https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju GNED 1308 en-us 2018-11-30 15:12:58 UTC 2024-05-27 05:43:13 UTC hello@padlet.com jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/309964958 In R v Big M Drug Mart Ltd 1985 the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the Lord's Day Act for violating section 2 of the Charter and infringing on the right to freedom of conscience and religion. The Court ruled that there was no true secular basis for the Lord's Day Act and its only purpose was to establish a state religious-based requirement, and was therefore invalid.]]> 2018-11-30 20:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/309964958 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/309971823 In Ktunaxa Nation v British Columbia 2017 the Supreme Court of Canada held that freedom of religion protects people and their actions but not the sites where religious ceremonies occur. A religious connection cannot be invoked to establish title to lands.]]> 2018-11-30 20:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/309971823 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310064897 The Sikh community has urged provincial governments to grant motorcycle helmet exemptions in recognition of their religious expression. Sikh soldiers refused to wear helmets during World War I and World War II fighting for freedom including freedom of religion. It would be wrong to deny someone the ability to ride because of their religious belief.]]> 2018-12-01 14:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310064897 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310067078 This recent column by a retired judge discusses how the federal governments "freedom of choice" summer job grant policy and the Supreme Court's Trinity Law School decision show that intolerant thinking is back in its full fury. "[A]t one time it was the religious authorities who were the thought police. In that not so distant past, religious law trumped everything else. [...] This theocratic thinking still applies in less developed parts of the world, such as Iran. [...] Now, it seems that such intolerant thinking is back in its full fury. This time, however, the thinking we are being required to bow down to is some strange Gospel of the Secular, as interpreted by unelected judges, and a self-described feminist Prime Minister, who both insist on telling all of us what we must think."]]> 2018-12-01 15:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310067078 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310067345 The federal government has banned any employer from receiving summer job grants for students if the employer doesn't first sign an attestation that they agree with abortion and transgender rights. This automatically excludes all faith-based organizations that are traditional on their values of human life and sexual morality. Many oppose the attestation on the principle that it violates the Charter's right to religious freedom.]]> 2018-12-01 15:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310067345 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310068278 In Loyola High School v Quebec 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada held that the provincial government's decision to force the teaching of Catholicism from a neutral standpoint by a government mandated course on religion and ethics unreasonably violated religious freedom.]]> 2018-12-01 15:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310068278 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310069281 In three provinces Trinity Western University argued that their law school graduates should not be refused automatic accreditation by the Law Society based on the Community Covenant Agreement of their school because it violates the students' rights to freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and freedom of association. The Supreme Court decided that TWU's Community Covenant would deter LGBT students from attending the proposed law school and that equal access to legal education and diversity in the legal profession is in the public interest.]]> 2018-12-01 15:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310069281 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310070282 The new Québec government is planning to bar civil servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols such as the kippa or hijab. The prospective new law could be tested in Court against the Charter.]]> 2018-12-01 15:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310070282 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310071205 Canada sets the example for freedom of religion. We need to develop our global partners to ensure that freedom of religion is universal. Canada says China must "end prosecution and persecution on the basis of religion or belief." While we enjoy freedom of religion is it ethical to do business with countries that do not uphold the basic freedom?]]> 2018-12-01 15:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310071205 jay_potter https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310081646 2018-12-01 17:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_potter/9bkjmb0shpju/wish/310081646