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July 6, 2017

Safe Third Country Agreement faces legal challenge

A man who told police he was from Mauritania is taken into custody Feb. 14 by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers after walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Quebec.

Canada’s major churches, the Canadian Council for Refugees and Amnesty International Canada are taking the federal government to court, hoping to strike down a 13-year-old agreement between the United States and Canada on treatment of refugees.

Published in Canada
October 18, 2016

Ontario's bishops rally behind doctors fighting assisted suicide policy

Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto and spokesman Larry Worthen before a parliamentary committee earlier this year. Worthen is a spokesman for the five doctors and three groups that have co-launched legal action against College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario over assisted suicide policy.

OTTAWA – Ontario's bishops are putting their weight behind doctors who are going to court to defend their religious and conscience rights to refuse to refer patients for assisted suicide.

Published in Canada