Passengers leave a Delta Air Lines CRJ-900 jet after it crashed and flipped over on landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Feb. 17, 2025. OSV News photo, Peter Koukov handout via Reuters
While away from the airport, Fr. John Mullins, a senior chaplain with the Toronto Airport Catholic Chaplaincy, checked his phone where he saw breaking news of the Delta Air Lines crash as it unfolded Feb. 17. “ I actually saw an article on Daily Mail in Britain about this accident and I said ‘What date is...
The genesis of the Oscar-nominated film Sugarcane is located in the story surrounding the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation when it announced the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. A May 2021 New York Times bombshell story alerted director Emily Kassie to the story that engulfed Canada’s media...
The Canadian bishops have released a five-part video series on YouTube about their pastoral letter on social media. Bishop Scott McCaig, CC, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Canada, hosts the English version, while Bishop Pierre-Olivier Tremblay, OMI, of Hearst-Moosonee, Ont., presents the French videos. (CCCB photo)
A year after issuing a pastoral letter on the use of social media, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a new video series to help Catholics navigate social media with faith and integrity. The series, part of a new webpage for the CCCB’s Pastoral Letter on the Use of Social Media, contains new resources...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has gone her own way on many files on Canada’s national political scene. (Peter Stockland photo)
A Canadian political scientist suggests that on many fronts, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is a “disruptor” willing to explore policy and diplomatic routes starkly divergent from her fellow provincial leaders and the federal government in Ottawa. King’s University College political professor Dr. Jacquetta Newman cites the United Conservative Party leader’s approach to Canada’s tariffs imbroglio...
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When communist forces shuttered Vietnam’s seminaries decades ago, they closed the door on Peter The Hoang Truong’s dream of priesthood. Years later, his unwavering faith would inspire his son to complete the journey he never could. On Jan. 11, that son, Thomas The Hiep Truong, became the newest priest in the Archdiocese of Vancouver, joining...
Winnipeg Archbishop Richard Gagnon, who began his vocation as a priest in Vancouver more than 40 years ago, is retiring at the age of 76. (Michael Swan file photo)
Winnipeg Archbishop Richard Gagnon, who began his vocation as a priest in Vancouver more than 40 years ago, is retiring at the age of 76. His resignation was accepted by Pope Francis, and the...
Bishop Emeritus David Monroe and altar servers prepare for the Archdiocese of Vancouver’s celebration marking the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year. The Mass began with Archbishop Michael Miller blessing the Jubilee cross. (Nicholas Elbers photos)
The Archdiocese of Vancouver celebrated the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year on Sunday with a solemn Pontifical Mass, held on the Feast of the Holy Family. Archbishop J. Michael Miller gathered...
Fundamental political leadership demanded that Prime Minister Trudeau unequivocally declare before Christmas whether he would try to continue leading Canada or resign. Now, in the new year, so does charity. And not in any abstract or metaphorical sense. Tens of thousands of charities across this country had their operating budgets pulverized by the postal strike...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters from his Rideau Cottage residence in Ottawa on Jan. 6, announcing he intends to step down as leader of the ruling Liberal Party but will stay on as prime minister until a replacement is chosen. (OSV News photo/Patrick Doyle, Reuters)
Justin Trudeau announced today that he will resign as Prime Minister and Liberal leader once members select his successor through a nationwide party leadership election. The man who has resided at 24 Sussex Dr. since his first federal electoral victory in 2015 told media assembled at Rideau College that he called upon Governor General Mary...
Bishop Emeritus David Monroe and altar servers prepare for the Archdiocese of Vancouver’s celebration marking the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year. The Mass began with Archbishop Michael Miller blessing the Jubilee cross. (Nicholas Elbers photo)
Jubilee Year 2025 was welcomed in at churches and cathedrals across Canada with Masses celebrating the historic event as well as the Feast of the Holy Family. In Vancouver, Archbishop J. Michael Miller gathered on Dec. 29 with about a dozen altar servers, deacons, and lay faithful outside Holy Rosary Cathedral before the Mass for...