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MONTREAL Sarah Hunt-Donais worked two jobs to pay her way through a psychology degree, had a black belt in martial arts and was “like a mother” to her younger siblings, an old friend said. Hunt-Donais, 25, was one of the two Quebec youth protection workers who died by suicide this month in quick succession, sparking worry and grief among their colleagues, and public condolences from the province’s authorities. But Hunt-Donais’s death, while she did work at a famously stressful job, can’t necessarily be blamed so easily on work conditions, said an old friend of hers. The friend described her as a private person who wouldn’t want her problems summed up by strangers who never met her.
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In 2015, Catholic Community Services, the social services agency for Montreal’s English-speaking Catholic community, excised “Catholic” from its name and identity, rebranding itself Collective Community Services.
Catholicism can be a tough sell in Quebec, a province that rapidly secularized in the 1960s. People in Quebec, especially those under 35, are the least likely to believe in God among Canadians, according to a 2019 poll from the Association for Canadian Studies. Only 10 percent of respondents said they attend religious services.
The increasing secularization of Canadian society played a role when rebranding Catholic community services. “One of the issues for that agency was that it received funding from a nonprofit foundation that itself was very ambiguous regarding its openness to religion and funding religious organizations,” said Bishop Thomas Dowd, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Montreal at the time of the agency’s rebranding. “The que