by CCRL | Oct 14, 2011 | News
OTTAWA, On October 13, 2011 – On Wednesday, October 12 CCRL made its intervention in the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) vs. William Whatcott. The League was represented by Ryan Dalziel of Bull, Hausser and...
by CCRL | Oct 5, 2011 | News
OTTAWA, October 5, 2011 – League President Phil Horgan represented CCRL at an invitation-only roundtable hosted by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird October 3, 2011, regarding the establishment of Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom at the headquarters...
by CCRL | Oct 5, 2011 | News
OTTAWA, ON October 3, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has expressed its support for Bill C-304, introduced September 30 by MP Brian Storseth (CPC-Westlock-St. Paul), to repeal the section of the federal human rights code banning hate speech over the Internet....
by CCRL | Sep 28, 2011 | News
OTTAWA, ON September 28, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister for International Cooperation Bev Oda to express concerns about the government’s decision to provide $6 million in new funding to the...
by CCRL | Sep 23, 2011 | News
TORONTO, ON Sept. 23, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is encouraging its members and supporters to take a stronger stand for the education of their children as almost all polls leading up to the October 6 provincial election show that education is not seen as...
by CCRL | Sep 21, 2011 | News
by Charles Lewis Many Roman Catholics should thank the saints they have never had their faith tested by Rose Andrachuk. In January, Ms. Andrachuk, an Immigration & Refugee Board adjudicator, decided a refugee applicant’s knowledge of Catholicism put in doubt his...
by CCRL | Sep 14, 2011 | Publications
Supplement The following documents are cited in the Declaration of the Authority of Parents and Guardians in the Education of their Children. For ease of reference, extracts from these documents follow. Consult the full text of the original documents on line. ●...
by CCRL | Sep 14, 2011 | News
Re: Globe editorial: Autonomy In Death, With Safeguards (Sept. 12). There is significant confusion about what is meant by euthanasia, and it could be influencing what people say in one poll or another. Euthanasia needs to be clearly understood as the taking of...
by CCRL | Sep 9, 2011 | News
TORONTO, ON September 9, 2011 – The annual general meeting of the Catholic Civil Rights League will take place Thursday, Oct. 13 in downtown Toronto. League members and guests are encouraged to attend. Attendees are invited to join us at the 5:30 Mass at St. Michael’s...
by CCRL | Aug 26, 2011 | News
TORONTO, ON August 26, 2011 – Statement from Philip Horgan, President of the Catholic Civil Rights League: Members of the Catholic Civil Rights League were greatly saddened to learn of the death this morning of His Eminence Cardinal Ambrozic. He was a great...
