Government reaches target of 401,000 new permanent residents in 2021 News release by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada staff [Ottawa – Dec. 23, 2021] – With the significant exception of Indigenous people, all Canadians originally…
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By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Participants in a recent online training session for those willing to lead Synod discussions in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon were able to give the process itself…
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register [TORONTO – Canadian Catholic News] – Pro-lifer advocates are sounding the alarm about the new “bubble-zone” laws that become active Jan. 16, 30 days since Bill C-3 attained royal…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [TORONTO – Canadian Catholic News] – Campaign 2000’s annual in-depth look at poverty reveals that being poor in Canada is predictable: the nation’s poor are overwhelmingly Indigenous or they…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register A national framework for a five-year, $30 million fundraising campaign in aid of healing and reconciliation with residential school survivors and their communities is coming in the new year,…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register The Canadian Council of Churches, Amnesty International and the Canadian Council for Refugees are headed to the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of refugee families who want a…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Rescheduling the Indigenous delegations’ visits with Pope Francis in Rome in the midst of the Omicron-fuelled global COVID resurgence is not going to…
News release by Development and Peace/Caritas Canada Development and Peace / Caritas Canada recently announced the membership of its new national council. The national council is Development and Peace’s primary decision-making body. Its members, all volunteers,…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register Bringing together a trove of newly available documents, the most complete record of how Catholic residential school operators ultimately ended their obligations under the historic 2006 Indian Residential School…
By Jacquie Berg, St. Thomas More College St. Thomas More College (STM) recently announced a $1-million gift from Irene Ositis-Schmeiser in support of STM’s Centre for Faith, Reason, Peace, and Justice. “This landmark gift will…