by CCRL | Sep 6, 2013 | News
TORONTO, September 6, 2013 – The League is the focus of an informative feature profile in this month’s edition of the Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart. The article is available here in pdf format. (Live link from this article on our “Articles of...
by CCRL | Aug 21, 2013 | News
MONTREAL, QC August 21, 2013 (CCRL) – The Quebec government’s plan to introduce a “Charter of Quebec Values” was announced last year, but some details of its implications for religious freedom were leaked to the press this week. Reportedly, the proposed legislation...
by CCRL | Jul 30, 2013 | Media Watch
July 30, 2013 – Despite some misleading reporting in the media, Pope Francis’ recent remarks to the press about sexual orientation were in keeping with traditional Church teaching. Here is the best report we have seen about the press conference: VATICAN...
by CCRL | Jul 18, 2013 | News
OTTAWA , July 18, 2013– “In January 2012, the Ontario Liberal government amended its freedom of information law to exempt any abortion-related data from Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. As a blogger and a member of the new media, I’m taking on the government and...
by CCRL | Jun 28, 2013 | News
OTTAWA, ON June 28, 2013 – Bill C-304, the private member’s bill repealing Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, passed in the Senate this week. The Section prohibited “the communication of hate messages by telephone or the Internet”. The inclusion of the...
by CCRL | Jun 27, 2013 | News
Quebec’s Act respecting end-of-life care (Bill 52) is intended to permit physicians, in defined circumstances, to kill their patients as part of the redefined practice of medicine. However, the procedure cannot become part of medical practice in Quebec unless...
by CCRL | Jun 13, 2013 | News
OTTAWA, ON June 13, 2013 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is an intervener in today’s Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) appeal of the Ontario court decision legalizing keeping a common bawdy house and communicating for the purpose of engaging in...
by CCRL | Jun 13, 2013 | News
MONTREAL, QC June 12, 2013 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has serious concerns about the Quebec government’s introduction of legislation to legalize euthanasia in that province under certain conditions. Junior Health Minister Véronique Hivon, in introducing Bill...
by CCRL | Jun 3, 2013 | News
TORONTO, May 31, 2013 – The Catholic Civil Rights League hosted its annual dinner in Toronto May 30. The event featured the presentation of the Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life to Father Alphonse de Valk, CSB, and a keynote...
by CCRL | May 30, 2013 | News
TORONTO, ON May 30, 2013 – The Catholic Civil Rights League comments on the death of Henry Morgentaler on May 29. “As an organization supporting the protection of all human life from conception to natural death, we have always been opposed to Canada’s unrestricted...
