TWU’s Board of Governors decided on Thursday, August 9, that its Community Covenant would no longer be mandatory. This is a dramatic turnabout given the long legal history of the Covenant. In 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled that the BC College of Teachers’ opposition to the Covenant… More
CRA’s requirement that charities spend no more than 10% of their resources on political activity has been found by Justice Edward Morgan, of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, to be unconstitutional. Justice Morgan was emphatic. He did not allow the government any time to change the rule to be… More
On June 30, I had the priviledge of being on the Drew Marshall Show with Derek B.M. Ross, Executive Director of Christian Legal Fellowship. Drew’s questions were to the point and fair. It was a great opportunity to share why the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision on the Trinity Western… More
From my latest op-ed on iPolitics: I take the position that the Supreme Court’s decisions were themselves unreasonable and are a harbinger for serious disputes to come. First, until this decision, the law societies had no statutory authority to investigate the admissions policies of… More
See Barry’s Op-Ed published in today’s Convivium Magazine: Last Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decisions on Trinity Western University call for freedom-loving Canadians to courageously stand up and demand change to legislation governing the law societies in this country. We need our legislatures to ensure that court decisions that… More
June 15, 2018, will go down in history as the day that the constitutional promise of religious freedom was betrayed. In the next few minutes I will explain why. The Supreme Court of Canada released two decisions against Trinity Western University’s bid to have a law school, one involving the Law… More
In a devastating decision to religious freedom, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a private Christian university is not allowed to open a law school because of its beliefs and practices on traditional marriage. Decisions Background Trinity Western University is a private religious university in Langley, British Columbia. It… More
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