by CCRL | May 28, 2008 | News
TORONTO, ON May 28, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today criticized resolutions of the York University Federation of Students (YFS) aimed at denying pro-life groups any official status on campus. The move follows its cancellation last spring of a campus...
by CCRL | May 26, 2008 | News
OTTAWA, ON, May 26, 2008 – In a ruling last week, Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) rejected evidence from Statistics Canada and declared that pro-life billboards which said abortions are allowed in Canada throughout all nine months of pregnancy were...
by CCRL | May 21, 2008 | News
VANCOUVER, BC, May 21, 2008 – The Capilano College Student Union has agreed that a pro-life student group can operate on campus next year, avoiding a hearing at the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, The compromise, the specific terms of which are...
by CCRL | Apr 29, 2008 | News
TORONTO, Ont. April 28, 2008 – A recent decision of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal raises significant concerns about the freedom of religious organizations to require employees to pledge to adhere to tenets of a religious faith. The Tribunal (OHRT) recently...
by CCRL | Apr 25, 2008 | News
By Hilary White NOTTINGHAM, UK(LifeSiteNews.com) – When the Labour government’s Sexual Orientation Regulations were passed last year, the leadership of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that the new law would spell the end of Catholic...
by CCRL | Apr 21, 2008 | News
By Richard Bastien Two well known representatives of Canada’s liberal elites, Ujjal and Raminder Dosanjh, recently argued in the Ottawa Citizen that abortion based on sex selection is a morally reprehensible practice that, unfortunately, is becoming more widespread as...
by CCRL | Apr 17, 2008 | News
OTTAWA, April 17, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League welcomed the introduction of Private Member’s Bill C-537, April 16 by MP Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon – Wanuskewin) to protect conscience rights of health care workers. Introducing the motion in...
by CCRL | Apr 15, 2008 | News
OTTAWA, April 15, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is proud to support the national March for Life, which takes place May 7 to 9 in Ottawa. Events include a youth conference and the annual Rose Dinner as well as the walk and rally on Parliament Hill. “The right...
by CCRL | Apr 14, 2008 | News
OTTAWA, April 14, 2008 – Last month during an interview on the CBC radio show Cross Country Checkup Jocelyn Downie, the Canada research chair in Health, Law and Policy from Dalhousie University stated that she knew that new legislation was being drafted to...
by CCRL | Apr 9, 2008 | News
By Chris Kempling (April 9, 2008) – On the first day of the counselling psychology class, the instructor asked us to share what was the most important fact about ourselves. Jim (not his real name) identified himself as gay. I identified myself as a Christian. I...
