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Hugh Scher, pictured, legal counsel to the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC), says Canada's physician-assisted dying law is having considerable impact.

Canada’s assisted suicide law moving swiftly, symposium told

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WINDSOR, Ont. – Opponents of assisted suicide face “significant challenges” following the Canadian government’s official endorsement of medically-aided death in legislation enacted last June, a symposium was told.

Cardus, Canada’s Christian think tank, unveiled its 40-member Cabinet of Canadians on Nov. 1, whose role will be to affirm faith’s central role in building Canada as it celebrates its landmark anniversary of Confederation.

Cardus selects cabinet to mark Canada’s 150th

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OTTAWA – The role of faith will not be left behind as Canada marks its 150th birthday in 2017.

Alberta has gone being the only jurisdiction in North America without an energy efficiency policy to showing more environmental leadership than any other oil-producing region on the globe, says says Andrew Read of the environmentalist Pembina Institute.

Alberta shows more environmental leadership in the spirit of 'Laudato Si’

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ST. ALBERT, Alta. – Until a year and a half ago, Alberta was “ground zero” for lack of trust in protecting the environment, says Andrew Read of the environmentalist Pembina Institute.

Joe Roberts behind the shopping cart he is pushing from coast-to-coast to raise awareness of youth homelessness in Canada.

Cross-country trek behind a shopping cart raises awareness for homeless youth

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HAMILTON, ONT. – Joe Roberts knows what it’s like to be young and homeless in Canada, which is why is he pushing for change. Literally.

Allyson Larkin leads a breakout session at King’s Women’s Political Summit to discuss closing the gender gap within Canadian politics.

Women’s summit aims to close the gender gap in politics

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King’s University College is hoping to lead the way in encouraging young women to get more involved in the political system.

Martin Mark, right, the director of the Archdiocese of Toronto's Office for Refugees, made an appeal last July before the House of Commons Citizenship and Refugee Committee to help Yazidis facing genocide in Iraq from ISIS.

Canadian help for Yazidis must also take other refugees into account, say advocates

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OTTAWA — Help for Yazidis facing genocide and sex slavery by ISIS must not overshadow needs of other refugees elsewhere in the world, say refugee advocates.

Dianne Bulger, right, with Sr. Nuala Kenny, is part of a committee expanding a new ministry to help those at the end of life.

New ministry to accompany vulnerable on final journey

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Serving the sick and the dying has always been central to the mission of the Church. However, in light of recent legislation that legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide in some cases, dioceses across Canada are giving renewed focus to pastoral care.

Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Louis Corriveau, left, and Fr. Marc Plechat as the Archdiocese of Quebec’s newest auxiliary bishops.

Pope appoints two auxiliary bishops to Quebec archdiocese

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OTTAWA – Pope Francis has named two new auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Quebec: Bishop-elect Louis Corriveau and Bishop-elect Marc Pelchat.

Father Jacques Mourad poses for a photo Nov. 11, 2015 at Our Lady of the Annunciation Church in Beirut. The Syriac-Catholic priest, who was held captive by the Islamic State group for nearly five months in 2015, called on Canada to undertake diplomatic steps to end the Syrian civil war.

Priest imprisoned by Islamic State thinks Canada can do more for Syria

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MONTREAL – Canada and Western nations can and must do more to stop the war in Syria, said Father Jacques Mourad, a Syriac Catholic priest who was abducted and held captive for nearly five months by the Islamic State group.

St. Patrick’s Basilica’s green space and parking lot are being sold to a French-language business school. The funds will be used for an endowment fund for the downtown Montreal church.

Montreal basilica’s green space sold to business school

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With a potentially expensive court decision looming, Montreal's historic Catholic mother church is selling its valuable green space and adjacent parking lot in the city's downtown core.

The director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute and professor at the University of St. Michael’s College, Moria McQueen, pictured, says efforts to silence a University of Toronto professor for refusing to use transgender pronouns are unethical.

Unethical to silence professor for refusing transgender pronouns, says ethicist

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OTTAWA – Efforts to silence a University of Toronto professor for refusing to use transgender pronouns are unethical, said Catholic bioethicist Moira McQueen.

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