by CCRL | Oct 26, 2012 | News
OTTAWA, October 25, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to learn that the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has allowed an appeal in the Ontario Court of Appeal ruling eliminating some of Canada’s prostitution laws. Leave to appeal and leave to cross-appeal...
by CCRL | Oct 19, 2012 | News
The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld a Queen’s Bench decision that concluded a 2002 letter to the editor that ran in the Red Deer Advocate, entitled Homosexual Agenda Wicked, is protected by the fundamental freedom of expression. Article continues copyright: The...
by CCRL | Oct 18, 2012 | News
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint against a women’s studies professor who fought a Catholic volunteerism program at Brock University, saying her anti-Catholic comments were offensive, but not akin to discrimination. Article continues...
by CCRL | Oct 12, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON October 12, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League calls Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten’s recent comment that Catholic schools should not teach that abortion is wrong an unwarranted attack on the constitutionally-guaranteed right of Catholic...
by CCRL | Oct 10, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON October 10, 2012 – Members and guests are invited to join us Wednesday October 24 for the League’s annual general meeting in Toronto. We begin with the 5:30 Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral, which will be offered in memory of deceased members and...
by CCRL | Oct 3, 2012 | Media Watch
TORONTO, ON, October 2, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has protested the satirizing of the Last Supper in the Sept. 28 episode of CBC’s “This Hour has 22 Minutes.” In a letter to the show’s producers, the League commented on the double standard often seen in...
by CCRL | Sep 27, 2012 | News
OTTAWA, ON September 27, 2012 (CCRL) – Two issues of longstanding interest to the League are on the agenda as Parliament begins its Fall session. Stephen Woodworth’s motion to commence a parliamentary study on whether our current Criminal Code provisions...
by CCRL | Sep 26, 2012 | News
OTTAWA, ON September 26, 2012 – Motion 312 was defeated in the House of Commons today by a vote of 203 to 91. This motion, proposed by MP Stephen Woodworth, would have seen Parliament appoint a 12-member committee to study the legal definition of when a child...
by CCRL | Sep 21, 2012 | News
OTTAWA, ON September 20, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that Jean Morse-Chevrier, Quebec director of the League for over 10 years, has been awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her contributions to education ...
by CCRL | Sep 12, 2012 | News
VICTORIA, BC Sept. 10, 2012 — Mr. Justice David Franklin Tysoe, in the British Columbia Court of Appeal, today granted Cecelia von Dehn and Donald Spratt leave to appeal their convictions for breaching the Access to Abortion Services Act, also called the BC “Bubble...
