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Kangaroo Court Human right Judge orders Catholic school board to face tribunal over firing of transgender teacher

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EDMONTON, Alberta, January 13, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – An Alberta judge has ruled that a Catholic school board face a hearing at the province’s human rights tribunal over its decision to remove a transgender activist from its list of substitute teachers. The case tests the right of Catholic schools to hire and teach according to their denominational beliefs, which are protected in the Constitution Act 1867 . Janet Buterman now goes by "Jan" and dresses as a man. In 2009, Janet Buterman, 39 at the time,  filed  a human rights complaint against the Greater St. Albert Catholic School Board after she said the board discriminated against her on the grounds of gender and physical disability — what  court documents  referred to as gender identity disorder — by removing her from the list. She was not a contracted employee. The board defended its move at the time in a letter to Buterman, stating: “In discussions with the Archbishop of the Edmonton Diocese, the teach

Canada poised to partially lift ban on gay men giving blood

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OTTAWA, Ontario, November 28, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Blood Services ( CBS ) has revealed that it is about to exchange the lifetime ban on homosexuals donating blood for a deferral system. According to  a plan  submitted to Health Canada, men who have not had sex with other men for somewhere between five to ten years would be eligible to donate. CBS spokesman Ron Vezina  told the Edmonton Journal  that the organization is convinced that it has sufficient evidence to support a change from a permanent prohibition to a deferral. Canadian Red Cross had put the ban in place in 1983 after thousands of Canadians were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood. Criminal charges were laid against several doctors, blood products companies, and the Canadian Red Cross. The current blood prohibition  states : “All men who have had sex with another man, even once, since 1977 are indefinitely deferred. This is based on current scientific knowledge and statist