Suggested readings for Lent image

Suggested readings for Lent

Lent is an invitation to consider anew what the Easter event might mean for us in this time and this place. What...
Book Review: A story of seven modern martyrs image

Book Review: A story of seven modern martyrs

In Search of the Lost: The Death and Life of Seven Peacemakers of The Melanesian Brotherhood by Richard Carter...
St. Andrew’s Langley and the Langley School help African children living near a wildlife refuge image

St. Andrew’s Langley and the Langley School help African children living near a wildlife refuge

Gillian La Prairie and husband Martin Krestow at Ol Pejeta wildlife reserve Seated in front of the altar, her...
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...
Spiritual Directors Conference image

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...