Andrew Pike: Why I give platelets image

Andrew Pike: Why I give platelets

There often seem to be many aspects of life in which we feel so helpless. We observe how busy our schedules are. We...
Around the Diocese image

Around the Diocese

St. Bart’s in ecumenical Easter pageant In a ground-breaking, earth-shattering and precedent-setting example of...
Council adopts diocesan badge image

Council adopts diocesan badge

The Diocese now has another symbol to proclaim its presence – a heraldic badge which Diocesan Council adopted at...
Letters to the editor of TOPIC image

Letters to the editor of TOPIC

I am surprised that the editor claims he does not understand why the letters to TOPIC seemed to have dried up...
Opinion: Youth need to be served image

Opinion: Youth need to be served

Not that there’s anything wrong with being a senior citizen, or that the average reader of this newspaper may well...
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Spiritual Directors Conference

An international conference of spiritual directors will be held in Vancouver in April at which Don Grayston will be...
Iranian refugee Amir Kazemian to be allowed to remain in Canada image

Iranian refugee Amir Kazemian to be allowed to remain in Canada

Permission to stay in Canada has been granted to Amir Kazemian, an Iranian refugee who had been living in sanctuary...
Parishes sponsor environmental events image

Parishes sponsor environmental events

Several diocesan parishes are sponsoring environmental events this winter, most addressing concerns – scientific,...
Diocese sets up special environmental website image

Diocese sets up special environmental website

The Diocesan Environmental Unit has launched a new web page designed to provide wisdom and resources for Anglicans...
A spiritual director may help you find your direction, but won’t tell you how to live. image

A spiritual director may help you find your direction, but won’t tell you how to live.

Donald Grayston In one week in the fall of 1983, just before I left All Saints’, Burnaby, on a six-month...