League to participate in case involving prostitution laws

TORONTO, Sept. 22, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that its joint application to intervene in the national challenge to Canada’s prostitution laws has been accepted by the Ontario Court of Appeal. The intervention, filed in...

Catholic school board faces human rights complaint

GUELPH, Ontario, September 11, 2009 (CCRL) – The Wellington Catholic District School Board has recently had a human rights complaint filed against it because of its policy, standard in all Ontario Catholic elementary school boards, of only hiring teachers who...

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Quebec court rules against Drummondville parents

DRUMMONDVILLE, Quebec, Sept. 3, 2009 (CCRL) – The Quebec Superior Court has ruled against parents who, opposed to the compulsory Ethics and religious culture curriculum, had requested that their fundamental rights of freedom of conscience and religion be...

Section 13 ruling a move in the right direction, says League

OTTAWA, September 3, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that Section 13, the controversial Internet hate speech section of the Canadian Human Rights Code, is inconsistent with the Charter right...

The abortion distortion

By Andrea Mrozek And Rebecca Walberg National Post, Aug. 21, 2009 ‘Safe, legal and rare” is the mantra of consensus-seeking pro-choice feminists, and one that at least acknowledges that abortion is not a desirable outcome for any pregnancy. But today in...