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Canadian gov’t calculates that expansion of assisted suicide will save taxpayers millions of dollars

May 1, 2022 by ReligiousLiberty.TV 3 Comments

In Canada, it is easier for the disabled who do not suffer terminal illness to get approval for assisted suicide than approval for affordable housing. The government has calculated the cost of providing healthcare versus providing assisted suicide.

Filed Under: Assisted Suicide, Assisted Suicide, Ethics, International Tagged With: affordable housing, assisted suicide, canada, Canadian, disability, euthanasia, poverty

Dangerous Money: Gov’t money to churches has strings attached

January 26, 2018 by Ray McAllister

Politician is a puppet and a hand is pulling him by strings. DepositPhotos.com /

Would you choose to mount a sixteen-foot maraschino cherry on the roof of your church?  You probably wouldn’t, but would you consider doing so if it were part of a deal where your church would receive a large donation?  This situation may seem ridiculous, but many times government money offered to religious institutions has very troubling “strings” attached. 

Filed Under: Religious Institutions, Supreme Court Tagged With: canada, Canada Summer Jobs Program, Trinity Lutheran

Canada’s high court to decide whether courts can hear church membership cases

November 6, 2017 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Last week the Canadian Supreme Court heard arguments over whether civil courts can review churches’ internal membership decisions.

Filed Under: International Tagged With: canada

Quebec Government Takes Aim at Religious Expression of Public Workers

September 10, 2013 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Though, in its current form, the charter is limited to regulating the religious expression of government employees there can be little doubt that given time, considering the inflationary nature of state bureaucracy to expand its influence in citizen’s private lives, this policy of “neutrality” will move further toward the private sector employees.

Filed Under: International, Legal Issues Tagged With: canada, freedom of religion, freedom of religion or belief, law and religion, Pauline Marois, politics and religion, Quebec Charter of Values, Quebec Government, religious freedom, religious liberty

Religious freedom under global threat, Canadian ambassador says (ANN)

May 1, 2013 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

“We are deeply concerned about the situation in various parts of the world where individuals, including Ahmadiyya Muslims, Bahá’ís, Chaldean Catholics and Coptic Orthodox, Tibetan Buddhists, Jews and Muslim Rohingyas, among others, experience difficulty in their ability to worship and practice their faith in peace,” Bennett told approximately 150 guests at the annual Liberty Religious Freedom Dinner, co-sponsored by Liberty magazine, the North American Religious Liberty Association and the International Religious Liberty Association.

Filed Under: Human Rights, International Tagged With: Andrew Bennett, Bahai, canada, Chaldean Catholic, Coptic Orthodox, Islam, religious liberty, Rohingyas, Seventh-day Adventist, Tibetan Buddhist

Trial Court Upholds Most of Canada’s Anti-Polygamy Law (Religion Clause blog)

November 24, 2011 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Law Professor Howard Friedman reports on his Religion Clause blog: Excerpt: In Canada, the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the province’s superior trial court) today upheld most of Canada’s anti-polygamy law (Sec. 293 of Criminal Code of Canada) against challenges to it brought under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The suit was brought […]

Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: canada, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, FLDS, Mormon, polygamy, Wicca

CANADA: Symposium to be held on Conscientious Objection

September 20, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada is sponsoring a Symposium on Conscientious Objection in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Symposium is planned for November 6 ñ 9, 2008 in Oshawa, Ontario.

Filed Under: History, Military Tagged With: Barry Bussey, canada, conscientious objection, Ginger Hanks Harwood, Jeff Crocombe, Karen Scott, Lincoln Steed, Olaf Clausen, Ronald E. Osborn, Ronald Lawson

Thought & Crime (Liberty Magazine – March/April 2008) – An Update

June 9, 2008 by Michael Peabody

Update on “Thought and Crime” published in the March/April 2008 issue of Liberty magazine. You may recall that Pastor Stephen Boissoin had gotten himself in hot water with the Alberta Human Rights Commission when he wrote a letter to the editor of the Red Deer Advocate that was critical of the “homosexual agenda.”  The community […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Free Speech, International, Legal Issues Tagged With: alberta human rights commission, boissoin, canada, chipeur, Free Speech, Trials

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Geneva, Switzerland - December 03, 2019: World Health Organization (WHO / OMS) Headquarters - DepositPhotos.com

Biden admin could hand over US control of health emergencies to WHO next week

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The ultimate control over America’s health care and its national sovereignty will be put up for a vote next week at a meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) governing legislative body, the World Health Assembly (WHA).  On May 22-28, 2022, the 75th World Health Assembly will convene at the United Nations […]

Statement on the Leak in Dobbs

The leak was intended to disrupt the processing of the decision and we are not going to dignify the leak or the unidentified leaker by analyzing it prematurely. As a constitutional republic we cannot go down that road without doing severe damage to the institution of the Supreme Court where there must be professional courtesy between the justices and their staffs.

Boston City Hall - photo from Supreme Court Opinion

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that Boston violated 1st Amendment in refusing Christian flag at City Hall

This morning the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Shurtleff v. Boston (Dec’d 5/2/2022) that the city of Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group when it refused to allow them to participate in a city flag raising program.

Active Liberty - a survey of Justice Stephen Breyer's religion clause jurisprudence - Supreme Court

Active Liberty: A Survey of Justice Stephen Breyer’s Religion Clause Decisions

A comprehensive review of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s decisions in Free Exercise and Establishment Clause cases.

DepositPhotos - Disinformation Governance Board

Biden admin announces “Disinformation Governance Board”

But as the government continues to pull the strings by asking private companies to curtail freedom of speech it increasingly becomes an actor in unconstitutionally curtailing freedom of speech.

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The union of the church with the state, be the degree never so slight, while it may appear to bring the world nearer to the church, does in reality but bring the church nearer to the world.

— Ellen White

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