In Depth:  Canada

Emily Pollok

Quebec is moving towards banning public prayer in a concerning push to limit religious expression in the region.

Criticised for endangering “basic democratic freedoms”, the move is another step in governing Coalition Avenir Québec’s agenda to promote secularism, or laïcité, on the back of Bill 21, which was passed in 2019.

Luke Randall

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has outlined topics it is looking to raise with Mark Carney following his election as Canada’s Prime Minister.

Among the organisation’s priorities for the new parliamentary term are issues surrounding euthanasia and the safety of children online.

Luke Randall

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has called on Canadian Christians to fully engage with the political process ahead of the national federal election, describing voting as a “privilege and responsibility”.

The upcoming election, called by newly elected Liberal Party leader and prime minister Mark Carney and due to be held on 28 April, will be the first contest the liberals have faced without former prime minister Justin Trudeau at the helm in ten years, and Carney’s party is neck and neck with the Conservatives in the polls.

en staff

Legislation being proposed by the Canadian government is potentially ‘fascist’, psychologist and author Jordan Peterson is warning.

Writing in the UK’s Telegraph online, he declares: ‘New legislation proposed by the government mandates the generation of a soon-to-be giant bureaucracy to monitor and punish in an extra-judicial manner so-called “crimes of hate”, soon [to be] defined as any speech or act that the bureaucrats and corporations in charge of the definition themselves object to.

letter from Canada

Hospitality appears to be one of many natural outpourings in response to encountering the saving grace of Christ.

In Acts 16 Lydia, the seller of purple goods, opens her home to Paul and Silas after the Lord opened her heart. Only a few verses later, the Philippian jailer is washing the wounds of Paul and Silas and bringing them into his home to feed them, all the while rejoicing in his new-found faith in Christ. Something happens when we meet Jesus; we begin to love our neighbour.

letter from Canada

Fourteen months ago, I arrived in Vancouver to take on a role at St John’s Anglican Church (formerly known as St John’s Shaughnessy).

For Anglicans, this church will stir up various associations; the home of J.I. Packer, the Rector David Short who spoke at the ReNew Conference and Bible by the Beach, and the strong connections with GAFCON.

Canadian lawmakers have passed a motion banning the practice of ‘conversion therapy’, in a rare show of unanimity in the country’s parliament.

A surprise move by the opposition Conservatives to fast-track the legislation prompted applause in the House of Commons. A handful of Liberal cabinet ministers hugged their Conservative colleagues after the vote.