by CCRL | Sep 15, 2009 | News
GUELPH, Ontario, September 11, 2009 (CCRL) – The Wellington Catholic District School Board has recently had a human rights complaint filed against it because of its policy, standard in all Ontario Catholic elementary school boards, of only hiring teachers who...
by CCRL | Sep 10, 2009 | News
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by CCRL | Sep 4, 2009 | News
DRUMMONDVILLE, Quebec, Sept. 3, 2009 (CCRL) – The Quebec Superior Court has ruled against parents who, opposed to the compulsory Ethics and religious culture curriculum, had requested that their fundamental rights of freedom of conscience and religion be...
by CCRL | Sep 3, 2009 | News
OTTAWA, September 3, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that Section 13, the controversial Internet hate speech section of the Canadian Human Rights Code, is inconsistent with the Charter right...
by CCRL | Aug 21, 2009 | News
By Andrea Mrozek And Rebecca Walberg National Post, Aug. 21, 2009 ‘Safe, legal and rare” is the mantra of consensus-seeking pro-choice feminists, and one that at least acknowledges that abortion is not a desirable outcome for any pregnancy. But today in...
by CCRL | Aug 20, 2009 | News
By Benjamin Shingler Fredericton, NB, Aug. 19, 2009 – The province will not pursue an appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada in its ongoing legal battle with Dr. Henry Morgentaler over public funding of abortions. Morgentaler is suing the province, arguing on...
by CCRL | Aug 13, 2009 | News
OTTAWA, Aug. 13, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has written to Prime Minister Harper, with copies to the leaders of the other major parties, to express our concerns about current pressures to liberalize our laws on euthanasia and assisted suicide. In our...
by CCRL | Aug 4, 2009 | News
OTTAWA, July 24, 2009 (CLF/EFC press release) – The Supreme Court of Canada today released its decision in the Alberta v. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony case heard last October. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC)and Christian Legal Fellowship...
by CCRL | Jul 25, 2009 | News
REGINA, SK, July 20, 2009 (CCRL) – Justice Minister Don Morgan announced recently that the government would refer two versions of new legislation containing a religious exemption for marriage commissioners to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to rule on their...
by CCRL | Jul 10, 2009 | News
TORONTO, July 10, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League commented today on the filing of a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission against the Bishop of Peterborough for discontinuing the service of two homosexual men as altar servers at a parish...
