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A backbench MP who gets things done
Liberal MP John McKay doesn鈥檛 give a damn whether he鱿鱼视频app in cabinet or not. But he does give a damn.
Two of Development and Peace鱿鱼视频app 24 exiled partners have been welcomed back by Canada鱿鱼视频app Catholic development and aid organization and the remaining 22 may re-apply once the organization finalizes a new partnership policy in the coming weeks.
A coroner鱿鱼视频app report into the COVID-19 deaths of three migrant farm workers last year has highlighted the role crowded, inadequate housing played in spreading the deadly virus on Ontario farms, plus a jumble of overlapping jurisdictions overseeing the living and working conditions of temporary foreign workers.
Quebec bishops push for 鈥榡ust recovery鈥�
Quebec鱿鱼视频app Catholic bishops don鈥檛 just want a recovery, they want change.
Farms could be COVID hotspot, again
A year after three migrant farm workers died in Ontario and COVID-19 infections ran rampant in bunkhouses, Fr. Peter Ciallella is worried about this year鱿鱼视频app growing season.
Beyond high school: Preparing for life鱿鱼视频app next big step
In May of 1968 student protesters in Paris put up signs that read, 鈥淏e realistic 鈥� demand the impossible.鈥� Other signs read, 鈥淟ife, quickly.鈥� Meanwhile in the United States young people rose up in disgust over their government鱿鱼视频app conduct of the Vietnam War and Canadian universities began filling up with American draft dodgers.
Canadian bishops, religious push for passage of Bill C-15
With the legislation already forwarded to the Senate for study and third reading in the House of Commons expected within days, Canada鱿鱼视频app bishops and religious orders have come out strongly in support of Bill C-15, a law that would implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Too many challenges with drive-in Mass
This past Easter Sunday, Fr. Harrison Ayre remembers walking back into St. Peter鱿鱼视频app in Nanaimo, B.C., just to gather himself after celebrating the most stressful Mass of his life. Then, just as he sat down in a pew, he heard a bang.
Global development goals hit hard by pandemic: UN report
If COVID has been a setback for Canadians, what has it done to villagers in Malawi, slum dwellers in Manila, small farmers in Honduras, Indigenous people in the Amazon?
The University of Sudbury has turned to the courts to put a stop to Laurentian University鱿鱼视频app rapid dissolution of its founding agreements with three church-affiliated universities 鈥� the University of Sudbury (Jesuit), Thorneloe University (Anglican) and Huntington University (United Church).