The Globe and Mail

A bill aimed at protecting historic buildings in Ontario has opened a chasm between the country's major churches, who fear they will be stuck with unaffordable maintenance costs, and Toronto-area heritage activists alarmed by the loss of beautiful buildings to redevelopment. Toronto was once a city of neighbourhoods whose focal points were the hundreds of churches built by wave after wave of Christian immigrants. Most of these churches are still standing and loved by those who live around them. But with the number of churchgoers dwindling there's less money on the collection plates.