Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Friday, July 26, 2024

Canadian Court Enjoins Enforcement of Guidelines That Adversely Impact Kosher Slaughtering

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 In Jewish Community Council of Montreal v. Canada (Attorney General) ,  (CA Fed. Ct., July 24, 2024), a judge of the Canadian Federal Court...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Montreal Archdiocese Sues for Exemption from End-of-Life Care Requirements

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 In Canada, the Archdiocese of Montreal has filed suit in a Quebec trial court seeking an exemption from amendments to the province's Ac...
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...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Canadian Court Says Oath to Monarchy Does Not Infringe Sikh Lawyer's Rights

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In Wirring v. Law Society of Alberta ,  (AB KB, Oct. 16, 2023), the Court of King's Bench of the Canadian province of Alberta (sitting a...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Canadian Church Not in Contempt for Violating Covid Restrictions

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In New Brunswick v. His Tabernacle Family Church Inc. ,  (KB NB, Feb. 3, 2023), a trial court in the Canadian province of New Brunswick refu...
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 ...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Canadian Court Sentences Former Politician on Charge of Antisemitic Hate Speech

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Ottawa City News  reports on the sentencing by a Saskatchewan trial court of the leader of a now defunct political party for violation of Ca...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Data On Canadian Hate Crimes Released

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On Aug. 2, Statistics Canada released  Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2021 . One section ( Text Box 5 ) focuses on hate crimes ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Pope Francis Apologizes To Canada's Indigenous Peoples For Residential School System

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Pope Francis yesterday in his first public event on his trip to Canada addressed representatives of Canada's Indigenous Peoples to apolo...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Tai Chi Class Sites Are Not Places of Worship For Tax Exemption Law In Ontario

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In  Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism v. Municipal Property Assessment Corporation , (ON Super. Ct., Jan. 6, 2022), an Ontario (Canada) appel...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Canadian Court Upholds Job Program Funding Limited To Groups Supporting Abortion Rights

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In  Right to Life Association of Toronto v. Canada  ,  (Fed.Ct., Oct. 22, 2021), Canada's Federal Court in a 63-pagae opinion upheld a r...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Canadian Court Upholds COVID Restrictions On Churches

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In Gateway Bible Baptist Church v. Province of Manitoba , (MBQB, Oct. 21, 2021), a Manitoba (Canada) trial court, in a 156-page opinion, uph...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Canadian Supreme Court Refuses To Invalidate Archbishop's Expulsion of Church Members

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In  Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Canada St. Mary Cathedral v. Aga , (Sup Ct Canada, May 21, 2021), the Supreme Court of Canada refu...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Canadian Trial Court Upholds Most Applications of Quebec's Ban On Officials Wearing Religious Symbols

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In Hak v. Attorney General of Quebec , (Que. Super. Ct., April 20, 2021), a Quebec (Canada) Superior Court judge in a 240-page opinion uphel...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Canada's House of Commons Declares China's Actions Against Uighurs To Be Genocide

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Yesterday Canada's House of Commons passed a non-binding resolution ( full text ) declaring that China's actions against its Uighur ...
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...
Friday, September 04, 2020

Canada, Netherlands Will Assist In Case Against Myanmar For Genocide Against Rohingya

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 In a Joint Statement ( full text ) issued on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministers of Canada and the Netherlands said that their governments pla...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Canadian Court Says Catholic Archdiocese Is Vicariously Liable For Sexual Abuse At Orphanage

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In John Doe v. Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John's , (Newfoundland & Labrador Ct. App., July 28, 2020), the Court of...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Church of Atheism Not A Charity Under Canadian Tax Law

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In Church of Atheism of Central Canada v. Minister of National Revenue , (Canada Fed. Ct. App., Nov. 29, 2019), Canada's Federal Court o...