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Does the Anglican Church of Canada deserve good journalism? Do they need it? I’m a former editor of the Anglican Journal, one with a fraught and very public history with the church and some of its former leadership. I left the church after my own ordeal and no longer read the Journal. Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. This field is hidden when viewing the form Which newsletters are you interested in receiving?

Michael W. Higgins recalls, with some bemusement, the time the CBC sent a radio crew to the wrong event. He and a colleague had organized a symposium on the life, work and legacy of the monk Thomas Merton, which the public broadcaster planned to record for a possible documentary. But on the day of the event, the crew never arrived. A frantic producer for CBC Ideas later called wondering where the scripts were.

Counsellors should have reported to duty this week at Wellman Lake United Church Camp, and prepared to receive their youngest campers this weekend. Parents should have dropped off excited kids in the coming weeks and looked forward to their own summer break. But no one’s coming. Every road to the camp is washed out and, as announced on July 7, the entire season is cancelled. Instead of taking their kids to Wellman Lake, parents are pulling waterlogged belongings from their flooded homes.

My 16-year-old wants to be an influencer and share her life online. How do I balance her digital freedom with my responsibility to keep her safe? —Responsible Parent Name This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. This field is hidden when viewing the form Which newsletters are you interested in receiving? Δ You may unsubscribe from any of our newsletters at any time.

Following decades of tension between the Anglican Church’s national leadership and the editorial staff of the Anglican Journal over how much “journalistic independence” should be permitted in the church newspaper, the Council of General Synod has made a decision.

For the first time, residents of Fort McPherson, N.W.T., have a local food bank — a milestone community leaders say has become necessary as soaring grocery prices leave more families struggling to afford food. Launched by Muslim Welfare Canada and the Tetlit Gwich’in Council, the food bank will distribute groceries twice a month to about 100 registered families in the remote Gwich’in community of roughly 800 people. Name This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

About 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg, a village is being built where Indigenous girls, women and two-spirit people will be able to heal from the trauma of sexual exploitation within a supportive community guided by Indigenous matriarchs.

For more than half a century, David Suzuki has inspired people around the world to embrace nature and treat the Earth as they would their mother: with the deepest love, admiration and respect. At 90 years of age, the world-renowned scientist, author and longtime host of CBC’s The Nature of Things remains Canada’s most powerful voice calling for environmental justice and planetary health.

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This Canada Day, I want to tell you a story about the Canada I love. It started before I even walked through the doors of BC Place for Egypt’s World Cup match against New Zealand earlier this month. LinkedIn This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. This field is hidden when viewing the form Which newsletters are you interested in receiving? Δ You may unsubscribe from any of our newsletters at any time.