by CCRL | Aug 23, 2011 | Media Watch
TORONTO, ON Aug. 23, 2011 – World Youth Day in Madrid did not attract a great deal of media coverage and what there was tended to focus on a small protest rather than on the large number of pilgrims. Concerns about costs were reported deadpan, despite the easily...
by CCRL | Aug 12, 2011 | News
UNITED NATIONS, August 10, 2011 – Religious tolerance is in retreat in many parts of the world, with one third of people facing increased harassment in the practice of their faith, a new study says. Religious freedom has increased for only one per cent of the world’s...
by CCRL | Aug 11, 2011 | News
OTTAWA, August 11, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League, intervenor in the Supreme Court of Canada Appeal of the case between William Whatcott and the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, has filed its factum in the case and made it available online. Download...
by CCRL | Jul 20, 2011 | News
TORONTO, July 20, 2011 (CCRL) – The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled unanimously June 29 that doctors cannot unilaterally cease treatment over the objections of family members, but rather that it is necessary for them to refer their concerns to the Ontario Consent...
by CCRL | Jul 15, 2011 | News
TORONTO, July 15, 2011 – The League has written to MP Joy Smith to thank her for her plan to introduce a private member’s bill that would strengthen Canada’s prostitution laws. The proposal, which will be introduced this Fall, is based on the “Nordic model,”...
