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JOURNALISTS Nancy Macdonald and Kathryn Blaze Baum reported in the Globe and Mail on Apr. 30 that the heads of psychiatry at 13 Canadian medical schoo...
continue readingA MAN is in custody after allegedly filling a North Battleford, Sask. church with bear spray during a Sunday morning service.
continue readingPsychiatrist Dr. John Maher told the Special Joint Parliamentary Committee that is weighing Canada’s plan to extend euthanasia to those with a mental disorder alone that people with mental illnesses are already dying assisted deaths in Canada “under the guise of flimsy medical excuses,” according to Sharon Kirkey reporting for The National Post on April 22. Maher said that others will “doctor shop until death” if euthanasia is allowed for psychiatric suffering alone...
continue readingAlberta Bill 18 – The Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life act passed on Apr. 18 and will soon be signed into law. The bill will not stop Albertans from being killed by euthanasia but it does improve safeguards and it will prevent some deaths.
continue readingON MARCH 21, the Very Rev. Dr. Vincent Fenga was elected to become – upon his consecration – the 13th bishop of the Diocese of Yukon. There was only one other candidate.
AN Easter homily series on the spiritual senses got off to a strong start on April 12 at St. Thomas’ Anglican Church in Toronto.
On Sunday March 15 antisemitic signage was on full display at a protest in the predominately Jewish neighbourhood of Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue in North York. One sign depicted Jews as rats c...
continue readingALBERTA’s Minister of Justice, Mickey Amery, introduced Bill 18: the “Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act” on March 18.
continue reading(Staff) SASKATCHEWAN’s highest court has issued a ruling that should please congregations across the country. Churches know they must give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, but...
continue reading(Staff) THE REV. Catherine Short will be celebrating the Christmas Eucharist at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Corner Brook in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland. Normally, this should not...
continue readingTHE four-alarm blaze that gutted St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto last June is now being treated as a case of suspected arson, not faulty wiring, as first thought.
continue readingTHE ANGLICAN CHURCH of Canada is making progress in resolving a massive financial scandal that rocked the denomination last summer
continue readingBill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act now under consideration by Canada’s House of Commons, is seen by many as an appropriate response to a rise in antisemitic violence, but recent amendments that s...
continue readingIN THE WAKE of the suspension of Archbishop Steve Wood, the Right Rev. Daniel Gifford, the Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Canada, issued “A Call to Prayer” on Nov. 17.
continue readingThe Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Shane Parker, and The Rt Rev. Daniel Gifford, the Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Canada, respond to the GAFCON announcement.
continue readingPROPOSALS to ban public prayer in Quebec would be a violation of human rights, threatening Christian festivals and the many acts of public blessing carried out each year, the Bishop of Quebec, the Rt...
continue readingTHE ANGLICAN Diocese of Canada (formerly the Anglican Network in Canada) gathered for its annual General Synod on Oct. 29–31. The synod was convened and presided over by the Rt Rev. Daniel Giffo...
continue readingTHE ANGLICAN Church of Canada elected a new leader at last June’s General Synod – but not from among the original slate of four candidates. The Rt. Rev. Shane Parker, Bishop of Ottawa, was...
continue reading(Staff) THE BISHOP-ELECT of Rupert’s Land, who has lived and worked in both Africa and North America, hopes to bridge the division between the Global North and the Global South in the Anglican C...
continue readingIN THE LAST week of June, over two hundred delegates to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada met in London, Ontario to consider ways to rethink and restructure their denomination.
continue readingA massive financial scandal is rocking the Anglican Church of Canada. How was a 9-million-dollar five-year lease signed without the knowledge of the denomination’s finance committee? How could s...
continue readingTHE ANGLICAN Church of Canada has elected a new leader – but not from among the original slate of four candidates. The Rt. Rev. Shane Parker, Bishop of Ottawa, was elected the 15th Primate of th...
continue readingTHE BISHOP-ELECT of Montreal told The Anglican Planet and The Living Church that he has three top priorities for his episcopate: reconciliation, financial health, and safe-church reform.
continue readingTHE Diocese of Montreal, facing allegations of misconduct against at least one of its candidates for coadjutor bishop, has elected the Ven. Dr. Victor-David Mbuyi Bipungu.
continue readingTHE ANGLICAN Church of Canada has announced four nominees for the office of primate: the Most Rev. Christopher Harper, the Most Rev. Greg Kerr-Wilson, the Rt. Rev. David Lehmann, and the Rt. Rev. Risc...
continue reading(Staff) ON March 8, the Rev. Chad McCharles, a Manitoba priest and student of Benedictine spirituality, was elected bishop of Saskatoon.
continue readingON March 26, the Rev. Rod BrantFrancis was elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Moosonee during an electoral synod held in Cochrane, Ontario. There were only two candidates and he won sufficie...
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