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“God Keep Our Land . . .”: Canadian Religious Pluralism and the Law
- 15 April 2024
This article was originally published in the Fall 2014 issue of The Catholic Dimension, and is re-posted here for public reference. Introduction Any young Canadian girl or boy who has attended a National Hockey League game in Canada has sung the words “God keep our land” as part of the National...
Teachers of faith – An expectation and a right
- 08 April 2024
This article was originally published in the Fall 2004 issue of The Catholic Dimension, and is re-posted here for public reference. Catholic separate school rights are constitutionally protected by virtue of s. 93(1) of the Constitution Act, 1867, section 17(1) of the Alberta Act, 1905 and section...
Long before Alberta was even a province
- 02 April 2024
This article was originally published in the Spring 2005 issue of The Catholic Dimension, and is re-posted here for public reference. The first formal European education to reach what is now Alberta arrived with the Catholic missionaries. In 1838, Fathers Blanchet and Demers arrived at Fort...
Reasonable Limits in a Free and Democratic Society
- 25 March 2024
This article was originally published in the Spring 2014 issue of The Catholic Dimension, and is re-posted here for public reference. In the Legally Speaking article published in the fall edition of the Catholic Dimension, we explored the concept of freedom of conscience and religion as guaranteed...
The Guarantee of Catholic Education: The Doctrines of Hollow Rights and Permeation
- 18 March 2024
This article was originally published in the Fall 2015 issue of The Catholic Dimension, and is re-posted here for public reference. It is generally understood that publically-funded separate Catholic education is constitutionally guaranteed in the Province of Alberta. What is less well understood...
