League honours Michael O’Brien

TORONTO ON June 8, 2012 – The League honoured artist, author and Catholic thinker Michael O’Brien with this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life at its annual dinner in Toronto June 7. After Mr. O’Brien was...

League welcomes repeal of Section 13

OTTAWA, ON June 8, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that Parliament has voted to repeal Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, as a result of a vote of 153 to 136 June 6. Section 13, which prohibits hate speech on the Internet, (and Section 54,...

Bill 13 ignores significant opposition, says CCRL

TORONTO ON June 5, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League comments on the passage of Ontario’s Bill 13 (“Safe Schools Act”), which passed today in a vote of 65-36 with support from the Liberal and New Democrat parties, and opposition by Progressive Conservatives. The...

A chance to resuscitate Canadian politics

By Douglas Farrow It is said of progressives that they always go on making mistakes. And of conservatives that they work tirelessly to ensure that mistakes are never corrected. Canada, of course, even managed to produce a party called the Progressive Conservatives, to...

League pays tribute to Tom Langan

TORONTO, May 28, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League joins the family, friends and colleagues of Tom Langan in giving thanks for Tom’s many contributions to the Church and for the guiding role he played in the lives of so many of his students. Tom, who died Friday...