Showing posts with label Quebec. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quebec. Show all posts
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, August 10, 2023

Suit By Christian Ministry Says Quebec Wrongly Cancelled Its Use of Convention Center

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In Canada, suit was filed last week in a Quebec trial court by the Christian organization Harvest Ministries International challenging the p...
Friday, October 08, 2021

Canadian Court Says Tai Chi Institute Is A Religious Institution

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In Fung Loy Kok Taoism Institute v. City of Montreal , (Quebec Super. Ct., Sept. 20, 2021), a Canadian trial court in Quebec held that a Tao...
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...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Court Says Quebec Worship Limits Apply To Capacity for Each Room

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Canadian Lawyer reports on a decision interpreting Quebec's COVID-19 limits on indoor worship services: Current restrictions on indoor ...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Appeals Court Refuses Temporary Injunction Against Quebec's Secularism Act

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In Hak v. Attorney General of Quebec,  (Quebec Ct. App., Dec. 12, 2019) ( full text of opinion in French ), the Quebec Court of Appeal, by a...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Suit Filed Against Quebec's Ban On Public Employees Wearing Religious Symbols

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AP reported  yesterday that in the Canadian province of Quebec, another lawsuit has been filed challenging Bill 21. The law, passed earlier ...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Quebec Court Refuses To Enjoin Law Barring Officials From Wearing Religious Symbols

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In Hak v. National Council of Canadian Muslims , (Quebec Super. Ct.., July 9, 2019) [opinion in French], a Quebec trial court refused to is...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Quebec Enacts Ban On Public Employees Wearing Religious Symbols

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On June 16 in Canada, Quebec's Parliament passed and the Lieutenant Governor signed ( legislative history ) Bill 21 ( full text as intro...
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Canadian Court Certifies Class In Sex Abuse Suit Against Jehovah's Witnesses

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In Canada in a class action lawsuit against two Jehovah's Witness entities, a Quebec Superior Court has approved the certification of a ...
Friday, March 01, 2019

Canadian Suit Challenges Failure of Hasidic Schools To Follow Provincial Curriculum

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CBC reports that a trial date has been set for a year from now in a case filed in 2015 challenging the failure of Hasidic Jewish schools to...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Quebec Appellate Court Allows Litigant To Wear Hijab In Courtroom

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A Canadian appellate court has upheld the right of a litigant to wear a hijab in the courtroom.  In El-Alloul v. Attorney General of Quebec ...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Quebec Court: Muslim Community Center Is Not "House of Worship"

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The Globe and Mail reported yesterday that a Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled that a Muslim community center in a Montreal suburb is n...
Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Suit Challenges Quebec's New Anti-Niqab Law

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As announced by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, a suit was filed in a Quebec Superior Court yesterday challenging the constitutio...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Quebec Enacts New Religious Neutrality Law

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In Canada in Wednesday, Quebec's National Assembly passed Bill 62 ( full text ) which is designed to assure that those providing governm...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Quebec Tribunal Finds Discrimination When Jewish Owner Enforces Jewish Practice On Jewish Employees

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In Canada, Quebec's Tribunal for Human Rights in a decision last month held that the Jewish owner of a hair salon violated the religious...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Canadian Clergy Sex Abuse Class Action Settled For $30 Milliion

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The National Post reports that a court in Quebec has approved a $30 million settlement-- the largest in a clergy sex abuse case in Quebec h...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Canada's Supreme Court Says Quebec Catholic School Should Be Allowed Modified Religious Culture Program

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In  Loyola High School v. Quebec (Attorney General) , (Sup Ct Canada, March 19, 2015), Canada's Supreme Court  held that the Quebec Mini...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Wearing Hijab In Canadian Courtroom Stirs Controversy

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Wearing of the hijab  (Muslim head scarf) in the courtroom has become an issue of controversy in the Canadian province of Quebec.   CBC News...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Canadian Trial Court Awards Damages Against Religious Order In Sex Abuse Class Action

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According to Canadian Press , a Quebec trial court ruled yesterday that the Catholic order of priests, the Redemptorist Order, is liable in ...