by CCRL | Dec 12, 2008 | News
TORONTO, Ont. Dec. 12, 2008 – The movie “Doubt” opens in Canada tonight. It centres around an unproven allegation of sexual misconduct between a priest and a boy in Grade 8, and is set in the Bronx in 1964. League Executive Director Joanne McGarry attended the preview...
by CCRL | Dec 8, 2008 | News
TORONTO, Ont. Dec. 8, 2008 – The Oblate Fathers of Assumption Province have returned the Orders of Canada granted to two of their members, Father Anthony Sylla, OMI and Father Michael Smith, OMI. In a letter to Governor General Michaelle Jean, Father Janusz...
by CCRL | Dec 4, 2008 | News
OTTAWA, Ont. Dec. 3, 2008 – A new Environics poll released in late November shows a majority of Canadians want legal protection for the unborn child at some point before birth. This is consistent with survey results over the past seven years. Canada remains the...
by CCRL | Nov 27, 2008 | News
TORONTO, ON Nov. 27, 2008 –With the school year not even at the half-way point, we have already seen official club status of pro-life clubs denied or under review at several universities, including the University of Guelph and University of Victoria. They join a list...
by CCRL | Nov 20, 2008 | News
OTTAWA, Nov. 20, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today asked the federal government to introduce legislation in support of ending the investigation of free speech cases by the federal human rights commission, and additional charges in cases of violence against...
by CCRL | Nov 18, 2008 | News
TORONTO, Ont. Nov. 17, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today called on the executive of YouTube to enforce the site’s terms of use consistently and age-segregate or remove new videos claiming to show desecration of the Eucharist. New videos began...