Non-violent protests, such as those that have been happening at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow over the past two weeks, are nothing new to the Reverend Maggie Helwig of Kensington Market’s Church of Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields. In this 1990 photo by the Star’s Ron Bull, Helwig is being thrown out of Toronto’s Empire Club during a speech by NATO Secretary-General Manfred Wörner. “That’s probably still my primary focus, though I’ve also worked with groups protesting pipelines on Indigenous land, and climate action groups. As for community service, that’s a huge part of what most clergypeople do. “If we’re not doing community service,” she adds, “we’re not doing our jobs.”

Source: thestar November 15, 2021 08:00 UTC