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Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 11:08PM By George Conger
THE BISHOP of Quebec has authorized his clergy to perform rites for the blessing of same-sex unions. In his presidential address to the diocesan synod held in Quebec City, Nov. 2-4 Bishop Dennis Drainville said he would “like to proceed in the Diocese of Quebec, as several other Canadian dioceses have done, to provide
Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 11:02PM A VANCOUVER outdoor clothing manufacturer plans to distribute waterproof insulated capes to homeless people living on the city’s streets. This is the fourth year employees at Arc’Teryx have volunteered to make the capes from leftover materials such as GORE-TEX®. The garments slip on easily,
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 12:50PM Comment by Gordon Maitland
ON THE FIRST Sunday in Advent (Dec. 2) it will be exactly fifty years to the day that the present Book of Common Prayer became the official standard of Common Prayer and Christian doctrine in the Anglican Church of Canada. A revision of the 1918 Prayer Book, it added, among other things, the Prayers at Mid-Day and the lovely, late-evening service of Compline.
The 1962 BCP remains the official Book of Common Prayer for the Canadian Church and as it contains
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 12:05PM 
Bishop Jim Njegovan
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(Staff) AN ANGLICAN theological college in Saskatchewan is closing its doors – or at least going into suspended animation for three years. The College of Emmanuel and St. Chad will suspend operations effective June 30, 2013. There has been an ongoing decline in student enrolment,
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 12:02PM 
MP Stephen Woodworth
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By Sharon Dewey Hetke
FOR A DEBATE that has, in the view of many pro-choice activists, been “long ago settled,” the question of abortion has been surfacing with frequency and intensity in recent months.
A motion put forward by Kitchener MP Stephen Woodworth