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| Senate Passes Bill C-250 - A Chill is in the Air | | | 2004-08-30 | | Release Date: April 29, 2004 For Immediate Release: Senate Passes Bill C-250 - A Chill is in the AirThe prolonged efforts of numerous citizens and groups, including the Catholic Civil Rights League, to oppose the passage of Bill C-250 have failed with the final 59-11 vote of the Senate of Canada on April 28 to approve the bill into law. Proponents and supporters of Svend Robinson's "symbolic" amendment to add "sexual orientation" to the list of classes protected by the hate provisions of Canada's Criminal Code have made numerous assurances that such charges will only apply to the most obnoxious or severe critics of homosexual behaviour. Those assurances seem to be rather weak given the manner in which similar legislation abroad has been employed to limit freedom of speech: Last fall, the Rt. Reverend Dr. Peter Forster, Anglican Bishop of Chester, England was investigated under hate crimes legislation and reprimanded by the local Chief Constable for observing that ... | | Canada Ad Regulators Nix Puretracks.com | | | 2004-08-30 | | <>December 18, 2003 Canada Ad Regulators Nix Puretracks.com Scantily-Clad-Nun Ad as Degrading to CatholicsFor Immediate Release In response to complaints, Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) has unanimously ruled that MoonTaxi Media contravened the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards (clause 14c) by depicting a scantily clad nun in its recent national advertising campaign for Puretracks.com.While acknowledging MoonTaxi Media's defence of the image as "...visual imagery [used] to express the purity of our music audio, as well as the very essence of music itself - the individual creative spirit", the ASC Council found that any depiction of a nun exposing her stomach or cleavage is as demeaning to Catholics as it is to nuns who, as servants of the Church, have committed their lives to virtue and celibacy.We believe that this ruling, along with the Toronto Transit Commission's ban of this ad in November, sends a clear signal that Catholics deserve the same protections aff... |
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