by CCRL | Aug 20, 2009 | News
By Benjamin Shingler Fredericton, NB, Aug. 19, 2009 – The province will not pursue an appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada in its ongoing legal battle with Dr. Henry Morgentaler over public funding of abortions. Morgentaler is suing the province, arguing on...
by CCRL | Aug 13, 2009 | News
OTTAWA, Aug. 13, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has written to Prime Minister Harper, with copies to the leaders of the other major parties, to express our concerns about current pressures to liberalize our laws on euthanasia and assisted suicide. In our...
by CCRL | Aug 4, 2009 | News
OTTAWA, July 24, 2009 (CLF/EFC press release) – The Supreme Court of Canada today released its decision in the Alberta v. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony case heard last October. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC)and Christian Legal Fellowship...
by CCRL | Jul 25, 2009 | News
REGINA, SK, July 20, 2009 (CCRL) – Justice Minister Don Morgan announced recently that the government would refer two versions of new legislation containing a religious exemption for marriage commissioners to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to rule on their...
by CCRL | Jul 10, 2009 | News
TORONTO, July 10, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League commented today on the filing of a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission against the Bishop of Peterborough for discontinuing the service of two homosexual men as altar servers at a parish...
by CCRL | Jul 9, 2009 | News
TORONTO, ON July 9, 2009 (CCRL) – The Catholic Civil Rights League, and co-applicants Christian Legal Fellowship and REAL Women of Canada, have been denied intervenor status in the constitutional challenge to Canada’s prostitution laws. The challenge, originally...