It would be a grievous shame if we (Canada) lost this moment – this opportunity to face and redress our own founding sins – to reconcile and reset for the possibility of “relations based in justice.” There are some significant… Read more →
Last Friday (April 24), the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) wrote to the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, recommending the federal government provide a matching grant for donations to charities during the pandemic. This grant… Read more →
The president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau April 7 regarding the recently announced Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy: The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Langevin Block Ottawa, Ontario K1A… Read more →
Every night high-rise dwellers in Vancouver’s downtown core raise a cheer for health care and other frontline workers in the COVID-19 pandemic. The outpouring of goodwill is heartwarming, and illustrates just how widespread are the acts of kindness and the… Read more →
Justice Minister David Lametti introduced Bill C-8 March 9, to add conversion therapy offences to the Criminal Code. The bill defines conversion therapy broadly and includes attempts to modify or reduce sexual behaviour. It creates offences such as receiving a… Read more →
These are dark days for anyone concerned about the protection of life in Canada. We have no laws whatsoever to safeguard unborn children, and now both federal and provincial governments are pressing ahead with euthanasia. The Liberal Party has introduced… Read more →
Every few years the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) conducts major polls in order to “track evangelical alignment in Canada.” The Church and Faith Trends survey was conducted with 5,011 Canadians over the age of 18 during August 2019 by… Read more →
The campaign against conversion therapy is gaining momentum, but there is also resistance. Last May, then-Green Party leader Andrew Weaver introduced a bill in the BC Legislature to end the practice of conversion therapy. In December, Canada’s Senate gave first… Read more →
A Ladner hospice has offered to forgo $750,000 in provincial funding so that it will not be obliged to assist in ending the lives of any of their residents. The Delta Hospice Society is on the front lines of a… Read more →
The government is asking Canadians their views on safeguards for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Whether Canadians support safeguards or not will have an impact on what the government includes in new legislation on MAID, which is expected very soon.… Read more →
