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“A statement from the Prime Minister Of Canada, Justin Trudeau.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Canada Day:
“Happy Canada Day! No matter where we are, today, as Canadians, we celebrate Canada and the people who have built the country we love.
We’re 37 million – strong in our differences, proud of our diversity, and united by our dreams. From one generation to the next, Canadians have brought our country’s promise to life, with hard work, bold vision, and determination.
They’ve grown the strong middle class at the heart of our success – and today, Canada’s workers are the backbone of our country. “Canada’s workers build the roads and bridges that get us to work on time and back home again. They put food on the table for families from coast to coast to coast. Some are young people starting their career, or newcomers bringing fresh talent to the workforce.”
Source: https://saultonline.com/2018/07/happy-canada-day-from-the-prime-minister/.
“OTTAWA — An Ontario business says it will take the Liberal government to court over the conditions attached to the federal Canada Summer Jobs program, arguing they violate freedom of speech.
Tamara Jansen, spokeswoman for a newly formed group called Free To Do Business Canada, says a number of other companies are also expected to challenge the government’s controversial attestation requirement.
She said Sarnia Concrete Products Ltd., was the first to challenge the requirement in Federal Court as part of her initiative.
Organizations that applied for funding under the program were required to attest that both the job and the organization’s core mandate respect individual human rights, including reproductive rights and the values underlying the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The core mandate means the primary activities undertaken by the organization.””
“Two former leaders of a fundamentalist religious sect in Canada were sentenced this week to house arrest and probation following their nearly unprecedented convictions on polygamy charges, according to multiple news outlets.
Between them, the men had 29 wives and more than 160 children, France’s AFP reports.
Winston Blackmore and James Oler were each found guilty in British Columbia last July of one count of polygamy, according to the Associated Press. Blackmore has 149 kids, the Canadian Press reports.
On Tuesday Blackmore, 61, was sentenced to a six-month conditional sentence served under house arrest and then a year of probation, the Canadian Press reports. Oler, 54, was ordered to serve a three-months conditional sentence, also under house arrest, followed by a year-long probation.”
Source: https://people.com/crime/canadian-polygamist-leaders-flds-sentenced/.
“The portion of Quebec’s religious neutrality law that dictates when Quebecers must leave their faces uncovered in order to receive public services has been suspended for a second time, only days before it was slated to go into effect.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-André Blanchard issued the ruling Thursday, handing another victory to civil liberties groups that argue the law discriminates against Muslim women who wear niqab s or burkas.
Blanchard said Section 10, which pertains to face coverings, appears to be “a violation” of the Canadian and Quebec charters, which “provide for freedom of conscience and religion.””
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-bill-62-face-covering-july1-1.4724863.
“Winston Blackmore and James Oler were sentenced to six and three months of house arrest, respectively, the lawyer said. They were convicted on one count of polygamy each last July.
Both men are former bishops of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, a breakaway Mormon sect within Bountiful, a religious community in southeastern British Columbia.
Blackmore’s defense lawyer, Blair Suffredine, said he thought the sentence was “a little higher” than he had hoped it would be but “not dramatically unreasonable.”
Suffredine said that Justice Sherry Anne Donegan “found it aggravating” that Blackmore continued practicing polygamy after 2011, when the British Columbia Supreme Court decided to uphold Canada’s laws prohibiting polygamy.
Suffredine said his client found himself in a dilemma between abandoning his large family and continuing to break the law.
Oler was not represented by a lawyer.”
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