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Saskatchewan Premiere Brad Wall says he will invoke the notwithstanding classes of the Charter of Rights to override a court ruling that threatened cause layoffs and possible Catholic school closure in the province.

Saskatchewan Premier overrides court ruling on Catholic school funding

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REGINA, Sask. – In a victory for Catholic education, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he will invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights to override a court ruling that threatened to cause layoffs and possible Catholic school closures in the province.

Campaign Life's Conservative Leadership Voter's Guide released April 26, urges voters to only support former MP Pierre Lemieux, left, or MP Brad Trost.

Campaign Life Coalition ‘disqualifies’ all but two Tory leadership hopefuls

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OTTAWA – Campaign Life Coalition has “disqualified” all but two Conservative leadership candidates, a move that has drawn fire from other pro-life activists.

Four Canadian religious leaders, including CCCB president Bishop Douglas Crosby of Hamilton, are urging the federal government to develop a national palliative care strategy.

Religious leaders call for national palliative care strategy

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Four Canadian religious leaders, including the head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, are urging the federal government to develop a “well-funded, national initiative to improve palliative care access and quality.”

Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast and New Evangelization Summit organizer Michael Dopp at the first Summit in 2015.

New Evangelization Summit sets an inspiring tone

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OTTAWA – “Inspiration” is an word often heard around the New Evangelization Summit and it has plenty to draw on for this year’s edition May 12-13 in Ottawa.

Ontario doctors are fine-tuning its policy against 'cherry picking' of patients to prevent further alienation of the sick and the poor.

Poor still face obstacles in medical arena, say experts

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TORONTO – Helping poor people is a lousy business model.

Canada's immigration minister Ahmed Hussen says his department is working closely with Canadian Sonsorship Agreement Holders to speed up the bureaucratic application process for refugee sponsors.

Immigration minister vows faster processing times for refugees

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The problem of long processing times for refugees to Canada will be fixed by 2019, promises Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Ahmed Hussen.

A number of community care agencies across Canada have become facilitators for assisted dying since the passage of assisted suicide legislation.

Home care agencies forced into becoming euthanasia facilitators

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OTTAWA – A government-funded home-care agency serving the Ottawa area is facilitating end-of-life services for people seeking to be euthanized in their home.

The Canadian Drug Expert Committee of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health recommended in its new report that Canada's taxpayers pay for abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.

Abortion drugs should be publicly funded, report recommends

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OTTAWA – A public agency has recommended that Canada’s taxpayers foot the bill for the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.

Pope Francis meets with Canadian bishops from Ontario April 25 during their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican to report on the status of their dioceses.

Ontario bishops share concerns with Pope, especially on euthanasia

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has offered encouragement to Ontario’s bishops in their fight for conscience rights for health care workers.

A Saskatchewan court ruling on St. Theodore Catholic School in Theodore, Saskatchewan April 21 says the funding of non-Catholics in Catholic schools violates a section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Funding of non-Catholics in Catholic schools violates Charter, Saskatchewan judge rules

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REGINA – A judgment in a 12-year-old court case has sent shock waves through Saskatchewan’s Catholic education community and left Regina Archbishop Donald Bolen “disheartened.”

An image of Blessed Oscar Romero is seen during a March 26 procession in San Salvador, El Salvador, to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the March 24, 1980, murder of the archbishop.

Archbishop Romero murder still dangerous to discuss 37 years later: author

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The author of a new book about the men who killed Archbishop Oscar Romero while celebrating Mass 37 years ago says the subject is still dangerous to talk about.

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