The head of the United Church of Canada has written to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging his government urgently and immediately to resume financial support to the Palestinian Unity Government - in the face of a wide boycott.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that he will visit the United States in an attempt to repair relations within a fractured Anglican Communion.

Hundreds of Mennonites living in Canada may face losing their Canadian citizenship on account of the non-recognition of church marriages in Latin America, where some 7,000 of their ancestors moved in the 1920s, reports UPI and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

War veterans in Canada have launched an attack against peace activists, accusing them of hijackeding the poppy.