by CCRL | Feb 4, 2011 | Media Watch
TORONTO, February 4, 2011 – The Rite, a suspense film featuring Anthony Hopkins, is based on a book by journalist Matt Baglio about the accounts of an American priest who has served as an exorcist. The movie, which opened in most centres Friday, January...
by CCRL | Feb 4, 2011 | Media Watch
February 4, 2011 – Thanks to the many League members, especially those belonging to our Facebook group, who urged Pepsico and the Super Bowl organization to cancel one of the submissions to the annual Super Bowl advertising contest. The submission satirized Holy...
by CCRL | Jan 10, 2011 | News
TORONTO, January 10, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed concern that the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has rejected two proposals to provide religious and conscientious freedom to the province’s civil marriage commissioners in the...
by CCRL | Jan 7, 2011 | News
OTTAWA, January 7, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to learn that the Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to William Whatcott to challenge the constitutionality of Section 14 (1) (b) of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code. The case raises...
by CCRL | Jan 7, 2011 | Media Watch
TORONTO, January 7, 2011 – Over the past year, the League has been following closely some correspondence between one of our members and the moderator of CBC.ca’s message boards. The corporation’s response suggested that passages from the Catholic Catechism discussing...
by CCRL | Dec 21, 2010 | News
MONTREAL, Dec. 21, 2010 – The Association of the Catholic parents of Quebec (APCQ) today criticized the government’s decision to cut funding for Catholic and other religious day nurseries that provide religious education within their program, through songs,...
by CCRL | Dec 17, 2010 | Media Watch
The recently-announced decision of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) to censure some comments made by Rev. Charles McVety on his program Word TV (carried as a paid program on CTS) raises some challenging questions about the role of the voluntary body in...
by CCRL | Dec 15, 2010 | News
OTTAWA, December 15, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed disappointment that Bill C-510 failed to garner sufficient votes at second reading to proceed. The private member’s bill would have made it a criminal offence to coerce a woman into having an...
by CCRL | Dec 14, 2010 | News
December 14, 2010 – The League was pleased to hear about the public school board in Chilliwack, BC voting to re-name the two-week December holiday “Christmas vacation” rather than “winter break.” As one of the trustees, Martha Weins, put it, “We are having...
by CCRL | Dec 9, 2010 | News
OTTAWA, Dec. 9, 2010 – Bill C-389, which proposes to make gender identity and gender expression prohibited grounds for discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act, passed second reading Dec. 8. Although this bill was not expected to come up for a...
