Pope Francis

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon will represent Canada at the funeral for Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, says Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Serge Quevillon made it a point on Monday to visit Montreal's Mary Queen of the World Cathedral to pay respect to Pope Francis.

Pope Francis died Monday at the Vatican. He was 88. Canadians remember Pope Francis for his historic apology in 2022 for residential schools that he made to thousands of dignitaries, Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors who travelled from across the country to powwow grounds in central Alberta.

Pope Francis will be remembered by Canadian Catholics as a progressive leader whose approach to the papacy helped usher in a new era of Indigenous relations and make the church more responsive to its rank and file.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed into the second day of the G7 leaders' summit, which will feature a special appearance by Pope Francis.

Canada has been so slow to carry out recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that an Indigenous-led think tank says it has decided to stop publishing an annual report tracking its progress.

Cindy Woodhouse, the new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, says her relatives were her role models.

Dubai prepared to host the COP28 climate talks on Tuesday as world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden signaled they would not be attending the negotiations that come during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war roiling the wider Middle East.

Pope Francis shamed and challenged world leaders to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it’s too late, warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a “point of no return.”

The first mandate letters Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his cabinet ministers in 2015 said no relationship was more important to him, and to the country, than the one with Indigenous Peoples.

As Hawaii residents mourned those killed in ferocious wildfires, officials warned that the full human and environmental toll was not yet known and the recovery only just beginning.

Two weeks ago, the Vatican released a statement denouncing the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a series of documents that Canadian governments have used to justify colonization for centuries. Now what happens?

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on what the Doctrine of Discovery has meant for Christians, Canadians and Indigenous Peoples.