Municipal World / Hand over Canada’s white churches to the charities who need them

Municipal World / Hand over Canada’s white churches to the charities who need them

You cannot buy community resilience with $500 million to a single charity. Community grows organically through an often-awkward network of associations, non-profits, racial groups, religious groups, schools, government, charities and agencies, wrestling for oxygen and light at street level.

CBC News / Montreal church partners with circus company to help pay the bills

CBC News / Montreal church partners with circus company to help pay the bills

An acrobat dangles from the rafters of a 150-year-old church while a lightshow paints the altar in blue, pink and yellow lights. Call it a leap of faith. This was the first show of Le Monastère — the monastery, in English — a circus cabaret show held inside a downtown Montreal church.

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