by CCRL | Jun 7, 2007 | News
TORONTO, June 7, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is happy to announce the winners of this year’s Archbishop Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life. The League created the award in 2004 to mark the retirement of Archbishop Exner, Archbishop Emeritus...
by CCRL | Jun 5, 2007 | News
TORONTO, Ont. June 5, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on Ontario’s pledge to provide $30 million for stem cell research, which was announced jointly by Premier Dalton McGuinty and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during the governor’s...
by CCRL | Jun 4, 2007 | News
By Paul Schratz (BC Catholic, June 4, 2007) U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower once observed that in free countries, “the agent may never become the master.” If human rights and freedoms are to flourish, he said, “government must operate with its...
by CCRL | May 30, 2007 | News
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, May 28, 2007 – The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories (NWT) ruled recently that the Yellowknife Catholic School Board may not refuse to allow non-Catholics to run for election as trustees, who govern the board. The decision brings to...
by CCRL | May 23, 2007 | News
By Deborah Gyapong OTTAWA, Canada (CCN, May 22, 2007) Two Conservative members of Parliament (MPs) will seek to have Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) answer to a House of Commons committee for a television program the Catholic Civil Rights League has...
by CCRL | May 18, 2007 | News
By Deborah Gyapong (Canadian Catholic News, Ottawa, May 17, 2007) – The Catholic Civil Rights League has protested against blasphemous content in a Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) television-pilot program The Altar Boy Gang. The May 11 program featured a...
