by CCRL | May 28, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON May 28, 2012 – Following two weeks of public hearings, the Ontario Minister of Education, Laurel Broten, has announced amendments to Bill 13 that, if passed, will make it mandatory to allow Gay-Straight Alliances, so named, in all schools where students...
by CCRL | May 24, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON May 24, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that it has chosen Canadian artist and author Michael O’Brien as winner of this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life. The award will be presented at...
by CCRL | May 17, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON May 17, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League presented its position about Ontario’s Bills 13 and 14 at Queens Park May 15, appearing before the Standing Committee on Social Policy. We argued that anti-bullying policies in schools need to be...
by CCRL | May 16, 2012 | Media Watch
OTTAWA, May 16, 2012 – The League wrote May 11 to federal Heritage Minister, James Moore, as well as to the museum itself to protest the exhibit “Sex: a Tell-All Exhibition”, scheduled to run at Ottawa’s Museum of Science and Technology May 18 to early next...
by CCRL | May 15, 2012 | News
OTTAWA, ON May 15, 2012 – The permanent council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops recently issued a pastoral letter on Freedom of Conscience and Religion. The CCRL recommends a complete reading of the document, which summarizes numerous current concerns....
