The Quebec government’s Ethics & Religious Culture (ERC) course is a point of contention in two ongoing court cases – one involving a high school, and the other a family. Litigation about whether a Quebec private school can teach the ERC from a Catholic perspective recently entered a new stage. Late last month, the Quebec […]
OttawaWatch: Ethics at issue
The Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment, this week, on an appeal by septuagenarian Vancouver broadcaster Rafe Mair against a BC appeal court finding that he had defamed a socially-conservative political activist. The case has been proceeding upwards in the courts since 1999, when Mair told his then CKNW audience: “I really hate to give Kari Simpson any more […]