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 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....
by CCRL | May 7, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON May 7, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League commented on the week-long suspension given to a student by the South Shore Regional School Board in Nova Scotia last week for wearing a “Jesus” T-shirt to school. The board had argued that the shirt, with its...
by CCRL | Apr 26, 2012 | News
OTTAWA, ON April 26, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to learn that the federal government is seeking leave to appeal the ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal that struck down several anti-prostitution laws. The League, an intervenor in the case,...
by CCRL | Apr 20, 2012 | News
By Nicholas Newman, MD On the 9th of February 2011 the Honorable Michèle Pauzé of the Québec Human rights Tribunal declared that no prayer or religious symbols are allowed in the Saguenay City Hall nor, indeed, anywhere in the apparatus of the State . ...
by CCRL | Apr 18, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON April 18, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on new reports that the selective abortion of females is happening in Canada among ethnic groups where boys are preferred. An editorial in the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association in...
