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Breaking ground for more affordable housing in Ottawa

Anglicans were among those celebrating at the Nov. 15 ground-breaking ceremony for the Odenak Dream LeBreton housing project, which will mix affordable housing and market-rate ...

May 2024

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The Rev. Gillian Hoyer holds her son Thomas while her daughter Lily waters a seedling.

Greening the diocese and supporting a PWRDF partner in Uganda

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Janet Allingham

A group of people surround Kate Jackson as she cuts a purple ribbon to open the new residence.

Diocese celebrates success creating more than 150 affordable housing units

The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa is celebrating the success of its 125th anniversary campaign to create 125 new deeply affordable housing units. Three projects scheduled ...

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David Humphreys

Cornwall Mayor Justin Towndale, Millennial Contracting's Matthew Daigle and Shawn Kyer, MPP Nolan Quinn, the Rev. Canon PJ Hobbs, the Rev. Adam Brown, Centre 105 board chair Maria Crosby, Ontario Trillium Foundation representative George Christoff, and Centre 105 executive director Taylor Seguin.

Centre 105 celebrates important renovation

Centre 105 hosted a celebration on April 12, thanking the Ontario Trillium Foundation for a $106,000 capital grant, which has paid for the construction of ...

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Leigh Anne Williams

The path forward as we change, learn and thrive

I have written before of how the people and clergy of our diocesan church joined me in a three-year long journey of honestly assessing where ...

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Bishop Shane Parker

Exterior of Cornerstone's new emergency shelter on Carling.

Bishop urges federal government to do more to house those in greatest need

Bishop Shane Parker has asked the federal government to do more to combat homelessness and the shortage of affordable housing. In a letter to Housing ...

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David Humphreys

From our Bishop

Bishop’s Charge envisions a thriving church that is ready to serve

November 20, 2024

1 In my charge to Synod last year, I spoke of how Henry Chadwick, a prolific church historian, described the church as a stained-glass window—reflecting ...

We are part of creation

October 21, 2024

County Galway nestles into the midpoint of the west coast of Ireland. The beautiful region of Connemara reaches out into the Atlantic Ocean, with the ...

Marking the Season of Creation

September 23, 2024

In the appointment agreement I provide to the Incumbents and Associate Incumbents of our parishes, expectations concerning worship are clearly laid out in these words: ...

Reflection

Marie et l’espoir du temps de l’Avent

November 21, 2024

English translation Le temps de l’Avent, avec ses oracles prophétiques, ses hymnes élégiaques et ses prières, accélère notre désir de voir venir « le Jour ...

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Le révérend chanoine Kevin Flynn

Waiting for the light that shines in the darkness

November 21, 2024

Susan Wojciechowski’s book The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey is about a lonely, brooding wood carver, haunted by the loss of his wife and child. ...

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The Rev. Canon Catherine Ascah

Qu’est-ce que le bonheur?

October 21, 2024

Les mots « anglican » et « anglicanisme » dérivent du latin ecclesia anglicana, qui signifie simplement « l’église anglaise ». La forme de christianisme ...

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