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Disabled Canadians are fighting for their lives and against legislation that paves the way for clean, quiet, anonymous suicides at the hands of medical professionals.

When the Ontario government announced it was holding consultations for a spring budget to be delivered March 31, they also announced they had already talked earlier that day to the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.

With the stroke of a pen, U.S. President Joe Biden didn’t just cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. In the eyes of some, heöÏÓãÊÓƵapp cancelled Alberta.

The Canadian Council of Churches has again called on Canada to sign and ratify the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as the treaty became officially part of international law on Jan. 22.

The end of our long COVID crisis may be in sight, but until we get there churches and faith leaders still have a job to do, CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam told over 1,300 faith leaders on a Jan. 20, nationwide Zoom call.

Over the course of six decades, Justice Karen Weiler has wielded the law in the service of kids. Semi-retired, honoured throughout CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp legal community and now with the Order of Ontario in her back pocket, sheöÏÓãÊÓƵapp still doing it.

Fr. Ivan CamilleriöÏÓãÊÓƵapp moment has arrived — not that he was waiting for it or hoping for it or dreading it. But itöÏÓãÊÓƵapp here now and thatöÏÓãÊÓƵapp fine with him.

Persistent prejudice is inspiring one Catholic scholar to respond with persistent and faithful research.

A student journalist at TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Ryerson University is claiming damages from the schoolöÏÓãÊÓƵapp volunteer student newspaper, saying he was kicked off the paperöÏÓãÊÓƵapp roster of writers for his Catholic beliefs.

With five dead, a move for impeachment and FBI agents fanned out across the U.S. to identify and arrest people who violently stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, theologian Massimo Faggioli finds it mystifying that the U.S. bishops are treating a rosary-praying, Mass-going president-elect as their biggest political problem.