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League-honoured Haitian charity needs assistance after quake
WINDSOR, Ont. January 14, 2010 – Frank Chauvin, founder of Haiti’s first orphanage for girls and the recipient of the League’s 2009 Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life, will be providing relief aid to victims of the massive earthquake in...
Misleading headlines, serious biases challenged
From the current (December, 2009) edition of our newsletter Civil Rights: Much of the media overkill and anti-Catholic bias that we have seen in print and on message boards in the past few months was focused on the charges against Raymond Lahey, former bishop of...
Say Merry Christmas – it’s the reason for the season
Dec. 22, 2009 - Most of the advertising media, and much of our public space at this time of year, is devoted to Christmas. While crèches, angels and peace candles are often part of the mix, there is no doubt that most of the messages are concerned with the cultural...
Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: Commentary
Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care was published in 2008 as the 24th volume in the Basic Bioethics series from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is an American book dealing with the American political and legal controversies over freedom of conscience...
Quebec’s new state religion: cultural relativism
By Barbara Kay In September 2008, after years of pre-planning by elites without public consultation, Quebec's Ministry of Education established a province-wide, compulsory pedagogical program called Ethique et Culture Religieuse (ECR). All Quebec students -- public,...
Faith groups hiring rights under the microscope
TORONTO, Ont. Dec. 15, 2009 - Arguments begin today in Ontario Divisional Court in the appeal of the decision by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal against Christian Horizons. The Tribunal ruled against the social service agency in April, 2008, stating that it...
Liberalism in a post-modern age
By Richard Bastien Liberalism is the dominant ideology of our times. It defines the Zeitgeist of the last half century and will likely continue its triumphant march over the foreseeable future. It permeates all our institutions – our schools, our colleges and...
Alberta free speech case wins on appeal
CALGARY, AB., Dec. 4, 2009 (CCRL) - Stephen Boissoin, who last year was fined $5,000 and ordered to desist from any public expression of his views on homosexuality by the Alberta Human Rights Commission, has been successful in his appeal to Alberta Court of Queen’s...
Review of Morgentaler appointment refused
TORONTO, Ont. Nov. 27, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed disappointment with the recent Federal Court decision striking the application of Frank Chauvin for judicial review of the decision awarding the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler in...
Euthanasia pressures and conscientious freedom
OTTAWA, Nov. 17, 2009 (CCRL) – Earlier this month we saw an interesting convergence of stories. On November 3, the Quebec College of Physicians and Surgeons (CMQ), as expected, recommended making euthanasia legal in certain circumstances. Just days earlier, an...
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