November 1, 2005 Observer

Rev. Martha Spence, a member of Manitoba's Tataskweyak Cree First Nation who is incumbent at St. John's parish, Kawawachikamach, Que., visited the Council of the North meeting in Split Lake, Man. Council members...

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November 1, 2005 Churches join First Nation in push for water policy

The Council of the North voted to join the Tataskweyak Cree Nation, a native community in Manitoba, in "advocating for the establishment of a national public policy, which clearly recognizes the inherent and inalienable...

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November 1, 2005 Man's 25-year detour from priesthood nears an end

Victoria Jim Holland will not be ordained an Anglican priest till February but already he is feeling the effects – all of them good – of returning to the path he first embarked on when he was 14 but...

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November 1, 2005 Prayer for healing

The parish of St. Mary's, Sioux Lookout, Ont., in the diocese of Keewatin, joined the annual Day of Prayer for Community Healing in September organized by the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, where suicide has reached an alarming rate....

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November 1, 2005 Montreal joins plan

The diocesan council of Montreal has approved a recommendation to merge all the assets and liabilities of the Diocesan Clergy Pension Plan with the General Synod pension plan effective, Jan. 1, 2006. The proposal was to...

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November 1, 2005 Chaplain now a knight

Rev. Maj. Eric Reynolds, senior chaplain at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ont., was recently invested into the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (commonly known as the Knights...

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November 1, 2005 Closure 'devastating'

Bishop Anthony Burton of Saskatchewan has urged the provincial and federal governments to "do everything in their power to rectify the situation" of the planned closure in January 2006 of Weyerhaeuser pulp and paper mill in...

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November 1, 2005 Church's reputation for transparency takes a hit

In the end, it will probably amount to a small black mark on the church's reputation for transparency. Management at General Synod, the Anglican Church of Canada's national office in Toronto, last summer commissioned a...

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November 1, 2005 Why people 'forget' the church

Dear editor, Churches, local and national, possibly receive few bequests not, as your October editorial suggests (Do people simply forget the church?), because their members have not thought about leaving...

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November 1, 2005 Don't write Canadian church off as erring child

Dear editor, I deplore the Anglican Consultative Council's preoccupation with the differences within the church rather than concentration on the faith that unites us (Anglican council censures Canada, U.S.; September...

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