Quinton Amundson

The Combatting Hate Act, the controversial piece of legislation that abolishes the longstanding sincere religious text defence from Canada’s hate speech laws, completed final passage on June 17.

Professional artists have an opportunity to make a lasting contribution to the artistic collection of the Archdiocese of Montreal’s mother church, Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral.

There is no specific memorable anecdote that looms large when Barbara Pannese recalls teaching Team Canada defender Richie Laryea in Grades 6 and 7 at St. Jerome Catholic School in Toronto.

Canadian Christian and Catholic charitable organizations like CAUSE Canada and Development and Peace – Caritas Canada are seeing fruits from their efforts to support women and people living with disabilities in Sierra Leone.

Inclusion Canada is mobilizing over 90 disability and mental health bodies across all provinces and territories to sign on to a joint letter urging Prime Minister Mark Carney, federal cabinet ministers and the MPs sitting on the special joint committee studying medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to permanently abandon plans to expand access to individuals solely living with a mental illness on March 17, 2027.

Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, advanced out of the Senate on June 4 by a 45-13 vote, to be sent back to the House of Commons with no movement on providing protection for religious speech.

It was immediately evident to Greg Spagnoli that Jonathan Osorio, Cyle Larin and Tajon Buchanan each possessed a “diamond in the rough persona” during their respective playing tenures with the St. Edmund Campion Catholic Secondary School senior soccer team in Brampton, Ont.

Like many Canadians, Mark Joseph has felt an increasing unease about the number of churches, synagogues and other places of worship being vandalized and torched over the past five years.

An amendment to stop the expungement of the good-faith religious text defence from Canada’s hate speech laws was voted down 4-3 (one abstention) by the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights on June 1 during clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act.

Encrypted messaging services, social media companies, VPN providers, civil liberty organizations, everyday Canadians, even the U.S. judiciary and foreign affairs committees, have increasingly sounded the alarm about Bill C-22, “an act respecting lawful access.”