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August 14, 2018

Trinity Western University removes mandatory community covenant

Robert G. Kuhn, president of TWU, stressed in a statement that despite the decision, TWU “will remain a Biblically-based, mission-focused, academically excellent University, fully committed to our foundational evangelical Christian principles.”

OTTAWA – After battling all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada to defend its mandatory community covenant, Trinity Western University (TWU) has decided to drop it for students.

Published in Canada
December 5, 2017

Religious freedom ‘on an abyss of revolutionary change', lawyers warn

Trinity Western lawyers and interveners pose in front of the bench at the Supreme Court of Canada after the Nov. 30-Dec.1 hearings in this important religious freedom case.
OTTAWA – Religious freedom in Canada is facing a “watershed moment” and may be “on an abyss of a revolutionary change,” argued lawyers in a Supreme Court of Canada case involving a Christian university’s proposed law school.
Published in Canada
December 2, 2017

Catholic groups make their case in Christian law school hearing

The Court was simultaneously hearing two appeals Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 regarding the B.C. and Ontario law societies. After the B.C. Law Society said it would not accredit graduates of Trinity Western, B.C.’s minister of education refused to allow Trinity Western to grant law degrees, effectively killing the law school.
OTTAWA – Lawyers representing Trinity Western University faced tough questions from Supreme Court Justices Nov. 30 in an important religious freedom case involving communal rights.
Published in Canada