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London Bishop Ronald Fabbro, third from left, presents a $5,000 cheque to restore London’s Fugitive Slave Chapel to steering committee members Christina Lord and Carl Cadogan (to his right) and Tom Peace, chair of the Fanshawe Pioneer Village Board.

Diocese helps preserve London slave chapel

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A fundraising campaign to relocate and restore London’s Fugitive Slave Chapel to Fanshawe Pioneer Village (FPV) has received a boost from the Diocese of London. 

Jada Malott is all smiles as the first free menstrual product dispenser is installed at Windsor, Ont.’s St. Joseph’s Catholic High School.

Student takes menstrual poverty fight national

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Holding her high school’s first free menstrual product dispenser against the washroom wall, period rights activist Jada Malott couldn’t help but get emotional as she watched the facility service person screw in the bolts.

Indigenous elder John Robinson of Toronto’s Native People’s Mission passed away May 26.

Respected elder passes unexpectedly

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Nobody was expecting Indigenous elder John Robinson to die. “He hadn’t been feeling well for a few days. I finally told him, ‘Enough, you have to go to the hospital,’ ” his grieving daughter Jessica Robinson-Sibbald told The Catholic Register. “He had a massive heart attack at the hospital.”

Pilgrims take to the waters of Lac Ste. Anne west of Edmonton.

Ecological concerns raised on state of Lac Ste. Anne

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Growing up on Lac Ste. Anne in the 1940s and ’50s, Tony Belcourt remembers a rich and wondrous body of water, teeming with life.

Federal PC MP Cathay Wagantall.

Clear overreach, says unvaccinated MP ejected from Parliament

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Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall will not be allowed on the grounds of Canada’s Parliament as she has not provided proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

St. Teresa’s Church in the Mundy Pond area of St. John’s, Nfld.

St. John’s parishes are playing a waiting game

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Catholics in Newfoundland are locked into an unsettling waiting game until the middle of the month, awaiting word on whether bids put in for churches by parish groups will be accepted.

Discarded needles and other drug paraphernalia litter the wheelchair access ramp to St. Michael’s Choir School.

Choir school navigates shelter issues

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Efforts to move the Bond Place emergency shelter located roughly 30 metres from the St. Michael’s Choir School — futile so far — have left concerned parent Jennifer Franssen Keenan demoralized and on the verge of despair.

Fr. Justin Huang blesses a St. Anthony of Padua parishioner. A new initiative is pairing priests in the Archdiocese of Vancouver with women who will be spiritual mothers for them.

Vancouver priests get new ‘spiritual mothers’

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A Maple Ridge, B.C., woman has launched an initiative whose goal is to pair each of the Vancouver archdiocese’s 200-plus priests with a woman who is committed to praying for him every day.

Tyrell Campbell, a 17-year-old hockey player from London, Ont.’s Catholic Central High School. His Diversity in Hockey Guidebook is turning heads in NHL and Hockey Canada circles.

London teen pushes diverse hockey culture

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What began as a class assignment has landed London, Ont., teen Tyrell Campbell a spot on Hockey Canada’s Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group and caught the eye of National Hockey League officials.

Fr. Mark McGuckin performs the marriage ceremony for Danda Santos and Mark Witecki, which took place shortly after Witecki was confirmed at the Easter Vigil at St. Joseph’s Church in Port Moody, B.C.

Wedding follows on heals of confirmation

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In the happy moments following the end of the Easter Vigil service at St. Joseph’s in Port Moody, nine of the 10 men and women who were baptized or confirmed that evening began to leave the sanctuary with family and friends, most heading to a celebratory gathering in the adjoining church hall.

A woman takes a picture of the memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School June 6, 2021.

Christ’s compassion creates ‘residential school conqueror’

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A life that very easily could have fallen off the rails after a painful experience in Canada’s residential school system was not to be for Bill Adsit.

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