The following article is taken from the Christian Legal Journal, Volume 29, Issue 2 (2020).

Christian Legal Fellowship welcomes the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision today to review Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Canada St. Mary Cathedral, et al. v. Aga, et. al.

"In recent weeks, injustice and racism has risen to the forefront of national and international conversations, exposing feelings of outrage, heartbreak, and denial. Many are hurting, confused, and fearful. Our world is broken and yearning for love and unity. Are we paying attention?" Read more in this guest blog from Sarah Gagnon and CLF member Ashley Maciuk.

Learn more about the Letter to the Premier of Ontario.

Learn more about Bill 21.

Read CLF member Dawson McKay's article about how we can be faithful in the little things and watch how our efforts, and God's grace, multiply them.

This article was originally published by The Lawyer’s Daily (www.thelawyersdaily.ca), part of LexisNexis Canada Inc.

Learn more about the Aga case.

This article about religious equality in Canada was originally published by The Lawyer’s Daily (www.thelawyersdaily.ca), part of LexisNexis Canada Inc.

Reflections from “End Of Life, Equality and Disability: A National Forum on Medical Assistance in Dying”

Proposed MAiD law is not the compassionate response to suffering that Canada needs.

The federal government plans to introduce new legislation expanding access to euthanasia next month (less than four years after legalizing it), and is seeking Canadians’ input via an online survey. Read more details inside.

Reflections on what Christmas truly means: the arrival and fulfillment of perfect justice.

Christian Legal Fellowship was honoured to recently receive a grant of armorial bearings from the Canadian Heraldic Authority (CHA). Read more about the meaning behind CLF’s new look.

The following article is based on a plenary presentation delivered by Prof. Jeffrey Brauch at the Christian Legal Fellowship National Conference, September 27, 2019 in Mississauga, ON, and is taken from the Christian Legal Journal, Volume 28, Issue 3 (2019).

This article is a report on the 2019 CLF National Conference.

This article summarizes CLF’s 2019 Book Launch and the 2019 Academic Symposium.

Canada is widely recognized as an international leader in advancing human rights, but we are not without our own shortcomings. In recent months, United Nations Special Rapporteurs have expressed concerns about human rights issues within Canada. If we are to continue to speak with authenticity on the international stage, addressing these domestic issues ought to be at the forefront of our public dialogue.

Canada’s euthanasia law has several objectives, according to its preamble. In a recent decision, however, a Quebec judge accepted only one of them (protecting the vulnerable) as a legitimate legislative purpose. The court then struck down a core part of the law because it applied more broadly than necessary to achieve that single goal. Derek Ross explains why this narrow framing is concerning as a matter of legal principle, and how overlooking the law’s broader purposes “foreordained” the ultimate outcome.

When the government legalized euthanasia/assisted suicide (“MAID”) in 2016 with Bill C-14, one of the stipulations was that it only be available to those whose death was “reasonably foreseeable”. Since MAID was understood as “hastening” death in the end-of-life context, it was intended by Parliament to be limited to those who were already dying or near death, not those who had potentially many years left to live. Last week, however, the Quebec Superior Court declared the “reasonably foreseeable” requirement unconstitutional.