November 1, 2009 The road to glory

When I think of the day my mother was buried, I recall the smell of rising bread dough in Wendy’s house and the plaited loaves my older sister and I were making.

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November 1, 2009 Emotion rocks Rideau Hall

Governor General Michaelle Jean has urged Canadians to participate in the work of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Canadians have a collective responsibility to confront the country’s history with aboriginal peoples and have the opportunity “to right a historical wrong,” said Jean.

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November 1, 2009 Newspaper ad serves up hunger

As Canadians gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving, Archbishop Colin Johnson, metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, asked them to reflect on the 300,000 Ontarians who must rely on food banks to survive.

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November 1, 2009 H1N1 puts cleanliness next to godliness

Decisions about how to avoid the potential spread of H1N1 flu are being made diocese–by-diocese across the Anglican Church of Canada.

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November 1, 2009 A smile and an invitation to worship

On Sept. 24, Bishop Philip Poole was one of four bishops from the diocese of Toronto who greeted commuters at Union Station during the Back to Church Sunday initiative celebrated by Anglicans worldwide. It took the bishops just...

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November 1, 2009 Bishop elected to Athabasca

Canon Fraser Lawton, 41, rector of St. Thomas’ Anglican church in Fort McMurray, Alta., is the new bishop-elect of the diocese of Athabasca.

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November 1, 2009 Aboriginal priest finds her calling as a military chaplain

Rev. Capt. Catherine Askew distinctly remembers the moment when she knew she wanted to be a military chaplain to the Canadian Forces. She was 17 years old and an undergraduate student at university. She had been thinking that a...

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November 1, 2009 Meet the metropolitans

Colin Johnson was elected metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Ontario at the provincial synod in Cochrane, Ont. on Oct. 15. He was later installed at a service at Holy Trinity Church there.

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November 1, 2009 Co-ordinator named for suicide prevention

The Council of the North has appointed veteran activist and community organizer Cynthia Patterson as the co-ordinator of new suicide prevention programs. “It’s exciting to know that [the Council of the North] wants to move in this way,” Patterson said. “It is a question of opening the doors and going out.”

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November 1, 2009 Clarkson named patron for PWRDF project

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has a new patron for its initiative to sponsor 50 refugee families: Adrienne Clarkson.

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