Showing posts with label British Columbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Columbia. Show all posts
Friday, February 09, 2024

Canadian Court Upholds Denial of Tax Exemption for Island Owned by Shinto Organization

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In Matsuri Foundation of Canada v. British Columbia (Assessor of Area #01 - Capital) , (BC Sup. Ct., February 2, 2024), the Supreme Court of...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

British Columbia Court Says Jehovah's Witness Elders Must Submit Confidential Documents to Privacy Commissioner

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In  Vabuolas v. British Columbia (Information and Privacy Commissioner) , (BC Sup. Ct., Jan. 8, 2024), the British Columbia Supreme Court up...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

British Columbia's COVID Restrictions on Worship Services Upheld

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In Beaudoin v. Attorney General of British Columbia , (BC Ct. App., Dec. 16, 2022), the highest court in the Canadian province of British Co...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Canadian Court Says School Demonstration of Indigenous Rituals Did Not Violate Religious Freedom

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In  Servatius v. Alberni School District No. 70 , (BC CA, Dec. 12, 2022), the Court of Appeal for the Canadian province of British Columbia ...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Canadian Province's Limits On Worship Services Are Upheld

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In Beaudoin v. British Columbia , (BC Sup. Ct., March 18, 2021), a British Columbia trial court upheld against religious freedom challenges ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Canadian Court Upholds Denial of Driver's License To Pastafarian Wearing Pirate's Hat

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In Canada, in  Smith v. British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal , (BC Sup. Ct., Feb. 26, 2021), a British Columbia trial court upheld the dis...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Canadian Court Refuses To Order Churches To Follow Health Orders Pending Hearing On Constitutionality

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In  Beaudoin v. British Columbia ,  (BC Sup. Ct., Feb. 17, 2021), a trial court in the Canadian province of British Columbia refused to issu...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Canadian Court Says Indigenous Events In School Did Not Infringe Religious Freedom of Christian Students

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In Canada, in  Servatius v. Board of Education School District No. 70 ,  (BC Sup. Ct., Jan. 8, 2020), a British Columbia trial court judge r...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

In Canada, Parent's Suit Challenges Classroom Demonstration of Smudging Ceremony

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CTV News  and Nanaimo News reported yesterday on the opening of a trial in Nanaimo, British Columbia in a suit against a school district bec...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Canadian Tribunal Finds Anti-Transgender Election Pamphlet Amounts To Illegal Discrimination

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In Canada, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal last week held that a Christian activist violated the province's Human Rights Code...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Canadian Court Convicts 2 FLDS Leaders of Polygamy

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In the Canadian province of British Columbia yesterday, a trial court found two former bishops of the FLDS Church guilty of polygamy.   The ...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

Canadian Court Convicts 2 FLDS Members For Bringing Daughter To US To Marry Church Leader

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As reported by the Toronto Sun , a British Columbia (Canada) trial court has found that FLDS member Brandon James Blackmore, assisted by Gai...
Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Trinity Western Law School Wins Appeal In British Columbia

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In Trinity Western University v. Law Society of British Columbia ,  (BC Ct. App., Nov. 1, 2016), the Court of Appeal for the Canadian provin...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Canadian Court OK's Ontario's Refusal To Accredit Christian Law School

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In  Trinity Western University v. The Law Society of Upper Canada , (CA ON, June 29, 2016), a 3-judge panel of the Court of Appeal for Ontar...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

Third Canadian Special Prosecutor Can Bring Polygamy Charges Against FLDS Leader

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In  Blackmore v. British Columbia (Attorney General) , (BC CA, June 1, 2016), the British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld the appointment of...
Friday, December 11, 2015

British Columbia Court Requires Law Society Approval of Trinity Western Law School

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In Trinity Western University v. Law Society of British Columbia , (BC SC, Dec. 10, 2015), a British Columbia trial court reinstated an Apri...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Canadian Court: Grandparents Have No Right To Force Religious Exposure On Grandchild Over Mother's Objections

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In  A.R. and B.R. v. M.W. and L.R .,  (BC Prov. Ct., Oct. 21, 2015), a British Columbia (Canada) Provincial Court rejected an application by...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Mormon Church Sues Canadian Sect Leader Over Name Misappropriation

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The Vancouver Sun  and Reuters reported last week that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the mainline Mormon Church) has fil...