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Education ministers comments attack religious freedom, says League
TORONTO, ON October 12, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League calls Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten’s recent comment that Catholic schools should not teach that abortion is wrong an unwarranted attack on the constitutionally-guaranteed right of Catholic...
League AGM to take place Oct. 24
TORONTO, ON October 10, 2012 – Members and guests are invited to join us Wednesday October 24 for the League’s annual general meeting in Toronto. We begin with the 5:30 Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral, which will be offered in memory of deceased members and...
CBC “married Jesus” satire protested
TORONTO, ON, October 2, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has protested the satirizing of the Last Supper in the Sept. 28 episode of CBC’s “This Hour has 22 Minutes.” In a letter to the show’s producers, the League commented on the double standard often seen in...
Use of mandatory union dues under scrutiny
OTTAWA, ON September 27, 2012 (CCRL) - Two issues of longstanding interest to the League are on the agenda as Parliament begins its Fall session. Stephen Woodworth’s motion to commence a parliamentary study on whether our current Criminal Code provisions about...
Motion 312 defeated, but debate will continue, says CCRL
OTTAWA, ON September 26, 2012 – Motion 312 was defeated in the House of Commons today by a vote of 203 to 91. This motion, proposed by MP Stephen Woodworth, would have seen Parliament appoint a 12-member committee to study the legal definition of when a child...
League director honoured with Diamond Jubilee medal
OTTAWA, ON September 20, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that Jean Morse-Chevrier, Quebec director of the League for over 10 years, has been awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her contributions to education ...
B.C.Bubble Zone convictions to be appealed
VICTORIA, BC Sept. 10, 2012 — Mr. Justice David Franklin Tysoe, in the British Columbia Court of Appeal, today granted Cecelia von Dehn and Donald Spratt leave to appeal their convictions for breaching the Access to Abortion Services Act, also called the BC “Bubble...
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...
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