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CCRL announces board changes at AGM
TORONTO, ON October 18, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League elected a new regional director to its boardat its Annual General Meeting October 13, and announced one resignation. Christian D. Elia, former director of the Office for Catholic Youth in the Archdiocese...
League intervenes in hate speech case
OTTAWA, On October 13, 2011 - On Wednesday, October 12 CCRL made its intervention in the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) vs. William Whatcott. The League was represented by Ryan Dalziel of Bull, Hausser and Tupper LLP...
League supports repeal of Internet hate law
OTTAWA, ON October 3, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has expressed its support for Bill C-304, introduced September 30 by MP Brian Storseth (CPC-Westlock-St. Paul), to repeal the section of the federal human rights code banning hate speech over the Internet....
League participates in Office of Religious freedom consultation
OTTAWA, October 5, 2011 - League President Phil Horgan represented CCRL at an invitation-only roundtable hosted by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird October 3, 2011, regarding the establishment of Canada's Office of Religious Freedom at the headquarters of Foreign...
League protests Canadian funding of IPPF
OTTAWA, ON September 28, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister for International Cooperation Bev Oda to express concerns about the government’s decision to provide $6 million in new funding to the...
Education should be more prominent election issue, says League
TORONTO, ON Sept. 23, 2011 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is encouraging its members and supporters to take a stronger stand for the education of their children as almost all polls leading up to the October 6 provincial election show that education is not seen as...
Analysis: Refugee claimant a better Catholic than board thought
by Charles Lewis Many Roman Catholics should thank the saints they have never had their faith tested by Rose Andrachuk. In January, Ms. Andrachuk, an Immigration & Refugee Board adjudicator, decided a refugee applicant’s knowledge of Catholicism put in doubt his...
Declaration on the Authority of Parents and Guardians in the Education of their Children
Supplement The following documents are cited in the Declaration of the Authority of Parents and Guardians in the Education of their Children. For ease of reference, extracts from these documents follow. Consult the full text of the original documents on line. ●...
Euthanasia the wrong answer, League writes
Re: Globe editorial: Autonomy In Death, With Safeguards (Sept. 12). There is significant confusion about what is meant by euthanasia, and it could be influencing what people say in one poll or another. Euthanasia needs to be clearly understood as the taking of...
League AGM to take place Oct. 13
TORONTO, ON September 9, 2011 – The annual general meeting of the Catholic Civil Rights League will take place Thursday, Oct. 13 in downtown Toronto. League members and guests are encouraged to attend. Attendees are invited to join us at the 5:30 Mass at St. Michael’s...
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