Articles tagged Charter Of Rights And Freedoms

Ontario police officer requests review of ‘misconduct’ charge for $50 donation to Freedom Convoy

Constable Michael Brisco's request comes after the federal court recently ruled that Justin Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act to end the Freedom Convoy violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• Apr 5, 2024Apr 5, 2024

COVID charges stayed against former MP Derek Sloan, pastor Henry Hildebrandt

In 2021, former Conservative MP Derek Sloan and prominent pastor Henry Hildebrandt were both charged under the Reopening Ontario Act for peacefully protesting against COVID mandates.

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Anthony Murdoch

• Mar 11, 2024Mar 12, 2024

Quebec’s highest court upholds law banning public servants from wearing religious symbols

The new ruling overrides the Quebec Superior Court's 2021 ruling which exempted the Montreal English school board from the province's secularism law which prohibits public servants from wearing cross or other religious symbols.

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• Mar 1, 2024Mar 4, 2024

Calgary dismisses charges against Christian pastor for praying silently in government building

‘Since when do you need to seek permission from a city bureaucrat to pray in public?’ The Democracy Fund’s Alan Honner said. ‘How could any government justify that?’

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• Feb 8, 2024Feb 9, 2024

Lawyer warns 2021 law could see Canadians jailed for impeding euthanasia, abortion

'In Canada, if you interfere or impede someone from accessing Medical Assistance in Dying, or cause them 'fear,' you could be arrested and put in jail for up to 10 years,' warned lawyer Daniel Ari Freiheit.

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• Feb 5, 2024Feb 6, 2024

Judge who ruled against Trudeau’s use of Emergencies Act a long-serving Liberal appointee

Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley, 74, is a longtime resident of Ottawa and was appointed to the court in 2003 by Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

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Anthony Murdoch

• Jan 31, 2024Feb 1, 2024

Trudeau gov’t use of Emergencies Act ruled ‘not justified,’ violation of Charter rights

Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre called for Trudeau to be 'fired' over his misuse of the Emergency Act. Poilievre argued that the current Prime Minister 'caused the crisis by dividing people. Then he violated Charter rights to illegally suppress citizens.'

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• Jan 23, 2024Jan 24, 2024

Pro-abortion group lobbying Trudeau gov’t to deny grants to employers opposed to euthanasia

Abortion Rights Coalition Canada is the same group that successfully lobbied for pro-life employers to be denied federal summer job grants in 2017.

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• Jan 17, 2024Jan 26, 2024

Maxime Bernier, Brian Peckford challenge COVID jab travel mandates to Canada’s Supreme Court

Bernier and Peckford, represented by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, are taking on the travel mandates imposed on vaccine-free Canadians as infringements of Charter rights.

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• Jan 15, 2024Jan 16, 2024

British Columbia Supreme Court rules province’s constitution protects hard drug use on playgrounds

The Canadian province had considered banning hard drugs in areas where children gather, but the chief justice said that such an amendment would cause 'harm' to users.

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Anthony Murdoch

• Jan 4, 2024Jan 5, 2024

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Articles tagged Charter Of Rights And Freedoms

Ontario police officer requests review of ‘misconduct’ charge for $50 donation to Freedom Convoy

COVID charges stayed against former MP Derek Sloan, pastor Henry Hildebrandt

Quebec’s highest court upholds law banning public servants from wearing religious symbols

Calgary dismisses charges against Christian pastor for praying silently in government building

Lawyer warns 2021 law could see Canadians jailed for impeding euthanasia, abortion

Judge who ruled against Trudeau’s use of Emergencies Act a long-serving Liberal appointee

Trudeau gov’t use of Emergencies Act ruled ‘not justified,’ violation of Charter rights

Pro-abortion group lobbying Trudeau gov’t to deny grants to employers opposed to euthanasia

Maxime Bernier, Brian Peckford challenge COVID jab travel mandates to Canada’s Supreme Court

British Columbia Supreme Court rules province’s constitution protects hard drug use on playgrounds