by Michael Hammond | Dec 14, 2016 | Integrity of Creation and Climate Change
JPIC staff Tara Kainer visited Kingston & the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen on December 9 to talk about recent developments in his government related to electoral reform and pipelines. Two concerns she brought forward were due to recent action by the federal...
by Michael Hammond | Dec 12, 2016 | Associates News
Magdalena Atjun was born on May 27 but the year was not recorded. She died in August in her home in Momostenago, Guatemala, surrounded by family and by her Providence Associate companions. Magdalena became an Associate in 1992, when the Sisters of Providence were...
by Michael Hammond | Dec 12, 2016 | Associates News
Born in Turkey on April 23, 1936, Suna Smith left this world on July 8 in Camrose Alberta, where she had lived for more than half of her 80 years. An accomplished psychiatrist and professional woman, Suna held her family dear and met her first great-grandchild just...
by Michael Hammond | Dec 9, 2016 | Archives News
BY VERONICA STIENBURG This July I immersed myself in the Sisters’ past, researching and writing the history of the Sisters of Providence as teachers at St. Margaret’s School and Maryvale Abbey in Glen Nevis, Ontario. Around that same time my husband and I decided to...
by Michael Hammond | Dec 9, 2016 | Peace
BY JAMIE SWIFT Back in the mid-1950s, Uncle Eberts offered me the gift of a lifetime. At least for a five year old boy. He got me a ride on a big yellow bulldozer that he’d hired to do some road work. We lived next door to Eberts Macintyre on the Gatineau, just south...
