Abp ANNE GERMOND has become Acting Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada with the Sept. 15 retirement of Abp Linda Nicholls. Germond had been serving as bishop of the dioceses of Moosonee and Algom...

NEW NUMBERS for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out, and they show that Canada is the first major province of the Anglican Communion to have collapsed. This is highly significant, both for...

A SUNDAY MORNING FIRE has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada.  The four-alarm blaze early on June 9 gutted St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto. It was a national hi...

KASABONIKA LAKE – A CHURCH FIRE on Sunday Aug. 11 has devastated the community of Kasabonika Lake, said the community’s head councillor, Rachel Mamakwa.

(Staff) ON MAY 28, the Rev. Dr. Dane Neufeld was elected Chair of the Canadian Communion Partners at the group’s Annual General Meeting.

TODAY many churches, including Anglican ones, wrestle with how best to engage the broader community and how to maintain a critical mass of parishioners and grow from there. Much research and reflectio...

THERE CAN BE no doubt that the Anglican Church of Canada is in steep decline. Some would say collapse. Both membership numbers and financial resources have been dropping precipitously for some time....

A Sunday morning fire has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada.

A SUNDAY MORNING FIRE has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada.

ON MAY 11 the Rev. Richard Reed was elected as the new bishop of Saskatchewan during an electoral synod at St. Alban’s Cathedral in Prince Albert, SK.  One of five candidates, Reed was elec...

A CANADIAN BISHOP who oversaw six parishes in Western Canada but who was affiliated with an American diocese has been found guilty by an ecclesiastical court of misconduct, including spiritual abuse....

HOPES WERE HIGH that the Toronto Congress of 1963 would radically change the Anglican attitude to mission. Over 1,000 bishops, clergy and laity from almost every diocese of the Anglican Communion atte...

JUST OVER thirty years ago two young women, Teresa from rural New Brunswick, Jane from rural Nova Scotia, were “sent” to a week-long camp for youth. That reluctant start has grown into a l...

THERE’S THE OLD SAW about the famous Jewish violinist who was asked why he chose the violin over, say, the piano. “If you’re in a rush,” he responded dryly, “which one is...

THE DIOCESE OF BRANDON has a new bishop-elect. On Nov. 25th the Ven. Rachael Parker was chosen on the second ballot by 21 clergy and 28 laity. She succeeds Bp Willliam Cliff who served the diocese for...

(Staff) HEALTH Minister Mark Holland says Canada is not ready to expand eligibility for assisted death to people whose only medical condition is a mental illness. He said the Liberal government agr...

(Staff) A PROMINENT Canadian evangelical scholar, speaker and author has been fired by a Christian university on the east coast after a lengthy investigation into student allegations of inappropriate...

THE ANGLICAN Network in Canada (ANiC) has elected the Venerable Mike Stewart as its Suffragan Bishop

He also had permission from the Commanding Officer to offer several Services, both voluntary and mandatory. This was before the new directive from the Chaplaincy General came into effect this past Oct...

OTTAWA, ON – MORE THAN eight in ten Canadians agree that euthanasia and assisted suicide eligibility “should not be expanded without improving access to mental health care first.” Th...

NEW directive for military chaplains that came down one month before Remembrance Day could spell the end of open displays of religion in the Canadian Armed Forces. It will certainly limit them. Others...

A RECENT POLL of 174 living composers called J.S. Bach the “greatest composer of all time.” That would make Bach the Shakespeare of music. But just as the brilliant stage performances o...

(Staff) THIS HAS BEEN a summer of smoke and flame as more than 1,000 wildfires burnt across Canada. It is the country’s worst wildfire season on record in terms of area burned. Wildfires forced...

Following the election of Bishop William Cliff on April 29th to serve as the 13th bishop of our diocese, an allegation against Bishop Cliff was received by our Metropolitan Archbishop Anne Germond. Th...

The Anglican Planet invited Bishop Don Harvey to reflect on the Anglican Network in Canada’s 15th Annual Synod which was hosted by St. Peter & St. Paul’s church in Ottawa Nov. 2-4. Bp...

WHEN ONE well-dressed gentleman in Minden, Ontario selected a particularly ugly tie from his wardrobe to donate to St Paul’s Children’s Christmas Gift Sale, he did not expect to ever see i...

RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT is declining in Canada, but there are hopeful trends as well, and much to consider for evangelists.

(Staff)  WHEN the Church of England passed a motion in early February to allow prayers of blessing for same-sex couples, it sent shock waves around the globe and set in motion calls from other Pr...

Trial Pastoral Liturgies for Journeys of Gender Transition and Affirmation, proposed governance changes and the reception of a document related to Abp. Mark McDonald’s resignation were on the ag...

A PRIEST serving in the Anglican Church of Canada has written an excellent article on the current state of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada and the churches’ response to it.

INDIGENOUS ANGLICANS in Canada have a new leader. Chris Harper, Diocesan Bishop of Saskatoon, has been named National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop and Presiding Elder of the Sacred Circle with pasto...

HE SURVIVED a severe bout of COVID-19 when it struck him two years ago, but the Bishop of Saskatchewan has found its long-term effects so devastating that he is stepping down on April 30, the third Su...