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Young skiers Gabriel Neilson, second from left, and four friends have been hailed as heroes after they helped rescue an eight-year-old boy dangling from a chairlift on Grouse Mountain. The drama was caught on video by another skier, Carolina Akoglu, as the boy fell.

Teens hailed as heroes in boy’s rescue

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VANCOUVER - It was a day of skiing Grade 8 student Gabriel Neilson won’t soon forget.

People make their way to the 90-year-old St. Michael’s Church before a March 17 ceremony honouring Hungarian immigrants who settled near Bashaw, Alta.

The many lives of St. Michael’s

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EDMONTON - Isabella Mraz Nelson kneels and gently places her hand on her great-grandfather’s headstone.

A groom and bride hold hands on their wedding day.

Marriage scores big on family satisfaction scale

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OTTAWA - Canadian married couples with children are a pretty happy lot — at least more happy than their unmarried counterparts.

Gillian cuddles up to a blanket featuring a photo of her father, who passed away seven years ago, at a unique program for low-income or marginalized women grieving the loss of a loved one

Grieving women find comfort in ‘quillows’

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Her father died nearly seven years ago and she is still struggling to come to terms with the loss.

Twelve-year-old Kisanet, left, joins in at Silent Voice’s Saturday program for deaf children.

Silent Voice bridges communication gap

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Twelve-year-old Kisanet hardly remembers the time when she was not deaf.

Matt Dineen and his family.

A little boost for dementia strategy

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OTTAWA - Matt Dineen’s long pursuit of improving lives for people living with dementia took a small but significant step forward in the federal budget.

A woman and her family from Sudan are taken into custody after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Quebec.

Asylum funds allocated poorly, advocates say

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OTTAWA - Refugee advocates are welcoming a federal budget pledge to spend $1.8 billion over five years to accelerate the processing of asylum claims, but concerns are being raised about how funds will be allocated.

Fr. Mongeau

Jesuits combining policy and prayer

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Canada’s Jesuits are tweaking their sexual abuse policy less than three years after their last update, but as they do so they’re matching their policy with prayer.

Many Catholic churches have been shuttered prompted by shifts in financial or democraphic fortunes.

Out of Business

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A third of Canada’s Christian architecture, some 9,000 churches, will close in the next 10 years, according to the National Trust for Canada.

Archbishop Christian Lepine of Montreal has announced an audit of sexual abuse by clergy in Montreal-area dioceses.

Archdiocese of Montreal hires retired judge to examine sex abuse files

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Five Montreal-area dioceses have hired a retired judge to examine seven decades of archival files to shed light on credible reports of sexual abuse by clergy that have been kept silent.

Father Claude Grou, rector of St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, seen June 4, 2018, was wounded March 22, 2019, after being stabbed during a televised Mass in the crypt of the oratory.

St. Joseph's Oratory rector released from hospital; suspect evaluated

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MONTREAL – Father Claude Grou, the rector of St. Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal who was stabbed during a Mass March 22, has been released from the hospital.
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