December 1, 1999 Collection plate cash won't go to litigation bills

Mississauga Money put in the collection plate this Sunday won't end up settling a residential schools lawsuit against the church. Legal bills, court costs and damages to settle lawsuits are all being paid from...

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December 1, 1999 General Synod to appeal residential school decision

The Anglican Church of Canada will appeal a B.C. Supreme Court decision that found the church liable for 60 per cent of the damages owed a student who was sexually abused at St. George's Indian Residential School in Lytton, B.C. ...

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December 1, 1999 Journalists arrested in Toronto

The arrest of three journalists covering an anti-abortion protest in Toronto has prompted accusations of police bias and infringement on freedom of the press. The Christian, anti-abortion journalists ? Stephen Jalsevac,...

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December 1, 1999 Moose Factory mourns the drowning loss of eight people

The small, predominantly Anglican community of Moose Factory, Ont., continues to mourn the loss of eight members in a boating accident, the worst mass tragedy since the 1920s. But the healing has begun now that all the...

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December 1, 1999 Litigation seen as result of loss of old Native ways

Native people had their languages and culture taken from them, along with ways of resolving disputes they had developed over millenia, which had nothing to do with money, Rev. Mervin Wolfleg of the Tsuu Tina Nation in Calgary...

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December 1, 1999 Primate alters sabbatical plans in wake of lawsuits

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada will spend his sabbatical next year wrestling with how the church should remake itself to cope with life under a cloud of lawsuits. Archbishop Michael Peers told a national...

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December 1, 1999 Native deacon, husband off to Lytton

The youngest ordained aboriginal woman in North America will become co-rector of the Anglican parishes at Lytton, B.C. Jim Cruickshank, bishop of Cariboo, ordained Catherine Morrison, 28, in St. Anne's Anglican Church in...

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December 1, 1999 Future of language depends on children

Aboriginal children on Northern Vancouver Island have begun learning their language of Kwak'wala in school. But they can't speak it at home with their parents, since they never learned it. Fewer than 300 people still...

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December 1, 1999 Parishioners want acquitted priest back

A Nova Scotia priest acquitted of sexually assaulting a girl in his parish says he doesn't feel victimized by the system. "The Crown opted to err on the side of caution," Charles Bull said in an interview days after the...

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December 1, 1999 Ottawa tightens clergy tax rules

After losing 46 of 49 cases this year in the Tax Court of Canada regarding clergy housing tax deductions, the federal government is proposing new legislation and clarification as to who qualifies for the deduction and at what...

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