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Judge Prevents Autistic Woman From Being Euthanized

By Alex Schadenberg, LifeNews.com, April 9, 2024 I have great news. Justice Anne Kirker, on April 8, 2024; issued a stay of the injunction pending a determination of an appeal in the case of the 27-year-old autistic Calgary woman whose father has been trying to prevent her death by... read more

Canadian cardinal accused of assaulting teenager

Gerald Lacroix, who is close to the pope, has been archbishop of Quebec since 2011 and a cardinal since 2014 By AFP, Montreal, January 26, 2024 Cardinal Gerald Lacroix has been accused in Canada of sexually assaulting a female teenager, as part of a class action lawsuit against the... read more

85 Catholic churches burned after unverified claims of mass graves

By Our Sunday Visitor/Catholic News Service, January 18, 2024 TORONTO (OSV News) — According to the Catholic Civil Rights League‘s database, at least 85 Catholic churches have been set ablaze or vandalized since the unproven discovery May 27, 2021, of 215 suspected unmarked... read more

Jordan Peterson says he will ‘publicize every single bit’ of his mandatory ‘re-education’

'I’ll see how burdensome playing your pathetic game becomes, and I will publicize every single bit of it,' Jordan Peterson told the Ontario College of Psychologists. By Clare Marie Merkowsky, LifeSiteNews, January 23, 2024 (LifeSiteNews) — Famous Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson... read more

Canada’s human rights commission suggests Christmas and Easter holidays amount to ‘systemic religious discrimination’

By Joseph MacKinnon, Blaze Media, November 24, 2023 The Canadian Human Rights Commission recently published a paper suggesting that statutory holidays linked to celebrations of Christian significance, Christmas and Easter in particular, are evidence of "religious intolerance." The... read more

13,241 People Were Euthanized in Canada in 2022, Setting New Record

By Alex Schadenberg, LifeNews.com, October 25, 2023 Health Canada recently released the Fourth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying (2022). The data is gathered from the reports submitted by the medical or nurse practitioners who carried out the death. There is no... read more

The Synod on Synodality’s listening ‘method’ comes from the Jesuits

By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency, October 24, 2023 Synod on Synodality delegates in Rome this month are participating in something called “conversation in the Spirit,” a method of communal discernment based on prayer and listening. “Synodal listening is oriented towards... read more

Fraser Health ignored experts over MAiD

By Terry O'Neill, Canadian Catholic News, September 22, 2023 VANCOUVER -- A new set of secret documents that the Fraser Health Authority tried but failed to keep from the public confirms that its board of directors overrode advice from its own experts in ordering that euthanasia be offered in... read more

No human remains found 2 years after claims of ‘mass graves’ in Canada

By Dana Kennedy, New York Post, August 31, 2023   After two years of horror stories about the alleged mass graves of Indigenous children at residential schools across Canada, a series of recent excavations at suspected sites has turned up no human remains. Some... read more

Canadian parents push back against gay pride flag in Catholic school district; police called

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency, April 26, 2023 Police were called to maintain order at a Catholic school board meeting in Ontario, Canada, during a discussion about whether the board should fly a gay pride flag at its central office throughout June to support gay pride month. The... read more

Assisted suicide slowly shifts from free ‘choice’ to compulsory

By Brett Salkeld, Our Sunday Visitor, March 6, 2023 Last October, Canadian news outlet CityNews produced a story about a man with chronic back pain due to a workplace injury seeking assisted suicide (euphemistically and disingenuously dubbed MAID — Medical Assistance in... read more