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TORONTO, ON – After nine and a half months and 13 court dates, Crown counsel has dropped the charges against freelance journalist Sue Careless and agreed to return the film confiscated at her arrest. Careless was charged last October 15,…Read More→
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TORONTO, ON – The Anglican Church of Canada has slashed more than $1 million from its operating budget by cutting overseas programs and subsidies to northern Canada, reducing its fulltime staff at headquarters by eight, and reducing or eliminating other…Read More→
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If a mass of lawsuits against the Anglican Church of Canada is carried through, the church could be bankrupt within the next year. Facing 1,600 claims totalling $2 billion stemming from abuses in church- and government-run Indian residential schools, the…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB – The head of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Michael Peers, has done the arithmetic and the numbers don’t balance: the national body is faced with about $2 billion in damages from residential school lawsuits, and only…Read More→
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CALGARY, AB – Protests by shareholders, demonstrators and a prominent evangelist failed to change the hearts and minds of oil executives gathered for Talisman Energy’s annual general meeting May 3. But those who are troubled by Talisman’s involvement in Sudan…Read More→
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AKULIVIK, QC – The ground might still be frozen at the end of April, but the people’s hearts are not. As visitors descend on the village of Akulivik, just below the 61st parallel on the west coast of the Ungava…Read More→
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REGINA, SK – A 60-year-old institution is planning to bid farewell to Regina and say hello to Calgary. Canadian BibleCollege/Canadian Theological Seminary has decided to move–but not yet. Selling the current campus and finding a new one is expected to…Read More→
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EDMONTON, AB – A curator at the Provincial Museum of Alberta has launched what is undoubtedly the most ambitious exhibition depicting Christianity ever to be shown in Canada. Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries will include some 250 pieces, from…Read More→
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TORONTO–First there was the Toronto Blessing. Now there’s the Toronto Filling. Gold filling. More than 300 people attending services at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (TACF), home of the five-year-old “Toronto Blessing,” claim to have received gold or silver fillings or…Read More→
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A judge in the Tax Court of Canada has ruled that 38 individuals, all working for Christian organizations and denied clergy housing deductions by Revenue Canada, are eligible to receive these deductions. The same judge ruled against another eight persons….Read More→