The Harper government’s new prostitution Bill C-36 (the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act) has polarized stakeholders, as evidenced in the ongoing hearings before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee. There is no consensus among social service agencies…
The new executive director of Trinity Western University’s proposed law school, Earl Phillips, is a well-regarded labour relations lawyer. He is also a long-time advisor to the Vancouver area’s other evangelical university-level school, Regent College. Phillips is a former managing…
Trinity Western University has overcome several hurdles on its way to developing a law school, but its most immediate challenge is very close to home, from the Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC), next Tuesday (June 10). Despite the fact…
Trinity Western University (TWU) president Bob Kuhn says the ongoing opposition by many in the legal community to its planned law school makes him question how much freedom evangelical Christians really have to express their faith in public. Much of…
Religious freedom is enshrined in both American and Canadian constitutions, and the separation of church and state is highly valued (see related article, Canadian society needs to find ways to respect religious diversity – and rights). This often makes for…
Before this situation descends utterly into farce, satirists ought to capitalize on the current controversy over Trinity Western University’s attempt to found a Christian law school. “Thousands of gays who wouldn’t dream of attending an evangelical law school threatened with…
Trinity Western University (TWU) received not one but two pieces of good news this week, in its quest to develop a School of Law at the Langley campus. On Monday, December 16, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC)…
Trinity Western University’s School of Law proposal has been the subject of considerable debate in recent months, as a wide range of groups and individuals have weighed in on its merits. While we welcome that debate, it has also led…
Deans of several law schools across Canada have maintained that Trinity Western University’s faith-based community covenant asking students to commit themselves to certain behavioural standards is discriminatory, particularly toward LGBT people. Janet Epp Buckingham, a lawyer and director of Trinity’s…
Union Gospel Mission (UGM) has dramatically increased its work with women over the past few years, and they recently announced another initiative. Speaking with Stephen Quinn on CBC Radio’s Early Edition, a UGM spokesperson described their temporary new overnight Women’s…