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Bill 13 amendments fail to meet denominational rights, says CCRL
TORONTO, ON May 28, 2012 – Following two weeks of public hearings, the Ontario Minister of Education, Laurel Broten, has announced amendments to Bill 13 that, if passed, will make it mandatory to allow Gay-Straight Alliances, so named, in all schools where students...
League pays tribute to Tom Langan
TORONTO, May 28, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League joins the family, friends and colleagues of Tom Langan in giving thanks for Tom’s many contributions to the Church and for the guiding role he played in the lives of so many of his students. Tom, who died Friday...
Michael OBrien wins CCRL award
TORONTO, ON May 24, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that it has chosen Canadian artist and author Michael O’Brien as winner of this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life. The award will be presented at...
League presents brief to legislative committee
TORONTO, ON May 17, 2012 - The Catholic Civil Rights League presented its position about Ontario's Bills 13 and 14 at Queens Park May 15, appearing before the Standing Committee on Social Policy. We argued that anti-bullying policies in schools need to be based on...
League protests graphic, tax-funded museum exhibit
OTTAWA, May 16, 2012 - The League wrote May 11 to federal Heritage Minister, James Moore, as well as to the museum itself to protest the exhibit “Sex: a Tell-All Exhibition”, scheduled to run at Ottawa’s Museum of Science and Technology May 18 to early next year. The...
Canadian bishops issue statement on religious and conscientious freedom
OTTAWA, ON May 15, 2012 – The permanent council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops recently issued a pastoral letter on Freedom of Conscience and Religion. The CCRL recommends a complete reading of the document, which summarizes numerous current concerns....
CCRL criticizes suspension over Jesus T-shirt
TORONTO, ON May 7, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League commented on the week-long suspension given to a student by the South Shore Regional School Board in Nova Scotia last week for wearing a “Jesus” T-shirt to school. The board had argued that the shirt, with its...
Bullying controversy focuses on school funding
TORONTO, ON May 2, 2012 - Many commentators are using the current controversy about anti-bullying programs in Ontario to attack the funding of Catholic schools. The League recently responded to two such articles, one in the National Post and one in the...
Appeal of prostitution ruling welcome, says CCRL
OTTAWA, ON April 26, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to learn that the federal government is seeking leave to appeal the ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal that struck down several anti-prostitution laws. The League, an intervenor in the case,...
Anti-prayer Quebec tribunal ruling in Saguenay case flawed
By Nicholas Newman, MD On the 9th of February 2011 the Honorable Michèle Pauzé of the Québec Human rights Tribunal declared that no prayer or religious symbols are allowed in the Saguenay City Hall nor, indeed, anywhere in the apparatus of the State . ...
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