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Saskatchewan faith leaders call for more robust suicide prevention strategy

September 21, 2020

A Saskatchewan judge has ruled against the provincial government and in favour of the religious freedom of a Métis man fasting and praying on the front lawn of the Saskatchewan legislature for a more robust suicide prevention strategy. The day before the Sept. 11 court ruling, Tristen Durocher’s vigil and 40-day fast in a teepee

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Saskatchewan MP presses for real debate on abortion

September 17, 2020

An MP who wants a law to make it illegal to abort an unborn child based solely on a baby’s sex thinks her biggest challenge is not to convince Canadians of this, but instead is to convince those in the halls of power. Cathay Wagantall said members of Parliament have a long history of staying

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Greater online presence will be new normal, says head of Canada’s bishops

September 16, 2020

The impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on the Catholic Church in Canada will be a key theme of the first-ever online plenary assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops when the annual meeting gets underway Sept. 21. And while the global pandemic has driven the plenary assembly online this year, the move by

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‘We need a miracle,’ Lebanese nun says a month after Beirut blasts

September 8, 2020

Sister Marie Justine el Osta had just begun a spiritual retreat in a mountain convent 27 miles north of Beirut. Even in that remote location, the blast that rocked Lebanon’s capital Aug. 4 could be felt, like an earthquake. Sister el Osta immediately drove to the Socio-Medical Intercommunity Dispensary, where she serves as director, in

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Wife fighting husband’s bid for assisted suicide

September 3, 2020

A legal battle between an elderly married couple in Nova Scotia over the husband’s wish to kill himself with medical aid has become a rallying cry for anti-euthanasia organizations in Canada. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has stepped up to bankroll the man’s wife in her effort to have the courts stop her husband from using

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Class-action lawsuit alleges negligence by Archdiocese of Vancouver

August 31, 2020

Editor’s Note: story was updated Sept. 2 to provide clarity on the status of the claim. A proposed class-action lawsuit filed against the Archdiocese of Vancouver claims the archdiocese was “systematically negligent” in protecting parishioners from abuse by clergy. “The Archdiocese was aware of the abuse and allowed the abuse to continue. The Archdiocese was

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B.C. appeal court will hear case of hospice resisting assisted suicide

August 24, 2020

The B.C. Court of Appeal has agreed to hear the case of the Delta Hospice Society, which is trying to keep assisted suicide out of its Irene Thomas Hospice. A lower court had ruled in June that the society did not act in good faith when it launched a mail-in vote proposing changes to its constitution, or

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