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League asks Ontario to lift secrecy on abortion stats
TORONTO, August 24, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has asked Deb Matthews, Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long Term Care, to allow requests about abortion data in Ontario under the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FIPPA)...
Council prayer should not be banned, says League
TORONTO, August 1, 2012 - The recent filing of a lawsuit against Grey County council for opening public meetings with the Lord’s Prayer is part of Ontario Secular Alliance’s ongoing effort to remove the prayer from the opening of council meetings in at least 18...
Vatican moves quickly to block German magazine’s offensive depiction of Pope
Pope Benedict XVI has taken legal action against the German satire weekly magazine Titanic and has managed to get a cease and desist order filed against it. In the afternoon on Tuesday July 10, 2012, Hamburg judges issued an urgent injunction forbidding Titanic to...
Appeal of assisted suicide ruling welcome
OTTAWA, July 16, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to learn that the federal government will appeal last month’s BC Supreme Court ruling in Carter v Canada that struck down Canada’s ban on assisted suicide (League press releases, June 15). The League...
BC assisted suicide ruling raises serious concerns, says League
VANCOUVER, BC June 15, 2012 – Today’s ruling of the B.C. Supreme Court calling for liberalization of Canada’s assisted suicide laws devalues the lives of the disabled and is not in keeping with how Parliament has voted on the issue, says the Catholic Civil Rights...
Book not banned
Re: “Vatican snuffs out a breath of fresh air” (June 10). Maureen Dowd’s claim that the Vatican is trying to send women back to the Dark Ages would not be taken seriously by anyone who has even a faint acquaintance with the modern Church. The columnist has mixed in a...
League welcomes repeal of Section 13
OTTAWA, ON June 8, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that Parliament has voted to repeal Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, as a result of a vote of 153 to 136 June 6. Section 13, which prohibits hate speech on the Internet, (and Section 54,...
League honours Michael O’Brien
TORONTO ON June 8, 2012 - The League honoured artist, author and Catholic thinker Michael O'Brien with this year's Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life at its annual dinner in Toronto June 7. After Mr. O'Brien was presented with his...
Bill 13 ignores significant opposition, says CCRL
TORONTO ON June 5, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League comments on the passage of Ontario’s Bill 13 (“Safe Schools Act”), which passed today in a vote of 65-36 with support from the Liberal and New Democrat parties, and opposition by Progressive Conservatives. The...
A chance to resuscitate Canadian politics
By Douglas Farrow It is said of progressives that they always go on making mistakes. And of conservatives that they work tirelessly to ensure that mistakes are never corrected. Canada, of course, even managed to produce a party called the Progressive Conservatives, to...
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