Ontario court dismisses a lawsuit in the legal battle to secure public funding for Jewish schools
An Ontario group advocating for government funding for Jewish day schools received a legal setback on Sept. 10 when a Divisional Court dismissed its lawsuit. Grassroots for Affordable Jewish Education has mounted a legal challenge to a 1996 Supreme Court decision that permitted Ontario to continue to fund Catholic schools, but not other religious or […]
The hate-speech trial of Gabriel Sohier Chaput concluded in Montreal with his lawyer raising doubts about Nazism and the Holocaust
The lawyer defending an alleged promoter of hatred against Jews told the judge hearing his case that the fact that the Holocaust was the consequence of Nazism cannot be entered as evidence without proof. Hélène Poussard argued that her client, Gabriel Sohier Chaput, who faces one count of wilful incitement of hatred against an identifiable […]
