The Meeting House, once one of Canada’s largest churches, shuts down after scandal
RNS Leaders of The Meeting House, a Toronto area megachurch with multiple locations and once one of the largest congregations in Canada, has shut down its public ministry, becoming a consortium of smaller congregations. “It is with sadness that we are required to bring the public-facing ministry of The Meeting House to an end as […]
Essay: The St Anne’s fire in Toronto highlights the significance of space for cities and communities
In an article first published on The Conversation, CHRISTOPHER BRITTAIN, Dean of Divinity and chair in Anglican studies at the University of Toronto, looks at how a fire at the historic St Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto has impacted the community…
StrangeSights: A record-breaking 555 Christmas trees for German house; and, kangaroo packs a punch…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Toronto school board becomes first in Canada to recognise caste discrimination
Reuters Toronto’s school board has become the first in Canada to recognise that caste discrimination exists in the city’s schools and has asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a framework to address the issue. The Toronto District School Board on Wednesday voted in favour of a motion to that effect, which […]
Bruxy Cavey, Canadian megachurch pastor, resigns after sexual misconduct probe
RNS The pastor of one of Canada’s largest churches was forced to resign after an independent investigation found evidence of his sexual misconduct. Bruxy Cavey, who grew The Meeting House into a megachurch with some 5,000 people attending 19 campuses in the larger Toronto metropolitan area, was accused of sexual misconduct by a woman who […]
Why the Latin American community in Toronto has been hit hard by COVID
Toronto, Canada Reuters In a pandemic that has hit marginalised people hardest, Latin Americans in Canada’s largest urban area have been particularly at risk: They’re more likely to be hospitalised with COVID-19 than any other ethnoracial group, according to the most recent data available from the city of Toronto. They work front-line jobs, live in […]
Housing affordability: On Canada’s east coast, COVID-19 fight brings pricier homes
MATTHEW LAVIETES, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the rising cost of housing in what has traditionally been a poor region of Canada…
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Essay: Air India anniversary – who remembers the children killed in Canada’s largest mass murder?
CHANDRIMA CHAKRABORTY, of McMaster University in Canada, writes about a plane bombing, the worst terrorist act in Canadian history, which, he says, is little known even in Canada…
Lifestory: Canada’s Drew Marshall, “raw and real” Christian radio host, ends his 16 year run
JOHN LONGHURST, writing for Religion News Service, speaks with Canadian radio host Drew Marshall…