Tag Archives: Religion

MONTREAL - The lawyer for a Quebec couple who left their ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community north of Montreal is telling a courtroom that Jewish schools operating there are illegal and leave n...

MONTREAL - A fringe religious group in Quebec has complied with a court order to release the names of 135 children the provincial government claimed were being taught in illeg...

MONTREAL - A former member of an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish group north of Montreal has told a courtroom that he graduated from an unlicensed religious school without ever hearing&nb...

MONTREAL - An ex-Hasidic woman has told a trial in Quebec Superior Court that she was exempted from language and math classes beginning at age 13 because it was ...

MONTREAL - A witness has testified at a civil trial that the Quebec government knew for decades Hasidic Jewish children were not receiving a legal secular education. Maryse Ma...

MONTREAL - A trial is underway that pits the Quebec Education Department against a former Hasidic Jewish couple who allege the government failed to ensure they received an adequate education. A lawyer...

EDMONTON - A conservative legal advocacy organization says it will be representing a street preacher who was issued a ticket under a noise bylaw that the group alleges goes ag...

OTTAWA - The president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to voice "very serious concern" about proposed changes to medical assistance in dying...

MONTREAL - A Montreal city councillor has withdrawn a motion to have the city adopt an international organization's definition of anti-Semitism. Lionel Perez withdrew the motion endorsi...

MONSEY, N.Y. - A psychiatrist has found Grafton Thomas incompetent to stand trial on federal hate crime charges stemming from a machete attack at a Hanukkah party that wounded five Hasidic Jews, Thoma...