October 1, 2006 Archbishop disciplined for performing same-sex marriage

Archbishop Terence Finlay, the retired bishop of the Anglican diocese of Toronto and metropolitan (senior bishop) of Ontario, has acknowledged he officiated at a same-sex marriage of a lesbian couple in a United Church in Toronto and has expressed the hope that Anglicans would “reflect on this with understanding.”

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September 26, 2006 Planning group examines work at General Synod

A recently-formed committee that is examining the work of the Anglican Church of Canada’s national office against a background of declining revenues will present some of its findings on Tuesday, Oct. 3 to staff in Toronto, said general secretary Michael Pollesel.

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September 18, 2006 Generous donation fills air of new convent with gift of music

A couple of years ago, as the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, an Anglican order of nuns, was settling into their new convent/guest house building in Toronto, they faced an unusual problem. They were worshipping in a beautiful...

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September 7, 2006 Former students urge fairness in schools settlement

Ten former students of Indian residential schools, among them former Keewatin bishop Gordon Beardy, took the podium on the last day of the Ontario hearing for the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) and raised objections to parts of the deal struck this year between the federal government, churches and some native groups.

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September 1, 2006 Churches pray for peace in Caledonia

Oshwegan, Ont. Church leaders, including Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, joined native and non-native Caledonia and Six Nations residents on the banks of the historic Grand River Aug. 30...

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August 30, 2006 Judge questions logistics of settling schools cases

The first court hearing on the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) began Aug, 29, with Ontario Superior Court Justice Warren Winkler questioning how “realistic” the goal is of resolving – within the agreement’s prescribed six-year period –cases involving former students who have alleged sexual and physical abuse.

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August 25, 2006 AIDS education and materials fail to reach indigenous people

Indigenous activists and people living with HIV/AIDS from Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and the United States ended a conference in Toronto in August with a call for more “culturally-based” AIDS prevention, treatment and education...

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August 21, 2006 Groups examine religious attitudes towards AIDS pandemic

Attitudes towards the HIV/AIDS pandemic in a Buddhist community in Vietnam and among Christians in South Africa were examined at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Buddhist monk Toan Nhu Tran, through a...

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August 21, 2006 AIDS envoy challenges governments, institutions on inaction

Stephen Lewis, the United Nations special envoy on HIV/AIDS for Africa, accused the United States of “neo-colonialism” for imposing conditions on its AIDS grants to developing countries in his strongest indictment yet of some...

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August 21, 2006 Youth voices grow stronger on HIV/AIDS

Youth delegates have applauded their inclusion in the 16th International AIDS Conference but underscored the need for world leaders and activists, as well as funding institutions, to involve them in building HIV/AIDS programs and...

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