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Report: Aboriginal communities most affected by high imprisonment linked to poverty

Report: Aboriginal communities most affected by high imprisonment linked to poverty

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EDMONTON – Poverty is a main cause of imprisonment and largely affects Canada’s Aboriginal community, according to a new research paper by the coordinator of pastoral care for the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in St. Jean sur Richelieu, Que., has been taken over by the Doicese of Longueuil, which has also assumed the cathedral’s debt from renovations it could no longer afford.

Longueuil diocese takes on cathedral’s $300,000 debt

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The future of an historic cathedral in Quebec has been secured by a transaction that saw the local bishop trade away a former convent and his diocese assume the cathedral’s $300,000 debt.

Sister Elizabeth Kass at a celebration after becoming a Canadian citizen in her 80s, May 2016.

Sr. Elizabeth Kass, advocate for deaf community, dies at age 84

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EDMONTON – Sr. Elizabeth Kass is being remembered as a fearless woman who spent decades ministering to her fellow members of the deaf community, culminating in what she called the answer to her prayers — the ordination of Canada’s first deaf priest.
Fight over forced referral policy on assisted suicide not over yet

Fight over forced referral policy on assisted suicide not over yet

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The Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada is asking the Ontario Court of Appeal to take a second look at their case against the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
"We have to make sure that the protest of parents across this province isn’t falling upon deaf ears. We have to make sure the social conservative voice is being respected," Tanya Granic Allen wrote when she announced her run for the Ontario PC Party leadership.

Catholic mom Tanya Allen Granic puts sex ed into Ontario PC campaign

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OTTAWA – A Catholic mother of four has thrust Ontario’s controversial sex-ed curriculum into the campaign to select a new leader of the province’s Progressive Conservative Party.

Spirit Island at Lake Maligne in Alberta, June 9, 2017

A leap into drastic change in environmental policy

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Development and Peace has signed onto a political manifesto that reflects in part the teaching of Pope Francis in a call for drastic change in environmental policy.
Retired Archbishop Joseph MacNeil of Edmonton, Alberta, is pictured with students in an undated photo. Archbishop MacNeil died Feb. 11 after a stroke.

Death of a 'gentle giant', archbishop led Edmonton for 26 years

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EDMONTON – Alberta’s Catholic community is mourning a giant character in its storied history following the death of retired Archbishop Joseph MacNeil, a humble disciple with a unique ability to remember names, faces and details of the lives of thousands of people.
Emelie Callan and Jacob Jason Genaille-Dustyhorn will be representing Canadian youth in Rome in March at the pre-synodal meeting on the youth.

Canadian bishops pick Cree student for Vatican youth synod

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Jacob Jason Genaille-Dustyhorn isn’t Catholic, but his spiritual roots with the Indigenous community has qualified him as one of only two young people selected by Canadian bishops to represent the country in Rome next month.
Conservative Andrew Scheer positions his party as the party of freedom.

Conservatives seek to brand themselves as the party of freedom

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OTTAWA – As the Liberal government refuses to budge on requiring a pro-abortion attestation for Canada Summer Jobs funding, the Conservative Party is positioning itself as the party of freedom.
Chris and Monika Matelski plan on celebrating Valentine’s a day early.

Sweet compromise: Ash Wednesday falls on Valentine’s Day. What’s a couple to do?

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Catholic couples will face a conundrum this Valentine’s Day.
Cyril Winter demonstrating outside the Morgentaler abortion facility in the fall of 2017.

Ottawa abortion protester arrested under ‘bubble zone’ law

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OTTAWA – One of the most well known abortion protesters in the nation’s capital is the first to be charged for violating Ontario’s new bubble zone law.
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