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Calgary's housing scaled back
 The Mustard Seed Street Ministry is scaling back its plans for an affordable housing initiative in downtown Calgary. The $80 million project at Centre Street and 10th Avenue, originally slated to have 410 units, will now have 200. The project has been stalled since last November due to protest from local residents. "We're working closely with the City of Calgary's planning team to iron out the details as the new planning guidelines for the Beltline emerge," said Floyd Perras, chief operating officer for Mustard Seed. "I anticipate some minor changes as we prepare for a development permit application, some time this spring."
EFC hosts leaders seminar
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada is hosting a Christian leaders seminar focusing on the issues that face the Church in Canada today. The main sessions will centre around topics such as: 'Legal Shifts,' 'Same-Sex Marriage Law and Your Church' and 'Religious Freedoms: How They're Changing.' The one day conference will be coming to Surrey, BC May 14 and to Maple Ridge, BC May 15.
Bill C-2 passes Senate
Christian advocacy groups are celebrating the Senate's decision to passage of Bill C-2 raising Canada's age of sexual protection from 14 to 16. The bill also broadens the definition of child pornography, increases penalties for child pornography offences and deals with violent crime. The Family Action Coalition and other groups have been campaigning on this topic for years. -- ChristianWeek
VST gets new archive
A new archival facility has been added to the basement at the Vancouver School of Theology, for the Diocesan Archives. The archival space has been five years in the making, at a cost of nearly $1.3 million. The archives were closed to researchers for much of January to allow for unpacking and reorganization of the materials, but they are now back open for use by students in the Archival Studies Program, through UBC and other researchers.
Fundamentalist Baptist founder dies
Sterling Clark, founder and director of the Fundamental Baptist Mission, passed away February 4. Clark gained national media attention in the fall of 2006, when postal workers in Vancouver refused to deliver copies of the Mission's periodical, The Prophetic Word, saying it was hate mail. The lead article in that issue was titled 'The Plague of this 21st Century: The Consequences of the Sin of Homosexuality (AIDS).' Clark had been retired for several years after a career as a pastor and missionary, but continued to direct the Mission from his home in Waterford, Ontario. It will now close.
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Vanier honoured
The York Catholic District school board has named a new school in Richmond Hill after Jean Vanier, the internationally renowned Canadian founder of L'Arche, an international organization that creates communities for people with and without developmental disabilities. -- Catholic Register
Catholics concerned about curriculum
The Catholic Civil Rights League has released what a retired UBC professor of education called "a comprehensive, finely detailed, extensively researched and documented critique" of a teachers' manual designed to fulfil a private contract between the Ministry of Education and two homosexual activists. The manual, 'Making Space, Giving Voice,' explains how K-12 students will be introduced to "the full range of gender identity and sexual orientation." Retired UBC English professor Ross Labrie said the review "raises serious concerns about the dangers to democracy of an ideologically driven and secretive policy designed to impose a particular view of what is claimed to be social justice."
Bishop promoted to New Zealand
Victoria Matthews, former Anglican Bishop of Edmonton, has officially been elected Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch in New Zealand. The decision came quickly on the heels of her nomination for the post.
Congregations make videos
Members of Lutheran Church of Canada congregations are invited to submit a theme video for showing at the 2008 Synodical Convention in Winnipeg, June 5 - 9. The video should be less than four minutes long and broadly explore the convention themes -- 'Give Jesus Glory' or 'His Calling . . . our Praise, the latter of which talks of giving praise to Jesus through our vocation. Submitted videos can take the form of music video, photo story, live action, animation or anything else. Contact: 1-800-588-4226 ext 2224. Deadline for submissions is April 30.
Real women conference
Tristan Emmanuel, Connie Fournier and Ron Gray will speak at 'New Media and Christian perspective on free speech,' an event facilitated by REAL Women of Canada at the Willoughby Christian Reformed Church in Langley, BC March 28 - 29.
March 20/2008
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