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Lesya Balsevich and Rob Mascitti were in Toronto recruiting teachers for Vancouver Catholic schools. (Photo by Michael Swan)

B.C. Catholic schools recruiting Ontario teachers

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Catholic schools in Vancouver have come to Toronto shopping for young, ambitious and faithful Catholic teachers who want to trade supply teaching assignments for a permanent contract and a classroom of their own. 

Calgary priest on leave over misconduct allegations

Calgary priest on leave over misconduct allegations

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A priest in the Diocese of Calgary has been placed on administrative leave over allegations of sexual misconduct involving two minors and several adults.

Vancouver Island tops assisted suicide rate

Vancouver Island tops assisted suicide rate

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VANCOUVER – The rate of medically-assisted deaths on Vancouver Island is about five times higher than in the rest of the country.

Covenant Health in Edmonton.

Euthanasia case results in apology from Catholic health care provider in Alberta

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EDMONTON – At what point does a health care provider become complicit in the act of medically-assisted death? 

Artist Arnold Shives says B.C.’s beauty inspires him to create, but Opus Dei reminds him to do it for God.

Opus Dei at 90: Making life extra-ordinary

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VANCOUVER – The summits of B.C.’s Coastal Mountains and Rockies inspire longtime artist Arnold Shives.

Fr. Craig Strang on his bicycle is given plenty of attention from his pupils in the 1930s.

Missions accomplished: After 100 years, Scarboro Missions in Toronto is closing its doors

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At 60, Fr. Ron MacDonell is the youngest of the Scarboro Missions priests. Even as his fellow priests back home in Toronto move into a seniors’ residence, MacDonell is working today in the upper reaches of the Amazon basin among Brazil’s Makushi people, bringing together village elders and young people to recover their vanishing language and culture.

An African Mass is held the last Sunday of every month at St. Dominic Savio Parish. Up to 200 people come from parishes across Edmonton and from as far as Fort Saskatchewan for the Mass.

African Mass offers a taste of home in north Edmonton

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EDMONTON – Thirteen-year-old Emmanuel Eremionkhale knows one or two words in Esan, and a couple more in Igbo, the Nigerian languages of his father and mother.

Peace garden at St. Andrew Elementary School in Orangeville, Ont., after Tove Schmidt and a team of volunteers brought it back to life.

Rosary-inspired idea revitalizes garden

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One woman’s labour of love has seen an overgrown peace garden at a Catholic school in Orangeville, Ont., brought back to life as a Rosary Garden.

Muslims, Jews and Christians of East York got together Oct. 21 along the Danforth in Toronto to demand action on poverty as part of the Dignity For All Chew On This campaign.

One in six Canadians are poor, Citizens of Public Justice report says

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Helping 5.8 million Canadians out of poverty isn’t a charity project. It’s about building a better economy and living up to the human rights we proclaim as a nation, said the author of a new report on poverty.

A Catholic abuse survivor said domestic abuse is more prevalent than most realize and that many victims have struggled to find help from medical professionals, the court system and the Catholic Church. October is observed as Domestic Abuse Awareness Month in North America.

Domestic abuse victims of Catholic marriages say escape is no easy matter

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VANCOUVER – Nothing could have prepared Adelaide for the nightmare that was 18 years of her life.
Oblate Fathers Mission School, Fort George, Quebec, January 1946 / École missionnaire des Pères Oblats, Fort George (Québec), janvier 1946

Quebec bishops denounce alleged Oblate sex abuses investigated, aired by Radio-Canada

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MONTREAL – In a statement issued a few minutes after the broadcast of a story from Radio-Canada investigating sexual abuse allegedly committed by 10 Oblate missionaries in First Nation communities, the Quebec Assembly of Catholic Bishops told of their "indignation and shame" for the "terrible tragedy of sexual and physical abuse of minors by members of the clergy or religious communities."
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