By Julia Beazley, policy analyst Saturday, December 6 was an historic day for Canada, and a day of deep personal reflection and gratitude for me. Canada’s new prostitution laws came into force, and for the first time in Canadian history, buying or attempting to buy sex is illegal. These new laws represent a paradigm shift… Read More
Media Release OTTAWA –Lawyers with The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (“EFC”) have joined lawyers from across the country in signing a declaration which condemns the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. “I signed the declaration because I don’t believe that the law should change,” explains EFC Vice-President and General Legal Counsel Don Hutchinson. “Assisted suicide… Read More
By Faye Sonier Over the last few weeks, public comment on the issue makes it apparent that there is still confusion surrounding the funding of abortion procedures in Canada. Joyce Arthur wrote a piece at Rabble.com where she lambasted Campaign Life Coalition’s Defund Abortion campaign; painting the protestors as naïve, uninformed activists fighting for a… Read More
Guest Post: Geoffrey Trotter, Counsel for the EFC in the Carter v. Canada case. Article was originally published in Take Five. While some have characterized the majority decision in Carter as a narrow application of stare decisis to avoid dealing with the merits, a closer look reveals an important contemporary appellate endorsement of the underlying… Read More
By Faye Sonier Last week, the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) released its decision in the Carter v. Canada case. The BCCA upheld Canada’s ban on assisted suicide. The Carter case was launched in 2011 by a few individuals and groups who wanted to see assisted suicide legalized in Canada. At the trial level,… Read More
By Don Hutchinson The portrayal of the human race in space-age adventures is frequently one of a unity that is the utopian expression of some future dream. It certainly does not portray a contemporary reality. And, in those adventures of far off space, the other side is as demonized – represented as evil or… Read More
The EFC issued the following media release on March 27, 2012 OTTAWA – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) is deeply concerned that yesterday’s decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Bedford v. Canada (Attorney General) not only fails to protect women from exploitation, but could lead to a situation in Canada where the… Read More