BY SISTER PEGGY FLANAGAN The rapid rate of technological changes, a part of the society in which we live, leaves many of us feeling a bit dizzy and unable to keep up with the latest innovations. Change is inevitable, a law of life, as we all know. Still, have you...
Healing Violence stories
Responding to the Call
BY SISTER PEGGY FLANAGAN The original committee, which resulted from the fourth directional statement of Chapter/94, was called Healing Violence Against Women. Our mandate to provide a major conference every two years on some aspect of Healing Violence over a period...
Eye Witness to War
Sally Armstrong, seated, signs a copy of her book for Sarah Welsh, Electa Resource Centre librarian. The Resource Centre has copies of two books by the author - The nine lives of Charlotte Taylor: The first woman settler of the Miramichi and Veiled threat: The hidden...
Sisters Target Human Trafficking
Sr. Frances O'Brien and Associate Barbara BakerReprinted with permission from the Western Catholic Reporter. Sister of Providence Frances O'Brien and Associate Barbara Baker facilitated a workshop to examine the world-wide reality of human trafficking at the spring...
What is Trafficking?
Trafficking in persons means the recruitment, transportation, harbouring and trade of persons, by means of threats, force, abduction, fraud, deception, and abuse of power for the purpose of exploitation. That exploitation may be sexual, forced slave labour, or even...