down, Catholic bishops and pro-life groups are as determined as ever to battle for the protection of unborn human life.
“We’re not utilizing the bodies of children. We’re showing abortion victim photography,” CBR spokesman, Jonathon Van Maren said (Register file photo). Employment minister Patricia Hajdu believes graphic images of aborted babies are made to shame women. (Screen capture from The Agenda/Youtube)

Pro-life centre refutes claims on graphic abortion images

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The anti-abortion organization cited by the employment minister for questionable use of an employment subsidy refutes claims it provoked the government into forcing all Canada Summer Jobs applicants to attest that their “core mandate” supports a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.
Flanked by camp counsellors for St. Benedict Parish's Summer Days Camp, Cardinal Thomas Collins pleads for the government to reconsider its requirement that Canada's Summer Jobs applications include an attestation supporting abortion rights.

Cardinal Collins joins more than 80 religious leaders asking government to drop Summer Jobs attestation

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TORONTO – Eighty-seven religious leaders, including Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins, have called on the Canadian government to strike down a new policy that forces organizations seeking summer jobs grants to accept the pro abortion and gender policies of the Liberal Party.
At an ISARC prayer vigil in front of the Ontario Legislature before the 2017 budget was passed, Robin Wardlaw holds a sign asking for a budget that favours the poor.

ISARC making billion-plus budget push for affordable housing

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Religious organizations that run Ontario’s food banks, shelters, soup kitchens and more are asking for an immediate $1.3 billion investment in affordable, subsidized social housing.
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