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• Canadian Alliance leadership keeps the faith
  CA's major players have strong religious background
• Faith helps top cop deal with "every police chief's nightmare"
  Saskatoon's police chief and fire chief meet weekly for prayer
• Salvation Army installs new commander
  Process of implementing change will continue
• Same-sex bill amended
  Marriage more protected, but critics still concerned
• Quicktakes
  A quick summary of news from across Canada
• Pope seeks forgiveness for church's sins
  John Paul II "deeply saddened" by past wrongs
• Seeing Jesus through centuries and cultures
  
• Will there be smokers in heaven?
  John Redekop offers a Christian perspective on tobacco

• Animated life of Jesus is impressive and creative
  Made for children, but never talks down to audience
  

CW on the record

• Pilgrim pope is pastor to the world
  

• Faith, pain, Magnolia and Christians
  Why the most important movie of the decade has to be faced head on