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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.

Project offers long-distance helping hand

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

People in Kamengo line up for the annual CACHA medical mission.

Ottawa resident works to build better lives in his birthplace of Kamengo, Uganda

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Grief has been all too commonplace these days for Ottawa humanitarian Jimmy Sebulime.

A health care worker administers a COVID vaccine to a shepherd near Lidderwat, India.

For much of world, vaccines still scarce

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As of July 26 the City of Toronto has jabbed its citizens in the arm 4.3 million times. Provincially, 89.5 per cent of the eligible population of Ontario has been at least partially vaccinated. Globally, 3.5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed.

A child's red dress hangs on a stake near the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia June 5, 2021.

Questions over Church’s ‘in-kind’ services

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As Catholics across Canada scramble to make up for the failed “best efforts” fundraising campaign of 2007 to 2013, they’re now answering questions about their “in-kind” contributions to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement — a stream of compensation that Catholic residential school operators over-fulfilled by at least $5 million.

A small group visits a makeshift memorial on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., last month. About 200 unmarked graves were found at the site in May using ground-penetrating radar.

Fundraising plans gaining momentum

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Even as ordinary Canadian Catholics and dioceses roll out plans to raise money and recommit to reconciliation, Indigenous Catholic Deacon Michael Robinson continues to feel the community anger over residential schools.

Vancouver police set sights on church vandals

Vancouver police set sights on church vandals

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VANCOUVER -- As Vancouver Police investigate a “dramatic” increase in mischief and vandalism at churches and church properties, they’re concerned an escalation in violence could lead to more serious damage or injury.

Students at Cross Lake Indian Residential School in Manitoba pose with their teacher in 1940.

Archdiocese of Toronto building plan to aid residential school survivors

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The Archdiocese of Toronto has announced a three-pronged plan aimed at supporting its efforts to aid residential school survivors and Indigenous communities, including a fundraising campaign.

The grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School are seen June 6, 2021.

Details surface about assumed school grave sites in Kamloops

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VANCOUVER — The ground-penetrating radar specialist who studied the area near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia has released more details about her findings.

First Nations representatives lead pilgrims to the grotto during the pilgrimage in 2015. The annual event usually attracts thousands, but due to the pandemic and recent fire damage it has been cancelled two years in a row.

Mission pilgrimage cancelled again as grotto damaged

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VANCOUVER — The largest annual event in the Archdiocese of Vancouver, which draws thousands of Catholics to a historic site in Mission, has been cancelled for the second year in a row.

Twins Josh and Jesse Bailey, graduates of Hoy Names High School in Windsor, Ont., are off to NCAA schools on scholarships this fall, a stepping stone, they hope, toward representing Canada at the Olympics.

Olympic dreams inch closer for twins

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For teenage sprint hurdlers Josh and Jesse Bailey, the goal of one day competing for Canada in the Olympics is much more than a distant dream.

A homeless encampment is set up behind St. Paul’s Basilica in downtown Toronto, across the street from The Good Shepherd.

Dealing with the reality of homelessness

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The tents in city parks, men and women gathered under Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway, lean-tos and sleeping bags scattered through ravines, camp fires among the alder trees near the beaches — none of this is new to Toronto. But it has become a lot more visible since COVID came to town.

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