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It is with sadness that the Anglican Church of Canada and Augsburg Fortress Canada announce that the Anglican Book Centre at 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, will close on Jan. 18, 2013. Canadian Anglicans will still be able to order resources online and by phone through Augsburg Fortress Canada. 

General Synod has released a series of seven video interviews with Canadian and African bishops, capturing the highlights from the Toronto meeting of the Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue, June 2012. 

Chaplains offer essential support for the growing population of incarcerated Aboriginal women says the Rev. Dale Gillman, an Aboriginal Anglican priest serving on the Interfaith Committee on Chaplaincy, which advises the Correctional Service of Canada. 

The Primate, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, has called for all Canadian Anglicans to pray for the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem on Oct. 23, the feast day of St. James of Jerusalem. 

On Sept. 28 General Synod marked the retirement of Treasurer Michèle George, a woman who will be remembered not only for clear communication and financial management but also for the hard work she did in understanding and supporting Church House ministries.

The Canadian Council of Churches has published an in-depth exploration of colour-based power in Canada. With the unwieldy title of Cracking Open White Identity towards Transformation: Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network Examines White Identity, Power and Privilege, the bilingual book offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives by writers lay and clergy, white and non-white, from different Christian denominations.

We Were Children, a film that chronicles the lives of two survivors of the residential schools system in Canada, will be among the Canadian entries to the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) Sept. 27 to Oct. 12.

It's a rainy morning at the port of Oshawa, Ont., and burly stevedores swarm around a huge ship from China, hoisting long poles of steel rebar up and out of the hold. But not everyone is there for the cargo. A man in a gold hardhat strides around the machinery, slapping backs and waving hello. Father David Mulholland is here to meet the men on board.

Summer was a time of steady growth for The Community, the Anglican Church of Canada's online conversation space. Web traffic jumped between June and August as both new and returning visitors read more pages and stayed longer on the site. Between July and August, site visits jumped by 48% and people stayed 47% longer. Currently more than 3,000 people are visiting the site each month.

As faith communities around the world commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., an Anglican priest and inter-faith dialogue expert today called for prayers for those who lost their lives and for those "still struggling for peace and harmony" in the world.