CCRL welcomes changes to Act of Settlement

TORONTO, On October 29, 2011 – On Friday December 28, the leaders of the Commonwealth approved a motion that would make succession to the Crown based on age rather than gender, and would allow heirs to the throne to marry a Catholic without losing their place in...

CCRL announces board changes at AGM

TORONTO, ON October 18, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League elected a new regional director to its boardat its Annual General Meeting October 13, and announced one resignation. Christian D. Elia, former director of the Office for Catholic Youth in the Archdiocese...

League intervenes in hate speech case

OTTAWA, On October 13, 2011 – On Wednesday, October 12 CCRL made its intervention in the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) vs. William Whatcott. The League was represented by Ryan Dalziel of Bull, Hausser and...

League supports repeal of Internet hate law

OTTAWA, ON October 3, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has expressed its support for Bill C-304, introduced September 30 by MP Brian Storseth (CPC-Westlock-St. Paul), to repeal the section of the federal human rights code banning hate speech over the Internet....

League participates in Office of Religious freedom consultation

OTTAWA, October 5, 2011 – League President Phil Horgan represented CCRL at an invitation-only roundtable hosted by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird October 3, 2011, regarding the establishment of Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom at the headquarters...

League protests Canadian funding of IPPF

OTTAWA, ON September 28, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister for International Cooperation Bev Oda to express concerns about the government’s decision to provide $6 million in new funding to the...