The public reaction to the tragic fire that consumed St. Anne’s Anglican Church on Toronto’s Gladstone Street is remarkable on many levels.
Given how secular journalism covering religious communities continues to decline in Canada, the amount of television and newspaper coverage of the fire is striking.
Moreover, while the unique nature of the church’s design and artwork is heralded as a national treasure (the building was a designated as a National Historic Site), the church has struggled for decades to preserve the building and its murals.
