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Article: Losing our religion.
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- Catholic Insight
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- July 1, 2003
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Every year, in the run-up to Canada Day, my office calls the various Canadian expatriate groups here in London to confirm their plans for the festivities. Their events are then publicised in our newspaper, which caters to Canadians living in Britain.
Among these annual commemorative events is a Canada Day thanksgiving prayer service at the Free Church of Scotland in Covent Garden which, this year, has been cancelled. The reason? Poor attendance. Lest readers be tempted to view this as a sign of expat indifference to the day itself, consider this: last July 1, more than 4,000 Canadians turned out to drink beer with their compatriots at the Maple Leaf Pub (located ...